Modernising Medical Microbiology
@modmedmicro.bsky.social
Modernising Medical Microbiology is a research unit within @ox.ac.uk aiming to transform how we analyse and treat infections, to improve patient care.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🔬
Proud to work alongside the scientists in our #microbiology lab whose work in antimicrobial resistance, public health and diagnostics has real-world impact!
#WomenInScience #AMR #PublicHealth @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
Proud to work alongside the scientists in our #microbiology lab whose work in antimicrobial resistance, public health and diagnostics has real-world impact!
#WomenInScience #AMR #PublicHealth @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🔬
Proud to work alongside the scientists in our #microbiology lab whose work in antimicrobial resistance, public health and diagnostics has real-world impact!
#WomenInScience #AMR #PublicHealth @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
Proud to work alongside the scientists in our #microbiology lab whose work in antimicrobial resistance, public health and diagnostics has real-world impact!
#WomenInScience #AMR #PublicHealth @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
MMM has an exciting UNIQ+ project running this summer -apply now!
Bacteria, microplastics & resistance — what’s the connection?
#Microplastics are everywhere, even in hospitals. But what happens when bacteria stick to them? Come and find out!
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Bacteria, microplastics & resistance — what’s the connection?
#Microplastics are everywhere, even in hospitals. But what happens when bacteria stick to them? Come and find out!
@afswinkels.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
MMM has an exciting UNIQ+ project running this summer -apply now!
Bacteria, microplastics & resistance — what’s the connection?
#Microplastics are everywhere, even in hospitals. But what happens when bacteria stick to them? Come and find out!
@afswinkels.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social
Bacteria, microplastics & resistance — what’s the connection?
#Microplastics are everywhere, even in hospitals. But what happens when bacteria stick to them? Come and find out!
@afswinkels.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social
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Happy our preprint is out🦠:
"Evaluation of an Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow for mycobacteria from primary MGIT culture"
We developed and tested a workflow for long-read sequencing of #mycobacteria, including optimising DNA extraction and assessing how #ONT performs compared with #Illumina.
"Evaluation of an Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow for mycobacteria from primary MGIT culture"
We developed and tested a workflow for long-read sequencing of #mycobacteria, including optimising DNA extraction and assessing how #ONT performs compared with #Illumina.
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February 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Happy our preprint is out🦠:
"Evaluation of an Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow for mycobacteria from primary MGIT culture"
We developed and tested a workflow for long-read sequencing of #mycobacteria, including optimising DNA extraction and assessing how #ONT performs compared with #Illumina.
"Evaluation of an Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow for mycobacteria from primary MGIT culture"
We developed and tested a workflow for long-read sequencing of #mycobacteria, including optimising DNA extraction and assessing how #ONT performs compared with #Illumina.
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Our project "Sardinia’s Invisible Marine Microbiome" is one of six 2026 #PartArt4OW participatory art initiatives! Excited to do this with the brilliant @annadumitriu.bsky.social (image credit), Sardinian scientists, citizens of Alghero, and colleagues in @modmedmicro.bsky.social @bashthebug.net
January 30, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Our project "Sardinia’s Invisible Marine Microbiome" is one of six 2026 #PartArt4OW participatory art initiatives! Excited to do this with the brilliant @annadumitriu.bsky.social (image credit), Sardinian scientists, citizens of Alghero, and colleagues in @modmedmicro.bsky.social @bashthebug.net
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Delighted to be involved in the Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator (Gr-ADI) consortium novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/new-... as part of a project led by Annette von Delft gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/discov... @modmedmicro.bsky.social @samlipworth.bsky.social @philipwfowler.bsky.social
Discovery of Novel Klebsiella Hits Through In-Depth Genomic Profiling, Fragment-Based Drug Design and Accumulation Assays
Annette von Delft and collaborators Nicole Stoesser, Lizbe Koekemoer, Ed Griffen, Paul Brennan, Frank von Delft, Phil Fowler, and Thomas Lanyon-Hoggat of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...
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January 26, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Delighted to be involved in the Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator (Gr-ADI) consortium novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/new-... as part of a project led by Annette von Delft gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/discov... @modmedmicro.bsky.social @samlipworth.bsky.social @philipwfowler.bsky.social
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Univ of Oxford UNIQ+ scheme applications open: 7-week research internship this Summer www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g.... Lots of projects - one in our lab on microplastics & AMR & hospital environments at @modmedmicro.bsky.social led by Aram Swinkels www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... (Clin Med 04). Join us!
