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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 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

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Jun 27

I had a brilliant time at #CBNP18 with @microbesng.bsky.social

Thank you @albertilab.bsky.social for inviting us & modelling fungi tattoos to celebrate our FREE fungal DNA extractions

@microkim.bsky.social @pannyinthelab.bsky.social @warwicklifesci.bsky.social
#MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #Fungi

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Jun 20

🪰 Could K.oxytoca Hold the Key to Controlling a Global Pest? Register for #MNGPopUp to find out!

@katiemillar.bsky.social looks at fruit fly microbiomes to unlock new pest control strategies

📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich
🔗 linktr.ee/microbesng

#MicroSky #ECR @norwichmicro.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Jun 17

🐶 How strong is the bond with your dog? Register for #MNGPopUp to find out!

@gabastorga.bsky.social asks if humans & dogs share E. coli
🧬 217 genomes
💊 50% #AMR
💡 Cross-species insights
📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich + Online
🔗 lnkd.in/eYtyHSyi

#MicroSky #ECR @norwichmicro.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Jun 6

We’ve got a little Friday afternoon quiz running, can you guess the microbe?!? 🧐🦠📊

#microsky #WorldFoodSafetyDay

MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Jun 6

Need a Friday afternoon brain break? 🧠

🕵️‍♂️ Play our food poisoning QUIZ in honour of #WorldFoodSafetyDay tomorrow!

👇 Read the clues and place your vote to identify the microbe behind it all! 🦠👀

#MicrobeDetective 🔍 #MicroSky #FridayFun #Microbiology #FoodMicrobiology

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨 We are HIRING 🚨

If you are looking for a technical post and have microbiology or molecular biology (DNA / RNA) lab experience check out our job advert 👀

We are based in Birmingham and it's a great place to work!

Please share 💙

#MicroSky #LabJobs #JobFairy #JoinOurTeam

MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Apr 2

⭐ Join the MicrobesNG Team! ⭐
We're expanding & need a skilled Lab Technician to help us prep & process samples, so if you love microbes + DNA and would like to join our team APPLY today 🦠🧬
👉 apply.workable.com/j/2F45D12845
📍Birmingham 🇬🇧
🔬 Lab Tech Role Available
#ScienceJobsUK #MicroSky

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thanks for the tip!

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Apr 4

Not me spending half the afternoon on their website 🙈

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Apr 4

I wouldn’t shut up until she had created a profile 🙈

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you 😊

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David Sünderhauf @davvi36.bsky.social · Apr 2

I've really enjoyed #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org so far, and this afternoon things are heating up with the bacterial warfare session 🦠⚔️
I'll be giving my own talk at 3.30, looking forward to sharing all this! 😁

Photo of my title slide. "A good defence is a bad offense: CRISPR-Cas in inter-plasmid competition."

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Mar 13

I’m having a great time reading the abstract submissions for this!
Please keep them coming 💙🤩
#MNGPopUp

MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Mar 11

MicrobesNG POPUP is coming to Norwich Research Park!

It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics conference on 3rd July

ECR's submit your abstract for talk or poster by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR

Please repost!

Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social

#MNGPopUp #ECR

A promotional banner for the MicrobesNG Pop-Up event at Norwich Research Park. The banner features an aerial image of a research facility with a pink text box stating, 'We're coming to NORWICH RESEARCH PARK, John Innes Conference Centre.' The event is scheduled for 3rd July 2025, from 9:30 to 16:30. Highlights include 'Cool Science,' 'Friendly Networking,' 'Free Lunch,' and a 'Best Talk/Poster Prize.' A QR code and link (https://linktr.ee/microbesng) are provided for free registration. The event is supported by the Centre for Microbial Interactions, Get Genome, and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL). The design incorporates blue, pink, and white colours with modern graphics and icons

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Mar 5

✨ We’re doing a #GIVEAWAY to celebrate #WorldBookDay &
#InternationalWomensDay 📚👩‍🔬

Win a wonderful #microbiology colouring book by 2 fabulous women @noemiematthey.bsky.social & @drsarahwettstadt.bsky.social 🦠🎨

To enter:
- Follow us
- Like
- Repost this

Winner chosen at random 10/03/25 #MicroSky

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Mar 4

🥞🎉 It’s #PancakeDay! 🎉🥞

This video from @saipancakes is too Flippin’ awesome not to share!
#SciArt, #pancakes and #bacteria, what’s not to love? 🤔 🦠 🥞

#MicroSky #Microbiology

🎥

Bacteria in my PANCAKES

Did I cook up your favorite bacterium? Who's missing? I guess probably a lot are missing since there are many millions of species. saipancakes.com

buff.ly

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Mar 3

🎈🎂🎉 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

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Feb 26

I’m looking forward to hearing from @julianparkhill.bsky.social at #CMINorwich25

#MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Feb 26

Lunch looks fabulous 😋
#CMINorwich25

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Feb 25

Did you get any of the LIMITED edition shiny stickers???

