Matt Jago
@mattjago.bsky.social
PhD student | University of Manchester
Looking at bacterial evolution in lots of different ways 🧪🧬. Member of @mermanchester.bsky.social
Looking at bacterial evolution in lots of different ways 🧪🧬. Member of @mermanchester.bsky.social
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March 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr Rowan Green, who defended his PhD today! @rowancallumg.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Rowan Green, who defended his PhD today! @rowancallumg.bsky.social
These days it’s hard to justify loving space exploration/development (as I deeply do). We have so many terrestrial problems, and space has become the purview of the uber-rich. This is an excellent piece on why it’s still a worthy thing to care about, and we shouldn’t let these people take it from us
I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
There Is Basically One Point to Space Exploration. Right Now, We’re Missing It.
Efforts to scrub DEI from NASA's websites get it all wrong.
slate.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
These days it’s hard to justify loving space exploration/development (as I deeply do). We have so many terrestrial problems, and space has become the purview of the uber-rich. This is an excellent piece on why it’s still a worthy thing to care about, and we shouldn’t let these people take it from us
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🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Are you a #Pseudomonas researcher? Please take our survey and help shape the direction and priority of future pseudomonas.com database development: forms.gle/gTPT6ruf3mqb...
#microsky #idsky
#microsky #idsky
The Pseudomonas Genome Database - Genome annotation and comparative genome analysis
pseudomonas.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Are you a #Pseudomonas researcher? Please take our survey and help shape the direction and priority of future pseudomonas.com database development: forms.gle/gTPT6ruf3mqb...
#microsky #idsky
#microsky #idsky
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The, what appears to be, scrubbing happening right now at NIH is mind boggling
"Accounting for sex as a biological variable in clinical studies"... gone
"Supporting Women in Biomedical Careers"... gone
"Accounting for sex as a biological variable in clinical studies"... gone
"Supporting Women in Biomedical Careers"... gone
January 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The, what appears to be, scrubbing happening right now at NIH is mind boggling
"Accounting for sex as a biological variable in clinical studies"... gone
"Supporting Women in Biomedical Careers"... gone
"Accounting for sex as a biological variable in clinical studies"... gone
"Supporting Women in Biomedical Careers"... gone
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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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Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH
Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk
America’s best scientific minds are scrambling to determine the impact of the disruption.
www.bloomberg.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH
Fascinating talk yesterday by James Horton on #mutation hotspots in bacteria!
They show T bases which follow a run of Gs are highly susceptible to TA>GC transversions.
And the identity of bases *before* the run of Gs influences the mutation rate, 5+ bp away from the mutation locus!
🧪 preprint ⬇️
They show T bases which follow a run of Gs are highly susceptible to TA>GC transversions.
And the identity of bases *before* the run of Gs influences the mutation rate, 5+ bp away from the mutation locus!
🧪 preprint ⬇️
January 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Fascinating talk yesterday by James Horton on #mutation hotspots in bacteria!
They show T bases which follow a run of Gs are highly susceptible to TA>GC transversions.
And the identity of bases *before* the run of Gs influences the mutation rate, 5+ bp away from the mutation locus!
🧪 preprint ⬇️
They show T bases which follow a run of Gs are highly susceptible to TA>GC transversions.
And the identity of bases *before* the run of Gs influences the mutation rate, 5+ bp away from the mutation locus!
🧪 preprint ⬇️
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📣 New high-throughput method for determining genes involved in #AMR, Quantitative Mutational Scan Sequencing (QMS-Seq)
Special congratulations to MERMAN PhD student Matt @mattjago.bsky.social for his 1st first author paper & supervisor Mato Lagator!
#MicroSky 🦠🧫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Special congratulations to MERMAN PhD student Matt @mattjago.bsky.social for his 1st first author paper & supervisor Mato Lagator!
#MicroSky 🦠🧫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-throughput method characterizes hundreds of previously unknown antibiotic resistance mutations - Nature Communications
Resistance mutations are challenging to characterize because their effects are highly context dependent. Here, authors present a quantitative mutant screening technique that deconstructs how factors l...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📣 New high-throughput method for determining genes involved in #AMR, Quantitative Mutational Scan Sequencing (QMS-Seq)
Special congratulations to MERMAN PhD student Matt @mattjago.bsky.social for his 1st first author paper & supervisor Mato Lagator!
#MicroSky 🦠🧫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Special congratulations to MERMAN PhD student Matt @mattjago.bsky.social for his 1st first author paper & supervisor Mato Lagator!
#MicroSky 🦠🧫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very excited that my 1st first-author paper has just been published!! We present a novel mutant screening technique that can rapidly identify 100s of antibiotic resistance mutations, while evaluating how likely they are in different genetic backgrounds.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-throughput method characterizes hundreds of previously unknown antibiotic resistance mutations - Nature Communications
Resistance mutations are challenging to characterize because their effects are highly context dependent. Here, authors present a quantitative mutant screening technique that deconstructs how factors l...
www.nature.com
January 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Very excited that my 1st first-author paper has just been published!! We present a novel mutant screening technique that can rapidly identify 100s of antibiotic resistance mutations, while evaluating how likely they are in different genetic backgrounds.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🙌 Come and read about how inflammation-like environments shape Pseudomonas adaptation, limiting loss of quorum sensing, through 42-day transfers! 🦠🧪🧫🖥️ 🧬 #ecoevo
A nice way to wrap-up 2024: a neat preprint by @taoranfu.bsky.social (hot on the heels of her successful PhD viva) testing how inflammation-like environments shape Pseudomonas adaptation, limiting loss of quorum sensing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Inflammation-like environments limit the loss of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Within-host environments are complex and multidimensional, making it challenging to link evolutionary responses of colonizing pathogens to causal selective drivers. Loss of quorum sensing (QS) via mut...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🙌 Come and read about how inflammation-like environments shape Pseudomonas adaptation, limiting loss of quorum sensing, through 42-day transfers! 🦠🧪🧫🖥️ 🧬 #ecoevo
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🚨PhD Opportunity - please share!🚨
We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins?
Come join me, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, Patrick Cai &
@raveentank.bsky.social as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES!
findaphd.com/phds/project...
We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins?
Come join me, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, Patrick Cai &
@raveentank.bsky.social as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES!
findaphd.com/phds/project...
findaphd.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
🚨PhD Opportunity - please share!🚨
We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins?
Come join me, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, Patrick Cai &
@raveentank.bsky.social as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES!
findaphd.com/phds/project...
We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins?
Come join me, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, Patrick Cai &
@raveentank.bsky.social as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES!
findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, @jojofoth.bsky.social, & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social are looking for a PhD student w micro experience to study how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of P. aeruginosa using a fly infection model. More info & link to apply below.
Please spread the word!
(BBSRC NWD) Understanding how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (BBSRC NWD) Understanding how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:52 PM
🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, @jojofoth.bsky.social, & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social are looking for a PhD student w micro experience to study how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of P. aeruginosa using a fly infection model. More info & link to apply below.
Please spread the word!
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We had a great time at the Community Festival this weekend! It was amazing to chat with so many people about all things microbial and see the wonderful creations on our Make Your Own Bacteria stand!
June 10, 2024 at 9:35 AM
We had a great time at the Community Festival this weekend! It was amazing to chat with so many people about all things microbial and see the wonderful creations on our Make Your Own Bacteria stand!