What is UNIQplus? | University of Oxford
The UNIQplus programmeThe UNIQplus programme is aimed at supporting talented undergraduates from under-represented groups, who would find continuing into postgraduate study a challenge for reasons
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January 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Univ of Oxford UNIQ+ scheme applications open: 7-week research internship this Summer www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g.... Lots of projects - one in our lab on microplastics & AMR & hospital environments at @modmedmicro.bsky.social led by Aram Swinkels www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... (Clin Med 04). Join us!
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Read the full paper here: tinyurl.com/2a5z6tt8
Nanopore adaptive sampling for bacterial identification from periprosthetic joint replacement tissue
Metagenomic approaches to the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections promise more accurate and more rapid diagnosis. However, the high host DNA to bacterial DNA ratio is a challenge. Nanopore adapti...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Read the full paper here: tinyurl.com/2a5z6tt8
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🔬 New blog post!
Infections after joint replacement are serious, and identifying the bacteria quickly is crucial for patient care. We explain our research into metagenomic sequencing—reading all DNA in a sample to identify bacteria without needing lab growth.
👉 tinyurl.com/mrh8ukha
#AMR #Genomics
Infections after joint replacement are serious, and identifying the bacteria quickly is crucial for patient care. We explain our research into metagenomic sequencing—reading all DNA in a sample to identify bacteria without needing lab growth.
👉 tinyurl.com/mrh8ukha
#AMR #Genomics
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🔬 New blog post!
Infections after joint replacement are serious, and identifying the bacteria quickly is crucial for patient care. We explain our research into metagenomic sequencing—reading all DNA in a sample to identify bacteria without needing lab growth.
👉 tinyurl.com/mrh8ukha
#AMR #Genomics
Infections after joint replacement are serious, and identifying the bacteria quickly is crucial for patient care. We explain our research into metagenomic sequencing—reading all DNA in a sample to identify bacteria without needing lab growth.
👉 tinyurl.com/mrh8ukha
#AMR #Genomics
Our paper is out in Microbial Genomics! 🧬
We evaluate gnomonicus, an open-source AMR prediction tool, using 2,663 Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes—showing how WGS can deliver faster, scalable TB resistance predictions.
Read the full paper here🔗 bit.ly/4iZepd1
#TB #AMR #Genomics
We evaluate gnomonicus, an open-source AMR prediction tool, using 2,663 Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes—showing how WGS can deliver faster, scalable TB resistance predictions.
Read the full paper here🔗 bit.ly/4iZepd1
#TB #AMR #Genomics
Characterizing the performance of an antibiotic resistance prediction tool, gnomonicus, using a diverse test set of 2,663 Mycobacterium tuberculosis samples
Tuberculosis remains a global health problem. Making it easier and quicker to identify which antibiotics an infection is likely to be susceptible to will be a key part of the solution. Whilst whole-ge...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Our paper is out in Microbial Genomics! 🧬
We evaluate gnomonicus, an open-source AMR prediction tool, using 2,663 Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes—showing how WGS can deliver faster, scalable TB resistance predictions.
Read the full paper here🔗 bit.ly/4iZepd1
#TB #AMR #Genomics
We evaluate gnomonicus, an open-source AMR prediction tool, using 2,663 Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes—showing how WGS can deliver faster, scalable TB resistance predictions.
Read the full paper here🔗 bit.ly/4iZepd1
#TB #AMR #Genomics
📢Job Alert! Translational Research Collaboration Manager in Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial resistance. 🦠💊 Know anyone who would be good? Pass it on! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
📢Job Alert! Translational Research Collaboration Manager in Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial resistance. 🦠💊 Know anyone who would be good? Pass it on! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Our team wore blue for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2025💙
Research into how resistance emerges, spreads and can be prevented is vital. Our group works to understand these processes and develop better tools to detect, monitor and combat antimicrobial resistance.
#WAAW @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
Research into how resistance emerges, spreads and can be prevented is vital. Our group works to understand these processes and develop better tools to detect, monitor and combat antimicrobial resistance.
#WAAW @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Our team wore blue for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2025💙
Research into how resistance emerges, spreads and can be prevented is vital. Our group works to understand these processes and develop better tools to detect, monitor and combat antimicrobial resistance.
#WAAW @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
Research into how resistance emerges, spreads and can be prevented is vital. Our group works to understand these processes and develop better tools to detect, monitor and combat antimicrobial resistance.
#WAAW @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
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This World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week #WAAW, we’re championing our microbiology and infection researchers whose work is benefiting patients and informing health care policy. Read: oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research-the...
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social @modmedmicro.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social @modmedmicro.bsky.social
Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics | NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week #WAAW, we’re championing our microbiology and infection researchers whose work is benefiting patients and informing health care policy. Read: oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research-the...
