Last week's seminar featured excellent talks from @fionapoulter.bsky.social on understanding the evolution of epidemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Holly Richardson on why heterogeneity matters: predicting antibiotic resistance in cystic fibrosis. Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the nice snacks!

Two fantastic talks in our latest seminar: Kirsten Lim told us about her work on the effects of IgA on gut phage diversity, and Jeremy Dejardin shared his work mapping chromosome-plasmid interactions in E. coli Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the best seminar snacks!

In today’s seminar we heard about Lambda phage Q proteins and their role in gene expression from Xuan Chen 🧬 A huge thank you as always to @microbesng.bsky.social for the fantastic snacks! 🧁

Last week's seminar featured talks by Hannah on the culture enrichment of cystic fibrosis sputum samples and by Edoardo on the spatial and temporal tracking of antifungal resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus hyphal networks. Cheers to @microbesng.bsky.social for their usual surprise snacks

Day 3 of #AMGDMar26 🧬 learning about alignments through song lyrics, loops starting to make sense, a trip the market in the sunshine & shiny microbe stickers thanks to @helenmcneil.bsky.social @microbesng.bsky.social 🧫

We had an exciting talk at today's seminar, first on Polymicrobial interactions in Cystic Fibrosis @ambercutcliffe.bsky.social, and Coalescence in host spring microbial communities @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social. Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the snack!

We are excited to be at @ox.ac.uk today for the IDEU Symposium 2026 Would you like to know more about Microbial Sequencing? Come and chat to us in the break Big thanks to Angela Brueggemann for inviting us! microbesng.com #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky @oxpop.bsky.social

We had two interesting talks at today's seminar: Eric spoke about the multistep pharmacodynamics of multimodal antibiotics, and @laurasanrub.bsky.social spoke about the long-term evolution experiment in defenseless PA01. Again, huge thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the snacks.

Today's seminar featured one of MERMan's PIs, @sarafederici.bsky.social, who discussed how phage therapy could be improved to target gut pathobionts in IBD. Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the snacks.

🚨 Calling all ECR's #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium in Nottingham (5th June)- present/chair/posters Abstract submission is 5 pm TODAY!!! Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #MicroSky please share

Calling all microbial genomics early-career researchers in the Midlands, great event in Nottingham (5 June)

From phages to fallopian tubes - in last weeks seminar we heard about designing synthetic phages from Ryan ⚙️ And Dolan from the Tank lab @raveentank.bsky.social spoke about their microfluidic fallopian tube models 🧫

This week we kicked off the new year with a great talk about endosymbiosis evolution by Dan Malumphy 🔬 Thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for supplying us with snacks! 🍪

Great to see this published from one of our fav customers, Doug Browning highlighting need for better genomic surveillance & One Health approach to tackle #AMR AMR & Comparative Genome Analysis of High-Risk E.coli Strains Isolated from Egyptian Children with Diarrhoea www.mdpi.com/3690382 #MicroSky

Loved being @ox.ac.uk last wk for OxBacNet & seeing so many past @imibirmingham.bsky.social friends! Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection #MicroSky

🚨 Get your abstract in NOW for POPUP Nottingham with @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net deadline 9th Feb 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium 5th Jun Focus on #ECRs present/chair Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #MicroSky

A very interesting talk about culture cycle dependence of mutation rates by Ziang Zhang 🧬 Accompanied by fantastic snacks thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social 🍰

Had a fantastic time at @uniofbath.bsky.social last week for the Dept. of Life Sciences Research Day! Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection #MicroSky

If you are at @uniofbath.bsky.social today drop by W4 and try our buzz wire game ⚡ here are the prizes on offer 🥇 giant microbe 🥈pin badge by @pinkpetri.bsky.social 🥉 microscope key chain @rosieelliott.bsky.social is currently in the top spot with 14.34 seconds! #MicroSky #LifeSciences

Excited to be in Bath for the #LifeSciences Research Day 🎉 Make sure you come and see our poster designed by the amazing @pinkpetri.bsky.social showing the benefits of long read sequencing for plasmid detection 🧬🦠 @uniofbath.bsky.social #MicroSky

📢 MicrobesNG POPUP is coming to Nottingham! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium on 5th June 🦠🧬 We're accepting abstracts now! Focus on #ECRs Please RT Submit by 9th Feb 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/POPUP_NOTT... @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net #MNGPopUp #MicroSky

🧬 Free @microbesng.bsky.social PopUp ECR symposium 🧬 UK-based MRes or PhD student, research assistant or postdoc working on microbial genomics or metagenomics? Present your work and/or chair a session, plus excellent keynote speakers: @halllab.bsky.social and @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social. #MNGPopUp

We’ll be closing at the end of the day today for our Christmas break 🎄 Thank you so much for all your orders this year 🧬 🦠 💙 We’ll be back open on 7th January and can’t wait to see you then, Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year ✨

The last seminar of the year was another set of exciting talks from visitor @alekseiagapov.bsky.social and merfolk @sophiesomerville.bsky.social ! Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the 🍪! Have a happy and safe holiday! 🤶🏻 🎅🏻 🎄

