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Gemma Langridge @gemma-langridge.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Another funded PhD alert🚨

We are recruiting again! For a PhD student to start with us in the @langridgelab.bsky.social October 2026 - please share 👀

If you are interested in foodborne pathogens, public health and phage, look no further 🦠🏥🧬

➡️ tinyurl.com/3zvavp2t ⬅️

Apply by 6 Jan 2026 🗓️

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Sep 26

The authors here present Dual Tn-seq, a method combining randomly barcoded transposon insertion sequencing (RB Tn-seq) with Cre-lox recombination, to generate and assay double mutants en masse.
The method looks great - congratulations to all involved!

Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Sep 26

Transposon insertion sequencing (Tn-seq / TraDIS) lets us identify essential genes and, in principle, study genetic interactions (epistasis). But in bacteria, doing this at scale is hard.

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Sep 26

Fantastic paper: "Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria" out now in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · Sep 25

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · Sep 25

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · Sep 25

PLEASE RETWEET.

James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · Sep 25

The lab github is here: github.com/mol-evol/ so you can get an idea of what we have been working on recently (several projects are private at the moment, so this will be bigger soon) and the job ad is here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU184/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Sam Lipworth @samlipworth.bsky.social · Sep 23

Come and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

my.corehr.com

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Sep 18

I haven't done this in E. coli, but in Pseudomonas the attTn7 site via mini-Tn7 transposon integration worked well.

Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Sep 16

Had a brilliant time in Liverpool at Edge Hill University for the Galleria mellonella Workshop 🐛
Grateful to be invited as a speaker, the great chats and new connections. Amazing to see the wide range of applications, hope our time lapse imaging work can add to the field!

Me (Sebastian Bruchmann) giving a presentation titled "Towards a scalable platform for high-throughput virulence assays"

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 8

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wow - that is amazing! Many, many congratulations 👏🥳

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · May 27

Many, many congratulations Caity - so excited for you 🎉🥳

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Apr 24

Many congratulations! 🎉
I've been using them for a while now and still can't believe how bright they are. Fantastic work! 👏

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Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance @thecgps.bsky.social · Apr 22

Our latest preprint is out describing amr.watch - a platform for monitoring AMR trends from global genomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

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Olaya Rendueles @olayarendueles.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our review on recent advances in #PhageTherapy against Klebsiella pneumoniae is out!
We analyze KP-phage interactions from an eco-evo perspective, summarize many lab and clinical trials, and discuss novel approaches like genetic engineering & machine learning.
#microsky
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Phage therapy for Klebsiella pneumoniae: Understanding bacteria–phage interactions for therapeutic innovations

Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) is a Gram-negative bacterium that commonly resides in the human gastrointestinal tract and can also act as an opportunistic pathogen and cause extra-intestinal infections. K...

doi.org

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Andries van Tonder @andriesvt.bsky.social · Mar 6

I've spent some time updating my two Nextflow-based bacterial QC pipelines (bacQC and bacQC-ONT). It'd be great to get some feedback.
github.com/avantonder/b...
github.com/avantonder/b...

GitHub - avantonder/bacQC-ONT: QC pipeline for ONT data

QC pipeline for ONT data. Contribute to avantonder/bacQC-ONT development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · Feb 10

Free #bioinformatics toolkit for #biologists!

Master #Linux, basic scripting, and advanced Nextflow pipelines, with our #OnlineCourses that guide you through complete bioinformatics workflows.

Gain deeper insights from your biological research🚀

📎 Info: bit.ly/4aMV22B

Wellcome Connecting Science in partnership with FutureLearn
Bioinformatics for Biologists online course suite
Starts February 2025

Course one: An introduction to Linux, Bash Scripting, and R

Join the social conversation using this hashtag: #FLLinuxForBioinformatics

Course two: Analysing and Interpreting Genomics Datasets

Join the social conversation using this hashtag: #FLAdvancedBioinformatics

Bridge the gap between biology and computational science

Available on-demand until February 2026

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Brochado Lab @brochadolab.bsky.social · Feb 20

Brochado and Maier labs in Germany are looking for a PhD student to study horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. ENDAMR Marie Curie doctoral network (endamr.eu) - an amazing opportunity to work with top scientists in the field all around Europe!
www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/mariecuriephd

endamr.eu

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Pathogenwatch @pathogenwatch.bsky.social · Feb 12

We’ve just released a public Pathogenwatch collection of the MRSN Diversity Panel comprising 100 diverse K. pneumoniae clinical isolates: pathogen.watch/collection/8... #KlebClub

Pathogenwatch

A global platform for genomic surveillance.

pathogen.watch

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Audrey Goman @audrey-goman.bsky.social · Jan 22

✨ Excited to share our work in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles! ✨ We reveal a new family of virulence factors in gram-negative bacteria like P. aeruginosa that drive harmful OMV production. 🦠
isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Uncovering a new family of conserved virulence factors that promote the production of host‐damaging outer membrane vesicles in gram‐negative bacteria

CprA is a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) that contributes to resistance against colistin and antimicrobial peptides. The cprA gene is conserved across Pseudomonas aeruginosa clades and its....

isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Infect-Net @infect-net.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sie suchen #Infektionsforscherinnen? Wir haben ein #StarterPack mit allen Infect-Net-Wissenschaftlerinnen auf BlueSky zusammengestellt:
🇬🇧 Curious about contributions of women in #infection research? We put together a StarterPack with all our Infect-Net experts on BlueSky 🦋
👉 go.bsky.app/JU8KaeQ

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Sebastian Bruchmann @doktorbasti.bsky.social · Jan 15

Great collection of papers on adaptive evolution of AMR

Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · Jan 15

Writing lecture slides on 'evolution of AMR' - what are your favourite experimental evolution papers?

Bonus points if not E. coli. #microsky

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Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social · Jan 13

Don't know who to follow for the best in microbial bioinformatics?

This is the Starter Pack you need!

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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