I’m pleased to share our latest paper which presents the first shotgun metagenomics of the oral microbiomes of children with noma. We found a distinct microbial composition associated with the disease, which has led to further funding to identify the organisms behind this devastating disease.

💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released! This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to. #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/pro...

I'm pleased to share our latest paper out in Communications Biology. We used comparative genomics to determine the relatedness of E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates from faeces and blood of the same neonates with bloodstream infections. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Really happy to see this published, fab international collabotation and excellent analysis led by Richard Goodman www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Pleased to share our new preprint! We used comparative genomics to determine the relatedness of E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates from faeces and blood of the same children. We wanted to know if the bloodstream infection started in the gut; are the strains the same?

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)

Pleased to share our new preprint... We took a look into freshwater snail faecal metagenomes in four countries and found environmental #AMR reservoirs @lstmnews.bsky.social @gcagatgcaatg.bsky.social @russstothard.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Volume 2 of the #AMR Starter Pack is here! go.bsky.app/EUY2FUJ Follow these amazing people along with those in Vol. 1 go.bsky.app/KkZfvrh And don't forget to pin the Antimicrobial Resistance feed to get all the AMR posts in one place bsky.app/profile/did:...

New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc... (1/5)

🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As my first post on bsky post, I thought I'd share a recent paper of ours published in @naturecomms.bsky.social . Here we use various techniques to determine the molecular mechanisms for an observed rise in chloramphenicol susceptibility at the same time as an increase in ESBL resistance.