Louise Flanagan
@flanagella.bsky.social
Research Associate in AMR Evolution at the University of Manchester. And I have a life too, I swear. She/her ☘️
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Fresh from peer review a new and improved version of @taoranfu.bsky.social’s paper out today in @asm.org mSystems
journals.asm.org/eprint/8NWNW...
journals.asm.org/eprint/8NWNW...
July 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A few hours left for you to sneak in a cheeky last minute abstract! ECRs, you know what to do…
#mevosky
#mevosky
One week left to submit your abstract to @microbiologysociety.org meeting on “Understanding and Predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics” at Liverpool 26-27 November
Lots of spaces for ECR talks and posters!
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Lots of spaces for ECR talks and posters!
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
microbiologysociety.org
July 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A few hours left for you to sneak in a cheeky last minute abstract! ECRs, you know what to do…
#mevosky
#mevosky
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📣 Position available: Research tech in microbial experimental evolution! Working alongside postdoc Louise Flanagan (@flanagella.bsky.social) on understanding how Pseudomonas evolves resistance to antibiotics. 🦠🧫
Closing 9 July #Microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Closing 9 July #Microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Technician :Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📣 Position available: Research tech in microbial experimental evolution! Working alongside postdoc Louise Flanagan (@flanagella.bsky.social) on understanding how Pseudomonas evolves resistance to antibiotics. 🦠🧫
Closing 9 July #Microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Closing 9 July #Microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Had a lovely time at the University of Warwick today presenting some of my PhD and Postdoc work! Thanks so much to @jessicalewismic.bsky.social and Vishakha from the postdoc society for organising! 😊 This is a photo of me being amazed that there's a photo of me on a poster in Warwick!
June 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Had a lovely time at the University of Warwick today presenting some of my PhD and Postdoc work! Thanks so much to @jessicalewismic.bsky.social and Vishakha from the postdoc society for organising! 😊 This is a photo of me being amazed that there's a photo of me on a poster in Warwick!
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Had the absolute best time at @pintofscience.uk talking about microbial evolution and some of the work I’ve been doing at @mermanchester.bsky.social with @flanagella.bsky.social and @dannagifford.bsky.social 🧫💊🧬
May 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Had the absolute best time at @pintofscience.uk talking about microbial evolution and some of the work I’ve been doing at @mermanchester.bsky.social with @flanagella.bsky.social and @dannagifford.bsky.social 🧫💊🧬
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This meeting will be great!
Abstract submission open now
See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Abstract submission open now
See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting
microbiologysociety.org
May 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Delighted to have won a poster prize at #microbio25 this week! Had a really great time at this conference, learned so much and met so many old (and some new!) faces. Thanks so much to the organisers for a great event and to the society for the travel grant too! 🚝🧪🦠
- Journal of General Virology poster prize winner: Afifah Tasnim @afifahtasnim.bsky.social
-Microbiology poster prize winner: Louise Flanagan @flanagella.bsky.social
-Microbiology poster prize winner: Louise Flanagan @flanagella.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Delighted to have won a poster prize at #microbio25 this week! Had a really great time at this conference, learned so much and met so many old (and some new!) faces. Thanks so much to the organisers for a great event and to the society for the travel grant too! 🚝🧪🦠
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@willpjsmith.bsky.social just gave a fantastic talk about T6SS resistance evolution and the mutations behind it #Microbio25
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
@willpjsmith.bsky.social just gave a fantastic talk about T6SS resistance evolution and the mutations behind it #Microbio25
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Looking forward to speaking in the AMR mechanisms and regulation session at #Microbio25 today. I'll be speaking right after @brockhurstlab.bsky.social who will discuss our within-patient resistance evolution project, and I'll outline some measures we can take against resistance evolution in-host
April 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Looking forward to speaking in the AMR mechanisms and regulation session at #Microbio25 today. I'll be speaking right after @brockhurstlab.bsky.social who will discuss our within-patient resistance evolution project, and I'll outline some measures we can take against resistance evolution in-host
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Interested in using genomics to study bacterial cooperation?
