Stanley Ho

He/Him
Postdoc @HKU Microbiology. I do lots of viral genomics and metagenomics.
I also run @Contamclub!

[Stanley Ho @StanleyHoBio]

Super happy to see this finally get published! Its been quite a journey and I'm proud of what we managed to do.

Feel free to contact me if you wanna chat about it! Typical that this comes out the day after #microsoc23💀

[Stanley Ho @StanleyHoBio]

Delighted to share our new paper on surveillance and subtyping of rat hepatitis e virus. We've created a handy web app that will automatically create a phylogeny and classify your sequences. We hope this will allow for better comparability between studies: https://t.co/fmfNld9soO

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨

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

Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/vZgaOPjKWo

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[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2025 🗓️🚨‼️

The ContamCalendar is back for another year! It’s a great one and we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄

Get yours here ➡️ https://t.co/OdL6DX4gU9 ⬅️

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

Look out for an exciting announcement later this week... #ContamCalendar #Noodlosockus 📆🧦🦠🧫🍄

[Stanley Ho @StanleyHoBio]

@AdrianoAguzzi Send them manipulated histologies and then inform @MicrobiomDigest after it's publication (this might be ethically problematic) 😂

[BBC Scotland News @BBCScotlandNews]

BREAKING: Humza Yousaf to resign as Scotland's first minister
https://t.co/R2DTj7xk9j

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

If you're at #MicroBio24, come and visit posters B080 and B090 during the poster sessions, we've got some Contam Calendars and stickers to give out! 🦠

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

🚨 CONTAM CALENDAR 2024 🚨

AVAILABLE NOW ➡️ https://t.co/OdL6DX4gU9 ⬅️

First 20 orders will get a ContamClub sticker!!!

We hope you love this year's ContamCalendar showcasing some of our favourite submissions from the ContamClub community 📆🦠🍄🧫 Keep contaminating! ❤️

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

Introducing the ContamCalendar 2024 📆🦠🧫🍄 on sale tomorrow! Loved putting this together, can't wait for you guys to get your hands on this

💥 Retweet, like, and follow @ContamClub for your chance to win one 💥

[Stanley Ho @StanleyHoBio]

@LillyCummins_ Ayy letttttts goooo. Congrats 👏👏

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

On this day in 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday and started sorting through some petri dishes containing Staphylococcus that he had left on his bench whilst away. 🏖️🧫

One of the plates caught his eye, and made for the ultimate ContamClub submission:

[Darren Smith @DarrenSmithdx]

We are recruiting a senior PDRA to the group working with phages until end of Sep 2026. Will be looking both at phage control in both clinical infection /environmental intervention, modulating microbial communities.
Link: https://t.co/g6obw5MkAS
Please email for further details.

[Michael Baym @baym]

<chefs kiss>
https://t.co/exbvGWcCh9

[Hannah Brown 🧂🦠🔬 @hannjbrown]

Okay @ContamClub help me out here! The people need to know!

What this weird floppy 3D fungal thing is that we picked up from swabbing @triplej mobile phones? On Mueller Hinton agar.

[Laura Hollis @_laurahollis]

Do you think my plate is contaminated @ContamClub 🤔

[Microbiome @MicrobiomeJ]

Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data https://t.co/4vPfbtR7P4

[Stanley Ho @StanleyHoBio]

Also want to shout out @MikeyJ for originally suggesting the idea behind this study during my progress review 🔥

[Stanley Ho @StanleyHoBio]

Super happy to see this finally get published! Its been quite a journey and I'm proud of what we managed to do.

Feel free to contact me if you wanna chat about it! Typical that this comes out the day after #microsoc23💀

[Elena Buelow @ElenaBuelow]

Interesting study lead by @StanleyHoBio and @WvSchaik https://t.co/x9bynOOVaA