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Sam Lipworth @samlipworth.bsky.social · 8h

We have a fully funded PhD studentship available @modmedmicro.bsky.social in Oxford to work on a really cool project looking at population heterogeneity in bloodstream infections www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/study/dphil-... Please spread the word/get in touch if you'd like to chat.

DPhil project themes

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Will Matlock @wtmatlock.bsky.social · 8d

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With Gillian Rodger, @nstoesser.bsky.social, @samlipworth.bsky.social, @stat-sarah.bsky.social, and many others!

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Dorottya Nagy @dotnagy.bsky.social · 8d

🧪 ♻️ Want to make lab and computational research more sustainable? Check out our Oxford Climate Society blog post:
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Shout out to Green Team colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social for helping! #LEAFAward #GreenDiSC #GreenImpact #SustainableScience

Photo of the Modernising Medical Microbiology Green Team wearing protective clothing, helmets, and safety goggles at the Ardley Energy Recovery Centre during their field trip to see first hand how Oxfordshire waste is burned, instead of ending up in landfill, to generate electricity.

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · 8d

From Pipettes to Pipelines: Greening a Multidisciplinary Research Lab.

@dotnagy.bsky.social writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the #sustainability agenda.

#GreenLab #SustainableScience

From Pipettes to Pipelines — Oxford Climate Society

Dorottya Nagy writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) Unit research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the sustainability agenda.

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Sam Lipworth @samlipworth.bsky.social · 20d

Great new work from #DotNagy @modmedmicro.bsky.social - she tool 96 clinical isolates from the NEKSUS study and sequenced with both Illumina and Nanopore - question was, can we do away with hybrid sequencing for the rest of the study?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nanopore long-read only genome assembly of clinical Enterobacterales isolates is complete and accurate

Whole bacterial genome sequence reconstruction using Oxford Nanopore Technologies ('Nanopore') long-read only sequencing may offer a lower-cost, higher-throughput alternative for pathogen surveillance...

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Dorottya Nagy @dotnagy.bsky.social · 13d

Pleased to see this pre-printed, highlighting the completeness/accuracy of @nanoporetech.com long-read genome assembly for clinical Enterobacterales: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks to colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social, @ukhsa.bsky.social, @genewiz.bsky.social and @oxfordbrc.bsky.social!

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Sam Lipworth @samlipworth.bsky.social · 15d

Come and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU.

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nstoesser.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great new opportunity to work with #Liamshaw and @mutantbug.bsky.social as part of our HPRU collaboration (www.expmedndm.ox.ac.uk/research/hpr...) - sinks, phages, wastewater genomes, novel threat detection bit.ly/45Wcv6I - deadline 14th Sept 👀

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Aug 28

Updated blog link -> bashthebug.net/2025/08/28/l...

#Microbiology #Microbiome #HealthyAging #GutHealth #StudentResearch

Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate project

My name is Akika Altman-Chandler, and I just graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Human Sciences. For my undergraduate dissertation, I worked with Teresa Street at the Modernisi…

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Aug 22

'Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate project'.

Akika investigated how the gut microbiome influences longevity, with fieldwork in Nagano, Japan—home to the country’s longest-living population.

Read the blog post here ➡️
bashthebug.net/2025/08/22/l...

Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate project

My name is Akika Altman-Chandler, and I just graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Human Sciences. For my undergraduate dissertation, I worked with Teresa Street at the Modernisi…

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nstoesser.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social · Jul 26

More evidence to support best practice "water-safe" care in healthcare facilities is urgently needed. If you're interested please tap into the @hisinfection.bsky.social Wastewater and AMR Special Interest Collaborative (SPARC) - see you there!

Wastewater and AMR Special Interest Collaborative (SPARC)

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nstoesser.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social · Jul 26

More discussion about the JHI study with @emrsa15.bsky.social in the Infection Control Matters podcast series infectioncontrolmatters.com/2025/04/02/t...

The Sinkbug Survey: Antibiotics, AMR, Chemicals and Plumbing

In this episode of Infection Control Matters, Martin Kiernan speaks with Dr. Nicole Stoesser about a large-scale, multi-centre study exploring the role of hospital sink infrastructure in antimicrob…

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nstoesser.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social · Jul 26

This builds on the SinkBug group's earlier work in @thejhi.bsky.social www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019... where we showed that sink infrastructure in hospitals was common, highly varied, and that antibiotics were detected in a third of sink-traps.