We’ve got 2 brilliant posters at #Microbio25 today: Zohar Katz (A276) and Rosie Randall (A098).
Go say hi to them! 🦠 🧬
We’ve got 2 brilliant posters at #Microbio25 today: Zohar Katz (A276) and Rosie Randall (A098).
Go say hi to them! 🦠 🧬
April 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Interested in using genomics to study bacterial cooperation?
We’ve got 2 brilliant posters at #Microbio25 today: Zohar Katz (A276) and Rosie Randall (A098).
Go say hi to them! 🦠 🧬
We’ve got 2 brilliant posters at #Microbio25 today: Zohar Katz (A276) and Rosie Randall (A098).
Go say hi to them! 🦠 🧬
Excited to be presenting work from the Gifford Lab at #microbio25 on testing the effectiveness of combination therapy in E. coli in limiting antibiotic resistance spread 🦠🧫🧪 Come talk to me at poster A142 today!
April 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Excited to be presenting work from the Gifford Lab at #microbio25 on testing the effectiveness of combination therapy in E. coli in limiting antibiotic resistance spread 🦠🧫🧪 Come talk to me at poster A142 today!
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Come join us! Next week marks my 1 year anniversary at @uniofmanchester.bsky.social and I've never looked back!
Job alert ‼️
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Ecology:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Come join us! Next week marks my 1 year anniversary at @uniofmanchester.bsky.social and I've never looked back!
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Do you (like me) create a bunch of conda environments, then later forget what they're for, when they were last updated, or which tools are in them?
If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...
If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...
GitHub - rrwick/condaenvlist: a simple tool for listing conda environments with descriptions
a simple tool for listing conda environments with descriptions - rrwick/condaenvlist
github.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Do you (like me) create a bunch of conda environments, then later forget what they're for, when they were last updated, or which tools are in them?
If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...
If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...
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@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social and I invite you to the @bsacandjac.bsky.social antibiotic resistance and mechanisms conference Nov 27-28 in Birmingham! We have great talks on global AMR healthcare, mechanisms, vaccines/immunotherapy, antimicrobial interactions and outreach.
bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...
bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...
Antibiotic Resistance and Mechanisms (ARM) Workshop for Researchers 2025 - The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
bsac.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social and I invite you to the @bsacandjac.bsky.social antibiotic resistance and mechanisms conference Nov 27-28 in Birmingham! We have great talks on global AMR healthcare, mechanisms, vaccines/immunotherapy, antimicrobial interactions and outreach.
bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...
bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...
Great week @unibirmingham.bsky.social at #AMGDMarch25 🧪💻. Main learning outcome: name files and directories something actually meaningful so I don't have to hate my past self. (Also going outside sometimes is good when coding). Thanks so much to @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social for running it!
March 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Great week @unibirmingham.bsky.social at #AMGDMarch25 🧪💻. Main learning outcome: name files and directories something actually meaningful so I don't have to hate my past self. (Also going outside sometimes is good when coding). Thanks so much to @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social for running it!
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How to network:
❌Go to a conference
✅Make microbiology-related parody stickers
❌Go to a conference
✅Make microbiology-related parody stickers
Transatlantic shout-out to @pinkpetri.bsky.social for these excellent stickers that I gave to @jananiravi.bsky.social, who then immediately stuck them on her office doorway.
