🔊 Empowering women in science means amplifying voices, breaking barriers, and driving change. Ahead of #IWD2025, we celebrate Dr. Sydney Miles, whose career is a testament to perseverance, passion, and the power of representation in science. 🔗 bit.ly/4kwlPVl

Incredible #MicrobialGenomics research powered by MicrobesNG—highlights from our global community of researchers! 🌍🔬 @sydneylmiles.bsky.social presents 15 complete epidemiologically relevant Shigella sonnei genomes, including critical pINV invasion plasmid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #MicroSky

There are still a couple of days to apply for this PhD project. A fantastic KCL-A*STAR partnership to study bacterial persistent infections! @vintorraca.bsky.social @oehlerslab.org Project 4.1 of the project catalogue, page 10 Deadline to apply: 23rd February!

As promised, part 2 here! 🐟 We found that isolates from the dominant lineage 3 of Shigella sonnei carry fewer genes encoding adhesins and fimbriae, but virulence-associated regions remain highly conserved - pointing towards immune evasion and host restriction

Enhanced virulence and stress tolerance are signatures of epidemiologically successful Shigella sonnei https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636615v1

Most Shigella sonnei experimental work relies on a 70yr old lab strain that doesn’t reflect those circulating today - we are excited to share a (soon to be) publicly available set of genomes and isolates to fill that gap! An exciting part 2 featuring our favourite fish to follow very shortly… 🐟

A public resource of 15 genomically characterised representative strains of Shigella sonnei https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.635664v1

Got anyone that you would want to banish to rainy London then sweltering Singapore with a risk of giving themselves a shigella infection? Exchange program PhD Project with me and Vincenzo Torraca on page 10 #zebrafish at @astar-idlabs.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Great opportunity for prospective PhD students! Join my lab at KCL and Stefan Oehlers lab at A*STAR to help us dissect how certain bacteria establish infections that are difficult to eradicate in vivo! Project 4.1 of the project catalogue, page 10 Deadline to apply: 23rd February!

Certain sublineages of antimicrobial resistant bacteria dominate the surveillance landscape, but what causes them to become resistant? Check out our latest work in Shigella to find out and/or read the thread below www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.27.24316207v2 1/n

Woohoo! Congrats, Dr. Miles 🎉 #PhDone

What better occasion to mark my first Bluesky post than passing my PhD viva?! 🎓 A huge huge thank you to my supervisors @sergemostowylab.bsky.social and @katholt.bsky.social and of course the examiners @jayhinton.bsky.social and Lucy Weinert for making the defense a great experience!

Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩! After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An exciting PhD opportunity in a great collaboration between @noelresearchlab.bsky.social and my lab looking at heart infections in zebrafish. Details below. Deadline is the 13th December. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...