Survey of healthcare-associated sink infrastructure, and sink trap antibiotic residues and biochemistry, in twenty-nine UK hospitals

Hospital sinks are linked to healthcare-associated infections. Antibiotics and chemicals in sink traps can select for pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Optimizing sink design and usage can...

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nstoesser.bsky.social @nstoesser.bsky.social · Jul 26

New analysis from Kevin Chau @modmedmicro.bsky.social for the SinkBug Consortium (a collaboration with teams across 29 UK hospitals, NITCAR, UKHSA): Pathogen and AMR gene burden in 287 hospital sink-trap metagenomes and factors associated with high burdens.

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jul 25

The hospital Sink-ome: Pathogen and antimicrobial resistance gene burden in sink-traps across 29 UK hospitals and associations with sink characteristics https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.25332191v1

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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training @eventswcs.bsky.social · Jul 22

Participate at our global conference on Antimicrobial Resistance🧬

🗓️ 23-25 March 2026 #AMR2026

Join a community at the vanguard of #AMR genomics, to explore how big data and innovative technologies are driving solutions to tackle this health crisis.

📎Abstracts welcome: bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky

Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference
Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies
Conference dates: 23–25 March 2026
Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK and online

Bursary deadline: 01 December 2025
Abstract deadline: 15 December 2025
Registration deadlines: In person: 24 February 2026 | Virtual: 17 March 2026

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Jul 7

Bit over 24 hours left to apply for these two posts to help us develop pipelines to process pathogens..!

Senior Bioinformatic Engineer
bit.ly/4ecl0hF

Senior Biostatistical Researcher
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Grade 8 or 7, depending on experience
closing date: noon Tues 8 July

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Philip Fowler @philipwfowler.bsky.social · Jul 3

Job advert to come and work with me on tuberculosis closes tomorrow (Friday) at noon!

Part of #OxCOD4TB

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@ndm.ox.ac.uk @modmedmicro.bsky.social
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Jul 1

Come and work with us!

Senior Biostatistical Researcher bit.ly/4kRfZxI
Senior Bioinformatic Engineer bit.ly/4ecl0hF
both Grade 8 or 7, closing noon Tue 8 Jul

Computational Mycobacteriologist
Grade 7, closing noon Fri 4 Jul bit.ly/4ndKOhF

@medsci.ox.ac.uk
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social
@ndm.ox.ac.uk

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Jun 27

Three posts all closing next week!

Senior Biostatistical Researcher bit.ly/4kRfZxI
Senior Bioinformatic Engineer bit.ly/4ecl0hF
both Grade 8 or 7, closing noon Wed 2 Jul

Computational Mycobacteriologist
Grade 7, closing noon Fri 4 Jul bit.ly/4ndKOhF

@medsci.ox.ac.uk

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Philip Fowler @philipwfowler.bsky.social · Jun 25

Come and work with me and use the 53,897 samples of M. tuberculosis we have collated to help tackle this important disease!

We are part of the OxCoD4TB consortium that is developing new therapeutics for tuberculosis.

Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July

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fowlerlab.org @fowlerlab.org · Jun 23

@vbrunner.bsky.social doing her pitch for her poster at #ESMyco!

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Jun 23

Just like buses, here is a third role we are advertising for!

Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis.

Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Jun 23

Come and help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens in collaboration with
@eitoxford.bsky.social

Senior Bioinformatic Engineer
bit.ly/4ecl0hF

Senior Biostatistical Researcher
bit.ly/4kRfZxI

Grade 8 or 7, depending on experience
closing date: noon Wednesday 2 July

Job Details

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · Jun 19

Come and help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens in collaboration with
@eitoxford.bsky.social

Senior Bioinformatic Engineer
bit.ly/4ecl0hF

Senior Biostatistical Researcher
bit.ly/4kRfZxI

Grade 8 or 7, depending on experience
closing date: noon Wednesday 2 July

Job Details

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Bash the bug @bashthebug.net · May 29

Come and find @modmedmicro.bsky.social at the Westgate in Oxford as part of the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social showcase!

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