Patrick Biggs

Temporal reconstruction of a Salmonella Enteritidis ST11 outbreak in New Zealand Outbreaks caused by Salmonella Enteritidis are commonly linked to eggs and poultry meat internationally, but this serovar had never been detected in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) poultry prior to 2021. Lo...

Great to see this work on #Salmonella in #Aotearoa #NewZealand published, with colleagues from @MasseyUni, @AucklandUni, PIANZ and @PHFScience involved: doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

Longitudinal survey investigating vectors and reservoirs for Campylobacter colonization of chickens on a New Zealand broiler poultry farm | Applied and Environmental Microbiology Campylobacteriosis is the most frequently notified enteric disease in New Zealand, and New Zealand has one of the highest rates of campylobacteriosis among industrialized countries. Reducing Campylobacter colonization of poultry at the farm level would ...

Our latest work on Campylobacter vectors and reservoirs on NZ poultry farms has just been published: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/.... Great work from colleagues at @MasseyUni and @PHFScience amongst others.

thanks - this looks really interesting!

Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Resistance in Bacteria from Contaminated Agricultural Soil: Insights from a New Zealand Airstrip Background/Objectives: Agricultural soils accumulate inorganic contaminants from the application of phosphate fertilisers. An airstrip located at Belmont Regional Park (BRP), near Wellington, New Zeal...

Great to see this work between @MasseyUni, @scion_research and @uniofgalway on heavy metal resistance and AMR published: www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/14...

Our latest paper on #metabarcoding in #NZ #Cryptosporidum outbreaks has just been published in the Journal of Infection. Well done all!:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

Genomic epidemiology of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli from humans and a river in Aotearoa New Zealand In Aotearoa New Zealand, urinary tract infections in humans are commonly caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli. This group of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria ar...

Great to see another MSc student thesis work being published in the @microbiologysociety.org journal Microbial Genomics. Well done Holly et al: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

2 people, 2 hours and 13kg of #blueberries from our local pick your own. That’ll do for the 2025 supply (mostly).

@microbiologysociety.org - good to see you here!

New Campylobacter Lineages in New Zealand Freshwater: Pathogenesis and Public Health Implications The analysis of whole genome sequence data has identified freshwater Campylobacter, providing insights into pathogen diversity, antimicrobial resistance, and recombination events affecting virulence....

Our continuing #AgResearch #MasseyUni collaboration results in other #Campylobacter paper. Well done to all those involved:
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD Scholarship: Freeze-tolerant insects and the microbiome Two fully funded PhD scholarship are available at Massey University Manawatū New Zealand to study the evolution of freeze-tolerant alpine insects.

We are looking for two PhD students - based in Palmerston North - for our recently funded New Zealand Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden Fund project: www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola.... Applications close on 28-Feb-2025

My article has been published today in @PeerJCompSci peerj.com/articles/cs-... #Bioinformatics #DataMiningandMachineLearning #DataScience.

Another chapter from Helen's PhD thesis as a paper. Great effort!

I am tired of X as well Ryan, so I am moving over to here. Glad you are considering the same. I have been here only a few days. Lots of art, landscape photos and dogs, well that what I’m seeing. Great new image too BTW. Been following you since ‘98, so will follow you to new places as required!

Ok, just going full out here. Can your dogs drive a side-by-side? If you have better than that, you win. Oh wait, there’s got to be your dogs on kayaks, right? Darn it.

That's a strong start I have to say.

He was a handsome boy, and we think he knew it!

This photo taken by one of my PhD students - Helen - who is a very talented and award-winning photographer (IG: helensmithfineart).

Because life also has heartache at times. RIP Max, who crossed the rainbow bridge on Friday 18-Oct-2024. He came into our lives as a rescue in Apr-2012, and was thought to be about a year old then. He sadly lost a valiant fight to AGASAC (a kind of adenocarcinoma). We are both heartbroken.

What will you see from me on this site? Dog and landscape photos (mostly) and papers and posts related to my work. #dogsofbluesky

Hello Bluesky world.

Looking for a more brighter outlook from social media, so here's a photo of a bright blue sky from Motueka Sandspit (an internationally important site for migratory and local shorebirds) at the top of the South Island in Aotearoa New Zealand.