Since folks keep asking where she got them, go check out the shop! www.etsy.com/shop/pinkpetri
Since folks keep asking where she got them, go check out the shop! www.etsy.com/shop/pinkpetri
![A photo taken of a name placard next to an office doorway. The placard is for Dr. Janani Ravi, assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. To the left of the placard on the doorway itself is an arrangement of five tastefully designed stickers designed to look like the cover pages of different scientific journal articles. The stickers are, from top to bottom, titled, "Actually, it turns out One Health is important", "The microbiome of everyone and their dog", "This niche gene you've never heard of is cool", "Once again, we've isolated a novel phage from sewage", and "Antimicrobial resistance is bad." Our work in the group is successfully reflected by these joking titles. The stickers were designed and sold by Pink Petri on Etsy [https://www.etsy.com/shop/pinkpetri/].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ck4g2pap6qfuhgnt5nvkpys/bafkreicfmsoqdzfdaf2q6f555zyog557w45vtwtk7ljjzydqoiowiqdvqu@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
How to network:
❌Go to a conference
✅Make microbiology-related parody stickers
❌Go to a conference
✅Make microbiology-related parody stickers
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📣Just 1 week left to apply for 2x 5-year researcher posts in experimental evolution #mevosky #microsky in @mermanchester.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
February 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
📣Just 1 week left to apply for 2x 5-year researcher posts in experimental evolution #mevosky #microsky in @mermanchester.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
+ 3-year research tech post www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
ERC project: how MGEs and defence systems control genome evoluton
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Putting the ✨accessory✨ in accessory genome 🧬
February 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Putting the ✨accessory✨ in accessory genome 🧬
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr Dolan Evans! Dolan defended his thesis on microbiota of the pre-term infant gut today @mermanchester.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Dolan Evans! Dolan defended his thesis on microbiota of the pre-term infant gut today @mermanchester.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
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Very excited to share that my first publication is now out!
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Genetic Bioaugmentation‐Mediated Bioremediation of Terephthalate in Soil Microcosms Using an Engineered Environmental Plasmid
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January 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Very excited to share that my first publication is now out!
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Joy! Published today in PNAS: multi-toxin T6SS attacks limit resistance evolution in competitors!
Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Joy! Published today in PNAS: multi-toxin T6SS attacks limit resistance evolution in competitors!
Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Excited to speak at #PGG58 / #PopGroup58 about mutation rates, mutation spectra, antibiotic resistance and (if I talk fast enough) how the environment affects these.
Tuesday in LT3 right after lunch. 🦠🧬
Come for the mutations, stay for the Bluey colour schemed ggplots. 📊🟦🟧
Tuesday in LT3 right after lunch. 🦠🧬
Come for the mutations, stay for the Bluey colour schemed ggplots. 📊🟦🟧
January 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Excited to speak at #PGG58 / #PopGroup58 about mutation rates, mutation spectra, antibiotic resistance and (if I talk fast enough) how the environment affects these.
Tuesday in LT3 right after lunch. 🦠🧬
Come for the mutations, stay for the Bluey colour schemed ggplots. 📊🟦🟧
Tuesday in LT3 right after lunch. 🦠🧬
Come for the mutations, stay for the Bluey colour schemed ggplots. 📊🟦🟧
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An early Christmas present to have this come out now! Online as a preprint over a year but nice to have it as a product of my time at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.
Wouldn't have been possible without hard work of all coauthors, especially Evan.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Wouldn't have been possible without hard work of all coauthors, especially Evan.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
SARS-CoV-2 introductions to the island of Ireland: a phylogenetic and geospatiotemporal study of infection dynamics - Genome Medicine
Background Ireland’s COVID-19 response combined extensive SARS-CoV-2 testing to estimate incidence, with whole genome sequencing (WGS) for genome surveillance. As an island with two political jurisdic...
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:58 AM
An early Christmas present to have this come out now! Online as a preprint over a year but nice to have it as a product of my time at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.
Wouldn't have been possible without hard work of all coauthors, especially Evan.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Wouldn't have been possible without hard work of all coauthors, especially Evan.
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Thanks so much to the lovely people at MMU for the fantastic Microbiology and Biotechnology Symposium today, especially the organisers Jonathan Butler and @drjamesredfern.bsky.social! Such cool research going on! Very flattered to win best poster prize too (even though I was an invader from UoM 😝)
December 18, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Thanks so much to the lovely people at MMU for the fantastic Microbiology and Biotechnology Symposium today, especially the organisers Jonathan Butler and @drjamesredfern.bsky.social! Such cool research going on! Very flattered to win best poster prize too (even though I was an invader from UoM 😝)