Timofey Skvortsov

🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages”

Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide.

👇 Read on for details!
#Phage

25.07.2025 08:15 — 👍 46    🔁 41    💬 2    📌 1

I really enjoyed working on this piece about #AI in #microbiology research with @thomacillin.bsky.social We are exploring how the data and the user affect the performance of AI, discuss reasoning, and outline 5 key principles of working with AI.

#MicroSky

09.07.2025 23:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Helping bring phage medicines to UK patients – guidance for industry Bacteriophages – viruses that selectively fight bacteria – may offer new hope in fighting infections and tackling antimicrobial resistance.

First official guidance on the development and use of #phage therapies in the UK has been published by MHRA!

www.gov.uk/government/n...

04.06.2025 15:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Massive congratulations to Darvel’s 2nd most famous microbiologist🦠🔬Ross Duncan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for passing his viva yesterday! Thanks to @tcoenye.bsky.social and Dr Deirdre Gilpin for conducting the viva, and @timskvortsov.bsky.social for chairing. Very proud supervisor #biofilms #coldplasma #pharmacyQUB

02.04.2025 19:21 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

TEM of a phage with a top hat and a monocle. AI-generated

Thanks to #AI enhanced TEM, we can now see previously missed details of #phage morphology

27.03.2025 19:41 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Extremely proud of Akash Shambharkar, who successfully defended his PhD thesis investigating #phage based approaches against CAUTIs! It was a pleasure supervising Akash with Brendan Gilmore.
Many thanks to Brian Jones and Matthew Wylie for examining, and to Sheiliza Carmali for chairing the viva!

15.03.2025 13:43 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships | Research | Queen's University Belfast

offers a world-leading research environment and abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in a supportive and welcoming community. Further information about the scheme can be found on Queen's University website.
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/our...

#MCSA

11.03.2025 20:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am looking for a post-doctoral researcher to develop a joint application for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 2025, focusing on #phage biology and bioinformatics.
If interested, please send me your CV and a brief outline of your research project at your earliest opportunity.

11.03.2025 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Delighted to represent our lab together with our PhD student Shauna at the NI Science Festival 2025 (@niscifest.bsky.social) and to talk about the exciting bacteriophage research we are conducting at the QUB School of Pharmacy (@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social !

#NISF25 #phage

15.02.2025 14:33 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's Phriday! Huge thanks to our student Maria for the #phage cake - it was as delicious as it was cool looking!

31.01.2025 17:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally, our work underscores the importance of integrating genomic data with public health measures to better prepare for future pandemics.

#SARSCoV2 #Ireland #NorthernIreland #COVID19 #SARS

20.12.2024 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our study:
🔬 Demonstrates the critical role of whole genome sequencing (WGS) in identifying introduction events
🌍 Explores the influence of population density, deprivation, and policy on transmission
📊 Provides aa scalable framework for tracking infectious diseases globally

20.12.2024 12:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Key findings:
🔷 England accounted for 57% of introductions
🔷 Introduction rates for variants were comparable, except Delta, which was higher in NI
🔷 Over 60% of introductions resulted in detection of only a single descendant

20.12.2024 12:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

SARS-CoV-2 introductions to the island of Ireland: a phylogenetic and geospatiotemporal study of infection dynamics - Genome Medicine Background Ireland’s COVID-19 response combined extensive SARS-CoV-2 testing to estimate incidence, with whole genome sequencing (WGS) for genome surveillance. As an island with two political jurisdic...

Happy to announce that our study on the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the island of Ireland has now been published in Genome Medicine!

Using phylogenetics and geospatiotemporal analysis, we traced 4,439 #SARS-CoV-2 introductions to Ireland (2020–2022).

20.12.2024 12:05 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Prophage-DB: A comprehensive database to explore diversity, distribution, and ecology of prophages bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

If you are interested in prophages, we have a new database: Prophage-DB. Check it out and all feedback is welcome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

17.07.2024 05:27 — 👍 13    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0