Next month I will be speaking online at WHF Events "Next steps for clinical research in the UK", where discussion will be on improving transparency, efficiency and patient involvement in research, as well as new approaches to data use in clinical research: westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/Cli…

Fully funded PhD studentship @MIBTP1 available with me and Tim Overton looking at how we can harness the power of efflux to optimise industrial processes IMIBirmingham ChemEng Bham 🤩warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

New preprint! We conjugated a panel of MDR plasmids into E. coli and found parallelisms in the differential expression of metabolic genes @alanmcn1 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My time at Birmingham will very sadly be ending in March. If you're looking for a dashingly handsome, well-spoken postdoc, that's not me, but I can do wet and dry lab ([functional]genomics, metagenomics, RNAseq) work in Gram-positives (especially Enterococcus) so keep me in mind.

Fun fact about this year's ContamCalendar - it was created entirely from a hospital bed after I spent 7 weeks in hospital following heart surgery. This surgery was actually partially related to both contamination and the ContamCalendars.... 📆🫀🩺🦠

🔔New Pre-print🔔 TL;DR: The opportunistic pathogen A. lwoffii is more constrained in acquiring & developing antibiotic resistance 🦠 Jessica Blair Rob Moran Freya Harrison @babs_clough Dr Ross McInnes Dr Eva Frickel Mark Webber biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

(1/3) New Year & looking for a new opportunity?🌟 Exciting #AcademicOpportunity Alert! 🌟Uni of Birmingham is offering 125th Anniversary Fellowships at Associate Professor level & ECRs (Assistant/Lecturer level) with an exciting research portfolio are also welcome to apply 🎓

New work in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance describes the mechanism behind a #vancomycin-variable isolate of #Enterococcus faecium from a hospital outbreak! 🏥🦠 From Dr Ross McInnes, Ann Snaith, S. Dunn, Maria Papangeli, Katie Hardy, Abid Hussain & Willem van Schaik @[email protected] ⭐️ (1/6) nature.com/articles/s4425…

Whew, a whole picture of me😅. Delighted to share that Wellcome is opening a £20m funding scheme, the #AcceleratorAwards, for researchers of Black, Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage in the UK. Short thread of the critical details 🧵

Very happy have this out! I’ve been working on a couple of projects since joining @alanmcn1 and this is one of them - looking at the transcriptional response to multidrug resistance plasmids in E. coli. Thanks Ann Snaith for the help on this too! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… New preprint from the Michelle Buckner Lab. Parisa Pordelkhaki, Huba Marton, Dr Onalenna Neo, PhD, @celiakessler98 We investigated the effect of natural product extracts on plasmid transmission.

Four exceptional scientists have started at the Sanger Institute in the second round of the Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship.🎉 Find out more about Michael Ansah, Samantha Jumbe, Mona Suleiman and Onalenna Neo, here ⤵️ sanger.ac.uk/news_item/well… @EqualityScience

Couldn’t be more proud!! Dr Onalenna Neo, PhD passed her PhD with minor corrections 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 A big thank you also to the two examiners (Amanda Rossiter-Pearson and @LyndaPartridge and the chair Gosia)! 🤩

First pre-print from the lab! “Carbohydrate-active enzymes from Akkermansia muciniphila breakdown mucin O-glycans to completion” 🌟Cassie Bakshani Taiwo Ojuri 🌟 IMIBirmingham #glycotime we hope people enjoy reading it! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's time! Klebsiella Seminar Series starts this week!🌟We are thrilled to announce the 2024 program and are excited to hear the latest Klebsiella research. #KlebClub🦠See you on Thursday! Registration is free and still live at: sites.google.com/view/klebclub/…

Just got my hands on "The Applied Genomic Epidemiology Handbook" - a game-changer for public health pros! 📚 Major kudos to Alli Black (Washington State Department of Health), Gytis Dudas 🇱🇹🇪🇺 @evogytis.bsky.social (Vilnius University), with contributions from @EpiDemos82 (UCF), and Janeece Pourroy (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative). It's packed with practical

Out latest preprint describes a plasmid lineage we've been tracking in Birmingham's QE Hospital - short 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @alanmcn1

A river of resistant genes uncovered by metagenomics This Genome Watch discusses the use of metagenomic sequencing to investigate resistome dynamics in river ecosystems and their associations with the mobilome & microbiome, underscoring the role of rivers as reservoirs of ARGs

📣 Speaker alert #IOIECR2025 - Ilyas Alav from Uni of Birmingham Ilyas’ talk will focus on nucleoside analogues as plasmid conjugation inhibitors 🧫 Join us on March 21 for our ECR conference on ‘Multidisciplinary Approaches to Tackle AMR’ ️➡️ ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/event/ioi-earl…