Very exciting - a new drug for IPF! Want to see the full data of course, but nevertheless fantastic news.

We are hiring! Assistant Professor in Microbiology (with emphasis on molecular and/or cellular biology). Please, spread the word: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/662022/ass…

In NICUs, time is of the essence for neonatal infections. Handheld Oxford Nanopore sequencers can detect & type outbreaks faster & more accurately. This technology can help Health NZ/Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora save lives when it matters most! 📌Tiny tech, big impact: esr.cri.nz/news-publicati… #scicomm

The brain injury 1 year post-Covid hospitalization, systematically assessed with MRI (reduced grey matter), biomarkers, and cognitive deficits "equivalent in magnitude to aging from 50 to 70 years of age." nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine Greta Karen Wood Professor Benedict D Michael MBChB, FRCP, PhD

Our team finds mecC-positive S. aureus in human infections linked to a potential unknown environmental reservoir #Genomics 📌Genomic epidemiology of mecC-carrying Staphylococcus aureus isolates from human clinical cases in New Zealand | Microbiology Society doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0…

Did COVID come from an animal market? Here’s what the new evidence really tells us theconversation.com/did-covid-come…

Curious which methods (not) to use for identifying differentially abundant bacteria and how to deal with confounders in your microbiome study? Check out our new paper! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Strainy is finally out! It enables assembly of individual strains from ONT and Pacbio metagenomes. The secret ingredient is multi-allelic phasing algorithm that does not make assumptions about number and abundance of haplotypes. Unpaywalled link - rdcu.be/dVakX

Need a power/sample size calculation for a study or upcoming grant? Led by Emil Hodzic-Santor, we built a simple, free, and pain-free (!) shiny app. feedback welcome plz share with interested parties. check it out: powercalc.ca 🦾🤓 Michelle Sholzberg Kieran Campbell Lianne Jeffs

After three years of hard work, I’m thrilled to share the brainchild of my PhD project. Jaeger: a deep learning tool for identifying bacteriophage sequences in metagenomes! 🧬🦠 Empowering exploration of the viral world with greater accuracy and insight. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to announce that our (me and Yun William Yu) metagenome profiler sylph (github.com/bluenote-1577/…) is now published in Nature Biotechnology! 1/5

【Central Skull Base Osteomyelitis in Queensland, Australia 2010-2020】Open Forum Infectious Diseases Oct 10, 2024 academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a… #OrthoID Musculoskeletal Infection Society European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS)

Ok, I'm handling a paper as an editor and I've hit 20 invites without luck. Anyone on here interested in reviewing an epi paper comparing COVID-19 and Flu ... please!

In a sample of 42 patients admitted for COVID pneumonia in Italy 🇮🇹, over 83% reported lung pathology visible on scan for at least three years post Covid, with various clinical signs and disease manifestations #LongCovid pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39411982/

2 papers this morning that both concern & anger me. The state of HE, and employment in general, is so bound wage theft and abuse of workers that it's no wonder people are leaving and those that stay are just surviving (maybe). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great article by jonathan edgeworth highlighting ESR collaboration w/ Max Bloomfield using Oxford Nanopore sequencing for rapid detection of healthcare-associated infections. This real-time data is revolutionising outbreak management & #Genomics surveillance within the hospital

Invasive fungal infections in non-neutropenic patients Louis Kreitmann, Stijn Blot, & Saad Nseir in Intensive Care Medicine link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We have a paper out in Genome Medicine on pneumococcal lineage dynamics in response to vaccination. Have a look if interested! tinyurl.com/c7s4w8cj Great collaboration w/ Dr. Rebecca Gladstone Daniel Straume Magnus Nygård Osnes ++ (BTW, Check out BluSkye :)

Excited to share our new lab work - driven by our fantastic PhD student (now Dr) Magnus Jespersen with Andrew Steven Tong: Cataloging of chromosomal inversions in #StrepA reference genomes. Sets an analytical framework for investigations in other pathogens. academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…

Prolonged dry seasons lengthen coccidioidomycosis transmission seasons: implications for a changing California Dry conditions (10th %ile 🌧️) in the spring shifted coccidioides transmission season onset an avg of 2.8 wks (95% CI: 0.43-3.58) earlier medrxiv.org/content/10.110…