Fanny Wegner

Full session description:

📣Call for abstracts — WBF 2026, Session NEX5: “Microbial communities as One Health drivers.”
Davos, 14–19 Jun 2026. Community-level mechanisms, AMR & practical interventions (experimental/computational/interventional).
Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 → tinyurl.com/4un5a8a4
#OneHealth #Microbiome #AMR

🌎🌿About to miss the session proposal deadline? Good news🍀! We've extended it to 1 September 2025 (end of day, all time zones). No submissions after that, no further extensions, so submit now on shorturl.at/YeHuz! WBF2026 is next June in ☀️ Davos, Switzerland!🇨🇭 #BiodiversityForum #WBF2026

Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs Rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising, and accessing their genomes provides information on strain evolution, circulating strains and encoded antimicrobial resistance (AM...

Using a target enrichment approach across a panel of bacterial STIs doi.org/10.1099/mgen... , we have identified a new lineage of LGV Chlamydia trachomatis doi.org/10.1099/mgen... .

Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs Rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising, and accessing their genomes provides information on strain evolution, circulating strains and encoded antimicrobial resistance (AM...

With love in the air, there is no better time to talk about STIs ;-). I am incredibly proud to present back-to-back papers from my lab, published today in Microbial Genomics.

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

A rising danger in the Arctic: Microbes unleashed by climate change As climate change melts permafrost, microbes will emerge. The world isn’t paying enough attention to the potential threat they pose.

Article on potential health risks emanating from the arctic thebulletin.org/2024/11/a-ri...

Oil and gas extraction regions are the hotspots of light-emitting human activity in the Arctic

Industrial activity in the Arctic is rapidly increasing and now we can map hotspots of development at pan-Arctic scale. Our latest paper is out.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa The major human bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes multidrug-resistant infections in people with underlying immunodeficiencies or structural lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). W...

Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Now published: "Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out the podcast to hear co-senior author Eric Nelson talk about the twists and turns of our study (around 18:25):
www.science.org/content/podc...

Thanks for putting these together, super useful. You read A LOT 😅

how was it?

How will history books recount COVID?
kucharski.substack.com/p/how-will-h...

affordable childcare ;)

The HZI will hire up to twenty (20!) tenure-track research groups under the broad topic of "Microbial Stargazing" (🦠🌌). The first round of 4 positions is now open; the call closes on the 10th of December. Please share! www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...