Rachel M. Wheatley

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Thanks! So impressed you have done this x2!! It’s hardcore!

Thanks Freya!!

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Thank you! ☺️ an exhausting but very enjoyable time (who needs sleep 🤪)

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Born Monday 21st July 🎉 🍾 Adjusting to new parent life… fuelled by adrenaline, caffeine, and percy pigs!

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Wow really cool! Congrats on the paper 🥳

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci utilise antibiotic-enriched nutrients for intestinal colonisation - Nature Communications Here, the authors show that vancomycin-resistant enterococci grow in the antibiotic-treated gut microbiome by utilising enriched nutrients in the presence of reduced concentrations of inhibitory micro...

So excited to share a new paper from my lab just published in Nature Communications! We showed that vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) occupied distinct intestinal niches in the antibiotic-treated intestine. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Amazing work by first author Olivia King and colleagues!

Nothing is more humbling than attempting to exercise* at 39 weeks pregnant during a heatwave.
(* ok by attempting to exercise I actually mean using the stairs)

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FHEA awarded 🥳 always happy to get a certificate!

Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Staphylococcus haemolyticus is a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes in the preterm infant gut Staphylococcus haemolyticus is an important cause of sepsis in preterm infants, with gut colonization being recognized as a risk factor for infection. To better understand the diversity of S. haemo...

I am delighted that our manuscript 'Staphylococcus haemolyticus is a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes in the preterm infant gut' is now published.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Big thank you to all co-authors, particularly @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social

Within-host competition causes pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis Abstract. Pathogens newly invading a host must compete with resident microbiota. This within-host microbial warfare could lead to more severe disease outco

I'm very pleased to share the latest paper from my post doc with @kayla-king.bsky.social. We looked at how host microbiota can influence pathogen virulence evolution in a C. elegans model of infection: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Delighted for the labs first PhD students Jack Knowles and Lauren Pittaccio who have been offered their first conference talks at the upcoming Micro Soc Early Career Summer Conference 🤩 great that this friendly + peer-led EC conference platform exists for microbiologists 🙌 #ECConf25

Clinical Isolates of Antimicrobial-Resistant Enterobacter Species Can Persist in Human Macrophages Without Replication and Overt Cellular Cytotoxicity This study underscores the capacity of antibiotic-resistant Enterobacter clinical isolates to persist in macrophages without significantly alerting the inn

Macrophage/enterobacter paper here: academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Fantastic seminar today by @valvanom.bsky.social as part of our new QUB AMR Hub seminar series - all about sneaky Enterobacter hiding inside macrophages 🕵️‍♀️ & the AIVRT vaccine research alliance 💉. Great to see a full seminar room!

Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering

Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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Defence systems drive accessory genome interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa As well as undergoing mutational selection, bacterial genomes are shaped by a complex evolutionary interplay among diverse accessory genome elements (AGEs). In this study we define AGEs as encompassin...

Defence Systems are so hot right now 🔥 🔥 🔥 so check out our latest preprint to see how DSes contribute to niche adaptation, interact with each other, and drive accessory genome interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Gorgeous sunny weekend in Donegal ☀️🇮🇪! Can’t get over this beach

Hopped over to Northern Ireland last week to give a talk at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for their AMR seminar series. Thanks very much to @rwheatley8.bsky.social, @lindaoyama.bsky.social, and @sharonhuws.bsky.social for hosting me!

Ooh thank you - I’ll check them out