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Microbial sequencing made simple.
Whole Genome Sequencing + Metagenomics: http://microbesng.com
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This week we kicked off the new year with a great talk about endosymbiosis evolution by Dan Malumphy 🔬

Thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for supplying us with snacks! 🍪
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Great to see this published from one of our fav customers, Doug Browning highlighting need for better genomic surveillance & One Health approach to tackle #AMR

AMR & Comparative Genome Analysis of High-Risk E.coli Strains Isolated from Egyptian Children with Diarrhoea www.mdpi.com/3690382 #MicroSky
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January 23, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Loved being @ox.ac.uk last wk for OxBacNet & seeing so many past @imibirmingham.bsky.social friends!

Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection #MicroSky
January 21, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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🚨 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
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mermanchester.bsky.social
A very interesting talk about culture cycle dependence of mutation rates by Ziang Zhang 🧬

Accompanied by fantastic snacks thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social 🍰
A screen in the centre shows a slide titled “Culture cycle dependent mutation rate”, Ziang Zhang stands to the right looking at a the audience
January 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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helenmcneil.bsky.social
Had a fantastic time at @uniofbath.bsky.social last week for the Dept. of Life Sciences Research Day!

Presented @microbesng.bsky.social's poster: “To long read or not to long read” showing how ONT long-read sequencing outperforms Illumina for plasmid de novo assembly & #AMR gene detection
#MicroSky
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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If you are at @uniofbath.bsky.social today drop by W4 and try our buzz wire game ⚡

here are the prizes on offer

🥇 giant microbe
🥈pin badge by @pinkpetri.bsky.social
🥉 microscope key chain

@rosieelliott.bsky.social is currently in the top spot with 14.34 seconds!
#MicroSky #LifeSciences
January 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Excited to be in Bath for the #LifeSciences Research Day 🎉
Make sure you come and see our poster designed by the amazing @pinkpetri.bsky.social showing the benefits of long read sequencing for plasmid detection 🧬🦠

@uniofbath.bsky.social #MicroSky
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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📢 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
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🧬 Free @microbesng.bsky.social PopUp ECR symposium 🧬

UK-based MRes or PhD student, research assistant or postdoc working on microbial genomics or metagenomics?

Present your work and/or chair a session, plus excellent keynote speakers: @halllab.bsky.social and @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social.

#MNGPopUp
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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We’ll be closing at the end of the day today for our Christmas break 🎄
Thank you so much for all your orders this year 🧬 🦠 💙

We’ll be back open on 7th January and can’t wait to see you then,
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year ✨
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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mermanchester.bsky.social
The last seminar of the year was another set of exciting talks from visitor @alekseiagapov.bsky.social and merfolk @sophiesomerville.bsky.social !

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for the 🍪!

Have a happy and safe holiday! 🤶🏻 🎅🏻 🎄
Alekseis title slide up on the projector. Image of Aleksei answering questions following his talk. Sophie starting her presentation next to her title slide.
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🎉📬 Hey Dropbox Users – Heads Up!

Tomorrow, Wed 10th Dec, is the last chance to get FREE DELIVERY from our Dropbox network before we take a little holiday break! 🎄 ✨

Collections resume Wed 7th Jan 2026

Check the times of tomorrow's final collection here: microbesng.com/dropbox-netw... 💌 #MicroSky
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄

Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec…
because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄

Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown.

Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Snacks + great science = our favourite combo 😄 🍪

Great to see such exciting science getting shared, thanks for having us involved 🙌
mermanchester.bsky.social MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · Dec 3
We had two fantastic visiting speakers today

MERMan alumnus @rowancallumg.bsky.social spoke about his current work with viral cheating in influenza with @asherleeks.bsky.social

And @lavishaparab.bsky.social talked about phage infection trade-offs

Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for our snacks!
Rowan standing in front of a title slide reading “defective viral genomes in natural infections” Lavish standing in front of a title slide reading “trade-offs in bacterial evolution in the context of temperate phage infection”
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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🎄✨ Christmas Shutdown ✨🎄

Make sure your samples arrive by 12th Dec…
because after that, our lab techs are officially on Santa duty! 🎅
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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mermanchester.bsky.social
Another great week at our seminar series!
This session, we explored "Within-patient evolution of ciprofloxacin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa from @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social
Big thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for once again keeping us fuelled with delicious refreshments 🙌🍪
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🎄✨ Hurry! ✨🎄

Less than 2 weeks left to get your samples to our lab before the Christmas shutdown.

Make sure they arrive by Friday 12th Dec—after that, our lab techs will be busy helping Santa! ❄️🧪
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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mermanchester.bsky.social
In this week’s seminar we learned about the evolution of intrinsic terminators from @stepadenisov.bsky.social 🧬

Made even more fun by snacks kindly sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social 🍪
Stepan Denisov standing to the right of a lecture slide titled “Evolution of intrinsic terminators between two closely related species”
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Retrospective post: @fgyapong.bsky.social recently gave his MERMan seminar on his work on the stickleback skin microbiome.

Not pictured: yummy treats sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social
Francis's title slide of his presentation entitled Environmental Variation Shapes the Stickleback Skin Microbiome.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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🦠✨ We are all set up in Surrey!

MicrobesNG aka Olivija has made herself cosy in the Dorothy Hodgkin building (AX/AY) ✅

Make sure to catch her NOW for SWAG and glittery trinkets ✨💫

@uniofsurrey.bsky.social
#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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@olivijaziu.bsky.social is excited to meet the @uniofsurrey.bsky.social community at the Microbes, Infection & Immunity seminar 21st Oct! 🧬

Hosted by @jaimehat.bsky.social

Join her for coffee & a chat during lunch break (lots of swag! 💝 )

#MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #AcademicEvents #PhDLife
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨
Exeter Microbial Genomics Early Careers Symposium 🦠🧬

Present your work, chair a session, win prizes & network!
📅 12 Nov
📍 Penryn Campus
⏰ Submit TODAY by 5pm 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng

#MicrobialGenomics #ECR #MNGPopUp
Organised with @drramabht.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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mermanchester.bsky.social
This weeks seminars from PhD students Maisie Czernuszka and Victor Carneiro da Cunha Martirelli!

Special thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring refreshments!
Title slide of Maisies seminar on engineering phages. Victors title slide on electricity and Ecoli
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM