Kate Baker

These two things aren’t mutually exclusive: open.spotify.com/track/5NS0ip...

Excited for Thursday!

Poster deadline for the Keystone Microbiome Meeting in Banff is December 30th www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Will be a great meeting focused on human microbiomes, spanning basic, mechanistic, and applied. Organized by myself, @amibhatt.bsky.social , and Harry Sokol. Join us!

These are gold

It's never good news with gonorrrhea, is it 💊 🧫

Twitching was like Pokémon Go before there was Pokémon Go … minus the battles I guess 🦅 🦢 🐦

Okay, it's the start of the academic year and there have been further funny (and some frustrating) mix ups ... just a gentle reminder that there are two of us - try to make sure you have the right one ...

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Encourage creativity and storytelling for young folk 9+ with a copy of Graphic Novel Builder: the illustrated guide to making your own comics! With an intro by Alice Oseman! ✏️

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High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nature Communications Here, the authors report within-host diversity and body site translocation dynamics in hospital samples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reveal that body site sharing was likely due to within-patient tra...

Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab.
We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung.
The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Adding fomo - heavy teaching week

I have a wonderful colleague who calls these things out by saying “It’s interesting you think that, what makes you think that?”

Normally I would agree with this but it’s 2025 and the 30th of November is right there. A conveniently located Sunday. It’s gonna happen people.

Call for abstracts - EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention

#Abstract submissions are open for The #Shigella Meeting! If you would like to be considered for a #travel #grant, abstracts are due December 16, 2025. Regular submissions due January 14, 2026. Show us your #science!
@shigellameeting.bsky.social
🦠 🧫🔬 #Microsky #IDsky

Home - EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention

Don't forget to register for the #1st ever @shigellameeting.bsky.social at Pasteur next year! Apr 20 - 24 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics,
therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026

This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics,
therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026

Happy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations

We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use

🚨Job claxon 🚨

University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post

A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse

For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153

London interdisciplinary #PhD position now open with myself, @sergemostowylab.bsky.social, & @gmknght.bsky.social on #phage -bacteria-host immune dynamics for WHO priority bacterial pathogens #Klebsiella, #Shigella, and #Staph. Combines cellular microbiology, genomics, & mathematical modelling.

Know metagenomics and could spare 2 mins? I'm applying for funding to build a visual repository for metagenomic classification data (not sequence data). To support the application, I have a short 2 minute survey and it would be a big help if you could fill it in: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you’re at @astmh.bsky.social #ASTMH2025 check out our session today on Enteric Pathogen Genomics & Evolution (room 717, 16:30) featuring @ksbakes.bsky.social on Shigella, plus 2 other great talks on V. cholerae phages, and Salmonella!

For anyone else whose Mac Outlook 365 has started making regular, massive faux pas through Autocorrect recently: Start typing new email > Edit > Spelling and Grammar > uncheck 'Correct Spelling Automatically'. Literally just called a new collaborator Baby because of this ... 🙄

Yes, but they mysteriously gained it back over the next two days as the dye leaked into the white choc!

Of course!

Are you hungry for some Shigella news? Why not come to the 1st International Shigella meeting www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home 20-24 April 2026 Paris

This 👇 👇 👇

Funded PhD position available in @langridgelab.bsky.social! Excellent project in a very supportive, driven & knowledgable group 🧬

The lack of a unified patient voice for AMR (because of the diverse and complex nature of the problem) definitely makes research and progress in the area more challenging

If it were GDP we would definitely refer to 5% - 15% as booming … maybe we’re in a booming pandemic of AMR

Can we stop calling it a slow pandemic yet?