Congratulations Georgia and Mathew! Two Dunn School PIs were recently awarded ERC starting grants: a big boost for antimicrobial resitant research in the department! Find out more: www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article... (written by Isabella Maudlin)

For weeks (and arguably years) Trump and Trump supporters portrayed Harris as a barely verbal idiot. Then she thrashed him so badly he refused to debate her again. This says something about why diversity efforts matter and why the right opposes them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A cgMLST scheme for H. influenzae www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Development and implementation of a core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for Haemophilus influenzae

Haemophilus influenzae is part of the human nasopharyngeal microbiota and a pathogen causing invasive disease. The extensive genetic diversity observed in H. influenzae necessitates discriminatory ana...

MGen editors picks of the week! A cgMLST scheme for pneumococcus www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Development of the Pneumococcal Genome Library, a core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme, and a taxonomic life identification number barcoding system to investigate and define pneumococcal popu...

Investigating the genomic epidemiology of major bacterial pathogens is integral to understanding transmission, evolution, colonization, disease, antimicrobial resistance and vaccine impact. Furthermor...

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 We reveal that blaTEM-1 expression varies across the E. coli phylogeny, driving differences in co-amoxiclav resistance: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

E. coli phylogeny drives co-amoxiclav resistance through variable expression of blaTEM-1

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The best day celebrating the end of an era at Birmingham!

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Yesterday was a great day with Matt and Lilly graduating from their PhDs

Submitters can choose an embargo length (default up to 24 months), after which isolates will be published automatically. Further details and release notes at github.com/kjolley/BIGS....

Release Version 1.47.0 · kjolley/BIGSdb

Version 1.47.0 introduces an embargo system for isolate submissions. This can be enabled in the bigsdb.conf file: ###ISOLATE EMBARGOES######## #Set to enable isolate embargoes and limit the time al...

BIGSdb v1.47.0 has been released and is now live on @PubMLST. This introduces an embargo system for isolate submissions. If enabled, submitters will now see an option to request an embargo when they submit isolates.

Our 2018 paper describing PubMLST, the BIGSdb platform, and their applications has just reached 2000 citations on Google Scholar. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Open-access bacterial population genomics: BIGSdb software, the PubMLST.org website and their applications

The website hosts a collection of open-access, curated databases that integrate population sequence data with provenance and phenotype information for over 100 different microbial species and genera....

After a disastrous 9/11 honeymoon in NYC, we finally made it back a few weeks ago.