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social @modmedmicro.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social @modmedmicro.bsky.social
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Why is antimicrobial awareness important?
Antimicrobial resistant infections are rising. In the next 25 years an estimated 39.1 million people globally will die from infections with antimicrobial resistance.
So what can you do to help? Something as simple as finishing your course of antibiotics!
Antimicrobial resistant infections are rising. In the next 25 years an estimated 39.1 million people globally will die from infections with antimicrobial resistance.
So what can you do to help? Something as simple as finishing your course of antibiotics!
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Why is antimicrobial awareness important?
Antimicrobial resistant infections are rising. In the next 25 years an estimated 39.1 million people globally will die from infections with antimicrobial resistance.
So what can you do to help? Something as simple as finishing your course of antibiotics!
Antimicrobial resistant infections are rising. In the next 25 years an estimated 39.1 million people globally will die from infections with antimicrobial resistance.
So what can you do to help? Something as simple as finishing your course of antibiotics!
For #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, we introduce our recent paper on antibiotic-resistant subpopulations in TB.
TB may be one of humanity’s oldest diseases, yet it still kills over 1M people yearly. As resistance spreads, knowing each patient’s resistance profile before treatment is vital. 🧬💊
TB may be one of humanity’s oldest diseases, yet it still kills over 1M people yearly. As resistance spreads, knowing each patient’s resistance profile before treatment is vital. 🧬💊
Subpopulations in clinical samples of M. tuberculosis can give rise to rifampicin resistance and shed light on how resistance is acquired
AbstractObjectives. WGS has become a key tool for diagnosing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections, but discrepancies between genotypic and phenotypic drug
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November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, we introduce our recent paper on antibiotic-resistant subpopulations in TB.
TB may be one of humanity’s oldest diseases, yet it still kills over 1M people yearly. As resistance spreads, knowing each patient’s resistance profile before treatment is vital. 🧬💊
TB may be one of humanity’s oldest diseases, yet it still kills over 1M people yearly. As resistance spreads, knowing each patient’s resistance profile before treatment is vital. 🧬💊
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Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi & parasites change over time - leading to medicines being less effective against them.
Here you see bacteria growing and antibiotics (the small discs) which kill the bacteria...unless they are resistant!
#WAAW #AMR @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
Here you see bacteria growing and antibiotics (the small discs) which kill the bacteria...unless they are resistant!
#WAAW #AMR @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi & parasites change over time - leading to medicines being less effective against them.
Here you see bacteria growing and antibiotics (the small discs) which kill the bacteria...unless they are resistant!
#WAAW #AMR @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
Here you see bacteria growing and antibiotics (the small discs) which kill the bacteria...unless they are resistant!
#WAAW #AMR @oxfordbrc.bsky.social
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Are you interested in infections, the micro-organisms that cause them and antimicrobial resistance? So are @bashthebug.net and they're looking for new members to join their patient & public group. More info: bashthebug.net/lay-represen... Deadline 27 Nov @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Bash The Bug (@BashTheBug) / X
Bash The Bug (@BashTheBug) / X
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November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Are you interested in infections, the micro-organisms that cause them and antimicrobial resistance? So are @bashthebug.net and they're looking for new members to join their patient & public group. More info: bashthebug.net/lay-represen... Deadline 27 Nov @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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New paper by @vbrunner.bsky.social looking at detecting rifampicin resistant subpopulations in M. tuberculosis infections using genetics and putting a lower limit on the proportion that arose due to secondary infections.
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New paper: What can subpopulations tell us about rifampicin resistance?
Last Thursday this work which we'd previously preprinted looking at looking at rifampicin-resistant subpopulations in clinical M. tuberculosis samples was published in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. If...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
New paper by @vbrunner.bsky.social looking at detecting rifampicin resistant subpopulations in M. tuberculosis infections using genetics and putting a lower limit on the proportion that arose due to secondary infections.
bit.ly/47rwf42
@modmedmicro.bsky.social
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social
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🔔🔔Post-doc in microbial genomics with @modmedmicro.bsky.social🧬 - deadline tomorrow! Big genomic and clinical datasets to play with, friendly and very multidisciplinary team!
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October 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🔔🔔Post-doc in microbial genomics with @modmedmicro.bsky.social🧬 - deadline tomorrow! Big genomic and clinical datasets to play with, friendly and very multidisciplinary team!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Our recent paper on rifampicin resistant subpopulations in M. tuberculosis (M. tb) has been published at JAC-antimicrobial resistance.
