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Julian Parkhill

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Researcher in pathogen genomics and evolution University of Cambridge Vet School @camvetschool.bsky.social https://pathgenevocam.github.io

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University of Cambridge Vet School @camvetschool.bsky.social · 19d

🐾 Exciting news

The QVSH General Practice is open to pet owners across Cambs. We’re proud to be a not-for-profit practice and hospital.

Register your pet - it's easy and you’ll be part of a community that helps shape the future of veterinary medicine.

👉 www.hospital.vet.cam.ac.uk/general-prac...

Flyer promoting the QVSH General Practice in Cambridge

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Andries van Tonder @andriesvt.bsky.social · Sep 8

The next online version of our "Working with Bacterial Genomes" course is now open for registration. We aim to provide you with comprehensive training in analysing bacterial genomes covering everything from QC to clustering plasmids. Sign up here: www.training.cam.ac.uk/bioinformati...

Research Informatics - Working with Bacterial Genomes (ONLINE LIVE TRAINING) - Mon 27 Oct 2025

www.training.cam.ac.uk

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Hayley Wilson @thehjbrod.bsky.social · Mar 31

I'm really excited to share the postdoc I completed before joining PHG. It combines two great passions - bacteria and horses!!

Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/hayley... or go straight to the paper here: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Progressive evolution of Streptococcus equi from Streptococcus equi subsp.… | Hayley Wilson

I'm really excited to share this work with the world! As we know, academic research work will follow you even after you've left. So this is my post-doc project…

www.linkedin.com

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Andries van Tonder @andriesvt.bsky.social · Mar 13

Another week and more pipeline updates, this time my two assembly pipelines:

Illumina:
github.com/avantonder/a...

ONT:
github.com/avantonder/a...

Have a try and let me know what you think

GitHub - avantonder/assembleBAC

Contribute to avantonder/assembleBAC development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Andries van Tonder @andriesvt.bsky.social · Mar 6

I've spent some time updating my two Nextflow-based bacterial QC pipelines (bacQC and bacQC-ONT). It'd be great to get some feedback.
github.com/avantonder/b...
github.com/avantonder/b...

GitHub - avantonder/bacQC-ONT: QC pipeline for ONT data

QC pipeline for ONT data. Contribute to avantonder/bacQC-ONT development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Francesc Coll @fcic.bsky.social · Jan 14

Happy to share the findings of our latest work on mutational adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation now published on @NatureComms
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The mutational landscape of Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation

Nature Communications - The authors applied a genomic and evolutionary approach to study Staphylococcus aureus in host adaptation during colonisation revealing signals of adaption in metabolic...

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Ewan Harrison @ewanharrison.bsky.social · Jan 13

Our paper investigating the mutational landscape during Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation is out now rdcu.be//d55l3
@fcic.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social University of Cambridge @julianparkhill.bsky.social

The mutational landscape of Staphylococcus aureus during colonisation

Nature Communications - The authors applied a genomic and evolutionary approach to study Staphylococcus aureus in host adaptation during colonisation revealing signals of adaption in metabolic...

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School of Biological Sciences @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social · Jan 8

📢 Apply now! We are recruiting an Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics to join our innovative research community!

Find out more about the position and apply: https://buff.ly/4gIRTDf

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Jan 8

It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

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Noémie Lefrancq @noemielefrancq.bsky.social · Jan 2

Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉
https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx

We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies.

🧵 A thread... 1/n
#IDSky #IDModelling

Learning the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies - Nature

Phylowave, an innovative phylogenetic approach, can identify the main circulating pathogen lineages with increased fitness and the associated genetic changes, enabling the timely identification of…

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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · Dec 16

That is rapid service. Thanks, I'll try it out

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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · Dec 11

Frustrating - I reviewed a paper that was highly problematic, mainly in scientific rigour undermining most of the conclusions, so I recommend Reject. However the editor decides to Revise presumably due to the more positive comments from reviewer 2... /1

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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · Dec 3

Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.

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Zannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · Dec 2

* rolls up newspaper *
No Guardian! Bad Guardian! An infection is not a microbiome! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia?

Long thought to be sterile, our brains are now believed to harbour all sorts of micro-organisms, from bacteria to fungi. How big a part do they play in Alzheimer’s and similar diseases?

www.theguardian.com

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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · Nov 29

Very nice, Martin. This will be very useful. Would be good if you could search in the annotation.

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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · Nov 22

That is brilliant news, Noemie, and very well deserved

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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · Nov 22

A big congratulations to Noémie Lefrancq on being awarded the Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize🏅 for their exceptional PhD thesis on global dynamics of the bacterium behind whooping cough, using genomes from throughout Europe and the world!
genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · Nov 10

Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏
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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · Oct 30

Signed up, but can you change the abomination of an image supposedly representing DNA on your website?

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Aug 9

We are looking for a Network Manager for TARGet (Transdisciplinary Antimicrobial Resistance Genomics network).

Apply by scanning the QR code or via www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs

A job posting for a research project manager at the University of Birmingham.

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