James Gurney

I'd love to come. We have two projects that are ready for public consumption. CRISPRcas and salt. we combined bioinformatics and wet work to explain why archaea have a higher prevalence of Cas. 2nd single cell RNA seq under phage infection. Also happy to talk about outreach and work with Kurzgesagt.

Finally got my iPod touch to turn back on. I bought this with my first PhD pay check. Time to listen to some classic pre 2010 tunes.

That climb yesterday was something else.

Used AI to recreate the strangest bathroom I viewed when I was trying to find an apartment in France. This is a fairly close rendering. Including the off angle steps and it being in the center of the room. It was a bizarre death trap. Just the right height if you fell you’d break your neck.

New lab logo

College of New Hampshire views and people eating lobster

Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites)

@cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social

Feeling tired but inspired after a great week at the #MicrobialPopBioGRC. Great to see old friends and make some new ones! 🦞🗻🧫

@ginalewin.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social @stephenkdolan.bsky.social

My first GRC and I get why this is so many folks favorite meeting. Great presentations and interaction with some many people.

Only gripe is my room was hot. But it also does this! Warning flashing lights!

I’m sure the are at least 4 and 20 good reasons for this choice.

PhD Project: Discovering Novel Mechanisms of Phage Genome Evolution We are looking for an awesome PhD student to join our research team to investigate how bacteriophages (phages) generate targeted mutations that enable them to evolve and infect new bacterial hosts. Yo...

PhD opportunities at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in Adelaide, Australia's most liveable city, to study genetics in #phage

We will also have genetics #postdoc positions too!

#microsky #phagesky

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Nice place to hangout for a week and hear some cool science.

Looking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days!

go.bsky.app/GGxRjzC

Just a bit of lightning

Name our Storms

The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms...

It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear):
BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Added to phage starter pack

It's out! We used the T4P-dependent phage Luz19 to select against the type IV pilus virulence factor in P. aeruginosa, despite the presence of competing S. aureus.

Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Dr Colin Brown, deputy director at the UK Health Security Agency, responsible for AMR, said: “Phage therapy truly has the potential to transform the way we treat bacterial infections, especially as resistance to antibiotics grows. At UKHSA, we’re developing new ways to help increase phage therapy use and research, including a bacteriophage collection where scientists can both access and deposit phages. In time, we hope solutions like phage therapy can become a first-line treatment option.”

The MHRA today released new guidance for #Phage therapy in the UK. This will provide direction for scientists and researchers working to make this treatment a reality for patients. 🔬 🧪

🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Phage people: Rich Losick and I are combing the world looking for T4 rIIB mutant FC0 (also known as P13). FC0 was the starting point for Francis Crick's beautiful 1961 paper on the triplet nature of the genetic code. We want to sequence it. Anyone have it in an ancient stock collection?

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...

Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

Thanks everyone got some really great leads!

Anyone aware of somebody doing compassionate release type phage therapy in Canada? A friend of mine is having a lot of trouble with ever increasing AMR Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Done

Pubmed screenshot of searching for papers with the title "of phage and men"

This gives me an idea...

Agreed, I'd also add a tram to the airport or beach, I'd take either.

Lancet group, this is not the main Lancet but eBiomedicine, still a respectable publication. Still no excuse for not changing the theme on ggplot.

Felt it in Decatur.

Never real got on with the one in my old lab. I’d be curious to know if the experience has improved.

Hike buddy lizard

Hike buddy.

TIL america has badgers.