Laura Hollis
@laurahollis.bsky.social
PhD student researching copper hypertolerance systems in S. aureus @ IMI, Birmingham | she/her | 🏳️🌈
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💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥
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Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥
Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠
Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition
Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
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journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
My first corresponding author paper is now out in MMBR @asm.org! In this review, @csdetweiler.bsky.social and I assess the evidence for RND efflux pumps as virulence determinants in Gram-negative bacteria.
My first corresponding author paper is now out in MMBR @asm.org! In this review, @csdetweiler.bsky.social and I assess the evidence for RND efflux pumps as virulence determinants in Gram-negative bacteria.
Beyond antibiotic resistance: evidence for resistance-nodulation-division (RND) efflux pumps as virulence determinants | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
SUMMARYEarly in evolution, cells acquired the ability to use energy to export waste and toxic
products against a concentration gradient. In Gram-negative bacteria, the resistance-nodulation-cell
divis...
journals.asm.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
My first corresponding author paper is now out in MMBR @asm.org! In this review, @csdetweiler.bsky.social and I assess the evidence for RND efflux pumps as virulence determinants in Gram-negative bacteria.
My first corresponding author paper is now out in MMBR @asm.org! In this review, @csdetweiler.bsky.social and I assess the evidence for RND efflux pumps as virulence determinants in Gram-negative bacteria.
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🚨New pre-print 🚨
We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec
This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec
This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genome co-adaptation and the evolution of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial pathogens is a major threat to global health, rendering standard treatments ineffective and increasing the risk of severe infection or death. Re...
www.biorxiv.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🚨New pre-print 🚨
We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec
This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec
This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Culture club! Do probiotic yoghurt drinks really contain live bacteria? Let's find out at IMI Summer school 2025 🦠🦠
July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Culture club! Do probiotic yoghurt drinks really contain live bacteria? Let's find out at IMI Summer school 2025 🦠🦠
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Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social
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On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
goodlawproject.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
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💻 @lillycummins.bsky.social uses bioinformatics to monitor and predict the evolution of resistance in bacterial genomes.
Read more about her research ➡️️ www.ineosoxford.ox.a...
Read more about her research ➡️️ www.ineosoxford.ox.a...
February 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
💻 @lillycummins.bsky.social uses bioinformatics to monitor and predict the evolution of resistance in bacterial genomes.
Read more about her research ➡️️ www.ineosoxford.ox.a...
Read more about her research ➡️️ www.ineosoxford.ox.a...
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Very happy to have completed my viva this morning 🥳 Thanks to my examiners and my supervisors @alanmcn1.bsky.social @nwheeler443.bsky.social for all their support throughout my PhD
Its now official that the amazing @lillycummins.bsky.social is a super phenomenal microbial genomicst. PhD viva passed with NO CORRECTIONS! Even with Jukka Corander as examiner! Thanks to Jukka, @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social and @jessicamablair.bsky.social for examining
January 12, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Very happy to have completed my viva this morning 🥳 Thanks to my examiners and my supervisors @alanmcn1.bsky.social @nwheeler443.bsky.social for all their support throughout my PhD
Reposted by Laura Hollis
Its now official that the amazing @lillycummins.bsky.social is a super phenomenal microbial genomicst. PhD viva passed with NO CORRECTIONS! Even with Jukka Corander as examiner! Thanks to Jukka, @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social and @jessicamablair.bsky.social for examining
January 12, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Its now official that the amazing @lillycummins.bsky.social is a super phenomenal microbial genomicst. PhD viva passed with NO CORRECTIONS! Even with Jukka Corander as examiner! Thanks to Jukka, @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social and @jessicamablair.bsky.social for examining
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New paper! 📣 We looked at the prevalence of type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) across E. coli and characterised the systems present in renowned MDR lineages ST410 and ST131
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
(1/2)
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(1/2)
November 17, 2023 at 3:20 PM
New paper! 📣 We looked at the prevalence of type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) across E. coli and characterised the systems present in renowned MDR lineages ST410 and ST131
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
(1/2)
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
(1/2)
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Well done for getting this out @lillycummins.bsky.social! @alanmcn1.bsky.social
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Parallel loss of type VI secretion systems in two multi-drug-resistant Escherichia coli lineages
The repeated emergence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR)
Escherichia coli
clones is a threat to public health globally. In recent work, drug-resistant
E. coli
were shown to be capable of displacing comm...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
November 16, 2023 at 8:49 PM
Well done for getting this out @lillycummins.bsky.social! @alanmcn1.bsky.social
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Our latest, from the phenomenal @lillycummins.bsky.social out today in Mgen.
We show parallel loss of T6SS through gene deletion in two MDR E. coli lineages. This shows our previous displacement work isnt driven by Type VI
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
We show parallel loss of T6SS through gene deletion in two MDR E. coli lineages. This shows our previous displacement work isnt driven by Type VI
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
November 16, 2023 at 12:30 PM
Our latest, from the phenomenal @lillycummins.bsky.social out today in Mgen.
We show parallel loss of T6SS through gene deletion in two MDR E. coli lineages. This shows our previous displacement work isnt driven by Type VI
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
We show parallel loss of T6SS through gene deletion in two MDR E. coli lineages. This shows our previous displacement work isnt driven by Type VI
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Star Baker ⭐️ @izziepotterill.bsky.social
October 31, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Star Baker ⭐️ @izziepotterill.bsky.social