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Feb 19

MicrobesNG POPUP Conference is coming to Norwich! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics conference 3rd Jul

ECR's submit your abstract (talk or poster) by 3rd Apr www.surveymonkey.com/r/POP_UP_NOR

Please repost!

Organised with @getgenome.bsky.social & @norwichmicro.bsky.social

#MNGPopUp #ECR #MicroSky

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Feb 18

Very glad I don't have to stand up in front of any one and pronounce that 😱

Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · Feb 18

Fun fact: did you know that the slime bacterium Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis holds the record for having the longest scientific name of any living or fossil organism?

No joke, this species really exists!

🦠🧫🔬🧐

Longest name — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

www.superbugs.online

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Jan 24

I had no idea you could get bitten by a slug, please tell us more!!!

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Jan 23

Lots of new PhD opportunities in microbial genomics:

🌽 Soil microbiome functions for sustainable agriculture with @szytynska.bsky.social

🦠 Microbial Influences on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phage Susceptibility with @jojofoth.bsky.social

🧬 Phage characterisation with @proffballoux.bsky.social

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Helen McNeil @helenmcneil.bsky.social · Dec 13

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 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

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Dec 10

📢 We’re excited to announce that we will provide genome sequencing to an international project to help combat diarrhoeal disease, which can be deadly.

@ksbakes.bsky.social will be speaking to @evanhd.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 PM TONIGHT about the project! 🧬🦠

#GenomeSequencing #MicrobialGenomics

A graphic with a light blue background featuring a quote from Professor Nick Loman, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of MicrobesNG. The quote reads: 'This project realises the hope I had in setting up MicrobesNG ten years ago; any research team, anywhere in the world could access affordable, high-quality genomic sequencing for their work.' On the right side of the graphic is a portrait of Professor Nick Loman, wearing a grey blazer and blue checkered shirt, smiling slightly, with a patterned background behind him.

A graphic with a light blue background featuring a quote from Professor Kate Baker, Chair in Applied Microbial Genomics at the University of Cambridge and UKHSA. The quote reads: 'Shigella have been a leading cause of diarrheal disease for over a century. This study will allow us to understand genetic changes over time, which is crucial for tracking spread of disease and will help shape vaccination programs. MicrobesNG is an incredible partner for the group and has allowed us to work together across borders.' On the right side of the graphic is a portrait of Professor Kate Baker, wearing glasses and a dark shirt, smiling with an outdoor background

A graphic with a light blue background featuring a quote from Dr Jahangir Hossain, Principal Investigator of the EFGH at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM. The quote reads: 'By sequencing Shigella isolates, we are uncovering vital data that will help to combat this pathogen and directly benefit children in The Gambia, who are most vulnerable to diarrheal diseases. It will also, provide critical insights into antibiotic resistance and local disease patterns.' On the right side of the graphic is a picture of four members of the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) molecular team for The Gambia, standing in a laboratory setting. They are wearing white lab coats and are positioned near laboratory equipment, including a computer with scientific data displayed.

A graphic with a light blue background featuring a quote from PDr. Patricia Pavlinac, University of Washington, Seattle, US, Coordinating Principle Investigator of EFGH. The quote reads: 'The EFGH study represents an important partnership among researchers around the world working together towards a common goal of averting Shigella disease. Equipped with sequencing data from MicrobesNG and training in the analysis and interpretation this sub study is positioned to make a huge impact in our understanding of shigellosis worldwide.' On the right side of the graphic is a picture of Dr. Patricia Pavlinac, smiling with an outdoor background.

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚨 We've joined the fight against Shigella! EFGH's global team of scientists, supported by @gatesfoundation.bsky.social is using our services to gather crucial genomic data that could pave the way for a vaccine to save children’s lives 🌍🧬

#Shigella #MicrobialGenomics

microbesng.com/news/microbe...

Four members of the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) molecular team for The Gambia, standing in a laboratory setting. They are wearing white lab coats and are positioned near laboratory equipment, including a computer with scientific data displayed. @mrcunitgambia

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