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Its great to see registrations and abstracts for the 3rd VoM-UK meeting in Newcastle, Jan 23rd and 24th, 2025. Please get those registrations and abstracts in early! The aim is to have as many PhD students, PDRA and Fellows talking as possible! ISVM Northumbria Uni

We have a fascinating preprint just out, revealing the widespread packaging of bacterial genomic DNA into capsids in the human gut:bit.ly/3B2ajza. Major denizens of the #microbiome implicated with broad potential impact on bacterial evolution and horizontal gene transfer

Update on abstract submission for VoM-UK 2025. We have extended the deadline for registration and submission of abstracts until the 10th of Jan 2025 as people are still actively applying ISVM Registration link: tinyurl.com/49cs2pzm

The Phage genomics workshop on 22nd Jan that precedes #VoM_UK_2025 is now closed for applications. VoM-UK. We look forward to meeting those attending in Jan.

New year ... new lot of genome. With Ryan Cook updated what we can find in Genbank millardlab.org/phage-genome-j… With entire set annotated with PHROGs millardlab-inphared.s3.climb.ac.uk/GenomesDB_Jan2…

We are all set! Tomorrow sees the start of the 4th Viruses of Microbes-UK #VoMUK_2025 meeting at Northumbria Uni. We welcome >125 delegates to the Toon and look forward to 2 days of talks, posters and discussion.

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with Freya Harrison. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

Anti-phage systems never cease to amaze – check out our new findings on Kiwa🦠🛡️! A short 🧵1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Christian Harrison, winner 🏅 of the best early-career poster VoM-UK! Applied Microbiology International is delighted to sponsor this prize. It was great to see so many excellent posters and presentations from #EarlyCareerResearchers #VoMUK_2025

Introducing our latest preprint which discovered Clostridium sp. grow on HMOs. Using computational and experimental approaches we show this has beneficial consequences for the developing microbiome and the host. But there is nuance. A 🧵... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am happy to tell that our collaborative review article on #PhageTherapy has been just published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers rdcu.be/d9H92

Fantastic opportunity!

My team NU-OMICS are looking for a scientific officer initially until end of Nov 25. Experience of DNA sequencing PacBio Illumina, Oxford Nanopore or molecular biology advantageous. Great experience to come and work in a busy externally facing genomics service tinyurl.com/37vew5ez

We have extended the deadline for this! If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions, check this out and join us!

Exciting news! We're back for the 6th edition of our Hands-on-Phage course, including access to the Advanced Phage Therapy Symposium (June 16-17). Spots are limited to 24 participants—register now! ceb.uminho.pt/bbig/HOP2025/H…

A fully funded, competitive BBSRC PhD studentship (North East England DLA) available, working in collaboration with Christopher Stewart , Andrew Nelson and Saadlee Shehreen, PhD. Aims are modulating bacterial community structure/function using engineered bacteriophages. tinyurl.com/5csa9hun

Really cool #phage #PhD opportunity with an excellent bunch of people

A fully funded PhD project under my supervision Darren Smith DR Caroline Orr and Dr Jamie Bojko on investigating how industrial pollutants shape microbial communities and their defence systems. findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

.Northumbria Uni is hiring a #PhD student, to study engineering #phages to reprogram bacterial communities in preterm infant gut models. The project aims to control microbial populations and functions. buff.ly/I8D7bw4

I am delighted to have been given an opportunity to talk about my PhD project in Pseudomonas prophages at Microbiology Society in sunny Liverpool. Ps. We also met The Beatles !!! 🪲☀️#MicroSoc2025 #Smith_Lab Darren Smith