We are running a massive online open course on AMR databases starting end of the month. Its completely free, study at your own pace and its ~15 hours overall over the 3 weeks (although you can finish any time in a year). Please spread in your networks! …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimicr…

Martin Hunt has made Incremental release 2024-08 on AllTheBacteria - adds 507k assemblies taking us up to 2.44 million in total: github.com/AllTheBacteria… is there, please use and publish with it! allthebacteria.readthedocs.io/en/latest/inde… 1/n

"This significant research gap has long puzzled the discipline..."

The ever amazing Artyom Egorov in our group has made a new visualisation tool for comparative genomics. Makes particularly beautiful images of phages, plasmids, other MGEs or regions of prokaryotic genomes 😍 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Check out our latest blog from Dr. Inês Mendes and Dr. Bryan A. Wee, members of the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology . They show how ‘bad data’ can be made more valuable by tagging them with information about their potential issues. microb.io/3Xrg9kH

🚀 Exciting News! Our new tool primerForge just got published! 🎉 🔬 primerForge compares two groups of genomes to identify PCR targets—making it easier to distinguish pathogens in infectious disease outbreaks. 🦠 Check out the paper by Joe Wirth et al.👇 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110…

🚨 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…

Looks like we will have to change the first sentence of our grants now. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050 - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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If you're interested in a PhD applying stat/AI methods to prediction of phage susceptibility & cocktail design with me, edze westra + Stineke van Houte , we're advertising an MRC funded project - deadline 4th November. International students welcome! findaphd.com/phds/project/g…

In our last TB work we👀at the correlation of Mtb cultures/sputum genomic diversity. Led by superb-scientists cmariner95 Mariana López IBV-CSIC CSIC saludglobalCSIC What have we found, what haven't we found, and what do we still not know? Follow the 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4146…

I spoke with Quadram Institute Comms team about working at the institute and my experiences of starting here as a new group leader.

Need a less intense coding project to work on while writing a grant. Inspired by the pyMSAviz,ggmsa, I implement an MSA visualization Python package MSAplot (github.com/mourisl/MSAplot) with flexible tracks/panels, like the order. It supports seqlogo, which is missing in pymsaviz.

Some evidence for what everyone suspected: (Some) authors don't want to share data because they don't want people to see how the sausage was made journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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A reminder this starts in a week!

Africa CDC Microbiology Society Conor Meehan @EPPIcenter at UCSF Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Coalition Antimicrobial Resistance Research Team | CNPI Jane Hawkey SAGESA AMR Network NIHR GHRU AMR Wellcome Sanger Institute Key #FLDataBasesAMR course info: 🥼 learn with experts, live over 3 weeks ⏱️Study 5 hours per week 🏆 Earn 15 CPD credits from RC of Pathologists  🖥️Materials available for 12 months 🎓Certificate of achievement 📎 Sign up: bit.ly/4ei8zQl #AMR #OnlineCourse #Genomics

🚨 Chevening Scholarship applications are open until 5 Nov 2024 for those interested in undertaking a master's course in the UK. If you're eligible and interested in applying to work with us, please get in touch. chevening.org/scholarships/ 🚨

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab @ U of Manchester. We're seeking someone with experience in #microbiology & #microbiome to support our growing group. Note this isn't a postdoc role (though keep 👀 for those soon!) jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

We’d love to hire you but that position is currently filled by a professor who hates students, refuses to teach, and hasn’t published this century