Really super talk from @nicholden.bsky.social this morning exploring all things E. coli #microbio25. Lovely to consider the big picture of our favourite bug!

Lovely poster by Emily from our group - a side project investigating the use of ClearColi for phage production

@strain9000.bsky.social group travel to VoM UK. Looking forward to listening to all things phage

And we have a second competition funded PhD studentship available - get in touch if you want to study #phage in beautiful Edinburgh. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Phage makes mainstream tv - QI XL goes viral! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣. doi.org/10.1098/rsob...

New MRC-funded postdoc with me on comparative bacterial genomics/phylodynamics @roslininstitute.bsky.social university of Edinburgh. Great multidisciplinary team and collaboration with partners at Shanghai Jao Tong University. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Interested in a EastBio PhD studentship developing phage therapy to treat pathogenic E coli infections in farm animals then apply below to come and work with us at The Roslin Instute, University of Edinburgh www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Bacteriophages evolve enhanced persistence to a mucosal surface. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2116197119 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35767643/

Early start for the second face-to-face @ukri.org Mental Health Platform meeting today

How invasive are different E .coli capsules and how many are there? Find out here and use the group 2 and 3 database to type your own! medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

We've long been able to find new phages and figure out what they interact with. But what about the other direction: if you have a gene, like an antibiotic resistance efflux pump, or a phage defense system, and you want to find phages that do or do not interact with it? Now you can!

@uoe-eid.bsky.social Winter lecture Alison Holmes giving a very timely talk for #WAAW ‘Protecting healthcare, preventing infections and preserving antibiotics’

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases has joined Bluesky! #micro

Starting the year off with a week in the sunshine. Beautiful view from the apartment to Mount Teide, Tenerife. Some good work news already this year so hoping 2024 will be a great one for our group!

New pre-print: study from our group addressing one of the hurdles of phage therapy - rapidly selecting the right phage cocktail to treat an infection - using bacterial genome sequence to predict effective phage cocktail design biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out the latest Microbiology Primer on using TraDIS to link genotype to phenotype www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

#starlab promoting sustainability at work - reusing empty tip boxes as mini plant pots

A fantastic PdD opportunity at The Roslin Institute studying phage In aquaculture. #phage #UniversityOfEdinburgh www.findaphd.com/phds/project...