Delighted for @mohamedeladawy.bsky.social on the publication of the "big one" from his PhD work. - Largest genome-based study on uropathogens in Egypt. - AMR genes for Pseudomonas, and those associated with meropenem poorly understood. - Prediction databases need better curation. #UTIsky #microsky

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Wow, 17,000 applications! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

You have to love Belgium. A country built on beers, bikes and bacteriophage.

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Interested in investigating the use of bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections? Come work with me and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social Professor Lesley Hoyles as a research associate on an exciting project funded by The Urology Foundation vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I'm super happy to share this preprint on ‘Distribution of capsule and O types in #Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence and potential vaccine coverage’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Great to see the typeset version of this invited review out. Covers pretty much everything we know about metabolites/peptides produced by Klebsiella spp. and how they interact with the host. #microsky #microbiomesky @microbiotaandhost.bsky.social doi.org/10.1530/MAH-...

🚨New publication🚨 We show that K. Pneumoniae bacteriophages can be incorporated into alginate to create an antibiofilm matrix effective against clinical K. pneumoniae strains academic.oup.com/jambio/artic...

Very pleased to see this review out on host interactions of bioactive molecules produced by Klebsiella spp. #MicroSky

New preprint from @mohamedeladawy.bsky.social This represents the main body of work from Mohamed's thesis. He's carried out the largest study, to date, on G-ve (11 different genera) CAUTI-associated bacteria in Egypt. #UTIsky #Microsky #AMR It's been a pleasure to supervise Mohamed's PhD studies.

New paper from me and @davidnegus.bsky.social. We've trebled the number of authenticated webervirus genomes, and show that low-quality virome MAGs are to be avoided in comparative analyses. academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Congratulations to Caitlin Wildsmith on the second paper from her PhD with @davidnegus.bsky.social! #microsky

We had a few weberviruses isolated and lots of K. pneumoniae strains/genomes but hadn't done anything with them. COVID lockdown meant Sam needed to change the focus of his PhD for a while. This is the result. Nice collaboration with @davidnegus.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social, among others.

New paper alert! New paper alert! Insight, including genomic analyses, in to Staphylococcal diversity on NHP skin. @microbiologysociety.org @davidnegus.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...