Nice work from ECRs @poojapadmakumar.bsky.social, Adam, and Pilvi, writing a PLoS Pearl on surveillance of fungal pathogens using wastewater With @edfeil.bsky.social @jusher.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Wastewater surveillance as an early warning system for fungal pathogens

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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...

It has been a long road, but our paper on Klebsiella plasmids is finally out in Lancet Microbe. Thanks to all co authors but especially Marjorie Gibbon and Natacha Couto www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Convergence and global molecular epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae plasmids harbouring the iuc3 virulence locus: a population genomic analysis

Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important pathogen of humans and animals. In the past five years, increasing reports of convergent strains that carry both…

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I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

Mutations generate variation, critical for #evolution, but #MutationBias restricts the choice of mutation type. @deepaagashe.bsky.social &co use #Ecoli strains with different mutation biases to show that changing an old bias should yield more beneficial mutations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46LjCRt

Our JPIAMR grant (led by @edfeil.bsky.social) is ramping up, and Bath are looking for a research associate to work on Candida epidemiology for this project. Come work with us! www.myscience.org/jobs/id31031...

Research Associate in Candida One-Health genomic epidemiology - University of Bath - job portal | jobs.myScience

Job title Research Associate in Candida One-Health genomic epidemiology

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www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... Post doc available to work on Candida genomics with me at the Milner Centre for Evolution (U Bath, UK) as part of the JPIAMR funded project Fugaci www.jpiamr.eu/projects/fug... For queries, email me!

🧪 Finally out after peer review, our work showing that "Mobile #Integrons carry Phage Defense Systems" is now published in Science 🎉 Short 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mobile integrons encode phage defense systems

Integrons are bacterial genetic elements that capture, stockpile, and modulate the expression of genes encoded in integron cassettes. Mobile integrons (MIs) are borne on plasmids, acting as a vehicle ...

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Antimicrobial effects, and selection for AMR by non-antibiotic drugs in a wastewater bacterial community by @aprilhayes.bsky.social, @edfeil.bsky.social, @willhgaze.bsky.social, @profjrsnape.bsky.social, @ecehh.org et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PhD on C.diff epidemiology with me and Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern to join the new centre cwbe.ac.uk @bathchem.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The website for our new centre of excellence in water-based early-warning systems for health protection is now live : cwbe.ac.uk follow us at @cwbe.bsky.social

I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) on understanding how temperature may alter the ecology and evolution of AMR. Might suits someone with a microbiology/wet lab background who wants to expand into ecoevo. Or vice versa! But interest more important than experience.

I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) working on long read pangenome / assembly algorithms in bacteria. Would suit someone with maths/compsci/coding background. Aptitude + interest more important than experience. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New graph algorithms for analysis of the genomes and pangenomes of bacteria and their mobile elements. at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - New graph algorithms for analysis of the genomes and pangenomes of bacteria and their mobile elements. at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Hi. Thought it was time to join the grown-ups!