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Alison Mather
@alisonmather.bsky.social
Epidemiology, microbial (meta)genomics, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, Professor of Microbial Genomic Epidemiology at Quadram Institute Bioscience & University of East Anglia.
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🆕 We’re looking for a motivated candidate to investigate whether differences in E. coli types increase risk of UTIs in pregnancy. This will help inform better patient care 🧪

🗓️ Apply by 6 January 2025
➡️https://buff.ly/sFpuQWo

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October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🆕We’re looking for a motivated candidate to examine drivers and evolutionary factors influencing antimicrobial resistance in pigs from Brazil🐖

🗓️ Apply by 6 January 2025
➡️https://buff.ly/sFpuQWo

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October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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📣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
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Was great to put the dream team back together for a commentary on this with @alisonmather.bsky.social very cool study on AMR flow through food production chains in Europe www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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🎓 #PhDPosition !

🤰 Understanding the relationship between the maternal microbiome and fetal growth restriction with Professor Mark Webber @webberma.bsky.social and Professor Alison Mather @alisonmather.bsky.social

📅Apply by Monday 14 April

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March 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Starting the new year with a new pre-print from the Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social looking at the impact of empirical antibiotics on gut microbiome and resistome of both probiotic and non-probiotic supplemented VLBW preterm infants: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#resistome #amr #microbiome #preterm
Impact of early life antibiotic and probiotic treatment on gut microbiome and resistome of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants
Preterm infants (<37 weeks’ gestation) are often administered broad-spectrum antibiotics in hospitals due to their vulnerability to severe morbidity, including necrotising enterocolitis and sepsis. Ho...
www.biorxiv.org
January 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io
TNA documentation — TNA 0.0.1 documentation
tna.readthedocs.io
November 29, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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🚨#PhD opportunity!🚨Do plasmids help soil microbiomes adapt to climate change? Join me and Raj Whitlock to investigate, using the world's longest-running climate experiment 🌾🥵🦠 Please share, and get in touch if you are interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 7, 2023 at 4:15 PM
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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...
November 6, 2023 at 12:52 PM
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Come work with us! The Quadram is in search of a Head of Bioinformatics to lead and cultivate a specialised bioinformatics core support team. Applications Close 04 December 2023

quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/he...
October 21, 2023 at 3:52 PM
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PhD studentship with myself and Ed Feil at the University of Bath looking at the evolution and epidemiology of plasmids - in particular looking at plasmid fusions/hybrids/recombinants. Lots of fun bioinformatics! Open to UK or international students.
#microsky
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 18, 2023 at 4:17 PM
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PhD studentship (co-sup with Ed Feil, collaborators incl. Edze Westra): using GWAS to find bacterial susceptibility loci to phage infection, and machine learning for prediction. Amazing dataset, great application for machine learning
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 19, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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PhD available with me at NTU. Metabolomics and cell-line work (... maybe some microbiota ...). Open to UK and international students.

Host–microbiota interactions in pancreatic cancer: determining whether they exist, and their influence on disease

Please RT. #MicrobiomeSky
Host–microbiota interactions in pancreatic cancer: determining whether they exist, and their influ...
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October 19, 2023 at 10:58 AM
PhD opportunity with me and Mark Webber! Some microbial genomics, some molecular biology, all fun. Apply here: buff.ly/3FjzrzS
October 19, 2023 at 7:55 AM