👀👇 New work on sexually transmitting Shigella (press-friendly: bit.ly/4bBarEL) From continued collaboration with @clairejenkins2.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social, @pducambridge.bsky.social co-lead @hsalje.bsky.social, a talented student Julia Marshall www.linkedin.com/in/julia--ma..., and others! 🧫🧬💊

The Lancet Infectious Diseases@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social · 4w ago

New Research The spread of sexually transmissible drug-resistant shigellosis in England: a genomic epidemiology study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Are you interested in how your genomics work can meaningfully feed into addressing the UK National Action Plan on AMR? 🧬🧫 🦠💊 Then check out our handy personal view out today in Lancet Microbe … 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024–29

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human and animal health, in addition to environmental resilience. Countries set the agenda on thei…

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Call for #poster #abstracts is open for the #Shigella meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social thru Feb! Secure your spot by #registering! #ShowUsYourScience #MicroSky #IDSky 🦠 🧫🔬 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...

Call for abstracts - EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention

EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention

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We are looking for a new lab administrator (0.5 FTE) - come and join in pushing forward our research and impact in infectious disease! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Come and join us in Paris 2026 to talk all about Shigella!

📢 Thrilled to see that our work on chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemiology in Brazil is out in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social 🧵

The Lancet Infectious Diseases@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New Research The epidemiology of chikungunya virus in Brazil and the potential impact of vaccines: a mathematical modelling study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Out this week from @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social and colleagues 👀

Charlotte Houldcroft@virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm pleased to share a preprint today, paper 2/3 of a trilogy (you'll have to wait for the Return of the Jedi). In 2021-22, lots of countries saw unprecedented transmission of enteric adenovirus F41 in children. There were lots of hypotheses about what caused this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I hope all my fellow #shigellaphiles have 20 - 24 April 2026 blocked out in their diaries for @shigellameeting.bsky.social next year in Paris! In the meantime, check out (and join) our starter pack to start community building now 🧫

The Shigella Meeting@shigellameeting.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Why not follow our @shigellameeting.bsky.social starterpack of people who are speaking at and attending the conference - please message to be added to the starter pack if you're planning on coming or we haven't found you yet! go.bsky.app/6Vbwhjc

This one has been a long time coming: we delivered this through institutional changes and the team incubated two babies 👶 👶 alongside this phenomenal work dissecting the genomic epidemiology of a globally important Salmonella serovar causing iNTS disease worldwide! 🧬 🧫 💊

Kate Baker@ksbakes.bsky.social · last yr.

There are half a million cases of invasive non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) every year and while you might know S. Typhimurim and Enteritidis, you may not have heard of S. Panama 💩 🩸 🧫 💊 Check out our latest in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.la... and the 🧵 below to find out more 1/n

This week, @emiliefinch.bsky.social and @jandraor.bsky.social from our team delivered a hands-on workshop on infectious disease modelling. Participants from KAUST were introduced to the fundamentals of transmission dynamics. Huge thanks to all the participants for their curiosity and engagement.

@ksbakes.bsky.social is representing PDU at the GRC Microbial Population Biology conference this week introducing the AMR through time and space session - check out the work of the other attendees here:

Mike Blazanin@mikeblazanin.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days! go.bsky.app/GGxRjzC

Smashing time at the @pducambridge.bsky.social retreat this week!

Charlotte Houldcroft@virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · last yr.

Ipswich looking glorious in the sun. Brilliant 48h with the @pducambridge.bsky.social solving the pressing questions in infectious diseases, competing in penalty shoot outs and cooking up a storm #PDURetreat

Ipswich looking glorious in the sun. Brilliant 48h with the @pducambridge.bsky.social solving the pressing questions in infectious diseases, competing in penalty shoot outs and cooking up a storm #PDURetreat

Final one before the weekend ... check out this amazing new preprint from @charlotteechong.bsky.social where she uncovers what the dominant forces are shaping accessory genome dynamics in the WHO AMR priority pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🧫 🛡️💊

Kate Baker@ksbakes.bsky.social · last yr.

