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Andreas Haag
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Andreas Haag @andreashaag.bsky.social · May 1
Interested in fighting AMR? Come and join us at St Andrews. applications are open until 15th May to students worldwide!
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Andreas Haag @andreashaag.bsky.social · Mar 31
🚨 PhD opportunity in my lab with @mfwhite2.bsky.social!
Use bacterial viruses (phages) to take on antibiotic-resistant superbugs 🦠🧫
Join us at St Andrews to explore virus–bacteria battles.
🔬 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #AntibioticResistance
Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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hobbslabmicro.bsky.social @hobbslabmicro.bsky.social · Apr 30
📣 The Journal of Medical Microbiology is looking for Editors for the Antimicrobial Resistance section! No prior editor experience required, so it's a great first gig for an ECR. And you get subsidised attendance at the annual meeting. Open to applicants worldwide 🌍 @microbiologysociety.org
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micamer.bsky.social @micamer.bsky.social · Mar 11
We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com

Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable
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Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social · Mar 31
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A funded PhD studentship is available for a joint project between my lab and @andreashaag.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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Tatiana Dimitriu @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social · Mar 31
Preprint below has been a long time coming, here just in time for #microbio25 ! (if the train wifi lets me)
With @andrewmatthews.bsky.social
#MicroSky
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Mar 31
Stealth plasmids: rapid evolution of deleted plasmids can displace antibiotic resistance plasmids under selection for horizontal transmission. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.30.646151v1
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José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social · Mar 27
If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! rdcu.be/efkvG
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Penadés et al. explore the genetics, potential origins and life cycle of phage satellites, and they discuss the impact of these elements on the...
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Andreas Haag @andreashaag.bsky.social · Mar 31
🚨 PhD opportunity in my lab with @mfwhite2.bsky.social!
Use bacterial viruses (phages) to take on antibiotic-resistant superbugs 🦠🧫
Join us at St Andrews to explore virus–bacteria battles.
🔬 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #AntibioticResistance
Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Harnessing Bacterial Viruses to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social · Feb 12
New mechanism of gene transfer! With @tcostalab.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, we discovered that cf-PICIs form tail-less elements that, once released, spread among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. More exciting news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE
Chimeric infective particles expand species boundaries in phage inducible chromosomal island mobilization
Some mobile genetic elements spread among unrelated bacterial species through unknown mechanisms. Recently, we discovered that identical capsid-forming phage-inducible chromosomal islands (cf-PICIs), ...
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José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social · Feb 20
With @CostaT_Lab, we challenged AI co-scientist to generate scientific hypotheses. It correctly predicted how cf-PICIs spread between bacterial species, matching our unpublished, experimentally confirmed mechanism! 🤯 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
AI mirrors experimental science to uncover a novel mechanism of gene transfer crucial to bacterial evolution
AI models have been proposed for hypothesis generation, but testing their ability to drive high-impact research is challenging, since an AI-generated hypothesis can take decades to validate. Here, we ...
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Tiago Costa @tcostalab.bsky.social · Feb 20
With @jrpenades.bsky.social, we challenged Google AI co-scientist to generate hypotheses. In just 2 days, it recapitulated our unpublished, experimentally confirmed mechanism for how cf-PICIs spread between bacterial species! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
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AI mirrors experimental science to uncover a novel mechanism of gene transfer crucial to bacterial evolution
AI models have been proposed for hypothesis generation, but testing their ability to drive high-impact research is challenging, since an AI-generated hypothesis can take decades to validate. Here, we ...
tinyurl.com
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