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Microbial sequencing made simple.
Whole Genome Sequencing + Metagenomics: http://microbesng.com
PlasmidSeq: http://plasmidsng.com 😊
If you are at @uniofbath.bsky.social today drop by W4 and try our buzz wire game ⚡

here are the prizes on offer

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🥉 microscope key chain

@rosieelliott.bsky.social is currently in the top spot with 14.34 seconds!
#MicroSky #LifeSciences
January 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Excited to be in Bath for the #LifeSciences Research Day 🎉
Make sure you come and see our poster designed by the amazing @pinkpetri.bsky.social showing the benefits of long read sequencing for plasmid detection 🧬🦠

@uniofbath.bsky.social #MicroSky
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 AM
📢 MicrobesNG POPUP is coming to Nottingham! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium on 5th June 🦠🧬
We're accepting abstracts now! Focus on #ECRs Please RT

Submit by 9th Feb 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/POPUP_NOTT...

@bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net
#MNGPopUp #MicroSky
January 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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🧬 Free @microbesng.bsky.social PopUp ECR symposium 🧬

UK-based MRes or PhD student, research assistant or postdoc working on microbial genomics or metagenomics?

Present your work and/or chair a session, plus excellent keynote speakers: @halllab.bsky.social and @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social.

#MNGPopUp
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
We’ll be closing at the end of the day today for our Christmas break 🎄
Thank you so much for all your orders this year 🧬 🦠 💙

We’ll be back open on 7th January and can’t wait to see you then,
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year ✨
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The last seminar of the year was another set of exciting talks from visitor @alekseiagapov.bsky.social and merfolk @sophiesomerville.bsky.social !

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the 🍪!

Have a happy and safe holiday! 🤶🏻 🎅🏻 🎄
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🎉📬 Hey Dropbox Users – Heads Up!

Tomorrow, Wed 10th Dec, is the last chance to get FREE DELIVERY from our Dropbox network before we take a little holiday break! 🎄 ✨

Collections resume Wed 7th Jan 2026

Check the times of tomorrow's final collection here: microbesng.com/dropbox-netw... 💌 #MicroSky
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄

Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec…
because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄

Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown.

Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Snacks + great science = our favourite combo 😄 🍪

Great to see such exciting science getting shared, thanks for having us involved 🙌
We had two fantastic visiting speakers today

MERMan alumnus @rowancallumg.bsky.social spoke about his current work with viral cheating in influenza with @asherleeks.bsky.social

And @lavishaparab.bsky.social talked about phage infection trade-offs

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for our snacks!
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄

Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec…
because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Another great week at our seminar series!
This session, we explored "Within-patient evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa from @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social
Big thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for once again keeping us fuelled with delicious refreshments 🙌🍪
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄

Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown.

Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In this week’s seminar we learned about the evolution of intrinsic terminators from @stepadenisov.bsky.social 🧬

Made even more fun by snacks kindly sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social 🍪
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Retrospective post: @fgyapong.bsky.social recently gave his MERMan seminar on his work on the stickleback skin microbiome.

Not pictured: yummy treats sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🦠✨ We are all set up in Surrey!

MicrobesNG aka Olivija has made herself cosy in the Dorothy Hodgkin building (AX/AY) ✅

Make sure to catch her NOW for SWAG and glittery trinkets ✨💫

@uniofsurrey.bsky.social
#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@olivijaziu.bsky.social is excited to meet the @uniofsurrey.bsky.social community at the Microbes, Infection & Immunity seminar 21st Oct! 🧬

Hosted by @jaimehat.bsky.social

Join her for coffee & a chat during lunch break (lots of swag! 💝 )

#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨
Exeter Microbial Genomics Early Careers Symposium 🦠🧬

Present your work, chair a session, win prizes & network!
📅 12 Nov
📍 Penryn Campus
⏰ Submit TODAY by 5pm 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng

#MicrobialGenomics #ECR #MNGPopUp
Organised with @drramabht.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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This weeks seminars from PhD students Maisie Czernuszka and Victor Carneiro da Cunha Martirelli!

Special thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring refreshments!
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🧬OTD in 1952 Joshua Lederberg proposed the term "plasmid" for extrachromosomal hereditary genetic elements in bacteria 🦠
These tiny DNA molecules play a BIG role in #MolecularBiology, biotechnology & #MicrobialGenomics 🧫

Check out the original paper: doi.org/10.1152/phys...
#Plasmid #MicroSky 🧪👨‍🔬📜
Cell Genetics and Hereditary Symbiosis | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
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October 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Great MERMan seminar today from NSERC PhD visiting researcher @simonjeanneau.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social ! Also our first seminar with refreshments sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social , many thanks for the productive chats over nibbles! 🍪 🧪
September 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Drop us a message if you would like to get your paws on one of our drop-box starter packs 🙀

Or visit our website to find out which sites benefit from FREE delivery 👉 microbesng.com/dropbox-netw...
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Last week I attended the ECR symposium on Microbial Genomics jointly organised by @microbesng.bsky.social, @norwichmicro.bsky.social and Get Genome.

I had the wonderful opportunity to present some of my PhD work @quadraminstitute.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🪰🦠🧬 We loved hearing from @katiemillar.bsky.social on the stability of K. oxytoca across Medfly diets, regions & populations and the potential for microbiome-targeted biocontrol approaches
🥰 Some beautiful slides too

#MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol
July 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM