Modernising Medical Microbiology

More evidence to support best practice "water-safe" care in healthcare facilities is urgently needed. If you're interested please tap into the @hisinfection.bsky.social Wastewater and AMR Special Interest Collaborative (SPARC) - see you there!

The Sinkbug Survey: Antibiotics, AMR, Chemicals and Plumbing In this episode of Infection Control Matters, Martin Kiernan speaks with Dr. Nicole Stoesser about a large-scale, multi-centre study exploring the role of hospital sink infrastructure in antimicrob…

More discussion about the JHI study with @emrsa15.bsky.social in the Infection Control Matters podcast series infectioncontrolmatters.com/2025/04/02/t...

Survey of healthcare-associated sink infrastructure, and sink trap antibiotic residues and biochemistry, in twenty-nine UK hospitals Hospital sinks are linked to healthcare-associated infections. Antibiotics and chemicals in sink traps can select for pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Optimizing sink design and usage can...

This builds on the SinkBug group's earlier work in @thejhi.bsky.social www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019... where we showed that sink infrastructure in hospitals was common, highly varied, and that antibiotics were detected in a third of sink-traps.

New analysis from Kevin Chau @modmedmicro.bsky.social for the SinkBug Consortium (a collaboration with teams across 29 UK hospitals, NITCAR, UKHSA): Pathogen and AMR gene burden in 287 hospital sink-trap metagenomes and factors associated with high burdens.

Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies Conference dates: 23–25 March 2026 Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK and online Bursary deadline: 01 December 2025 Abstract deadline: 15 December 2025 Registration deadlines: In person: 24 February 2026 | Virtual: 17 March 2026

Participate at our global conference on Antimicrobial Resistance🧬

🗓️ 23-25 March 2026 #AMR2026

Join a community at the vanguard of #AMR genomics, to explore how big data and innovative technologies are driving solutions to tackle this health crisis.

📎Abstracts welcome: bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky

Bit over 24 hours left to apply for these two posts to help us develop pipelines to process pathogens..!

Senior Bioinformatic Engineer
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Senior Biostatistical Researcher
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Grade 8 or 7, depending on experience
closing date: noon Tues 8 July

Job advert to come and work with me on tuberculosis closes tomorrow (Friday) at noon!

Part of #OxCOD4TB

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@ndm.ox.ac.uk @modmedmicro.bsky.social
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social

Come and work with us!

Senior Biostatistical Researcher bit.ly/4kRfZxI
Senior Bioinformatic Engineer bit.ly/4ecl0hF
both Grade 8 or 7, closing noon Tue 8 Jul

Computational Mycobacteriologist
Grade 7, closing noon Fri 4 Jul bit.ly/4ndKOhF

@medsci.ox.ac.uk
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social
@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Three posts all closing next week!

Senior Biostatistical Researcher bit.ly/4kRfZxI
Senior Bioinformatic Engineer bit.ly/4ecl0hF
both Grade 8 or 7, closing noon Wed 2 Jul

Computational Mycobacteriologist
Grade 7, closing noon Fri 4 Jul bit.ly/4ndKOhF

@medsci.ox.ac.uk

Come and work with me and use the 53,897 samples of M. tuberculosis we have collated to help tackle this important disease!

We are part of the OxCoD4TB consortium that is developing new therapeutics for tuberculosis.

Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July

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@vbrunner.bsky.social doing her pitch for her poster at #ESMyco!

@modmedmicro.bsky.social

Just like buses, here is a third role we are advertising for!

Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis.

Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July

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Come and help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens in collaboration with
@eitoxford.bsky.social

Senior Bioinformatic Engineer
bit.ly/4ecl0hF

Senior Biostatistical Researcher
bit.ly/4kRfZxI

Grade 8 or 7, depending on experience
closing date: noon Wednesday 2 July

Come and help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens in collaboration with
@eitoxford.bsky.social

Senior Bioinformatic Engineer
bit.ly/4ecl0hF

Senior Biostatistical Researcher
bit.ly/4kRfZxI

Grade 8 or 7, depending on experience
closing date: noon Wednesday 2 July

Come and find @modmedmicro.bsky.social at the Westgate in Oxford as part of the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social showcase!

poster of event

Come along to Oxford’s Westgate Centre on Thursday 29 May for our Health Research Showcase, held jointly with @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social. It's a fantastic and fun way to find out about the research taking place in Oxford. oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/he... @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Kevin Yuan talking now at #ESCMIDGlobal in Hall 9!

And on the last day of #ESCMIDGlobal we have

1406 Hall 9 - Kevin Yuan

P3166 - Dot Nagy

ModMedMicro at #ESCMIDGlobal (well nearly everyone!)

…and Valentina Pennetta presenting her poster! With MICs for 38 ABX for each sample 😱

@junkotakata.bsky.social presenting her poster at #ESCMIDGlobal!

Another busy day at #ESCMIDGlobal!

0906 @vbrunner.bsky.social “RIF and subpopulations in TB”

0918 Ruan Spies “comparing TB pipelines" both in Hall 5

1000 Nicole Stoesser “plasmids & 1Health” in H2

1509 Jane Wei in Hall 2 “CAP and EHR”

P1405 - Valentina Pennetta
P2242 - Junko Takada

Busy day at #ESCMIDGlobal for us!

Check out

1330 Justin Xu in Hall 2 "AI in radiological reports"
1445 @samlipworth.bsky.social in Area 3 "Mol epi of Kleb using ONT"

P0602 @philipwfowler.bsky.social
P0663 Jeremy Westhead
P0675 Dylan Adlard
P0730 Amelie Andrews
P0869 @dotnagy.bsky.social

1/14 Delighted that our COVID paper is out now @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social - authors.elsevier.com/a/1kta85E-Uo...
Link is to free full text. Some notes....

YouTube video by Oxford BRC Tuberculosis: vaccines, diagnostics and experience

#Tuberculosis kills over a million people each year, but research can change that. The following seminar shows how our scientists are developing new vaccines and treatments, while a former patient shares her experience youtu.be/vky73AhyjEc?...

#WorldTBDay @modmedmicro.bsky.social @ndm.ox.ac.uk

Closing dates for applying for these jobs are Mon, Wed and Fri next week! All are at noon on the day.

RA/PDRA (Grade 6/7)
noon 10 Feb
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Senior Bioinformatician (G8)
12 Feb
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Senior Medical Statistican (G8)
14 Feb
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Three roles currently advertised, all to help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens with EIT Oxford.

RA/PDRA (Grade 6/7)
noon 10 Feb
bit.ly/4jANpAc

Senior Bioinformatician (G8)
12 Feb
bit.ly/4hcMB3b

Senior Medical Statistican (G8)
14 Feb
bit.ly/4hcMEfn

Three roles currently advertised, all to help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens with EIT Oxford.

RA/PDRA (Grade 6/7)
noon 10 Feb
bit.ly/4jANpAc

Senior Bioinformatician (G8)
12 Feb
bit.ly/4hcMB3b

Senior Medical Statistican (G8)
14 Feb
bit.ly/4hcMEfn

An improved catalogue for whole-genome sequencing prediction of bedaquiline resistance in M. tuberculosis using a reproduciblealgorithmic approach. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.635633v1

Come and work with us and sequence the genomes of some pathogens!

Research Assistant/PDRA
Grade 6/7
noon 10 Feb 2025

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