Defence Systems are so hot right now 🔥 🔥 🔥 so check out our latest preprint to see how DSes contribute to niche adaptation, interact with each other, and drive accessory genome interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out the latest from the lab on Sexually Transmissible shigellosis where @lewiscemason.bsky.social and co unpick why this relatively obscure disease re-emerged endemically in the 21st Century 🔬 🧫 🕵️ 🧬

Kate Baker@ksbakes.bsky.social · last yr.

Sexually transmissible shigellosis has gone from an obscure cause of sporadic outbreaks to a sustained endemic AMR priority in only two decades! 🧫💊 Check out our latest preprint to understand how this happened 1/11 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's the 3rd week of Women’s History Month and we want to introduce you to Dr Angkana Huang [Hat], Postdoctoral Research Fellow @pducambridge.bsky.social Read about her research project and how she is involved in making science more equitable in the Global South ⬇️ www.gen.cam.ac.uk/womens-histo...

Check out this amazing new NextFlow GWAS pipeline (based on pyseer) by our very own @rositea.bsky.social, a first year PhD student in the PDU!

Charles Wei@rositea.bsky.social · last yr.

Tired of fragmented bacterial GWAS workflows? Try BaGPipe (Bacterial GWAS Pipeline)—a fully automated, flexible Nextflow pipeline integrating Pyseer for streamlined association studies. Reproducible. Scalable. Efficient. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Nextflow #BacterialGWAS #AMR #Bioinformatics

A way to use cross sectional serological data to reconstruct the changing circulation patterns of pathogens. All in an R package.

Simon Cauchemez@scauchemez.bsky.social · last yr.

Serological data provide key insights on pathogen circulation. We introduce a new R package, Rsero, which is a pipeline to store and analyze age-stratified sero data, estimate the history of pathogen circulation and compare different transmission models. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Great way to start the year! A paper in @nature.com by our amazing @noemie presenting a way to use sequences to identify pathogen lineages, quantify their fitness, and identify potentially important genes/snps . Works across bugs, even with minimally and biased set of sequences.

Noémie Lefrancq@noemielefrancq.bsky.social · 2y ago

Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉 https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies. 🧵 A thread... 1/n #IDSky #IDModelling

Great way to finish the year! Paper by our @huangat.bsky.social in @pnas.org showing that relying on seroconversions in cohorts will usually lead to horribly biased #dengue incidence estimates whereas models relying on age data from local hospital typically robust.

Angkana T. Huang (HAT)@huangat.bsky.social · 2y ago

No one best way to measure #infection risk in populations. Cross-sectional sero: weak temporal signal, CXR, waning as we know. Extra care needed for longitudinal #serology as Ab kinetics and assay noise can mess up estimates by a lot. Cases can be powerful! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411768121

Certain sublineages of antimicrobial resistant bacteria dominate the surveillance landscape, but what causes them to become resistant? Check out our latest work in Shigella to find out and/or read the thread below www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.27.24316207v2 1/n

Very excited to present our latest work as my first post on Bluesky. Thanks to all co-authors for their valuable contributions! A truly mammoth effort with many different fields of expertise coming together. Looking forward to working with all of you in future as well. #Microsky

Kate Baker@ksbakes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Certain sublineages of antimicrobial resistant bacteria dominate the surveillance landscape, but what causes them to become resistant? Check out our latest work in Shigella to find out and/or read the thread below www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.27.24316207v2 1/n

Really enjoying having @atjcagan.bsky.social in the @geneticscam.bsky.social who drew this fab piece at our recent research day. Contains some exciting teasers for our next awesome piece of work landing before Christmas! Thanks Alex!

Really excited to launch the new iteration of the Bakery as part of the Pathogen Dynamics Unit, co-led with @hsalje.bsky.social and @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social Has been awesome working together this last year and really excited for things to come! Please follow and repost.

Pathogen Dynamics Unit@pducambridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello world! After a year in the making, the Pathogen Dynamics Unit is ready to launch! Check out our website (pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk) and follow the team (bsky.app/profile/did:...) to keep up with the latest from our infectious disease supergroup based at @geneticscam.bsky.social

Hello world! After a year in the making, the Pathogen Dynamics Unit is ready to launch! Check out our website (pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk) and follow the team (bsky.app/profile/did:...) to keep up with the latest from our infectious disease supergroup based at @geneticscam.bsky.social