Lucy Dillon
lucydillon.bsky.social
Lucy Dillon
@lucydillon.bsky.social
Research fellow in the Creevey lab, QUB. Studying AMR, microbiomes, and microbial genomics 🧬 using bioinformatics 👩🏼‍💻
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Happy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations

We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care.

EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.

#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data
New online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research.
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Is there only one "path" that evolution tends to take when a new trait arises? Or can the trait arise in more than one way? In other words, walking back from a particular evolutionary "destination", do we always take the same path? The answer might be "no", at least some of the time. In fact... 1/n
August 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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New preprint from the group: @lucydillon.bsky.social analysis of 16,000+ genomes finds Bacteria cannot combine certain resistance genes as they are mutually exclusive, forcing them down incompatible evolutionary paths.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671315v1
@jomcinerney.bsky.social
Genomic constraints shape the evolution of alternative routes to drug resistance in prokaryotes.
Background: Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is w...
biorxiv.org
August 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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A few days left to apply for this Postdoc working with microbes and flies! 🧫 🪰 🦠
🚨 We are hiring for a 3-yr PDRA 🚨 The Whelan lab is seeking a microbiologist interested in microbe-pathogen competition and use of a Drosophila melanogaster chronic infection model to investigate the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome. For more info check out whelanlab.co.uk & apply at the link below:
Research Associate in Microbe-Microbe Interactions :Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
PhD grad 🥳 Special thanks to my family, friends, and all of the Creevey lab - especially my supervisor @hairyllama.bsky.social! I couldn’t have done it without you!
December 14, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Excited to be attending VIBE conference this year! I will be presenting a poster on Friday using pangenomics and ML to investigate multidrug-resistance 🧬🧫👩🏼‍💻
For anyone attending VIBE/ICBG conference 2024 this week in Galway, keep an eye out for some Creevey Lab members, including talks by Emmet Campbell and John-Paul Wilkins and posters by @lucydillon.bsky.social and Corey Woods.
vibe-icbg.com/Event_Schedu...
vibe-icbg.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM