Nicholas Thomson and I v proud to see this herculean labour of love by Grace Blackwell published in PLOS Biology ! A hugely valuable dataset for studying bacterial evolution and for public health. Great leadership from Grace, and teamwork from @martibartfast Kerri Malone Gal Horesh.

In our functional annotation update (doi.org/10.1128/mSyste…) we focus on 1,725 genes in the virulent M. tuberculosis type strain H37Rv reference genome that were underannotated on Mycobrowser/TubercuList. We considered genes underannotated if they met any of 4 criteria: (1/7)

Working on #bacteria🦠? We’ve got a new dataset for you! Over 660,000 bacterial genomes, assembled from data available in European Nucleotide Archive (ENA). Zamin Iqbal Grace Blackwell Kerri Malone @martibartfast did the work so you don’t have to. ebi.ac.uk/about/news/pre…

🗣European Antibiotics Awareness Day #EAAD We cannot get to the point where #Antibiotics no longer work to treat or prevent infections Our One Health plan together with #EUPharmaStrategy & #EUFarm2Fork will help counter this heath threat Learn more with our #EUDataCrunch⬇

Huge congratulations to the ever awesome Alice Brankin! No better woman. Virtually meeting and working closely with Alice was the best thing to come out of my pandemic experience.👏🏻

Feeling well but I have a confirmation mass, family dinner and a rugby match coming up. Going to the gym too. 3 of these 4 activities are currently high-risk profile activities so I’m #antigen testing twice this week. What are you planning this weekend? #COVID19

New paper led by @mbhall88 and collaborators! Evaluating Oxford Nanopore as a replacement/complement for Illumina for TB: drug resistance and clustering. Spoiler: you can get equivalent clustering and identical resistant predictions (with 30x depth). 1/n medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Huge congratulations Suchita Nadkarni, it was a pleasure to be involved in such a fantastic study!

The Department is deeply saddened by the news of the passing of our beloved colleague Professor Justin Mason. We extend our deepest sympathies to his family and friends at this time.

Great to present our data on treatment cessation in Takayasu Arteritis at #ACR2022, thank you to National Institute for Health and Care Research, Hispana Leadership foundation patients and co-authors. Imperial Vasculitis Centre

When is it suitable to stop long-term treatment of Takayasu autoimmune vasculitis? Robert Maughan & colleagues at NHLI outline the importance of stratifying patients in this cohort & the factors to consider when deciding if it is safe to stop treatment. #Takayasu #autoimmune

New preprint from Leah Roberts ! Leah looked into bedaquiline (BDQ) resistance in Mtb in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and then more widely in S Africa. In brief, she found repeated evolution of resistance by disruption (FS, nonsense, IS-element!) of mmpR5 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Absolutely thrilled to share my 1st senior author paper in Circulation ! ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…. A massive thank you to my amazing group and co-authors @neildufton Kerri Malone Robert Maughan Silvia Fanti William Harvey Research Institute & British Heart Foundation for funding #placenta #heart 🥳

Delighted to have been involved in this collaborative work, congrats Jason Tarkin and team. Imperial Vasculitis Centre NHLI #VasculitisResearch

Three years ago there had been no female president of an Irish university. Today, with the appointment of Orla Feely as University College Dublin president, 7 presidents of our 13 universities are female

Proud to release this preprint with Zamin Iqbal, and my last contribution as a PhD EMBL-EBI: a story of gene conversion and allelic dimorphism in the malaria parasite P. falciparum (Pf). biorxiv.org/content/10.110… [1/19]

So proud - great collaborative work on urgently needed data on bedaquiline/clofazimine resistance mechanisms published CRyPTIC FZ Borstel TransEvo PMI DZIF (inaktiv) TB Genomics TBnet @_K_E_C thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Today we celebrate the beginning of #WorldImmunisationWeek by acknowledging the power of #vaccines in saving millions of lives. Let's continue to promote and prioritize immunisation for a healthier and safer future for all 🌍

Are you interested in working in immunology research as part of an amazing team? Apply today!: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…

Interested in a career at the intersection of data science, biology and medicine 📈🤓? Peters Lab have an exciting opportunity for an UKRI funded PhD studentship: ⬇️ findaphd.com/phds/project/i…