Our TARGet AMR genomics-comic is out now - check it out, share it, print it, use it in your lectures, PE events, or maybe even when trying to explain what you do to dinner guests! 🤓 🧬 🧫

Happy to share our recent work on genetic factors and clinical impact of S. aureus adhesion, published in natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...

The best results come from diverse minds working together. I´m very happy to share a collaborative work between 3 biologists, 2 mathematicians, a physicist, a chemist, and a physician: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... @the100footpole.bsky.social @omeuxeito.bsky.social @pablolaborda.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest work on “In Host Mutational Adaptation of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex Strains During Tuberculosis Infection” published in @jidjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/infd...

🦠Los fagos son los virus de las bacterias 🔬Se sabía que se comunicaban, pero se pensaba que solo lo hacían entre los de su especie 👨‍🔬El @ibv-csic.bsky.social revela que distintas especies de virus comparte un 'lenguaje común' para coordinar estrategias de supervivencia 👉 http://tiny.cc/rdx0101

We are pleased to share our last article rdcu.be/fabhM. It offers the most comprehensive analysis so far of Ab+non-Ab resistance genes in human gut microbiome, using an Indigenous population (low industrialization, chronic Hg exposure from gold mining) 6/6👇

La resistencia a antimicrobianos es una amenaza global. Estos jóvenes talentos ya están trabajando en la solución 🧫✨ Conoce a los finalistas de los Premios CSIC–AEAC y sus proyectos: www.conexion-amr.csic.es/los-premios-...

Now published! 'Identification of transporter-dependent capsular loci associated with the invasive potential of Escherichia coli' www.nature.com/articles/s41... insights below.....

All the data across the different groups is compared. @effkay88.bsky.social @fcic.bsky.social

Day 3 of AMR of Bacterial Pathogens - Africa course at NICD Johannesburg. Split day into the lab for AMR disk testing, MICs and broth micro-dilution. On the computers and lectures on online and command line AMR tools, MLST and phylogeny. Busy day! @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @engagewcs.bsky.social

@fcic.bsky.social @effkay88.bsky.social @belamalta10.bsky.social

Fantastic second day of Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacterial Pathogens - Africa course at NICD Johannesburg. Packed day - covering the basics of genomics, the command line, QC, genotype-to-phenotype, assembly and alignments. @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @engagewcs.bsky.social @fcic.bsky.social

109 participants from 52 countries are convening at Africa CDC Headquarters in Addis Ababa for a focused, experience-led meeting on strengthening routine national antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance systems, including the integration of pathogen genomic data. More at www.amrsurveillance.org

Are you interested in how your genomics work can meaningfully feed into addressing the UK National Action Plan on AMR? 🧬🧫 🦠💊 Then check out our handy personal view out today in Lancet Microbe … 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Hiring a Postdoc in Computational Phage Biology (Kraków, Poland) We study the evolution & structural modularity of prophage-encoded glycan-degrading enzymes in Klebsiella pneumoniae — combining genomics and AlphaFold-based analyses. Details in attached PDF 👇

Courtesy of @martibartfast.bsky.social , we have a new release of AllTheBacteria which adds another 322,920 assemblies, covering all ENA (illumina, isolate) prokaryotes to May 2025. allthebacteria.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ov...

Super cool story from Sam Fenn. He developed a wound model where s. aureus & p. aerunginosa & c. albicans fight it out shows that copper is central to the outcome where Candida and pseudomonas take copper from human tissue to gang up on staph! But staph being staph is as always one step ahead….

Bioinformatician Position Open at the Evolutionary and Functional Genomics Lab @ibb-botanic.bsky.social and Nuria Flames' group @ibv-csic.bsky.social If you are interested, please send a CV and a short motivation letter to [email protected] with the subject “Bioinfo position 2026” before 27/02/26

The first of some rather chunky papers coming out of Sam Fenn’s work here at @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social Here we identify and characterise yet another way S. aureus survives life in the bloodstream, but remodelling a major part of its metabolism

My team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses. Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important. The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵 🔁 🙏 #microSky #phagesky #UTIsky @cnrs.fr

Bacteria chromosomes contain Genomic Islands that provide virulence, antibiotic resistance, MGE-defence,... They transfer between cells, but the mechanism of most remains elusive. Here we explore the conjugative capacity of these mysterious Genomic Islands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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)

Laura Díaz Sáez explicó las actividades que está realizando el Grupo de Trabajo de Difusión (Daniel López, Juan Hermoso, Rafael Molina, Lara Díaz, Sara Hernando-Amado, Jade Rivera, Alberto Marina, Ana de la Torre y Scienseed). Y participaron miembros de otras Conexiones del @CSIC.

