Excited to share my 1st paper along with Bridget Watson Tiffany Taylor edze westra Sylvain Gandon and David McLeod academic.oup.com/ismej/article/… where we asked “when would using a defence system (CRISPR-Cas) be selectively advantageous over mutations that block phage binding?” 1/10

I am SO excited to announce that I have finally opened a microbiology jewellery shop! If you've ever seen me at conferences and liked my earrings, please check it out! ☺️🧬 pinkpetri.etsy.com

Our paper out in Evolution Letters 🎉

Thrilled to see the first review article from my lab out in advance Annual Reviews, helmed by Célia Souque: From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Incredible mucoid Pseudomonas pin from Keira Cozens has arrived 🤩 love it!

📢 Abstract & registration now open for #EESDrugresistance at EMBL Heidelberg - bringing together mechanisms of drug resistance in bacteria, fungi and cancer. March 2025 - save the date!

The search for rhicadhesin 🕵️ combining TnSeq, lux-assays, proteomics & RNAseq! New paper out from Rhizosphere Lab - Factors governing attachment of Rhizobium leguminosarum to legume roots at acid, neutral, and alkaline pHs | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Are you a researcher with an interest in microbiology, ecology and evolution? Join our upcoming scientific discussion meeting on the topic of microbial immune systems from 30 September to 1 October: royalsociety.org/science-events…

🚨 Abstract submissions for the 2025 Microbiology Society Annual Conference are open! 🧬✨ Research on microbial warfare in bacteria and MGEs? Rebecca Corrigan Jamie Hall Christopher Cooper Jerry Reen and I want to hear from you! Submit by Nov 12! 🔬 #Microbio2025 microbiologysociety.org/event/annual-c…

Got this photo 5 years ago today 💙🎓 5 years with lots of fun with science, and many sports distractions later…. Feels surreal and super exciting to have my first PhD students starting next month! AMR-microbiome interface projects here we come 😎

Horizontal gene transfer can reshape bacterial warfare biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

🔬 How do cancer cells and microbes develop drug resistance and how to develop new therapeutic stategies? Discover cutting-edge insights at the upcoming new EMBO | EMBL Symposium #EESDrugResistance 🧪 Submit your abstract until 12 Jan 2025 ➡️ s.embl.org/ees25-01

Registration is open! On-line symposium on developments in in vitro infection models, hosted by Microbiology Society and #MicrobiolJ. Check out the superb line up of speakers and registration details at microbiologysociety.org/event/society-…

This took us a while — very happy it is finally out! Parallel ecological and evolutionary responses to selection in a natural bacterial community | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

A couple new papers from the group, largely showing so-called "negative results", but with important connotations for the care of preterm infants. Both papers are open-access so I will provide only key bits here. A small thread 🧵:

Excited to share this collaborative work with Zamin Iqbal ! We're thrilled about the potential impact LexicMap could have on advancing microbial genomics research! Imagine how cool it is to search for a gene (with >30k hits) against 2 million bacterial genomes within 1 minute!

Come find me at poster number 1️⃣ at #Pseudomonas2024 on Wednesday if you’re interested in the interface between antibiotic resistance and microbial interactions 🦠🫁

Flash poster presentation at #Pseudomonas2024 🦠🫁 - asking the question: can evolving resistance change the outcome of microbial interactions?

What a brilliant time at #Pseudomonas2024! Great to meet up with old colleagues and new. First time at a #Pseudomonas meeting (but it won’t be my last 😁). Thank you to the organisers and Microbiology Society for this super event.

Our work NCI Center for Cancer Research on how interspecies surfactants facilitate emergent surface spreading in #Paeruginosa by Delayna Warrell and Tiffany Zarrella is now out in JBacteriology Eds ASM ! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…