Wrapping up a big week at #GRCSalmonella in sunny Tuscany, fantastic science and networking. Very happy the GRS was also a huge success! All the best to Dr Blanca Perez-Sepulveda and Philipp Walch as the new GRS chairs for 2025!

Some (late) summer travels, this time taking a week to visit New York City, such an exciting place to explore! 🗽🇺🇸🏙️

Fantastic week of science and networking at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response meeting - really a privilege to be among such an excellent crowd on a historic campus. Thanks to the organisers for a great meeting! #cshlhost

With the new semester, I'm starting to use some new free AI tools in my talks. Here's a few examples using DALL-E 3 (through Bing Image Creator). Just astonishingly easy to create compelling images, I'd really encourage it - students are very excited to see it!

Really incredible perspective - on the frontlines seeing a pathogen shifting from enteric to invasive infection. A powerful reminder that research on infectious diseases is grounded in the reality of people suffering and dying. Hugely inspiring to see this real world impact

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Excited to be in Edinburgh for the Microbiology Society Annual General Meeting - thanks for the chance to share our work on antibiotic persisent Salmonella spreading within and between hosts #Microbio24

Grand couple of weeks going across Scotland - from Edinburgh up along the Highlands, across to Islay, then back to Glasgow. Plenty of drams and pints along the way🥃🍻

Excited to have Elizabeth Hartland visiting us in Zürich today, great to discuss exciting science and future plans in some lovely summer weather ☀️🥂

Finished up a great few days at @nacarb_2024 in (mostly) sunny Ascona. Lots of exciting work on all areas of antibiotic resistance - I'd really recommend this meeting. Thanks for the chance to present some of our persister work to such an excellent community #nacarb24

Coming to the end of a big week in Liverpool, great to share some of our work on pathogen transmission and antibiotic persistence. Thanks @jay_salsa for hosting me at University of Liverpool and thanks Microbiology Society for the support to present at FIS Conference FIS|HIS International 2024 #FISHIS24

Really nice to be back in Australia for a couple of weeks, going through Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Nice to trade snow for sunshine and catch up with friends, family, and colleagues around the country 🇦🇺 🍻 🌞

Antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella exploits post-antibiotic microbiota disruption to achieve virulence-dependent transmission dlvr.it/TLsPD1

We're happy to share this example of how antibiotic treatment can promote clonal transmission of an invasive gut pathogen. We also explore the importance of preserving microbiota during treatment. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this paper! cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Excited to be traveling to New Hampshire USA for the Gordon Research Conferences Salmonella meeting, looking forward to some great discussion. But, since I'm traveling on Swiss National Day, first a quick farewell Raclette 🇨🇭 🧀 🥂

Great week of science in New Hampshire at the Salmonella GRS/GRC. Thanks to the chairs for their hard work. Really nice to see a strong Aussie cohort here too. Looking forward to 2027!