We wrapped up #IMMEM XIV over the weekend and it was a fantastic success with over 250 participants from 35 countries. A big thank you to the organisers and specifically @esgem-sg.bsky.social our study group on epidemiological markers! The content will be available on ESCMID media soon. #clinmicro

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The decision to close the Fleming Fund was not accompanied by an official statement or press release.”

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Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!!

@imibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Our high-precision metagenomic strain caller, PHLAME, is now published in Cell Reports!! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

PHLAME works on tough sample types -- including those with coexisting strains of a species and low depth.

Very exciting work here from Sanjana Kulkarni, Maha Farhat and team. CNN prediction of MIC, v thoroughwork!!

Register today for the 14th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIV)! Topics range from how genomics inform resistance profiling to pathogen surveillance in a #OneHealth framework. 🧬

✍️ Register: ow.ly/gjOZ50WpOXX
👀 Programme: ow.ly/Whj850WpOXY

#IDSky

Our paper “Global dissemination of npmA mediated pan‑aminoglycoside resistance via a mobile element in Gram‑positive bacteria” is now in @natcomms.nature.com. Part of my freshly defended PhD, so doubly happy! 😄🎉

🧵 (1/14)

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Researchers at @lshtm.bsky.social, led by @josebengoechea.bsky.social, will conduct a £2.2M study funded by UK MRC to investigate how Klebsiella pneumoniae silently colonises the gut before causing deadly infections. 🔬🦠

Read more 👉 bit.ly/4mNSreh

Late breaker abstracts for IMMEM conference, to be held in beautiful Portugal this September, close Friday May 23!

Something for the #ABPHM25 crowd to ponder 🤔

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🧬Antibiograms have been used during outbreak investigations for decades as a surrogate for genetic relatedness of #MRSA
🦠Authors evaluate the accuracy of antibiograms in detecting transmission, using genomic epidemiology as the reference standard
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📣Our latest paper is out now in mSystems: Not quite as it may seem - investigating #plasmid diversity and evolution in #Klebsiella pneumoniae at a single institution over time. A short thread 🧵 @zaminiqbal.bsky.social

Happy to share the findings of our latest work on mutational adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation now published on @NatureComms
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Our paper investigating the mutational landscape during Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation is out now rdcu.be//d55l3
@fcic.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social University of Cambridge @julianparkhill.bsky.social

Three potential PhD positions are now open for applications!
- MRCLID:
(1) integrated with my fship - AMR prevalence by age&sex
(2) long term collab. - AMR gene transfer
- Nagasaki: new collaboration comparing UK&Japan AMR rates
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/projects/
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