The spread of gram-negative antimicrobial resistance is driven by human, environmental, and other factors. Pranita D. Tamma, MD, reviews clinically important pathogens, mechanisms driving resistance, and strategies for treatment. Read the full article: https://nej.md/4yIbmfe
Mozammel Hoque
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Playing with Unseen as Postdoctoral Research Associate Diane lab @AIMI_UTS exploiting molecular interaction of pathogenic bacteria and their predators. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LN2GUkQAAAAJ&hl=en
📢 New paper out in the Journal of Water Process Engineering! Barrier or reservoir? We investigated how tertiary media filters reshape antibiotic resistance gene profiles in 3 full-scale wastewater treatment plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AntimicrobialResistance #Wastewater
Barrier or reservoir? Tertiary media filters reshape antibiotic resistance gene profiles in full-scale wastewater treatment plants
Media filtration units are widely used to polish secondary effluent in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), yet their influence on antibiotic resistan…
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Microplastics shows physicochemical activity through ROS production 👉www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11141-y
Intrinsic physicochemical activity at microplastic–water interfaces - Nature
Commodity microplastics exhibit intrinsic physicochemical activity at water interfaces, manifested by spontaneous generation of reactive oxygen species, challenging the prevailing paradigm of plastic ...
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New @science.org A breakthrough in understanding why do we get fever and an inflammation response to vaccines. The gut microbiome chronic production of flagellin Paves the way to potentially prevent these acute phase side-effects in the future www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination
Fever is a common adverse reaction to vaccination, contributing to vaccine hesitancy and reduced uptake. To understand variation in fever risk, we longitudinally profiled fecal microbiota, oral temper...
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Attention, phage friends! Our new work on predicting phage-host interactions is out in Nature Microbiology since yesterday! 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage–host interactions from genomes using machine learning - Nature Microbiology
This platform identifies phages capable of infecting specific bacterial strains using genome sequences alone and could enable rational phage-therapy design and precision microbiome engineering.
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Proudly present our fantastic collaborative effort within SFB 1535 "Microbial networking" @mibinet.bsky.social now out in The ISME Journal. "Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @dfg.de
Drawing on existing knowledge and success stories from the community, researchers are looking to tackle major technical barriers in protist sequencing, including extraction, cell lysis, and DNA amplification methods. 🦠🧬 #protists #sequencing
Unlocking the potential of protist research
A new collaboration will tackle major technical challenges currently limiting protist genomics, helping to unlock the potential of protist research for biomanufacturing, sustainable agriculture and environmental applications.
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1/ New paper out in ISME Communications now in full version. Bacteria rarely live alone in nature, so we ran a 6-month evolution experiment asking what happens when species are forced to share the same biofilm. Turns out, company changes everything. 🧵 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Mixed-species interactions constrain diversification and shape biofilm evolution
Abstract. Experimental evolution provides a powerful framework for dissecting how ecological interactions shape adaptive trajectories. Here, we evolved Kle
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Now published from a fun collaboration, please see 🧵 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Mixed-species interactions constrain diversification and shape biofilm evolution
Abstract. Experimental evolution provides a powerful framework for dissecting how ecological interactions shape adaptive trajectories. Here, we evolved Kle
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Given that clonal biofilms of single bacterial species rapidly diversify into niche specialists, how do biofilms of multiple species evolve? A 🧵 featuring new collaborative pubs: 1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Outer membrane changes enable evolutionary escape from bacterial predation ISME Journal by @subhammridha.bsky.social et al from @simonahuwiler.bsky.social and @rkmicrobes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Outer membrane changes enable evolutionary escape from bacterial predation
Abstract. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to modern medicine. To combat AMR pathogens, natural predators like bacteriophages and predatory bacte
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🦠World Microorganism Day! 🔬 This photo is from a three-species synthetic biofilm community that we were working on, composed of: 🧫 Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🧫 Pseudomonas protegens 🧫 Klebsiella pneumoniae
🌍💧 Another exciting water research paper from our group! Led by our fantastic PhD student Huizi Yang. A great contribution to understanding what wastewater can reveal about microbial ecology and population health. #Wastewater #Metagenomics #Microbiome #PublicHealth #WaterResearch
✨ #MicroSeq2026 Plenary Highlight! ✨ 🧵(1/4) Dr @ebony-monson.bsky.social is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow based at La Trobe. Her research career has been nothing short of incredible, with ~$950k in research funding secured, 20 publications, and >40 awards - all within the last 5 years!