🎉📬 Hey Dropbox Users – Heads Up! Tomorrow, Wed 10th Dec, is the last chance to get FREE DELIVERY from our Dropbox network before we take a little holiday break! 🎄 ✨ Collections resume Wed 7th Jan 2026 Check the times of tomorrow's final collection here: microbesng.com/dropbox-netw... 💌 #MicroSky

🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄 Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec… because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅

🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄 Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown. Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪

Snacks + great science = our favourite combo 😄 🍪 Great to see such exciting science getting shared, thanks for having us involved 🙌

🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄 Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec… because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅

Another great week at our seminar series! This session, we explored "Within-patient evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa from @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social Big thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for once again keeping us fuelled with delicious refreshments 🙌🍪

🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄 Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown. Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪

In this week’s seminar we learned about the evolution of intrinsic terminators from @stepadenisov.bsky.social 🧬 Made even more fun by snacks kindly sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social 🍪

Retrospective post: @fgyapong.bsky.social recently gave his MERMan seminar on his work on the stickleback skin microbiome. Not pictured: yummy treats sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social

🦠✨ We are all set up in Surrey! MicrobesNG aka Olivija has made herself cosy in the Dorothy Hodgkin building (AX/AY) ✅ Make sure to catch her NOW for SWAG and glittery trinkets ✨💫 @uniofsurrey.bsky.social #MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife

@olivijaziu.bsky.social is excited to meet the @uniofsurrey.bsky.social community at the Microbes, Infection & Immunity seminar 21st Oct! 🧬 Hosted by @jaimehat.bsky.social Join her for coffee & a chat during lunch break (lots of swag! 💝 ) #MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife

🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨 Exeter Microbial Genomics Early Careers Symposium 🦠🧬 Present your work, chair a session, win prizes & network! 📅 12 Nov 📍 Penryn Campus ⏰ Submit TODAY by 5pm 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicrobialGenomics #ECR #MNGPopUp Organised with @drramabht.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

This weeks seminars from PhD students Maisie Czernuszka and Victor Carneiro da Cunha Martirelli! Special thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring refreshments!

🧬OTD in 1952 Joshua Lederberg proposed the term "plasmid" for extrachromosomal hereditary genetic elements in bacteria 🦠 These tiny DNA molecules play a BIG role in #MolecularBiology, biotechnology & #MicrobialGenomics 🧫 Check out the original paper: doi.org/10.1152/phys... #Plasmid #MicroSky 🧪👨‍🔬📜

Great MERMan seminar today from NSERC PhD visiting researcher @simonjeanneau.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social ! Also our first seminar with refreshments sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social , many thanks for the productive chats over nibbles! 🍪 🧪

Drop us a message if you would like to get your paws on one of our drop-box starter packs 🙀 Or visit our website to find out which sites benefit from FREE delivery 👉 microbesng.com/dropbox-netw...

Last week I attended the ECR symposium on Microbial Genomics jointly organised by @microbesng.bsky.social, @norwichmicro.bsky.social and Get Genome. I had the wonderful opportunity to present some of my PhD work @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

Our CSO @pathogenomenick.bsky.social is finishing off #MNGPopUp with a fantastic talk on metagenomic pathogen surveillance 👀 @articnetwork.bsky.social #MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #Metagenomics #InfectiousDiseases #GenomicSurveillance #PathogenDetection #Bioinformatics

🪰🦠🧬 We loved hearing from @katiemillar.bsky.social on the stability of K. oxytoca across Medfly diets, regions & populations and the potential for microbiome-targeted biocontrol approaches 🥰 Some beautiful slides too #MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol

Lovely talk from @hoyuliu.bsky.social explaining how energy production & membrane proteins affect plasmid acceptance during conjugation 👀🧬 @quadraminstitute.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky #AMR #Plasmids #Microbiology #Conjugation

And finally at @microbesng.bsky.social #MNGPopUp our @nisbetalice.bsky.social is chairing the last session including the keynote from @pathogenomenick.bsky.social titled “Pathogen surveillance through #metagenomics: the next frontier?" Looking forward to some more great #Genomics #ECR talks first!

Great to hear from @nisbetalice.bsky.social who shared new insights into how Salmonella Paratyphi A adapts during long-term, asymptomatic carriage 👀 #MicrobialGenomics #PathogenSurveillance #PublicHealth #Microbiology #EntericFever #Salmonella #ECR #MNGPopUp @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

🌊🌿 How do saltmarsh grasses shape the climate? DMSP is one of Earth’s most abundant organosulfur molecules—produced by marine microbes & invasive saltmarsh plants like Spartina. Tamim Kabir takes a deep dive into DMSP dynamics at #MNGPopUp #ECR @biouea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

We loved hearing from @c-hill13.bsky.social on a new TIS annotation-independent method that digs deeper into essential and regulatory genome regions 🎉🧬🦠 #ECR #MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

@stevenrudder.bsky.social's talk was 🔥 Extracting ultra-pure DNA from stool & bacteria—trickier than it sounds but critical for long-reads 🔍 Long-reads resolve repeat-rich genomes 🦠 Improve outbreak tracking & #AMR mapping 📈 Better study of mobile genetic elements #MicrobialGenomics #ECR #MNGPopUp

Excited to be attending the ECR Symposium on Microbial Genomics organised by @microbesng.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social #MNGPopUp