Nice to see this perspective piece out that synthesises ~10 years of work from the NERC EVAL-FARMS consortium. Also love that the thumbnail for the link is a cat. Please be advised that the work is on AMR in dairy (cow) farms, not cat farms 🐄 doi.org/10.3389/fvet...

Frontiers | Interdisciplinary insights on selection, surveillance and mitigations of antimicrobial resistance dynamics on a UK dairy farm with relevance to other one health sectors

Antibiotic use in agriculture is a global driver for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Dairy farming, one of the largest producers of agricultural waste, repre...

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#Vom2026: Had a fantastic opportunity to share my work on Maternal influence in shaping up the infants' virome at this year's VoM in front of 900 researchers. Thank you all for the wonderful feedback so far, and I will be happy to talk more about it. @evelienadri.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social

Excited to share my PhD work at #VoM2026 exploring what drives phage infectivity in cystic fibrosis-associated Achromobacter. Across 105 phage–host interactions, we found host identity plays a major role, with defence systems and phage tail architecture adding further complexity.

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…

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.

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

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

Who infects whom? A big question in virome research. If you want to learn more, check out the work from @apedramfar.bsky.social from her PhD. #VoM2026

Earlier today at #VoM2026 @revathykri.bsky.social presented her work on the virus population sharing between mothers and infants. She did a amazing job! Find her during breaks to talk methods, findings and everything virome!

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

#VoM2026 has started! 🎉 We were delighted to hear welcoming remarks from ISVM President Lone Brøndsted as we begin a week of exciting science, collaboration, and new connections. Here's to a fantastic week of science and networking in Prague! #VoM2026 #ISVM #Microbiology #Virology

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

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. Read more in our blog ➡️ buff.ly/49FFKxa

The Integrative Viromics Lab at the University of Calgary is recruiting MSc and PhD students to study viruses in lakes, glaciers, permafrost, and other changing environments. Strong computational skills are preferred. Send a CV and cover letter to ann.gregory[at]ucalgary.ca

🆕 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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"I’m interested in what viral communities look like in nature. The overwhelming majority of these are bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria." 💬 @ryancook94.bsky.social

Understanding viral ecology and diversity to develop future phage therapy - Quadram Institute

Dr Ryan Cook describes viruses and the database he’s developed to help document and understand the diversity of viruses in nature

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Save the date! The 27th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting is coming to Canada for the first time in its history! 🦠 🧬 📅 July 25 - 29, 2027 📍 University of Guelph, Guelph, ON More info to follow...

Delighted to see our work featured as a Research Highlight in @natecoevo.nature.com 🧬 Ancient strep throat 🦠 nature.com/articles/s41... 😷 Strep throat is nothing new – a 700-year-old mummy proves it 🙌@msabrysarhan.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social #aDNA #Genomics #StrepThroat #ScienceNews

New preprint! 🚨 Phage proteins don't act alone. Phages rely on homooligomerisation to assemble identical protein subunits into functional forms. But figuring out those exact configurations experimentally is tough. Learn about our approach in our new preprint! 👇 (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Postdoc position available within Malick Gibani’s team at Imperial College London, part of a Wellcome-funded project focused on the microbiota associated with the 2025 CHANTS Salmonella human challenge study. #microbiome #jobs www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Happy to have played a small role in this cool piece of work led by Teagan Brown in the lab of @evelienadri.bsky.social. She looked at the impacts of using a phage cocktail in a batch-culture fermentation colon model 🦠 #phages www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

The effects of bacteriophage cocktail treatment on healthy gut microbiota: an in vitro human colon model study

The human gut microbiome is a complex community that plays an important role in health, where perturbations can result in dysbiosis and disease. Bacteriophages (phages) can provide treatment for bacte...

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Great piece and cover @science.org about how our field is uncovering the evolutionary and mechanistic connections between bacterial and eukaryotic immunity ! www.science.org/content/article/ancient-wars-between-microbes-gave-us-key-immune-defenses

🎊 New Preprint from phagefoundry.org ! Super excited to share our latest work on generating systematic phage-MDR P. aeruginosa interaction dataset & use of ML to predict phage susceptibility & phage cocktails from target genome sequences alone, w validations www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Revised story Systematic receptor mapping in acapsular Klebsiella www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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New paper 🔔 Collaboration @sullivan-lab.bsky.social Marissa Gittrich led the work Klebsiella phage biology has focused almost entirely on capsulated strains, but capsule loss is the #1 resistance mechanism under phage predation. We used a naturally acapsular host to reveal the receptor landscape

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...

From 18 to 20 May researchers from across Norwich Research Park will be sharing their exciting science at pubs and venues across our fine city of Norwich as part of @pintofscience.uk 🍺 Here’s some of the exciting science our researchers will be talking about⤵️ buff.ly/JnbTkhq

Do you have a PhD in a subject area such as Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics, or Biochemistry? Check out our current vacancy ⤵️ 💷 £37,500 to £43,350 🗓️ Apply by 15 May 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/aailNBq

Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients? Come to @officialuom.bsky.social @mermanchester.bsky.social to help us find out! 2.5 year @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position in experimental evolution Closing 15 May. Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Microbial Evolution:Oxford Road

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🚨Another Langridge lab paper is hot off the press!🚨 We are excited to share the 1st paper from @nisbetalice.bsky.social, exploring the #genomic epidemiology of #entericfever in England & Wales (2004–23). But the hidden story is all about carriage... Now out in @plos.org Neglected Tropical Diseases!

The typhoid Mary legacy: Genomic epidemiology uncovers contemporary carriage dynamics across two decades of enteric fever surveillance in England and Wales

Author summary Enteric fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A/B, is a major global health issue. The burden of enteric fever is worsened by bacterial carriers – individual...

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⏰ Closing soon We’re looking for a Research Scientist (Metaproteomics) to join Dr Kai Cheng's group to develop and apply computational and analytical methods for metaproteomics 💻️ 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 6 May ➡️ buff.ly/8sZPg1T