Vicki Orr
vickiorr.bsky.social
Vicki Orr
@vickiorr.bsky.social
Postdoc with Jamie Hall at University of Liverpool, focussing on mobile genetic elements and gene spread in microbial communities! 🦠🧫🧬💻
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🧬Happy Transposon Day!

🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992).

#TransposonDay2025 #MobileDNAjournal
June 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
PhD viva passed!!! 🥳 🍻 Thank you to Liam Shaw and Stephen Cornell for assessing and for a very enjoyable discussion! Thank you to @jpjhall.bsky.social, Ellie Harrison and Calvin Dytham for being an amazing supervisory team throughout my PhD 😁
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We are pleased to announce that registration for 3rd MGE Workshop is now live!

If you are interested in giving a talk please register online through our website by Friday 16th May.

We look forward to seeing you all in Southampton in June!

www.ukmgeworkshop.org
MGE Workshop
www.ukmgeworkshop.org
May 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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This meeting will be great!

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
April 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Congratulations to the Poster Prize Winners at #Microbio25 Poster Block B:

- JMM poster prize winner: Jessica Lester
- JMM poster prize winner: Sami-Jo Terry
- JGV poster prize winner: Kelly Roper
- Mic prize: Victoria Orr, University of Liverpool @vickiorr.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Excited to be presenting today at #Microbio25! I have a poster at 075 and a flash talk in the Microbial Warfare session focused on the results of my thesis. Happy to chat about plasmid and transposon interactions! @microbiologysociety.org🦠🧬
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Excited to be at #ISPB2024! I'll be at poster P2-19 during the poster session on Thursday afternoon! 😁🦠🧫🔬
September 4, 2024 at 6:09 AM
My poster (85) is up for today and tomorrow! Happy to chat about plasmids and transposons! 🧬🧫🧬🧫 #Microbio24
April 10, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Excited to be back! Great talks so far and it's only just begun! I have a poster in Block B (B085), looking forward to it! #MicroBio24
April 8, 2024 at 2:40 PM