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hannahtriv.bsky.social
Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded one of just four 2026 @pacbio.bsky.social Metagenomics SMRT Grants! 🧬

The grant will support my work in the @halllab.bsky.social at @unibirmingham.bsky.social , exploring long-read #metagenomics, #AMR & #DNAmethylation 🔬👩🏼‍🔬

#microbialgenomics #ECR #PacBio
pacbio.bsky.social PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social · 3d
We’re excited to announce 4 winners for the 2026 Metagenomics SMRT Grant! 🧬

From infant resistomes and hereditary cancer to soil pathogens and HPV persistence, see how these researchers are driving discovery with PacBio HiFi sequencing.

Meet the awardees: https://bit.ly/4rotusF
September 22, 2026 at 7:52 PM
whelanfj.bsky.social
This blog looks super slick! #microbialgenomics #bioinformatics
fionapoulter.bsky.social Fiona Poulter @fionapoulter.bsky.social · Feb 11
For anyone in the bioinformatics/ evolutionary biology world my friend and previous colleague has created this blog with some very nice resources for getting into the area! 🧬

sequence-gazing.co.uk

#bioinformatics #evolutionarybiology
- Sequence Gazing
Welcome to sequence-gazing!
sequence-gazing.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
Fantastic talk from Kate Cox (Nottingham Trent University)
looking at a much needed molecular epidemiology framework for M.leprae

#MicrobialGenomics #Microbio25 #MicroSky

@conmeehan.bsky.social @blackpassiflora.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
We are thrilled to be sponsoring this session!

Esh Mahenthiralingam is kicking things off with a great talk on Burkholderia 🎉🦠🧬

#Microbio25 #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky
April 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social
microGWAS: a computational pipeline to perform large-scale bacterial genome-wide association studies

#MicrobialGenomics from @mgalactus.bsky.social

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
microGWAS: a computational pipeline to perform large-scale bacterial genome-wide association studies
Identifying genetic variants associated with bacterial phenotypes, such as virulence, host preference and antimicrobial resistance, has great potential for a better understanding of the mechanisms inv...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
February 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
novogene-europe.bsky.social
🧬 #MicrobialGenomics ECR Symposium is officially underway!

This morning's fantastic talks: 🧬 Selvi Ergin 🦠 Joshua Horton 🍄 Julia Boogh 🎤 Prof Jonathan Todd

@quadraminstitute.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social
July 15, 2026 at 11:24 AM
microbesng.bsky.social
Another fabulous talk in the 'Exploring Hidden Threats: Knowledge Expansion of Understudied Bacterial Pathogens' session from @amberbarton.bsky.social highlighting the challenges on working on non-culturable organisms 👀🦠🧬

@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#MicrobialGenomics #Microbio25 #MicroSky
April 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
Great to hear from @nisbetalice.bsky.social who shared new insights into how Salmonella Paratyphi A adapts during long-term, asymptomatic carriage 👀

#MicrobialGenomics #PathogenSurveillance #PublicHealth #Microbiology #EntericFever #Salmonella #ECR #MNGPopUp @quadraminstitute.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
We're excited to be in at the @norwichmicro.bsky.social annual conference TODAY!

Chat to @helenmcneil.bsky.social about FREE shipping available in NORWICH for WHOLE PLASMID & Microbial Sequencing services 🦠🧬

#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #PlasmidSequencing
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
eh-hayles.bsky.social
Lovely to see that our latest paper investigating #SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology in #Norfolk was one of the most read papers last month in #MicrobialGenomics!

Read here: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
Great to hear from @danwhiley.bsky.social (Nottingham Trent University) on Helicobacter suis in UK farmed pigs 🐖 and retail meat products 🥓. We are glad this session was after lunch!

#MicrobialGenomics #Microbio25 #MicroSky
April 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
There have been some changes to the buzz wire leader board over lunch! #CMINorwich25 👀⚡

In 1st place, retaining an impressive winning streak is...

🥇 Gabriel Astorga @goodolgab1
🥈 Isabelle Storer
🥉 Leanne Sims

#CMINorwich25 #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky
February 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
jsantoyo.bsky.social
Integrating comparative genomics and risk classification by assessing virulence, antimicrobial resistance, and plasmid spread in microbial communities with gSpreadComp. #Genomics #MicrobialGenomics #AMR @gigascience.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/gigascience/...
July 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
novogene-europe.bsky.social
Take a journey into microbial genomics with our webinar: "Unfolding the Microbial World." Discover how sequencing applications uncover microbial diversity and function.

