We're about to start sharing photos of everyone's plates from #CoCoMAD ! 🧫🧫 Our plate photo studio is set up here at IMIBirmingham , and we'll be posting throughout today - keep an eye out for your number!

Fish and chips for lab lunch today courtesy of Proteintech Group 🐟🍟

Our discovery of widespread MDR Staphylococcus capitis NRCS-A clone in neonatal units across UK is published. This work was sponsored by UK Health Security Agency, led by Dr. Alicia, Dr B Pichon, Colin S Brown, supported by NHS, Derren Ready, Ginny Moore, Dr Elita Jauneikaite, et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf…

New paper from Cambridge University & AMRHAI Reference Unit of UK Health Security Agency (Juliana Coelho, Katie Hopkins, Izzie Potterill, et al). We report a novel Globicatella species causing soft tissue infection and tenosynovitis in an immunocompetent man after cat bite injuries. doi.org/10.3201/eid290…

Course 🚨: The IMIBirmingham 'Analysing Microbial Genomic Data' CPD course is back again for the second time this year for a pre-Xmas special! Applications are now being taken: birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/c…

Delighted to share our discovery of nitrofurantoin heteroresistance in E. coli clinical isolates by labs of S Sriskandan & Andrew Edwards and proudly have contributed to Microbiology Society journal, with supports from Colin S Brown, Dr Elita Jauneikaite, Izzie Potterill, et al. doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

A great few days full of science, snacks and being really bad at playing pool.

Introducing the ContamCalendar 2024 📆🦠🧫🍄 on sale tomorrow! Loved putting this together, can't wait for you guys to get your hands on this 💥 Retweet, like, and follow Contamination Club for your chance to win one 💥

#AMGDDec23 course dinner

A great week at #Microbio24 so far, excited to present the start of my PhD work on conservation and variation in E. coli core genes at poster B052

A new publication from my PDRA with McNally lab group. Working with our UK-India collaborators, we screened the ability of non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals to cause genetic changes and cross-resistance to antibiotics (spoiler, not so much). nature.com/articles/s4425…

Our next Analysing Microbial Genomics Data (AMGD) is open for registration. A hands-on, week long tutorial based introduction to the field featuring additional talks from @unibirm_MDS IMIBirmingham researchers. 1st to 5th July, hurry as places limited birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/c…

Our fully-funded PhD Studentships are open again for application, to start in October 2024! Please have a look at some of the exciting projects being suggested - and if you're interested, make sure you apply! warwick.ac.uk/mibtp/phd/

The first large open access free international conference based ⁦UK Health Security Agency⁩ in colindale since COVID. A successful two days of genomic development & applications in public health by ⁦NIHR Research⁩ HPRUged⁩. Thank you to all who attended and contributed.

Great to be back UK Health Security Agency for HPRUged annual conference. Caught up with old colleagues, chatted a lot of great science and even got some stash!

Still places available for this course in sunny Birmingham. Happy to answer any questions…

Out latest preprint describes a plasmid lineage we've been tracking in Birmingham's QE Hospital - short 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… McNally lab group

Day 2 of #AMGDJuly24 and working away with loops for fastq data retrieval

Happy Noodlococcus Day to all those who celebrate 🍜🦠 On this day in 2019, we discovered this noodle-y colony contaminating an old plate, leading to the creation of ContamClub 🧫✨

Grateful to International Society for Plasmid Biology and MGEs for giving me the opportunity to present my talk virtually this morning! #ISPB2024