Ben Pascoe @benizao.bsky.social @sheppardlab.bsky.social shining a light on C. coli - although less common than C. jejuni, it has higher levels of AMR. His work in Peru highlights the importance of this pathogen in LMICs due constant exposure with backyard livestock and antibiotic use 🇵🇪 #CampyUK2025

In our 80th year, we are highlighting some key discoveries in our journal archives. In 1976, Journal of Medical Microbiology took the lead in publishing research on Clostridium difficile as a pathogen - doi.org/10.1099/0022... #JMM

Stuck. Trapped. Flattened. ‘The Weight of a Man’ is an exploration of family, love and the search to escape pressures outside our control. 📚 Read @morrislau78.bsky.social's story in our upcoming anthology. Learn more and meet all our shortlisted authors: bit.ly/4dZRhIB

Keynote spotlight: We're thrilled to welcome Professor Christine Szymanski (University of Georgia) to #CampyUK2025 in Oxford! She’ll be sharing insights into the Campylobacter glycome and its role in persistence and disease. 📅 Sept 24–25 🔗 campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk/speakers#col...

"It no longer exists" The Covid Inquiry heard evidence this week that the testing infrastructure built up in 2020 has been completely dismantled. Prof. Alan McNally: "If Sars 3 happens in December, we will be exactly where we were in January 2020" An insult to those we lost.

🚨 Abstract submissions for CampyUK 2025 are now open! Join us in Oxford (24–25 Sept) to explore the latest in Campylobacter research. 🗓 Deadline: 31 July 🔗 campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk/home #CampyUK2025 #Microbiology #AMR #OneHealth

Our latest preprint is out describing amr.watch - a platform for monitoring AMR trends from global genomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

Geng Zou analysed ~6.5K S. suis genomes 🐷 🦠 & identified the protective capsule 'switch' that facilitates human infection, which has implications for preventing and treating zoonotic infections. @Lucy_Weinert @camvetschool.bsky.social #Microbio25

Make sure to check out the Understudied Bacterial Pathogens session tomorrow. We have a brilliant line up of speakers, including invited talks from Esh Mahenthiralingam and @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org @alanmcn1.bsky.social @sheppardlab.bsky.social

I'll be giving a talk on LIN codes for Neisseria meningitidis today at 4pm in the Genetics & Genomics forum. Please come along and have a listen. It is such an exciting (& up and coming) area. @microbiologysociety.org #MicroBio25

I’ve been dabbling with different writing styles to make “behind the paper” type posts a bit more interesting… pascoelab.com/news-and-blog

🚨 What's new in #Campylobacter research in 2025? 🚨 Check out these groundbreaking studies shaping the field ahead of #CampyUK2025! 🦠👇

The letter contains some fascinating insight into workings of a society operated paper vs a for-profit one, and mentions figures specific to operation of MBE. Well worth a read if you're interested in academic publications landscape.

New paper alert 🚨 Genomic insights into extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and plasmid-borne AmpC-producing Escherichia coli transmission between humans and livestock in rural Cambodia. Incredible effort from Ebraheem Elmarghani and others for their contributions! 👏💩🧫🦠🧬 doi.org/10.1099/jmm....

Really exciting work: The Salmonella Colicin Col1b cannot only KILL a competing E. coli population, but also AMPLIFY metabolic contributions of susceptible bacteria by liberating β-gal… From @nic-ler.bsky.social. @kroegerlab.bsky.social, Andrew Cameron and others ‼️ academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Our paper describing the microGWAS pipeline was published yesterday in Microbial Genomics. Lots of fixes and additions to the code/documentation since the preprint, including a hard to reproduce bug that only showed up in a specific HPC 🥵 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

🚨 We're very happy to announce the #CampyUK2025 meeting in Oxford (@ox.ac.uk), which will focus on #AMR in collaboration with @ineosoxford.bsky.social 🗓️Save the date: 24th-25th September 2025 📝Register your interest on our website: campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk

MicrobesNG POPUP Conference is coming to Norwich! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics conference 3rd Jul ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR Please repost! Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky

Ecological insights into the microbiology of food using metagenomics and its potential surveillance applications. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #MGen using a #PublishAndRead agreement: https://buff.ly/40EUUxr

Our perspective on the horizontal transfer of accessory chromosomes in fungi is now available in Heredity: rdcu.be/d9jOR. It may be a regulated process. Very proud of this collaborative effort with Henrik de Fine Licht (@henriklicht.bsky.social) and Remco Stam (@rstam.bsky.social)!

