Rob Moran

Research Fellow at University of Birmingham. I like plasmids. Co-founder of @ContamClub

[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]

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 🧫✨

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

@ZaminIqbal Thanks Zam!

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

Out latest preprint describes a plasmid lineage we've been tracking in Birmingham's QE Hospital - short 🧵👇

https://t.co/ERhXj57ebb

@alanmcn1

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

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...

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

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

[Rebecca J Hall @DrRebeccaJHall]

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

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

I'll have some limited @ContamClub merch on hand too!

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

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!

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

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!

[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! 🦠

[Rob Moran @pRobM91]

If you're plasmid inclined, don't miss this!

[Rebecca J Hall @DrRebeccaJHall]

I’m talking about metabolism and MDR at 14:45 today, come along if you’re at a loose end! #microbio24

[Rebecca J Hall @DrRebeccaJHall]

Izzie is an amazing PhD student in the McNally lab, definitely recommend going to see her!

[Rebecca J Hall @DrRebeccaJHall]

Ryan is an excellent presenter and he’s working on some really cool things, definitely recommend checking out his poster!

[Freya Allen @freyaallen__]

I’ll be presenting my poster today on in vitro evolution of Enterococcus at #Microbio24 come along to poster B055 if you want to find out more!

[Rebecca J Hall @DrRebeccaJHall]

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

[Mark Holmes @markaholmes]

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

[Dr Lizzy Darby @lizzy_darby]

🔔New Pre-print🔔

TL;DR: The opportunistic pathogen A. lwoffii is more constrained in acquiring & developing antibiotic resistance 🦠

@JessicaMABlair @pRobM91 @friendlymicrobe @babs_clough @roscobacterium @FrickelLab @ma_webber

https://t.co/yypSlkmS5N

[Contamination Club @ContamClub]

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.... 📆🫀🩺🦠