*GASP* Who could have seen this one coming😱?

📚Excited to share our new study in Nature Communications! We explored plasmid dispersal across 3467 human gut microbiome samples worldwide.🌎Our findings show neutral plasmid recombination and dispersal, overcome by inflammatory diseases. Join us! (1/14) bit.ly/4cPy6AB

Grateful for the opportunity to present my work at #ECCMID2024 about Vancomycin Variable Enterococcus faecium + Bacteriocins from E. faecium and Enterococcus lactis from clinical and Healthy Humans!

What a pleasure to participate in the APPLE project funded by an ESCMID Study Group Research Grant and leaded by two great friends guido werner Jen Bender !

Tomorrow I will be presenting my work about E. faecalis genetic landscape in Arena 2 at 9:30h. Come check if you are interested in “antimicrobial resistance from phylogenetic drivers to plasmid-mediated resistance”. #ECCMID2024

Great job Ana Santos! Presenting the genomic analysis of hundreds of E. faecalis isolates from Portugal 🇵🇹 @escmid global 2024 #ECCMID2024 #enterococci Anita Schürch Luisa Peixe @Carla_Novais11

And that’s a wrap in #ECCMID2024! Grateful for the opportunity to present my work in collaboration with MMB-BioIT about the genetic landscape of Enterococcus faecalis isolates in Portugal.

Great morning ePoster session on evolutionary aspects of #AMR plasmids at the last day of #ESCMIDGlobal2024 with Ana Santos and others

Incredible talk by George Bouras on plasmid characterisation, breaking down complex concepts into simple terms that even beginners could easily understand! 👏🏻 #ECCMID2024 #ESCMIDGlobal

Grateful for presenting my work about Bacteriocins in III Toxrun International Congress 2024! UCIBIO Cespu_Ensino BacTdrugs - Luísa Peixe lab

WHO bacterial priority pathogens list, 2024: Bacterial pathogens of public health importance to guide research, development and strategies to prevent and control antimicrobial resistance ESCMID who.int/publications/i…

The final version of our short-read polishing manuscript (headed by Ryan Wick of course) is out in Microbiology Society MGen! Tldr: with R10.4.1+Dorado ONT assemblies, few errors remain, so short-read polishing can make assemblies worse at low depth; target >=25x doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

📢Exciting new insights into bacteriocin diversity in enterococci!🦠 We built a bac database and identified key bacteriocins potentially driving hospital adaptation. A promising avenue to combat high-risk clones! 💥 ASM UCIBIO journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

👏So proud of this achievement! Distinct bacteriocin profiles emerged between E. faecium and E. lactis with species-specific adaptations. Hospital E. faecium were enriched in enterocin A, bacteriocins 43 (or T8) and novel ones. We need more strain-level bacteriocin studies!

The human gut can really take it all! Thrilled to share that our paper is finally published!

🙌🏼 So proud of our PhD student Ana Santos for publishing this hard work at the final stage of her thesis. We found a little of everything in a small sample of fecal healthy humans, take a look. More are coming soon!

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is a growing global threat! Our new review in explores its resilience, adaptation, and the urgent need for novel strategies. #AMR #VREfm

Interested in bacterial genomes? Hundreds of thousands, even millions? All annotated, taxonomically classified, integrated with metadata. Easily searchable, viewable, downloadable, in sync with #AllTheBacteria. Then BakRep is for you! Poster P-CM-102 VAAM - Vereinigung f. Allg. u. Ang. Mikrobiologie #VAAM2025

🚨 Heading to ESCMID 2025? Come see our top-rated BacTdrugs - Luísa Peixe lab poster on vancomycin-variable enterococci (VVE)! 🔹 VVE outside hospitals 🔹 Unique vanA transposon 🔹 Linear plasmids with global replicase Let’s connect & collaborate! #ESCMID2025

Yesterday I defended my PhD—4 intense, transformative years. I'm deeply grateful to my supervisors for their guidance, and to my family and friends for their unwavering support.