Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below.

Does anyone smart with AI know if there's a reason why there isn't a nifty tool yet for analysing figures for colourblind people? When I first tried ChatGPT, I immediately started fantasising about being able to use some AI-powered tool that could link tooltips to legends, or recolour figures

APSPM brought together researchers from around the world to explore protein evolution from different angles. Structural approaches are reshaping evolutionary inference and the community is growing. Huge thanks to participants and @official-smbe.bsky.social for making this meeting a success. #StryPhy

We’re kicking off 2026 with an exciting lineup of speakers at BRISJAMS this February! 📅 Wednesday, 25 February 2026 ⏰ 6:00–7:30pm 📍 The Burrow (Beer Garden Room), West End 🍕 Free pizza provided! 👉 Register via the QR code on the poster. We look forward to seeing you there!

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social 🧵1/6

A fantastic turnout for our Careers Beyond Academia event, co-hosted by JAMS Brisbane and Australian Society of Microbiology Qld Branch 🙌🔬 Thank you to everyone who joined us — and to our incredible speakers for sharing their stories! 🙏 #JAMSBrisbane #ASMQLD #ScienceCareers #Networking

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

Thank you everyone for attending last night's BrisJAMS session and our three wonderful speakers for sharing valuable insights into their research. 🔬💡🧫🙌 😎 😁 #MicrobiologyForAll #BacterialInfections #ViralPhylogeny #AntibioticDevelopment #Biofilms #Microbiology2025 #jamsbrisbane

Check out our team's latest paper, published in @ISMEJournal, introducing GenomeFISH—an innovative, genome-based FISH technique enabling strain-level visualisation of microbial communities @pam-engelberts.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Congrats to CMR PhD student @iambrettb.bsky.social for taking home the best student speaker prize at this year's MGE Aus meeting 🥳 And another congrats to Ms Lara Carrington on securing the Australian Society for Microbiology Queensland Branch Mobile Genetic Elements Award. Excellent work both 👏👏

The Centre for Microbiome Research (CMR) is now engaging with our community on Bluesky! We look forward to using this platform to have meaningful conversations and build stronger connections with researchers and community members around the world. CMR: Asking questions no one has asked 🦠🔬