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Gavin Thomas (he/him)
@gavinhthomas.bsky.social
Microbiologist @UniofYork. Former EiC of @MicrobioSoc
#MicrobioJ. Transporters, Staph, BO & skin microbiome. CSO
@morfdb.bsky.social York Knavesmire Harrier & EBOR orienteer.
Deadline 7th Jan. See researches pages of
@GavinHThomas
(thomaslabyork.weebly.com), Emily Flack (york.ac.uk/biology/peop...) & Martin Fascione (fascionelab.com)
Thomas Lab @ York
Gavin Thomas lab in York
thomaslabyork.weebly.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Can't beat the weather in York....#notjealous
December 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Interestingly, some of the Staphylococcus epidermidis that we found in people's underarms do make their own biotin, unlike most of the other axilla Staphs.
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
High-resolution Staphylococcus profiling reveals intra-species diversity in a single skin niche
The skin microbiome is dominated by a few key genera, among which Staphylococcus is one of the most well characterized. Recent studies have examined the roles of various Staphylococcus species such as...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Delighted that @morfdb.bsky.social will be helping with data sharing and developing new web-based tools for data analysis in this project :-)
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Contrast this with the response of a president who was an actual decent human being.
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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1. Characterising the role of the dual-function VanT in C. difficile vancomycin resistance.
A collaboration between our group in @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social and the groups of @gavinhthomas.bsky.social and Marjan van der Woude at the University of York

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
and Staphylococcus story in this paper....
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

All dependent on friends in @universityofhull.bsky.social Michelle Rudden, Holly Wilkinson and Matt Hardman & co., & Unilever colleagues Barry Murphy, Jo Hunt & Rob Cornmell & Yorkies @seanmeaden.bsky.social
High-resolution Staphylococcus profiling reveals intra-species diversity in a single skin niche
The skin microbiome is dominated by a few key genera, among which Staphylococcus is one of the most well characterized. Recent studies have examined the roles of various Staphylococcus species such as...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'll be writing more about this soon, but Reyme's developed a very cool culturomics workflow to enable us to understand and recreated real microbiomes from the human underarm. Corynebacterium focus in this paper. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Revealing the diversity of commensal corynebacteria from a single human skin site | mSystems
This study uncovers the hidden diversity of Corynebacterium, an important yet often overlooked group of bacteria inhabiting human skin. Focusing on the underarm and using advanced sequencing technique...
journals.asm.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM