Are you interested a fully funded PhD? We would like to understand the role phages play in well- and poorly-performing broiler flocks using AI!
Learn more here: sustain-cdt.ai/advertised-p...
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This UKRI AI CDT SUSTAIN project and will be supervised by Dr Didier Devaurs and Dr Leighton Pritchard (Strathclyde), Dr Victoria Smyth (AFBI), and me.
You will learn a lot about #AI, machine learning, bioinformatics, microbiology, food production, animal health, and #phage!

Are you interested a fully funded PhD? We would like to understand the role phages play in well- and poorly-performing broiler flocks using AI!
Learn more here: sustain-cdt.ai/advertised-p...
Apply by Friday, 17 October @ 12:00:

Very interesting - but I can't seem to find the upper size limit of the payload that can be delivered this way in the paper

🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages”

Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide.

👇 Read on for details!
#Phage

I really enjoyed working on this piece about #AI in #microbiology research with @thomacillin.bsky.social We are exploring how the data and the user affect the performance of AI, discuss reasoning, and outline 5 key principles of working with AI.

#MicroSky

First official guidance on the development and use of #phage therapies in the UK has been published by MHRA!

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Massive congratulations to Darvel’s 2nd most famous microbiologist🦠🔬Ross Duncan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for passing his viva yesterday! Thanks to @tcoenye.bsky.social and Dr Deirdre Gilpin for conducting the viva, and @timskvortsov.bsky.social for chairing. Very proud supervisor #biofilms #coldplasma #pharmacyQUB

Thanks to #AI enhanced TEM, we can now see previously missed details of #phage morphology

Extremely proud of Akash Shambharkar, who successfully defended his PhD thesis investigating #phage based approaches against CAUTIs! It was a pleasure supervising Akash with Brendan Gilmore.
Many thanks to Brian Jones and Matthew Wylie for examining, and to Sheiliza Carmali for chairing the viva!

offers a world-leading research environment and abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in a supportive and welcoming community. Further information about the scheme can be found on Queen's University website.
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/our...

#MCSA

I am looking for a post-doctoral researcher to develop a joint application for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 2025, focusing on #phage biology and bioinformatics.
If interested, please send me your CV and a brief outline of your research project at your earliest opportunity.

Delighted to represent our lab together with our PhD student Shauna at the NI Science Festival 2025 (@niscifest.bsky.social) and to talk about the exciting bacteriophage research we are conducting at the QUB School of Pharmacy (@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social !

#NISF25 #phage

It's Phriday! Huge thanks to our student Maria for the #phage cake - it was as delicious as it was cool looking!

Finally, our work underscores the importance of integrating genomic data with public health measures to better prepare for future pandemics.

#SARSCoV2 #Ireland #NorthernIreland #COVID19 #SARS

Our study:
🔬 Demonstrates the critical role of whole genome sequencing (WGS) in identifying introduction events
🌍 Explores the influence of population density, deprivation, and policy on transmission
📊 Provides aa scalable framework for tracking infectious diseases globally

Key findings:
🔷 England accounted for 57% of introductions
🔷 Introduction rates for variants were comparable, except Delta, which was higher in NI
🔷 Over 60% of introductions resulted in detection of only a single descendant

Happy to announce that our study on the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the island of Ireland has now been published in Genome Medicine!

Using phylogenetics and geospatiotemporal analysis, we traced 4,439 #SARS-CoV-2 introductions to Ireland (2020–2022).

If you are interested in prophages, we have a new database: Prophage-DB. Check it out and all feedback is welcome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...