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

It's great to be here! The morning session has been fantastic, session 2 is kicking off now with a talk from Manel Chaouachi from the Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cédria Tunisia, about how bacteria living inside plants boost their immune systems 🦠🌱 #ECR #MicrobialGenomics #PlantImmunity

⚙️💎 Can microbes recover platinum from waste? Leanne Sims (@quadraminstitute.bsky.social) kicks off #MNGPopUp TODAY with a talk on engineering Shewanella oneidensis to recover platinum group metals (PGMs)! 📍 JIC Norwich + Online 🕘 Reg from 9am 📋 Agenda 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng #ECR #MicrobialGenomics

I had a brilliant time at #CBNP18 with @microbesng.bsky.social Thank you @albertilab.bsky.social for inviting us & modelling fungi tattoos to celebrate our FREE fungal DNA extractions @microkim.bsky.social @pannyinthelab.bsky.social @warwicklifesci.bsky.social #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #Fungi

📣 Excited to announce our #MNGPopUp keynote: @pathogenomenick.bsky.social 🎤 “Pathogen surveillance through metagenomics: the next frontier?” 🗓️ 3 July | 📍 Norwich + online 🎟️ linktr.ee/microbesng #MicroSky #Genomics #ECR @getgenome.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

🌵Can a cactus microbe boost crop growth in salty soil? Naima Sayahi found Serratia sp. that helps tomatoes thrive under salt stress—thanks to VOCs, IAA & more See her talk at #MNGPopUp 🗓️ July 3 📍Norwich + online 🎟️ linktr.ee/microbesng #MicroSky #ECR @getgenome.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

🌱🧪 Can Soil Bacteria Stop Crop Fungi? Come along to our Microbial Genomics #ECR symposium to find out! 🔬 From sugarcane to cactus, 9 Pseudomonas strains went head-to-head with fungal plant pathogens—and won 🏆 📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich 🔗 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicroSky #ECR #MNGPopUp @upna.bsky.social

🦠 🧬 How do bacteria accept resistance genes? Register for #MNGPopUp to find out! @hoyuliu.bsky.social reveals genes that impact plasmid acceptance during conjugation—🔑 to stop spread of #AMR 📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich 🔗 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicroSky #ECR @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @webberma.bsky.social

🪰 Could K.oxytoca Hold the Key to Controlling a Global Pest? Register for #MNGPopUp to find out! @katiemillar.bsky.social looks at fruit fly microbiomes to unlock new pest control strategies 📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich 🔗 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicroSky #ECR @norwichmicro.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social

🐶 How strong is the bond with your dog? Register for #MNGPopUp to find out! @gabastorga.bsky.social asks if humans & dogs share E. coli 🧬 217 genomes 💊 50% #AMR 💡 Cross-species insights 📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich + Online 🔗 lnkd.in/eYtyHSyi #MicroSky #ECR @norwichmicro.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social

📢 3 WEEKS to POP UP Norwich organised with @norwichmicro.bsky.social & @getgenome.bsky.social! 📅 3rd July - a fantastic day of talks from passionate #ECR 's delving into the world of Microbial Genomics! 🦠💡 🔗 Register to attend in person (lunch is included): linktr.ee/microbesng #MNGPopUp #MicroSky