I am really happy to see this work published just hours before submitting my DPhil thesis! 🔗👇
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
I am really happy to see this work published just hours before submitting my DPhil thesis! 🔗👇
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
Subpopulations in clinical samples of M. tuberculosis can give rise to rifampicin resistance and shed light on how resistance is acquired
AbstractObjectives. WGS has become a key tool for diagnosing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections, but discrepancies between genotypic and phenotypic drug
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our recent paper on rifampicin resistant subpopulations in M. tuberculosis (M. tb) has been published at JAC-antimicrobial resistance.
I am really happy to see this work published just hours before submitting my DPhil thesis! 🔗👇
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
I am really happy to see this work published just hours before submitting my DPhil thesis! 🔗👇
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
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We have a fully funded PhD studentship available @modmedmicro.bsky.social in Oxford to work on a really cool project looking at population heterogeneity in bloodstream infections www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/study/dphil-... Please spread the word/get in touch if you'd like to chat.
DPhil project themes
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October 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We have a fully funded PhD studentship available @modmedmicro.bsky.social in Oxford to work on a really cool project looking at population heterogeneity in bloodstream infections www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/study/dphil-... Please spread the word/get in touch if you'd like to chat.
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Now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Gillian Rodger, @nstoesser.bsky.social, @samlipworth.bsky.social, @stat-sarah.bsky.social, and many others!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Gillian Rodger, @nstoesser.bsky.social, @samlipworth.bsky.social, @stat-sarah.bsky.social, and many others!
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Gillian Rodger, @nstoesser.bsky.social, @samlipworth.bsky.social, @stat-sarah.bsky.social, and many others!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Gillian Rodger, @nstoesser.bsky.social, @samlipworth.bsky.social, @stat-sarah.bsky.social, and many others!
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🧪 ♻️ Want to make lab and computational research more sustainable? Check out our Oxford Climate Society blog post:
oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/from-pi...
Shout out to Green Team colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social for helping! #LEAFAward #GreenDiSC #GreenImpact #SustainableScience
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Shout out to Green Team colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social for helping! #LEAFAward #GreenDiSC #GreenImpact #SustainableScience
September 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧪 ♻️ Want to make lab and computational research more sustainable? Check out our Oxford Climate Society blog post:
oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/from-pi...
Shout out to Green Team colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social for helping! #LEAFAward #GreenDiSC #GreenImpact #SustainableScience
oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/from-pi...
Shout out to Green Team colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social for helping! #LEAFAward #GreenDiSC #GreenImpact #SustainableScience
From Pipettes to Pipelines: Greening a Multidisciplinary Research Lab.
@dotnagy.bsky.social writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the #sustainability agenda.
#GreenLab #SustainableScience
@dotnagy.bsky.social writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the #sustainability agenda.
#GreenLab #SustainableScience
From Pipettes to Pipelines — Oxford Climate Society
Dorottya Nagy writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) Unit research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the sustainability agenda.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
From Pipettes to Pipelines: Greening a Multidisciplinary Research Lab.
@dotnagy.bsky.social writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the #sustainability agenda.
#GreenLab #SustainableScience
@dotnagy.bsky.social writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the #sustainability agenda.
#GreenLab #SustainableScience
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Great new work from #DotNagy @modmedmicro.bsky.social - she tool 96 clinical isolates from the NEKSUS study and sequenced with both Illumina and Nanopore - question was, can we do away with hybrid sequencing for the rest of the study?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Nanopore long-read only genome assembly of clinical Enterobacterales isolates is complete and accurate
Whole bacterial genome sequence reconstruction using Oxford Nanopore Technologies ('Nanopore') long-read only sequencing may offer a lower-cost, higher-throughput alternative for pathogen surveillance...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Great new work from #DotNagy @modmedmicro.bsky.social - she tool 96 clinical isolates from the NEKSUS study and sequenced with both Illumina and Nanopore - question was, can we do away with hybrid sequencing for the rest of the study?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pleased to see this pre-printed, highlighting the completeness/accuracy of @nanoporetech.com long-read genome assembly for clinical Enterobacterales: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social, @ukhsa.bsky.social, @genewiz.bsky.social and @oxfordbrc.bsky.social!
Thanks to colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social, @ukhsa.bsky.social, @genewiz.bsky.social and @oxfordbrc.bsky.social!
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Pleased to see this pre-printed, highlighting the completeness/accuracy of @nanoporetech.com long-read genome assembly for clinical Enterobacterales: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social, @ukhsa.bsky.social, @genewiz.bsky.social and @oxfordbrc.bsky.social!
Thanks to colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social, @ukhsa.bsky.social, @genewiz.bsky.social and @oxfordbrc.bsky.social!