An hour of #bioinformatics can save a week in the lab. ALSO An hour in the lab can save a week of #bioinformatics.

At #Microbio24 today we discussed biofilms and their disadvantages, especially in the medical field. Explore this subject in our journals, perhaps start with this article: Biofilms as protective cocoons against biocides doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.…

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GLG vice-chair Chris Fearne highlighted urgency to address #AMR which if not addressed, may lower life expectancy by 1.8 years in the next decade, and to seize opportunity of the #UNGA HLM on AMR to commit to financing AMR response along with setting measurable goals. #eccmid2024

It was a pleasure to kick-off the pre-ECCMID day with an old colleague and friend, Maria Solsona, at the high-level #AMR event of #ESCMIDGlobal. Next days, I will be presenting two posters about our current work: P1212 and P1719 🧫🔬 Come and say hi! IRTA IRTA-CReSA

Excited to be back home for my first #ESCMIDGlobal2024 ESCMID. SO many interesting sessions going on!!! I’ll be presenting my poster (P1681) this afternoon (12:00-13:30h) on bacterial adaptation to biocides. Come say hi! 🧫🔬 Medical Research Council Quadram Institute GAMA Healthcare

Just 2 days left to apply for this PhD studentship on metal based antibacterial, with me and Mark Webber Quadram Institute UEA Chemistry 😊🙏🏼

The UK government has announced its new five-year National Action Plan on #antimicrobialresistance to protect people and animals from the risk of drug resistant infections: gov.uk/government/new…

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Out today! What’s the difference in the essential genome for adhering and growing on a biotic vs abiotic surface for Salmonella? We use TraDIS-Xpress (of course) to show the conserved and substrate-specific genes involved in adhesion and colonisation. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

Webblings Away Day❤️

Lovely day with the group spending some time together away from the lab, we missed Muhammad Yasir Keith Turner and Ryan but had a great day!

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Mark Webber discussing Biocide Tolerance vs Resistance Quadram Institute #IP2024conf

Mark Webber discuss the lack of harmonised definitions when considering biocide resistance and biocide tolerance….also regulatory implications #IP2024Conf

Nice presentation from Mark Webber showing that you can induce biocide tolerance in lab settings. But does it translate into clinically significant biocide "resistance"? Short answer: not often. A different story with antibiotics! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37648789/ #ip2024

Absolutely fascinating and huge amount of the data presented by Mark Webber on biocide tolerance and cross resistance to antibiotics. Interestingly biofilm not a mechanism for tolerance to biocides! #IP2024Conf