Many congratulations @JuliannaPiat on your successful viva defence, today! (primarily supervised by PrestonLab but also a one of us in @scompbiol). We're all proud of you!

Call me a snowflake, but the thing I really, really don't want to hear from the person wielding the drill and pliers is 'I'm not actually a dentist, as such, but ...'

Are you interested in fungal genome evolution and transposable elements? Fancy pursuing a PhD in the Netherlands? Consider applying to join our team Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU Faculty of Science, Utrecht University uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Congratulations to Emma (wisely not on Twitter…) whose first paper with Tracey Gloster and I’m not here often has just been accepted in MGen. (preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…)

We're incredibly proud of Emma (who wisely is not on Twitter) and her work on this with us and Tracey Gloster - her first published paper! Do you need a tool to obtain, collate and process carbohydrate active enzyme data? You might like cazy_webscraper!

⁦@NicolaJHolden⁩ explaining the complexity of pathogenic E. coli classification ⁦Microbiology Society⁩ phylogeny meeting #FitForPurpose

I’m not here often presenting my favourite slide of all time at the #FitForPurpose Microbiology Society meeting

Extremely valuable getting together clinical microbiologists, taxonomists and all sorts of other researchers to build consensus on questions of bacterial nomenclature at Microbiology Society #FitForPurpose2023 in Strathclyde #IJSEM

It was fantastic to be involved in this meeting - I think we found a lot of common ground to move forward together with recommendations around microbial nomenclature. Many thanks to the organising team, especially Sheila Patrick for driving everything!

Evaluating a large language model’s ability to solve programming exercises from an introductory bioinformatics course journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Chip barm.

1/n Final review of our trilogy on the superfamily of ammonium transporters published in The FEBS Journal doi.org/10.1111/febs.1… Paul Hoskisson 😷🔬🧫🧬🐸🐍🦎 Gordon W Adriana Bizior I’m not here often Gavin H Thomas StrathPharm&Bio Strathclyde Science StrathclydeOA Transporters and Solute carriers

Congratulations to the very talented and newly-vivaed Dr Hobbs! Many thanks to Creevey Lab for a great job as external (the viva sounded fun!) - flanked here by Tracey Gloster and me as extremely proud supervisors University of St Andrews SIPBS CompBiol StrathPharm&Bio

Arrived in Edinburgh for #microbio24! I’ll be talking all about metabolism and MDR in the Metabolism forum on Wednesday afternoon 😍 drop me a message if you fancy a chat/coffee/beer!

Meet Gavin H Thomas team at Microbiology Society #Microbio24 – check out our talks and poster presentations 👇

Looking forward to presenting at #microbio24! Come say hi at poster A298. Also looking forward to co-hosting the microbial physiology, metabolism and molecular biology forum. Looking forward to seeing everyone there 🦠

Would you like to come and work with us building tools to help resolve the thorny issue of microbial classification? If you would, we have a post available: strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/64…

Congratulations to our very own Angelika Kiepas 🦋 on her successful viva 🎉🎉🎉 Many thanks Vartul Sangal and @evaheinz7 for a thorough examination & great suggestions for her next publications. Proud supervisors I’m not here often & @paulhoskisson also pictured ;)

Congratulations to Robyn 🧬 - New Dr in the house!! Very proud supervisor and of her, starting a PhD in 2020-mid-pandemic & doing a great job! Thanks to Christophe Corre and Dan Walker for examining!