@gemccallum.bsky.social
Post-doc at the University of Liverpool studying HGT in the hospital sink drain microbiome | Co-founder of @ContamClub.bsky.social
The ContamCalendar 2026 is full of microbe-related dates so you can celebrate microbiology for the whole year 📅🧫🦠
06.12.2025 13:25 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The ContamCalendar 2026 will likely be the final calendar we make, so we wanted it to be a great one.
The new design folds out to be A3, perfect for displaying the beautiful microbes inside 😍
Also full of microbe-related days throughout the year 📆🦠🧫🍄
Thank you, fixed link now. Not helping that I’ve got rubbish WiFi whilst in the Radiohead queue so couldn’t test
21.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Published today!
'The Kocurious case of Noodlococcus: genomic insights into Kocuria rhizophila from characterisation of a laboratory contaminant'
A labour of love in the group, led by @gemccallum.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social @prob91.bsky.social
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Happy Noodlococcus day to all those who celebrate! 🍜🧫🦠
We’re in 3 different continents now but all celebrating the 6th anniversary of the discovery of our noodle-y friend by eating some delicious noodles @prob91.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social @gemccallum.bsky.social
🤣 I was wondering if anyone would spot that!
31.07.2025 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was great fun writing this review with @gemccallum.bsky.social , even if our conclusions are rather scary. Lots of important pathogen evolution must be occurring outside of the infection context...
31.07.2025 15:22 — 👍 27 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0Thanks glad you enjoyed! Hahaha I think even in orbit they would still find a way to recover within a few days
31.07.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to have this review out with @jpjhall.bsky.social!
We discuss the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome, highlight studies providing evidence of transfer, and consider strategies to mitigate these risks 🪠🦠
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Happy to finally have this out! It has been a fun side-project that we’ve been slowly working on for a while 🍜
I think it has turned out as a nice story, and demonstrates some important issues with historic taxonomic classifications in genome databases. All from investigating a contaminant! ⤵️
🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨
The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠
Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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the Noodlococcus story of @contamclub.bsky.social is out now! #MicroSky
christoph: happy to have contributed a teensy bit
🍜🧬 Pan-fried noodles 🤣🤣🤣
Big shoutout to @contamclub.bsky.social for cooking up the story of Noodlococcus
We’re proud to have been part of the journey — from mystery microbe to full-genome feast 👨🍳🧫
📖 recipe available ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#MicroSky #MicrobialMysteries #ProudServiceProvider
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A landmark paper (in the field of Kocuria rhizophila genomics).
Thanks to @gemccallum.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social and others to get this over the line.
Have really enjoyed my day at #IOIECR25 @ineosoxford.bsky.social
Enjoyed some amazing talks and enjoyed presenting my work investigating antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome
Gutted the font messed up hahaha
21.03.2025 12:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ContamClub has officially reached every continent on Earth! 🌎🌍🌏
This set of ContamMerch are with Bodil and Livvie who work at the South Georgia Heritage Trust in Antarctica - @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social
Antarctica marks 7/7 continents that ContamCalendars have been delivered to since we began 🗺️📆🦠
Two pairs of packaged socks. Left: a bright green pair with pink, yellow, green and red cartoon bacteria. Right: a white pair with a bright yellow ContamClub logo. Positioned next to a thank you card with a 3D effect pin badge of a bacterial colony.
Special delivery from @contamclub.bsky.social (@gemccallum.bsky.social)! How cool are these socks!? 🧪🔬
#MicroSky
Want your ankles to look this good this December?
Get your ContamSocks below!!! 🧦🦠🧫
➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️
‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2025 🗓️🚨‼️
The ContamCalendar is back for another year! It’s a great one and we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄
Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️
Had a great day at the AMR in microbiomes worshop thank you very much @rwheatley8.bsky.social for organising!
22.05.2024 22:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Amazing talk by @gemccallum.bsky.social (post-doc with @jpjhall.bsky.social) on his hospital sink microbiome project, including Greg's undercover ICU sink microbiome notes and scary genomes of Pseudomonas, Aeromonas, Citrobacter.
22.05.2024 13:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thanks feels good to be back!
10.04.2024 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to meet you! Looking forward to the workshop in Oxford
10.04.2024 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Had a great time so far at #MicroBio24 and enjoyed presenting the start of my post-doc work on the hospital sink drain microbiome today 💧🦠
10.04.2024 20:20 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
