This is the sort of strategic planning that should go into #vaccine design 💉 They analysed 1,930 #Klebsiella pneumoniae 🦠🧫🧬 neonate blood isolates from 13 countries and estimate that 20 antigens 🧪 could cover 72.9% of all infections for 5–10 years #IDSky #EpiSky journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Distribution of capsule and O types in Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: A meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence to inform potential vaccine cover...

Thomas Stanton and colleagues use whole genome sequencing to evaluate the prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae K and O antigen types in 13 countries in Africa and South Asia to help inform vaccine desi...

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🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Huge preprint if you are interested in bacterial strain taxonomy! The why and how of cgMLST LIN codes: An extensively revised and expanded version doi.org/10.1101/2024... I will summarize it for you in this thread 👇

Life Identification Numbers: A bacterial strain nomenclature approach

Unified strain taxonomies are needed for the epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogens and international communication in microbiological research. Core genome multilocus sequence typing (cg...

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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...

The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

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We are hiring! 🎓🧫 🧬 #PhD studentship available in #Immunology at #CambridgeUniversity to investigate a new killer function of human T cells. 📅 Application deadline: 3rd December 2025 more information: lnkd.in/dxq6yMay #findaPhD @ERC_Research

🚨 Another funded PhD alert🚨 We are recruiting again! For a PhD student to start with us in the @langridgelab.bsky.social October 2026 - please share 👀 If you are interested in foodborne pathogens, public health and phage, look no further 🦠🏥🧬 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3zvavp2t ⬅️ Apply by 6 Jan 2026 🗓️

Fantastic paper: "Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria" out now in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

PLEASE RETWEET.

James McInerney@jomcinerney.bsky.social · last yr.

The lab github is here: github.com/mol-evol/ so you can get an idea of what we have been working on recently (several projects are private at the moment, so this will be bigger soon) and the job ad is here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU184/p...

Come and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Had a brilliant time in Liverpool at Edge Hill University for the Galleria mellonella Workshop 🐛 Grateful to be invited as a speaker, the great chats and new connections. Amazing to see the wide range of applications, hope our time lapse imaging work can add to the field!

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Pasteur-Paris University International doctoral program​ (PPU)

OverviewIn 2009, the Institut Pasteur, the world leading biomedical research institute founded by Louis Pasteur in 1887, inaugurated the Pasteur Paris-University (PPU) international doctoral program i...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · last yr.

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry. Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, PPU-@ox.ac.uk, PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬 Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

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)

Our review on recent advances in #PhageTherapy against Klebsiella pneumoniae is out! We analyze KP-phage interactions from an eco-evo perspective, summarize many lab and clinical trials, and discuss novel approaches like genetic engineering & machine learning. #microsky doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Phage therapy for Klebsiella pneumoniae: Understanding bacteria–phage interactions for therapeutic innovations

Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) is a Gram-negative bacterium that commonly resides in the human gastrointestinal tract and can also act as an opportunistic pathogen and cause extra-intestinal infections. K...

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I've spent some time updating my two Nextflow-based bacterial QC pipelines (bacQC and bacQC-ONT). It'd be great to get some feedback. github.com/avantonder/b... github.com/avantonder/b...

GitHub - avantonder/bacQC-ONT: QC pipeline for ONT data

QC pipeline for ONT data. Contribute to avantonder/bacQC-ONT development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brochado and Maier labs in Germany are looking for a PhD student to study horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. ENDAMR Marie Curie doctoral network (endamr.eu) - an amazing opportunity to work with top scientists in the field all around Europe! www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/mariecuriephd

We’ve just released a public Pathogenwatch collection of the MRSN Diversity Panel comprising 100 diverse K. pneumoniae clinical isolates: pathogen.watch/collection/8... #KlebClub

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester

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✨ Excited to share our work in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles! ✨ We reveal a new family of virulence factors in gram-negative bacteria like P. aeruginosa that drive harmful OMV production. 🦠 isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Uncovering a new family of conserved virulence factors that promote the production of host‐damaging outer membrane vesicles in gram‐negative bacteria

CprA is a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) that contributes to resistance against colistin and antimicrobial peptides. The cprA gene is conserved across Pseudomonas aeruginosa clades and its....

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Sie suchen #Infektionsforscherinnen? Wir haben ein #StarterPack mit allen Infect-Net-Wissenschaftlerinnen auf BlueSky zusammengestellt: 🇬🇧 Curious about contributions of women in #infection research? We put together a StarterPack with all our Infect-Net experts on BlueSky 🦋 👉 go.bsky.app/JU8KaeQ

Great collection of papers on adaptive evolution of AMR

Rebecca J Hall@drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Writing lecture slides on 'evolution of AMR' - what are your favourite experimental evolution papers? Bonus points if not E. coli. #microsky

Don't know who to follow for the best in microbial bioinformatics? This is the Starter Pack you need! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Application review for the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Population Biology begins on Jan 20. Maximize your chance of acceptance and $ support by submitting your application with a poster abstract before that date! Details: www.grc.org/microbial-po...

I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e

Join us for a new season of #KlebCkub! @klebclub.bsky.social New speakers & new research! Registration is FREE but mandatory. Abstracts due by February 16! Please share ! Link below👇🏻👇🏻

Caity Holmes@caityholmes.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's that time of year! Registration and abstract submission for the 6th Klebsiella Seminar Series is now open. Participation is free and abstracts are due by February 16th. See the link below for details, and reach out to the organizers with any questions: forms.gle/gxbvaC6FjzuS... #KlebClub

It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

Don't forget to join the #KlebClub Slack workspace! #Klebsiella #KLEBS2024 join.slack.com/t/klebclub/s...