Watch now: bit.ly/4gJ7FxB

#MicrobialGenomics #MicrobiomeResearch #Genomics #Microbiology #ResearchInnovation
August 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
microbesng.bsky.social
🚨 Get your abstract in NOW for POPUP Nottingham with @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net deadline 9th Feb 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng

#MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium 5th Jun
Focus on #ECRs present/chair
Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social
#MNGPopUp #MicroSky
January 15, 2026 at 1:23 PM
pacbio.bsky.social
Heading to APHL 2026 next week? 🦠

Visit PacBio at booth 422 to see how HiFi long-read sequencing helps public health labs resolve complete genomes, sharpen AMR insights, and strengthen pathogen surveillance.

Learn more: bit.ly/42ALnJa

#PacBio #PublicHealth #APHL #MicrobialGenomics
April 28, 2026 at 9:55 PM
langridgelab.bsky.social
And an amazing talk to kick off @microbesng.bsky.social #MNGPopUp by Leanne Sims @quadraminstitute.bsky.social with a talk on engineering Shewanella oneidensis to recover precious platinum group metals at a large industrial scale from waste!

#ECR #MicrobialGenomics
July 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
microbesng.bsky.social
Our CSO @pathogenomenick.bsky.social is finishing off #MNGPopUp with a fantastic talk on metagenomic pathogen surveillance 👀 @articnetwork.bsky.social

#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #Metagenomics #InfectiousDiseases #GenomicSurveillance #PathogenDetection #Bioinformatics
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
helenmcneil.bsky.social
I 💙 finding out what our customers do with the data that @microbesng.bsky.social send out!

@meina.bsky.social et al have named 28 actinomycetes after amazing #WomenInScience 👩‍🔬

@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social are doing a post about each one & they're well worth a read! #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #IDsky
leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social · Nov 27
DSMZ researchers characterized and named 28 actinomycetes with inhibiting effects against other microbes. Honouring the impact of female scientists, they named the newly described bacteria exclusively after #womeninscience.
👉 tinyurl.com/3uhs8ypc

#biodiversity #antibiotics #microbes
📷 DSMZ
New antibiotic producers described: Old DSMZ treasures with new potential
Researchers name newly described bacteria exclusively after female scientists
tinyurl.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:44 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
📢 MicrobesNG POPUP is coming to Nottingham! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium on 5th June 🦠🧬
We're accepting abstracts now! Focus on #ECRs Please RT

Submit by 9th Feb 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/POPUP_NOTT...

@bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net
#MNGPopUp #MicroSky
January 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
microbesng.bsky.social
🪰🦠🧬 We loved hearing from @katiemillar.bsky.social on the stability of K. oxytoca across Medfly diets, regions & populations and the potential for microbiome-targeted biocontrol approaches
🥰 Some beautiful slides too

#MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol
July 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
arwynedwards.bsky.social
New paper out now in #MicrobialGenomics - led by Dr Melanie Hay - on genome resolved #metagenomics of Arctic #glaciers doi.org/10.1099/mgen... #microsky
The paper's lead author Dr Melanie Hay looking at the glaciers and fjords sampled as part of this study.
November 8, 2023 at 12:36 PM
langridgelab.bsky.social
Who is excited for an exciting day of #MicrobialGenomics with @microbesng.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #ECR conference?

We are! Our students @stevenrudder.bsky.social & @nisbetalice.bsky.social will be giving talks on their #PhD in addition to our new Postdoc Claire Hill. Day full of great science ahead.
July 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
helenmcneil.bsky.social
I’m looking forward to hearing from @julianparkhill.bsky.social at #CMINorwich25

#MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
microbesng.bsky.social
🎈🎂🎉 It was Dr. Seuss’s Birthday yesterday!!! 🎉🎂🎈

To honour this most momentous of days, we’ve had chatGPT write us a little story about Microbe Max... 📖🦠

We hope you enjoy it ! 😻🎩

#MicroSky #DrSeussDay #OhThePlacesYoullGo #MicrobialGenomics
#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #SciSky
March 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM