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Fanny Wegner @fwegner.bsky.social · 1d

📣Call for abstracts — WBF 2026, Session NEX5: “Microbial communities as One Health drivers.”
Davos, 14–19 Jun 2026. Community-level mechanisms, AMR & practical interventions (experimental/computational/interventional).
Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 → tinyurl.com/4un5a8a4
#OneHealth #Microbiome #AMR

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World Biodiversity Forum @worldbioforum.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌎🌿About to miss the session proposal deadline? Good news🍀! We've extended it to 1 September 2025 (end of day, all time zones). No submissions after that, no further extensions, so submit now on shorturl.at/YeHuz! WBF2026 is next June in ☀️ Davos, Switzerland!🇨🇭 #BiodiversityForum #WBF2026

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Helena Seth-Smith @thebelsian.bsky.social · Feb 13

Using a target enrichment approach across a panel of bacterial STIs doi.org/10.1099/mgen... , we have identified a new lineage of LGV Chlamydia trachomatis doi.org/10.1099/mgen... .

Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs

Rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising, and accessing their genomes provides information on strain evolution, circulating strains and encoded antimicrobial resistance (AM...

doi.org

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Helena Seth-Smith @thebelsian.bsky.social · Feb 13

With love in the air, there is no better time to talk about STIs ;-). I am incredibly proud to present back-to-back papers from my lab, published today in Microbial Genomics.

Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs

Rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising, and accessing their genomes provides information on strain evolution, circulating strains and encoded antimicrobial resistance (AM...

doi.org

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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 3

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

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Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social · Dec 4

Article on potential health risks emanating from the arctic thebulletin.org/2024/11/a-ri...

A rising danger in the Arctic: Microbes unleashed by climate change

As climate change melts permafrost, microbes will emerge. The world isn’t paying enough attention to the potential threat they pose.

thebulletin.org

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Cengiz Akandil @cengizakandil.bsky.social · Oct 22

Industrial activity in the Arctic is rapidly increasing and now we can map hotspots of development at pan-Arctic scale. Our latest paper is out.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Oil and gas extraction regions are the hotspots of light-emitting human activity in the Arctic

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · Jul 6

Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

The major human bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes multidrug-resistant infections in people with underlying immunodeficiencies or structural lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). W...

www.science.org

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · Apr 19

Now published: "Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out the podcast to hear co-senior author Eric Nelson talk about the twists and turns of our study (around 18:25):
www.science.org/content/podc...

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Fanny Wegner @fwegner.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thanks for putting these together, super useful. You read A LOT 😅

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Fanny Wegner @fwegner.bsky.social · Mar 21

how was it?

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Dec 4

How will history books recount COVID?
kucharski.substack.com/p/how-will-h...

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Fanny Wegner @fwegner.bsky.social · Nov 13

affordable childcare ;)

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Marco Galardini @mgalactus.bsky.social · Nov 6

The HZI will hire up to twenty (20!) tenure-track research groups under the broad topic of "Microbial Stargazing" (🦠🌌). The first round of 4 positions is now open; the call closes on the 10th of December. Please share! www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...

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