Hoy hemos celebrado la Asamblea Anual de la Conexión Resistencias a Antimicrobianos del @csic.es donde nos hemos reunido para hablar sobre este problema de salud y buscar soluciones. Una conexión liderada por @albertomarina.bsky.social y Ana de la Torre. Síguenos para estar informado!

La otra mesa trató sobre "Adquisición y diseminación de resistencias a los antibióticos: del ecosistema natural al microbioma humano" (Junkal Gramendia, Jaime Villaverde, Pilar Truchado, Carol Ewbank, Francesc Coll, Sara Hernando-Amado, Carles Ubeda).

Happy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use

#microsky Pleased to share this work led by Cat Wilson as part of her PhD, tracking Salmonella transmission in low intensity agricultural settings in Malawi. TL;DR - lots of transmission between humans, animals and environment within households. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

London interdisciplinary #PhD position now open with myself, @sergemostowylab.bsky.social, & @gmknght.bsky.social on #phage -bacteria-host immune dynamics for WHO priority bacterial pathogens #Klebsiella, #Shigella, and #Staph. Combines cellular microbiology, genomics, & mathematical modelling.

We wrapped up #IMMEM XIV over the weekend and it was a fantastic success with over 250 participants from 35 countries. A big thank you to the organisers and specifically @esgem-sg.bsky.social our study group on epidemiological markers! The content will be available on ESCMID media soon. #clinmicro

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The decision to close the Fleming Fund was not accompanied by an official statement or press release.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Our high-precision metagenomic strain caller, PHLAME, is now published in Cell Reports!! www.cell.com/cell-reports... PHLAME works on tough sample types -- including those with coexisting strains of a species and low depth.

Very exciting work here from Sanjana Kulkarni, Maha Farhat and team. CNN prediction of MIC, v thoroughwork!!

Register today for the 14th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIV)! Topics range from how genomics inform resistance profiling to pathogen surveillance in a #OneHealth framework. 🧬 ✍️ Register: ow.ly/gjOZ50WpOXX 👀 Programme: ow.ly/Whj850WpOXY#OneHealth #IDSky

Our paper “Global dissemination of npmA mediated pan‑aminoglycoside resistance via a mobile element in Gram‑positive bacteria” is now in @natcomms.nature.com. Part of my freshly defended PhD, so doubly happy! 😄🎉 🧵 (1/14) www.doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Researchers at @lshtm.bsky.social, led by @josebengoechea.bsky.social, will conduct a £2.2M study funded by UK MRC to investigate how Klebsiella pneumoniae silently colonises the gut before causing deadly infections. 🔬🦠 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4mNSreh

Late breaker abstracts for IMMEM conference, to be held in beautiful Portugal this September, close Friday May 23! Something for the #ABPHM25 crowd to ponder 🤔 www.escmid.org/congress-eve...

🧬Antibiograms have been used during outbreak investigations for decades as a surrogate for genetic relatedness of #MRSA 🦠Authors evaluate the accuracy of antibiograms in detecting transmission, using genomic epidemiology as the reference standard www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣Our latest paper is out now in mSystems: Not quite as it may seem - investigating #plasmid diversity and evolution in #Klebsiella pneumoniae at a single institution over time. A short thread 🧵 @zaminiqbal.bsky.social

Happy to share the findings of our latest work on mutational adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation now published on @NatureComms rdcu.be/d55l3

Our paper investigating the mutational landscape during Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation is out now rdcu.be//d55l3 @fcic.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social University of Cambridge @julianparkhill.bsky.social

Three potential PhD positions are now open for applications! - MRCLID: (1) integrated with my fship - AMR prevalence by age&sex (2) long term collab. - AMR gene transfer - Nagasaki: new collaboration comparing UK&Japan AMR rates mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/projects/ www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/resear...