1/5 🎉 Thrilled to share my first paper since moving to the School of Engineering at UOW, published in Water Research! “Workflow determinants of recovery efficiency in wastewater-based surveillance of respiratory viruses” 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Quick thread 👇
Workflow determinants of recovery efficiency in wastewater-based surveillance of respiratory viruses
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is becoming a key tool for population-level surveillance of respiratory viruses, yet variability in recovery effic…
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✨ #MicroSeq2026 Plenary Highlight! ✨ 🧵(1/4) Dr Gustavo Espinoza-Vergara is an ARC DECRA Fellow with a focus on how environmental protozoa can influence bacterial persistence, transmission and infectivity. Register 👉 trybooking.com/DNRBW
Pilot-scale demonstration and feasibility study of nutrient recovery from human urine in a membrane bioreactor under acidic pH and elevated MLSS conditions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Have a look at our latest review on intracellular P. aeruginosa populations! @basler-lab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social
Intracellular Pseudomonas aeruginosa: internalization and survival
We are delighted to announce our #MicroSeq2026 plenary speakers! Dr Ash Porter, Dr Gustavo Espinoza-Vergara, @susanaortizb.bsky.social, Dr Rhys White, and @ebony-monson.bsky.social! We’ll be treated to five excellent talks across September 2-3. We can’t wait! Register below👇 trybooking.com/DNRBW
Keep an eye out! 👀 Next week, we’ll be officially announcing our plenary speakers for #MicroSeq2026! Stay tuned~
📢 Due to popular demand, #MicroSeq2026 abstract submissions have been extended! 🗓️ New deadline: 7 August 2026 Don’t miss your chance to present your research and connect with the sequencing and microbiology community. Submit your abstract: www.microseqconference.com #Microbiology #Bioinformatics
cnsplots: Publication-Ready Scientific Plots for Cell, Nature, and Science Journals github.com/faridrashidi... really cool work here from a postdoc at NIH.
GitHub - faridrashidi/cnsplots: 🎨 Toolkit for generating publication-quality plots for Cell, Nature and Science journals
🎨 Toolkit for generating publication-quality plots for Cell, Nature and Science journals - faridrashidi/cnsplots
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✨NEW IN 2026✨The Outstanding Outreach award is a $100 cash prize for the best talk including a science communication aspect. Pedagogy, events, school programs, citizen science - all talks are eligible! Show us what you’ve been up to at #MicroSeq2026! trybooking.com/events/landing/1610956
🏆 #MicroSeq2026 has plenty of awards on offer! 💰Cash prizes for best talks are sponsored by @aussocmic.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social and #MGen. Plus, loads of merch on offer for the best question of each session! 🖊️📔 Register here to submit an abstract👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1610956
Keep those abstracts coming in! In the meantime, meet your #MicroSeq2026 committee! 👋 All of us are stoked to see you on September 2-3! Register here 👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1610956
Have you registered for #MicroSeq2026? Are you keen to get even MORE involved? 🤔 Great news! We're seeking chairpeople for each session! To submit an EOI, hit up our DMs or send us an email at MicroSeqConference@gmail.com Register here👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1610956
🗓️Little reminder: abstract submission opens NEXT MONDAY! 🥳
📣Calling Australian/NZ ECRs and PhD Students 📣 Abstract submission and registration for #MicroSeq2026 opens July 6! Abstracts for both medium-length and lightning talks will be welcome.
We are out! Yay! #microbiology doi.org/10.1093/fems...
The plastisphere: not a unique biofilm but a unifying concept for the interdisciplinary plastic biofilm research community
Microbial communities on plastics are not fundamentally different from other biofilms, yet plastics create long-lasting, mobile habitats that change how mi
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Adaptation to a host-associated lifestyle is associated with convergent loss of flagella-related genes in Pseudomonadota #microbiology #flagella #Pseudomonas link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Adaptation to a host-associated lifestyle is associated with convergent loss of flagella-related genes in Pseudomonadota - BMC Genomics
Background Host-associated bacteria must balance the benefits of motility through flagella against the offsets of energetic costs and immune surveillance. Understanding the interplay of evolutionary f...
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Paper just out in ISME J Wang et al. AHL-mediated quorum sensing drives plastisphere formation and elevates pathogenic potential academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
AHL-mediated quorum sensing drives plastisphere formation and elevates pathogenic potential
Abstract. The biofilm colonizing plastic debris, termed ‘the plastisphere’, is of growing global concern due to escalating plastic pollution. However, the
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