(1/6) Our new short preprint, led by Helena Cooper and myself on incidental bacterial domestication between patient isolation and creation of frozen stock. Geno/phenotype changes are obscured by rich media and more prevalent than we previously thought biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Exciting opportunity! We have another #PDRA role open IMIBirmingham in Hall Lab! If you're passionate about early life #microbiome's, big data, &/or diet-microbe interactions (we're flexible in terms of skills background), check out ad & apply via 👇edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Reversible excision of the wzy locus in Salmonella Typhimurium may aid recovery following phage predation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Recently I made some big updates to Hybracter with v0.9.0 mostly thanks to some help from Richard Stöckl - it can now automatically detect a good value for the estimated chromosome size and it supports archaea amongst other things

A common question I receive is how antibacterial #phage #lysins can be produced in a bacterial host. Therefore, we wrote a comparative guide to expression systems for phage lysin production by Emma Cremelie and @rvazqf portlandpress.com/essaysbiochem/…

Check it out! Bacterial receptor, metabolism, and biofilm genes but not immune defense genes determine lytic phage host range for 2 phages and 80 Pseudomonas clinical isolates. Big thanks to Paul Turner Lab Elizabeth B Burgener and Rob McBride. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mining human #microbiomes reveals an untapped source of peptide #antibiotics cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Cell

Do you have experience in bacterial genome analysis🧬? We have a 🚨3 yr postdoc position🚨! Apply to join us Quadram Institute in Norwich, UK by 13 Oct ✉️📥 Please RT! quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/rese…

Exciting news for the Langridge Lab! 🚨3yr #postdoc #vacancy🚨 Are you interested in: -#WGS & #nanopore sequencing -bacterial genome analysis🧬 The awesome Gemma Langridge & @DrPrernaVohra have a shiny new grant on unscrambling #salmonella Apply now quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/rese…

Dear Kaptive-Web users, we are currently, migrating over to #Kaptive 3 (woo!); the server will be back up and running ASAP 🧑‍💻 In the mean time, head on over to our shiny new docs 👇 kaptive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Our paper out today @nature: phages reconstitute NAD+ to counter bacterial immunity Phaged invented a new biochemical pathway for NAD+ synthesis - including previously unknown enzymatic reactions - to evade bacterial defenses Congrats Ilya Osterman! nature.com/articles/s4158…

The #AMR field has been steadily losing vital scientific and research talent for more than two decades as a result of the broken #AMR market, IFPMA's James Anderson writes. thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vanish…

Do lysogenic phages transmit antimicrobial resistance? In our latest pre-print, we find that in a study of prophages present in 183 clinical isolates of Pseudomonas the answer is no... congrats to Tony Chang, julie pourtois, and Elizabeth B Burgener biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Klebsiella pneumoniae AI-2 transporters mediate interspecies interactions and composition in a three-species biofilm community NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes from Scott Rice SCELSE Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection nature.com/articles/s4152…

#Sequencing transducing particles from #Salmonella Typhimurium phages Det7, ES18, and P22 reveals P22's higher packaging and transduction frequencies, linked to conserved pac-like sequences in the host chromosome. #Phages 📄doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… EVBC👤: C. Lood, José R Penadés

2 jobs to work at BeckyMayerCentreforPhageResearch as a research technician. One on phage engineering (P/T) , another bacterial genome engineering (F/T) jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/vaca…

You are looking for a PostDoc position or know someone who is? We are looking for someone to join our team at ETH Zurich Zürich for a project on phage-host interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🦠🧬👇🏼

📌The rapid detection of a neonatal unit outbreak of a wild-type Klebsiella variicola using decentralized Oxford Nanopore sequencing | Research Square - 48hr turnaround (Oxford Nanopore) - Accessible #Genomics for hospitals - Ability to catch subtle outbreaks doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

📢 Attention antibiotic tolerance researchers! Our GIANT review of 50+ years' of clinical antibiotic tolerance data is now available online in Clinical Microbiology Reviews. Check it out here: journals.asm.org/eprint/UUSIDYA… ASM Dr Jo Hobbs Ashley Deventer Claire Stevens

Leveraging Klebsiella PhageBank Ella Rotman Mark Mimee describe Klebsiella PhageBank for design of phage cocktails that suppress carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae in mouse gut. Phage-bacterial interactions shape bacterial virulence & phage host range cell.com/cell-host-micr…