We kick-off the Campylobacter Control Campaign meeting with partners from @lshtm.bsky.social, @biology.ox.ac.uk, @ineosoxford.bsky.social, alongside collaborators from Côte d’Ivoire, #Nigeria, #Egypt, #Ghana & #BurkinaFaso to finalise a genomic sampling framework to support future vaccine designs.
In Iquitos, Peru this week 🇵🇪 working on enteric pathogen genomics and surveillance in the Amazon.
Science powered by collaboration, rain, food… and Inca kola!
New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)!
We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution.
Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Ben Pascoe @benizao.bsky.social @sheppardlab.bsky.social shining a light on C. coli - although less common than C. jejuni, it has higher levels of AMR. His work in Peru highlights the importance of this pathogen in LMICs due constant exposure with backyard livestock and antibiotic use 🇵🇪 #CampyUK2025
Slide shows bottles containing Clostridium difficile; the picture was first published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology in 1976.
In our 80th year, we are highlighting some key discoveries in our journal archives. In 1976, Journal of Medical Microbiology took the lead in publishing research on Clostridium difficile as a pathogen - doi.org/10.1099/0022... #JMM
Stuck. Trapped. Flattened. ‘The Weight of a Man’ is an exploration of family, love and the search to escape pressures outside our control.
📚 Read @morrislau78.bsky.social's story in our upcoming anthology. Learn more and meet all our shortlisted authors: bit.ly/4dZRhIB
Keynote spotlight: We're thrilled to welcome Professor Christine Szymanski (University of Georgia) to #CampyUK2025 in Oxford!
She’ll be sharing insights into the Campylobacter glycome and its role in persistence and disease.
📅 Sept 24–25
🔗 campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk/speakers#col...
"It no longer exists"
The Covid Inquiry heard evidence this week that the testing infrastructure built up in 2020 has been completely dismantled.
Prof. Alan McNally: "If Sars 3 happens in December, we will be exactly where we were in January 2020"
An insult to those we lost.
🚨 Abstract submissions for CampyUK 2025 are now open! Join us in Oxford (24–25 Sept) to explore the latest in Campylobacter research.
🗓 Deadline: 31 July
🔗 campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk/home
#CampyUK2025 #Microbiology #AMR #OneHealth
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)
Link to the paper is here too: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Killer MSSA in orthopaedic device-related infections: pascoelab.com/news-and-blo...
Geng Zou analysed ~6.5K S. suis genomes 🐷 🦠 & identified the protective capsule 'switch' that facilitates human infection, which has implications for preventing and treating zoonotic infections.
@Lucy_Weinert @camvetschool.bsky.social
#Microbio25
Make sure to check out the Understudied Bacterial Pathogens session tomorrow. We have a brilliant line up of speakers, including invited talks from Esh Mahenthiralingam and @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social
#Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org
@alanmcn1.bsky.social @sheppardlab.bsky.social
I'll be giving a talk on LIN codes for Neisseria meningitidis today at 4pm in the Genetics & Genomics forum. Please come along and have a listen. It is such an exciting (& up and coming) area.
@microbiologysociety.org #MicroBio25
I’ve been dabbling with different writing styles to make “behind the paper” type posts a bit more interesting…
pascoelab.com/news-and-blog
🚨 What's new in #Campylobacter research in 2025? 🚨
Check out these groundbreaking studies shaping the field ahead of #CampyUK2025! 🦠👇
The letter contains some fascinating insight into workings of a society operated paper vs a for-profit one, and mentions figures specific to operation of MBE. Well worth a read if you're interested in academic publications landscape.
New paper alert 🚨 Genomic insights into extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and plasmid-borne AmpC-producing Escherichia coli transmission between humans and livestock in rural Cambodia. Incredible effort from Ebraheem Elmarghani and others for their contributions! 👏💩🧫🦠🧬
doi.org/10.1099/jmm....
Really exciting work:
The Salmonella Colicin Col1b cannot only KILL a competing E. coli population, but also AMPLIFY metabolic contributions of susceptible bacteria by liberating β-gal…
From @nic-ler.bsky.social. @kroegerlab.bsky.social, Andrew Cameron and others ‼️
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Our paper describing the microGWAS pipeline was published yesterday in Microbial Genomics. Lots of fixes and additions to the code/documentation since the preprint, including a hard to reproduce bug that only showed up in a specific HPC 🥵
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
🚨 We're very happy to announce the #CampyUK2025 meeting in Oxford (@ox.ac.uk), which will focus on #AMR in collaboration with @ineosoxford.bsky.social
🗓️Save the date: 24th-25th September 2025
📝Register your interest on our website: campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk
A promotional banner for the MicrobesNG Pop-Up event at Norwich Research Park. The banner features an aerial image of a research facility with a pink text box stating, 'We're coming to NORWICH RESEARCH PARK.' The event is scheduled for 3rd July 2025, from 9:30 to 16:30. Highlights include 'Cool Science,' 'Friendly Networking,' 'Free Lunch,' and a 'Best Talk/Poster Prize.' A QR code and link (https://linktr.ee/microbesng) are provided for free registration. The event is supported by the Centre for Microbial Interactions, Get Genome, and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL). The design incorporates blue, pink, and white colors with modern graphics and icons
MicrobesNG POPUP Conference is coming to Norwich! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics conference 3rd Jul
ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR
Please repost!
Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky
Ecological insights into the microbiology of food using metagenomics and its potential surveillance applications. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #MGen using a #PublishAndRead agreement: https://buff.ly/40EUUxr
Our perspective on the horizontal transfer of accessory chromosomes in fungi is now available in Heredity: rdcu.be/d9jOR. It may be a regulated process. Very proud of this collaborative effort with Henrik de Fine Licht (@henriklicht.bsky.social) and Remco Stam (@rstam.bsky.social)!
This work is phenomenally interesting, and I’m delighted to have played a very very small part in it! bsky.app/profile/keyf...
The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
pepfarimpact.vercel.app
This is so remarkable!!!
Excited to share our latest research 😀: Impact of commercial gut health interventions on caecal metagenome and broiler performance. Huge thanks to Gladys Pangga for her incredible effort 👏🏼 and many others for their contributions 🧫🐔🦠🧑🏼🌾
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sad news! Aside from a fantastic microbiology career (his 2003 editorial in Annual Revs below was a great read👇), I fondly remember Julian Davies' later and fascinating research on various effects sub-MIC of antibiotics, which inspired my MSc research greatly!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