This work is phenomenally interesting, and I’m delighted to have played a very very small part in it! bsky.app/profile/keyf...

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

This is so remarkable!!!

Excited to share our latest research 😀: Impact of commercial gut health interventions on caecal metagenome and broiler performance. Huge thanks to Gladys Pangga for her incredible effort 👏🏼 and many others for their contributions 🧫🐔🦠🧑🏼‍🌾 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sad news! Aside from a fantastic microbiology career (his 2003 editorial in Annual Revs below was a great read👇), I fondly remember Julian Davies' later and fascinating research on various effects sub-MIC of antibiotics, which inspired my MSc research greatly! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least. If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

The silence from our universities has been deafening. Tell them to grow a spine and stand up for their scientists! Top NIH funded schools: UC - [email protected] UW - [email protected] John Hopkins - [email protected] Penn - [email protected], (215) 898-7005 Duke - [email protected]

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Nice paper from the @wargolab.bsky.social on sphingosine metabolism by P. aeruginosa #MicroSky. @microbiologysociety.org #supportsocieties www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

New paper alert!! 🚨🚨 And it's on the coolest (and most mysterious 🕵️) group of viruses I've worked on so far! With Sej Modha we uncovered >800 new anellovirus genomes from human metagenomes and looked for clues on these tiny, elusive viruses biology! academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...

Evidence for ginger as a potential medicinal ingredient in a medieval leprosarium: very cool interdisciplinary work! The authors found ginger starch grains in dental calculus, and compared the calculus microbiome of medieval & modern people #ancientbiotics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Campylobacter sputorum subsp. bovis subsp. nov., isolated from cattle, and an emended description of Campylobacter sputorum. Read the full article in #IJSEM: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006571

And it’s been a while since I dipped my toe into the questions of what ‘species’ might mean for bacteria, and how they relate to ecology. But still interests me! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Evolution of antibiotic resistance #AMR can lead to collateral resistance/sensitivity to other drugs; @jeffmaltas.bsky.social &co show that these effects can fluctuate over time, needing precise timing & stochastic control models to optimize treatment strategies 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3C2Ao1y

Do you work in ecology/evolution? Did you do a study that is too small to publish as a full manuscript? Negative results? Part of a larger effort? Consider publishing in microPublication Biology: EEB! www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Short papers, one figure. And we peer review! Please RT

Fibre is good for health, fibre is good for the gut microbiota. Yes but which fiber? All types? Mixtures of types? That's what they looked at there, showing that (perhaps unsurprisingly) a mixture of fibres could enhance SCFA production better than single sources. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Job opening for full professor and head of dept in infectious disease epidemiology and dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Deadline 31st Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

🚨 A twixmas surprise, our final paper of 2024: Sharing of cmeRABC alleles between C. coli and C. jejuni associated with extensive drug resistance in #Campylobacter 🧵 Link: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #Microbiology #MicroSky #AMR

You want to learn about microbiology from a fantastic lineup of speakers on a beautiful Greek island? PhD students apply now for the @EMBO | @FEBSnews Lecture Course The New Microbiology! Registration: 1 Apr 2025 Course: 03 – 11 Sep 2025 | Spetses, Greece meetings.embo.org/event/25-new...

Interesting study showing that the CDT toxin from the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter jejuni is involved in the promotion of CRC metastasis in humans. Is it too much of a stretch to think that uncooked chicken consumption increases CRC risk? Probably... Probably? 😅 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, along w @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, are looking for a PhD student w bioinformatic experience/interest to investigate the evolution of transmissibility in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on P. aeruginosa. More info & link to apply below. Please spread the word!

The PLSDB 2025 update: enhanced annotations and improved functionality for comprehensive #plasmid research #plasmidLovers academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Wild-type Salmonella Typhimurium uses PgtE protease to evade C3-mediated serum killing: Suggests that after escape from a macrophage, PgtE promotes systemic spread of the pathogen… Elegant work from @manuelar.bsky.social’s team at UCSD… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...