Happy to see the last parts of my PhD with @milja001.bsky.social now published in @microbiomej.bsky.social (many thanks to all involved!) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Distinct gut viral communities across life stages in dairy cattle - Microbiome

Background Ruminant gut microbial communities influence host health, productivity, and methane emissions, yet viral communities across life stages remain uncharacterized. Whilst bacteriophages shape m...

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Ryan Cook@ryancook94.bsky.social · last yr.

🧬🐄 NEW PREPRINT: Really happy to finally share the last big piece of work from my PhD! Spoiler: Cows are great and so are their viromes 🧵1/13 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am excited to share that our manuscript titled 'Defining the ESKAPE pathogen prophage repertoire with PHORAGER' is now available online as a preprint in BioRxiv! 🤩 (doi.org/10.64898/202...) Here we present PHORAGER, a Nextflow pipeline for the identification and quality assessment of prophages 🧬

In our final poster at #VoM2026, @rapher97.bsky.social explores the gut virome in healthy ageing. Visit his poster to find out what to expect when you get older…

Today @ryancook94.bsky.social is presenting his posters on the trials and tribulations of working with phages and organoid models. #VoM2025

If you work with Klebsiella phages, you would probably like to know what genes are involved in resistance. Check out @deuskamya.bsky.social’s poster at #VoM2026 featuring lots of mutants.

Have you ever wondered about prophages in an important gut bacterium? Check out @xenadyball.bsky.social’s poster at #VoM2026

If you’re at the Viruses of Microbes conference, interested in Pseudomonas or phage therapy, check out @hannahvpye.bsky.social ‘s poster no84. #VoM2026

Last week I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the 4th Mobile Genetic Elements workshop in York! 🧬 Thanks to the organisers for putting on such a great meeting! 😊 @mgeworkshop.bsky.social

🆕 Blog! Dr Hannah Morelli reflects on her journey from studying animal health to launching Quadlytics, a new spinout company developing bacteriophage therapies to tackle Salmonella in livestock 🧪 buff.ly/0wCCXJW

From phages to pigs: turning research into a spinout company - Quadram Institute

“I’m currently a postdoctoral researcher here at the Quadram Institute. My day-to-day research is looking at bacteriophages, which are viruses that can infect and kill bacteria, and how they can be…

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During my PhD, @milja001.bsky.social and I started counting phage genomes, and tried to make them available in useful formats with useful metadata. We also described the extent of sequenced phage genomes at the time. Five years on, we've had a look at what's changed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our latest publication from the PhageLand project which investigated the effects of a phage cocktail, designed for wastewater bioremediation, on Daphnia magna microbiome and life-history parameters! 🌊💧 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Phage Cocktail Designed for Wastewater Bioremediation Has Limited Effect on Crustacean Filtrator Microbiome Diversity and Health

Phage cocktail designed for wastewater bioremediation is safe for freshwater filtrators. D. magna cultured with phages showed no significant changes in life-history parameters and minor shifts in the...

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I’ve had an amazing time (as always) at VoM-UK this week! A big thank you to the organisers for putting on such a great meeting and allowing me to present my PhD research 😊

Great first day of VoM-UK 2026, including three top presentations from the @evelienadri.bsky.social lab (I am only a bit biased) ( @xenadyball.bsky.social @rapher97.bsky.social @deuskamya.bsky.social ) #IDoBelieveInPhages

💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥 Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠 Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC

⏰ Closing soon! We're looking for a Project Scientist to work on a project designing combinations of phages against Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) in swine. 💷 £29,890 🗓️ Apply by 16 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/wEGroUj

I’m delighted to have been awarded with a grant to support this new and exciting project, which is a proud career milestone for me! 😆 I’m now recruiting a Project Scientist to help on this project 🐷 Please see the recruitment advert below and apply via the link: shorturl.at/rIT8D

Quadram Institute@quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🆕Vacancy! We're looking for a Project Scientist to work on a project designing combinations of phages against Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) in swine. 💷 £29,890 🗓️ Apply by 16 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/Cq1dOf3

🚨 Funded PhD alert 🚨 We are recruiting for a PhD student to join the @langridgelab.bsky.social in October 2026 - please share! If you like bacteria, genomics and puzzles, this could be the project for you 🦠🧬🧩 Apply by 2 Dec 🗓️ #PhDposition Find out more ⬇️ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature

Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.

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Was great to chat with @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social about bacteriophages today! #phages

Quadram Institute@quadraminstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Today we welcomed @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social to the Quadram Institute to learn more about our food, gut microbiome and health research including hearing from our experts about our work on bacteriophages Find out more about our research targets ➡️ buff.ly/STa42fW

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Bacteriophage diversity declines with COPD severity in the respiratory microbiome

Cook et al. reveal bacteriophage diversity progressively declines with COPD severity. Frequent exacerbators uniquely show decoupled viral-bacterial relationships. Virulence-encoding phages associate w...

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Ryan Cook@ryancook94.bsky.social · last yr.

New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁 COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking forward to presenting the latest results from the PhageLand project during the ‘Phages in Health and Remediation’ session at 4.30pm in Brown 1&2 at @femsmicro.org #FEMS2025 #phagesky #microsky

New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁 COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join Dr @evelienadri.bsky.social‬ 's group to study bacteriophages, drug resistance and genetic evolution of Salmonella 🦠 💷 £36,720 to £39,750 🗓️ Apply by 2 July 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/7M2mDaa

🧬🐄 NEW PREPRINT: Really happy to finally share the last big piece of work from my PhD! Spoiler: Cows are great and so are their viromes 🧵1/13 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Life-Stage Transitions Drive Distinct Gut Viral Communities in Dairy Cattle

Ruminant gut microbial communities profoundly influence host health and environmental impacts, yet their viral components remain poorly characterised across developmental transitions. Here, we analyse...

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What a week in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 ViBioM 2025 brought 150+ virus bioinformaticians from 34 countries to explore viral evolution, ML tools, & taxonomy challenges. 🌱 All plant-based thanks to @desafiovegetariano! Huge thanks to organizers, speakers, and community! #ViBioM2025 #Viromics

Had a great time attending the #ViBioM2025 meeting in Lisbon this week with @ryancook94.bsky.social 🇵🇹☀️

Less than a week left to apply for this #PhD position!

Evelien Adriaenssens@evelienadri.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎓 #PhDPosition available in my group! 🫁 Understanding the microbiome and phageome in chronic lung infections for the development of phage therapy with me & Prof Eleanor Mishra 📅 Apply by Monday 14 April ➡️ buff.ly/7v9JVDU Happy to answer questions, but don't send your CV through email.

Happy to be presenting my poster titled ‘Exploring phage-mediated adaptation of Ruminococcus gnavus to the human gut’ at the Microbiology Society conference today! Come find me at B78 🦠 #Microbio25

🎓 #PhDPosition available in my group! 🫁 Understanding the microbiome and phageome in chronic lung infections for the development of phage therapy with me & Prof Eleanor Mishra 📅 Apply by Monday 14 April ➡️ buff.ly/7v9JVDU Happy to answer questions, but don't send your CV through email.

We had a great time representing @quadraminstitute.bsky.social at Norwich Science Festival! ✨ Our ‘Fantastic Phages!’ stall had lots of great engagement! It was exciting to share our passion for bacteriophages and their ‘superhero’ qualities with the public 🦸🦠