📣NEWS📣: The first invited speaker in our new LINE+ seminar series is @sfauredupuy.bsky.social from Institut Cochin, Paris! Feb 18th at the Blizard Institute, hear all about her exciting research on viruses vs macrophages and science outreach! All welcome! Registration/details: tinyurl.com/3ys93ems

Hope you all have an amazing break filled with good food and great company! ✨ As we wrap up 2025, we're excited to announce our 4th annual celebration of ECR-led infection research: 📢Save the Date: LINE Symposium 2026 📅Monday June 22nd 2026 📍 Francis Crick Institute More details coming in 2026!

📢📢📢 Our next LINE seminar is approaching. This time with a twist: On Wed the 26th of Nov, we will be meeting in Cambridge @mrclmb.bsky.social! Sina Krokowski and @juliasg.bsky.social will be sharing their science! All info and registration to join in person or online here: tinyurl.com/LINEseminar

New preprint! Using single-molecule and kinetic assays combined with nanopore, myself, @alex-hg.bsky.social, @oscart32.bsky.social & co showed that the SauUSI restriction enzyme from S. aureus recognizes methylated DNA and initiates a motor-driven shredding process. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Our review on clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens is now online in @natrevmicro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us! Postdoc Position – Development of rapid metagenomic workflows for diagnostics and surveillance (Lab-based position) Apply by July 9th. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our community members presented incredible ONT use cases, including Judith Breuer showcasing how rapid metagenomics is faster than standard microbiology for identifying respiratory infections & how new targeted methods increase sensitivity & speed for sterile sites www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Routine metagenomics is vital in protecting public health, yet current methods are slow. Tune in to Judy Breuer’s talk at #nanoporeconf to uncover their rapid method to detect pathogens from mixed microbial samples using Oxford Nanopore technology. nanoporetech.com/about/events...

New preprint! We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with @nanoporetech.com without additional ligation-based steps! We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics @twistbioscience.com and Viral WGS @Agilent www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come next Wednesday at 5pm at #UCL to listen to @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social share their science and have a drink with us after! The event is hybrid to cater for availability and capacity, so if you cannot make it in person, join us online!

🚨INCOMING! Join us for our next LINE seminar (9th of April) at UCL. We are excited to host @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social to hear about metagenomics in diagnostics and how host/pathogens battle it out! As always: Followed by a networking social! Register here: shorturl.at/kGmfh

📣NEWS ALERT: Our 3rd annual LINE symposium will be on the 9th of June @crick.ac.uk . Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl Join us for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a brilliant careers panel and so much more. Submit your abstract by 25th April: shorturl.at/7KuXL Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY

This ECR-focussed symposium is made possible by the support of our fantastic sponsors: @biologists.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk NEB @promegauk.bsky.social @proteintech.bsky.social 2BScientific @cytiva.bsky.social Avantor @stratechscientific.bsky.social INTEGRA @twistbioscience.com THISTLEScientific

ONT vs Illumina approach for diagnosis and surveillance of #viruses genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📣 Our next seminar is on the 13th of Feb at the @blizardinstitute.bsky.social . Sean Carlson from @qmul.ac.uk and Anna McNaughton from @bristoluni.bsky.social will tell us about fungi and HBV! Don't miss it, register here: tinyurl.com/ymfhsbea Come for the science, stay for the networking social!