‼️🚨🗓️ 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 ⬅️
Happy Noodlococcus Day to all those who celebrate 🍜🦠
On this day in 2019, we discovered this noodle-y colony contaminating an old plate, leading to the creation of ContamClub 🧫✨
This project has been my first using only long-read sequence data (ONT 10.4.1) - it's been great - makes my days of assembling plasmids from short-read data + molecular work seem like a very long time ago...
It's been evolving in the hospital through the actions of smaller MGEs
We've seen IS26-mediated inversions and acquisitions of various IS/transposons, including carriers of heavy metal resistance genes
A new publication from my PDRA with @alanmcn1. Working with our UK-India collaborators, we screened the ability of non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals to cause genetic changes and cross-resistance to antibiotics (spoiler, not so much).
https://t.co/rT1DJq3OcC
Plasmid folk at #microbio24 - I'll be at B090 with a bonus poster showing some very new work, tracking plasmid lineages in a Birmingham hospital with long-read sequencing. Stop by if you'd like to hear more!
Plasmid folk at #microbio24 - I'll be at B090 with a bonus poster showing some very new work, tracking plasmid lineages in a Birmingham hospital with long-read sequencing. Stop by if you'd like to hear more!
Very happy have this out! I’ve been working on a couple of projects since joining @alanmcn1 and this is one of them - looking at the transcriptional response to multidrug resistance plasmids in E. coli.
Thanks @AnnSnaith for the help on this too!
https://t.co/fj8elN8m5s
Excellent work from @DETECTIVE_AMR consortium. Big shout for @IbrahimxBa @pRobM91 and @DrEmmaDoughty and colleagues in China. Also leadership of @alanmcn1 and @WvSchaik https://t.co/h2dBS62DyF
Fun fact about this year's ContamCalendar - it was created entirely from a hospital bed after I spent 7 weeks in hospital following heart surgery.
This surgery was actually partially related to both contamination and the ContamCalendars.... 📆🫀🩺🦠