Amazing work from @freyaallen.bsky.social and @prob91.bsky.social. I truly believe that Rob is the Sherlock Holmes of MGEs and one of the leaders in the field of artisanal bioinformatics😉!

Our review is now available #OpenAccess online and as formatted PDF doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Delighted that our review on resistance to last-resort antibiotics in Enterococci has been published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version) TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.

Congratulations Freya! Well done for all your hard work!

Our little Cherry tree is losing its leaves in a beautiful show and the sweet peas are already poking their heads up ready for next year! 🌸

Noodlococcus is out in the wild!

🔬Join us for our upcoming Cancer Immunology Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics' 📅23-24 October 2025 📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow Abstract deadline: 26 September Register by: 10 October crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/immuno_works...

A lovely essay on scientific supervision

Well done to Freya and Rob, a manuscript a long time in the making!

Do you miss living in Birmingham? What do you think? 😂

The antisocial behaviour in Milngavie is getting out of hand!

Orchids on our evening walk! 🪻

Beautiful!

Check out this story with Noodlococcus as the star of the show!

Excited to share something with you all later this week… 🧫🦠🍜👀

Garden update...

Thank you so much to everyone who sponsored me to walk from Glasgow Green to Loch Lomond in the Kilt walk. My feet are only recovering now, but it was worth it to raise some money for CRUK.

Happy big birthday @roscobacterium.bsky.social ! Celebrated in style at lab meeting with Tiramisu made by @celespin.bsky.social 😋

I am raising money for Cancer Research UK by walking 23 miles in the Kiltwalk Mighty Stride on the 27th of April. Any donations would be greatly appreciated! www.justgiving.com/page/ross-mc...

Lovely few days in Copenhagen, off to Malmö today!

Pretty cool having kingfishers right next to our institute! @cruk-si.bsky.social

Busy day planting out in the garden! 🏡☀️

Thinking of colleagues at icddr,b who are being severely affected by the cuts to USAID. World class research is carried out at icddr,b and the world is in a much more vulnerable position without it! www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/d...

To celebrate world cancer day, I want to outline some of the work we are doing in @mmimic.bsky.social lab. We are interested in how Salmonella Typhimurium adapts to the tumour microenvironment during bacterial cancer therapy and how it interacts with cancer and immune cells.

Congratulations to @cassiebakshani.bsky.social and @lucyicm.bsky.social on their great new paper! What an incredible amount of work!!

Just found this classic GIF on twitter @wvschaik.bsky.social , good times!! 😂

My new lab really feels like a (Addams) family! @mmimic.bsky.social

An excellent new study from Nabil Quraishi & Palak Trivedi investigating the use of oral vancomycin in the treatment of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis with a strong focus on the gut microbiome! We didn't find any evidence of VRE development but more work is needed, so watch this space!

For the past few months, a couple of times per week, we have been taking a walk around the Garscube campus. So far we have identified at least 34 different bird species. I'm looking forward to Summer when some of our migratory birds come back and we can add them to our list!

It so enraging when something seemingly simple just won't work! Got to keep at it though!

Finally! A🧵for our recent paper 🎉 #Immunosky #microsky #metabolism www.embopress.org/doi/full/10..... A cool host-microbe story, with some fun TCR signalling and metabolism so a bit for everybody. (quite long, so get some popcorn!) 1/12

... Batman!

Finally building my collection again in Glasgow! 😂

Exciting new work from the lab!

Got an exciting team gathered and new work brewing. On this platform @roscobacterium.bsky.social @declanmclelland.bsky.social also Wilma Hoevenaar, Marwa Osman and Taitsu Masunaga and some more in the new year. Some exciting news coming out next week…will keep you posted!

Happy to have made the move to where the sky is clear! A bit slow to do so, so very happy to see all the familiar faces as well as new 👋! The lab relocated to the @cruk-si.bsky.social last year, so it’s been busy reforming! 👋

Not a bad location for a lunchtime bird watch. No kingfishers today though!

This feels like a good opportunity to reintroduce myself. I'm a microbiologist who has worked on antibiotic resistance and the gut microbiome. I've recently moved to @cruk-si.bsky.social on the beautiful Garscube campus. I'll be using my skills to study various aspects of bacterial cancer therapy!