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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s published version of our manuscript using GWAS to investigate tailocin sensitivity in Pseudomonas syringae. TL:DR pretty clear LPS is tailocin receptor but also that P.syringae often completely swaps out its entire O antigen biosynth pathway w/ recombination

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Genomic correlates of tailocin sensitivity in Pseudomonas syringae

Abstract. Phage-derived bacteriocins, also referred to as tailocins, are structures encoded by bacterial genomes and deployed into the extracellular enviro

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Kaitlin Schaal @evokait.bsky.social · Sep 3

New preprint with my HFSP collaborators. Network structures for bacterial and plasmid interactions determine community structure and evolvability: doi.org/10.32942/X21...

The interplay between ecological networks drives host-plasmid community dynamics

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Jul 31

😆 Indeed! Now just wait till we publish our research on the effects of ketchup residues on drain trap mobile genetic element transmission (aka sauce-sink-source-sink plasmid transfer dynamics)

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Jul 31

It was great fun writing this review with @gemccallum.bsky.social , even if our conclusions are rather scary. Lots of important pathogen evolution must be occurring outside of the infection context...

Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · Jul 30

Delighted to have this review out with @jpjhall.bsky.social!

We discuss the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome, highlight studies providing evidence of transfer, and consider strategies to mitigate these risks 🪠🦠

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

The hospital sink drain microbiome as a melting pot for AMR transmission to nosocomial pathogens - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - The hospital sink drain microbiome as a melting pot for AMR transmission to nosocomial pathogens

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨 Reminder! You have just over two weeks to submit an abstract, if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org meeting "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" in Liverpool in November! #microsky 🦠🧫🔬

Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · May 2

‼️Update! Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Liverpool UK @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics”! Deadline July 7th #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

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Greg Hurst @greghurst.bsky.social · May 12

New preprint ex @bolinabug.bsky.social (+ @daisukekageyama.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social) on the pronounced secondary expansion of Spiroplasma and Rickettsia genomes in lacewings doi.org/10.1101/2025... #symbiosky 1/2

Concerted genome expansion of heritable symbionts in an insect host

Maternally transmitted symbionts represent important components of arthropod biology, acting as both beneficial partners and as reproductive parasites. Their strict vertical transmission greatly reduc...

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Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · Jun 6

Happy to finally have this out! It has been a fun side-project that we’ve been slowly working on for a while 🍜

I think it has turned out as a nice story, and demonstrates some important issues with historic taxonomic classifications in genome databases. All from investigating a contaminant! ⤵️

Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨

The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠

Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨

The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠

Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · May 21

It’s worth zooming in on the picture of the thesis hat — there is some incredible detail!

Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · May 21

Congratulations to Vicki for successfully defending her thesis yesterday!

Vicki Orr @vickiorr.bsky.social · May 21

PhD viva passed!!! 🥳 🍻 Thank you to Liam Shaw and Stephen Cornell for assessing and for a very enjoyable discussion! Thank you to @jpjhall.bsky.social, Ellie Harrison and Calvin Dytham for being an amazing supervisory team throughout my PhD 😁

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Vicki Orr @vickiorr.bsky.social · May 21

PhD viva passed!!! 🥳 🍻 Thank you to Liam Shaw and Stephen Cornell for assessing and for a very enjoyable discussion! Thank you to @jpjhall.bsky.social, Ellie Harrison and Calvin Dytham for being an amazing supervisory team throughout my PhD 😁

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Jose A Escudero @jaescudero.bsky.social · May 8

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Finally out after peer review, our work showing that "Mobile #Integrons carry Phage Defense Systems" is now published in Science 🎉

Short 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mobile integrons encode phage defense systems

Integrons are bacterial genetic elements that capture, stockpile, and modulate the expression of genes encoded in integron cassettes. Mobile integrons (MIs) are borne on plasmids, acting as a vehicle ...

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Alvaro San Millan @sanmillan.bsky.social · May 14

Our updated lab website is live!
We’ve kicked off a new project and a new look with it.

Take a look and let us know what you think! 👉 plasmidlab.es

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · May 15

You're quite right, that link no longer seems to be working. Try this one, or navigate Events --> Society Events and Meetings microbiologysociety.org/event/societ....

Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · May 2

‼️Update! Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Liverpool UK @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics”! Deadline July 7th #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

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Manuel Ares-Arroyo @aresarroyom.bsky.social · Apr 4

Do restriction-modification systems shape plasmid sequence composition? A group of plasmid-aficionados, led by Liam Shaw, started to explore this during the 2023 @embo.org Workshop on Plasmids in Trieste. Happy to have contributed to this work and be part of such a great team!

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Apr 4

The leading region of many conjugative plasmids is depleted in restriction-modification targets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647016v1

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · Apr 4

Every time I have a conversation about AI in a journal publishing context and I mention indirect prompt injection, I'm met with blank expressions. People really need to read up on this.

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Indirect Prompt Injection: Generative AI’s Greatest Security Flaw

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Apr 5

Congratulations Modupeh!! 🥳🙌🏻

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Mar 31

Prize Medal 2025 winner, Professor Richard Lenski, presents their lecture on "Dynamics and Repeatability in a Long-Term Experiment with Bacteria" at #Microbio25. It begins at 18:30 BST. Read more about their work: microb.io/PrizeWinner2...

Meet the Prize Medal 2025 Winner, Professor Richard Lenski

25 March 2025

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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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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Apr 5

Congratulations, Louise! 🎉

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Apr 4

Thanks again for making Annual Conference 2025 such a success! Want to join us in 2026? Submit an article to our journals by June 30th for a chance to win your registration, whilst supporting us as a not-for-profit. Find out more here: microb.io/3o6DvhI

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Apr 5

Vicki is handing in her thesis very soon and currently on the lookout for postdoc opportunities — get in touch with her if you have any leads!

Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Apr 5

Congratulations to lab member @vickiorr.bsky.social for her #Microbio25 prize-winning poster on the evolutionary ecology of transposon-plasmid interactions! ✨💫🎉

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Apr 4

Congratulations to the Poster Prize Winners at #Microbio25 Poster Block B:

- JMM poster prize winner: Jessica Lester
- JMM poster prize winner: Sami-Jo Terry
- JGV poster prize winner: Kelly Roper
- Mic prize: Victoria Orr, University of Liverpool @vickiorr.bsky.social

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Apr 2

To all enjoying #MicroBio25 remember: all @microbiologysociety.org events rely on our journals - every paper pays 4x travel grants!

Make 2025 when you submit a paper to a MicroSoc journal www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Microbiology Society

Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...

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