Duncan Sussfeld
dsussfeld.bsky.social
Duncan Sussfeld
@dsussfeld.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Sheppard Lab - Uni of Oxford - IOI
Bioinformatics, evolution & genomics of AMR
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THANKYOU to our amazing #PAG33 OneHealth Hologenomics speakers @keyfm.bsky.social @dsussfeld.bsky.social @annakovalenko.bsky.social @akang3705.bsky.social Kristina Kordova & Anders Götherström! Ancient plague & parvovirus! AMR genes! Bat ectoparasite microbiomes! & the clap is thriving in the USA! 🎉
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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📣 Keynote speaker announced

Prof David Kelly @sheffielduni.bsky.social will join us at #CampyUK2025 to discuss "Campylobacter and Oxygen: A Double-Edged Sword."

24/25th Sep, register now!

campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk/speakers#col...

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July 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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📣 The deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration has been extended to 7th August. Registration fees will increase after this date! Visit campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk/home to secure your place! #microsky @biology.ox.ac.uk @microbiologysociety.org @ineosoxford.bsky.social
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July 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🚨New pre-print 🚨
We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec

This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genome co-adaptation and the evolution of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial pathogens is a major threat to global health, rendering standard treatments ineffective and increasing the risk of severe infection or death. Re...
www.biorxiv.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
📣 So excited to share the latest paper from my PhD with @aire-team.bsky.social, out now in Environmental Microbiome! 🥳

We mined a large ocean microbiome for remote homologues of core gene families in uncultured lineages.

Key points below ⤵️
environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
New groups of highly divergent proteins in families as old as cellular life with important biological functions in the ocean - Environmental Microbiome
Background Metagenomics has considerably broadened our knowledge of microbial diversity, unravelling fascinating adaptations and characterising multiple novel major taxonomic groups, e.g. CPR bacteria...
environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM