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Today's seminar featured one of MERMan's PIs, @sarafederici.bsky.social, who discussed how phage therapy could be improved to target gut pathobionts in IBD.

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the snacks.

🚨 Calling all ECR's #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium in Nottingham (5th June)- present/chair/posters

Abstract submission is 5 pm TODAY!!!

Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #MicroSky

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Calling all microbial genomics early-career researchers in the Midlands, great event in Nottingham (5 June)

Ryan is stood to the right of his title slide which reads: Smart-Phage: designing synthetic bacteriophage to defeat superbugs

Dolan is stood to the right of his title slide which reads: modelling the fallopian tube in a microfluidic setting

From phages to fallopian tubes - in last weeks seminar we heard about designing synthetic phages from Ryan ⚙️

And Dolan from the Tank lab @raveentank.bsky.social spoke about their microfluidic fallopian tube models 🧫

This week we kicked off the new year with a great talk about endosymbiosis evolution by Dan Malumphy 🔬

Thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for supplying us with snacks! 🍪

Great to see this published from one of our fav customers, Doug Browning highlighting need for better genomic surveillance & One Health approach to tackle #AMR

AMR & Comparative Genome Analysis of High-Risk E.coli Strains Isolated from Egyptian Children with Diarrhoea www.mdpi.com/3690382 #MicroSky

Loved being @ox.ac.uk last wk for OxBacNet & seeing so many past @imibirmingham.bsky.social friends!

Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection #MicroSky

🚨 Get your abstract in NOW for POPUP Nottingham with @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net deadline 9th Feb 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng

#MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium 5th Jun
Focus on #ECRs present/chair
Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #MicroSky

A screen in the centre shows a slide titled “Culture cycle dependent mutation rate”, Ziang Zhang stands to the right looking at a the audience

A very interesting talk about culture cycle dependence of mutation rates by Ziang Zhang 🧬

Accompanied by fantastic snacks thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social 🍰

Had a fantastic time at @uniofbath.bsky.social last week for the Dept. of Life Sciences Research Day!

Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection
#MicroSky

If you are at @uniofbath.bsky.social today drop by W4 and try our buzz wire game ⚡

here are the prizes on offer

🥇 giant microbe
🥈pin badge by @pinkpetri.bsky.social
🥉 microscope key chain

@rosieelliott.bsky.social is currently in the top spot with 14.34 seconds!
#MicroSky #LifeSciences

Excited to be in Bath for the #LifeSciences Research Day 🎉
Make sure you come and see our poster designed by the amazing @pinkpetri.bsky.social showing the benefits of long read sequencing for plasmid detection 🧬🦠

@uniofbath.bsky.social #MicroSky

📢 MicrobesNG POPUP is coming to Nottingham! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium on 5th June 🦠🧬
We're accepting abstracts now! Focus on #ECRs Please RT

Submit by 9th Feb 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/POPUP_NOTT...

@bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net
#MNGPopUp #MicroSky

🧬 Free @microbesng.bsky.social PopUp ECR symposium 🧬

UK-based MRes or PhD student, research assistant or postdoc working on microbial genomics or metagenomics?

Present your work and/or chair a session, plus excellent keynote speakers: @halllab.bsky.social and @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social.

#MNGPopUp

We’ll be closing at the end of the day today for our Christmas break 🎄
Thank you so much for all your orders this year 🧬 🦠 💙

We’ll be back open on 7th January and can’t wait to see you then,
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year ✨

Alekseis title slide up on the projector.

Image of Aleksei answering questions following his talk.

Sophie starting her presentation next to her title slide.

The last seminar of the year was another set of exciting talks from visitor @alekseiagapov.bsky.social and merfolk @sophiesomerville.bsky.social !

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the 🍪!

Have a happy and safe holiday! 🤶🏻 🎅🏻 🎄

🎉📬 Hey Dropbox Users – Heads Up!

Tomorrow, Wed 10th Dec, is the last chance to get FREE DELIVERY from our Dropbox network before we take a little holiday break! 🎄 ✨

Collections resume Wed 7th Jan 2026

Check the times of tomorrow's final collection here: microbesng.com/dropbox-netw... 💌 #MicroSky

🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄

Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec…
because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅

🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄

Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown.

Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪

Snacks + great science = our favourite combo 😄 🍪

Great to see such exciting science getting shared, thanks for having us involved 🙌

🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄

Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec…
because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅

Another great week at our seminar series!
This session, we explored "Within-patient evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa from @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social
Big thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for once again keeping us fuelled with delicious refreshments 🙌🍪

🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄

Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown.

Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪

Stepan Denisov standing to the right of a lecture slide titled “Evolution of intrinsic terminators between two closely related species”

In this week’s seminar we learned about the evolution of intrinsic terminators from @stepadenisov.bsky.social 🧬

Made even more fun by snacks kindly sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social 🍪

Francis's title slide of his presentation entitled Environmental Variation Shapes the Stickleback Skin Microbiome.

Retrospective post: @fgyapong.bsky.social recently gave his MERMan seminar on his work on the stickleback skin microbiome.

Not pictured: yummy treats sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social

🦠✨ We are all set up in Surrey!

MicrobesNG aka Olivija has made herself cosy in the Dorothy Hodgkin building (AX/AY) ✅

Make sure to catch her NOW for SWAG and glittery trinkets ✨💫

@uniofsurrey.bsky.social
#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife

@olivijaziu.bsky.social is excited to meet the @uniofsurrey.bsky.social community at the Microbes, Infection & Immunity seminar 21st Oct! 🧬

Hosted by @jaimehat.bsky.social

Join her for coffee & a chat during lunch break (lots of swag! 💝 )

#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife

🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨
Exeter Microbial Genomics Early Careers Symposium 🦠🧬

Present your work, chair a session, win prizes & network!
📅 12 Nov
📍 Penryn Campus
⏰ Submit TODAY by 5pm 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng

#MicrobialGenomics #ECR #MNGPopUp
Organised with @drramabht.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

Title slide of Maisies seminar on engineering phages.

Victors title slide on electricity and Ecoli

This weeks seminars from PhD students Maisie Czernuszka and Victor Carneiro da Cunha Martirelli!

Special thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring refreshments!

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🧬OTD in 1952 Joshua Lederberg proposed the term "plasmid" for extrachromosomal hereditary genetic elements in bacteria 🦠
These tiny DNA molecules play a BIG role in #MolecularBiology, biotechnology & #MicrobialGenomics 🧫

Check out the original paper: doi.org/10.1152/phys...
#Plasmid #MicroSky 🧪👨‍🔬📜