Our new paper on plasmids and cooperation has been published today in #ProcB Royal Society Publishing! "Genes for cooperation are not more likely to be carried by plasmids." doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… With Dr Laurie Belcher Tom Scott Stuart West. Summary thread below...🧵

This year Genome Informatics will be in Hinxton, with sessions on Pangenomes, Genome assembly, Microbial/Metagenomes, Single Cell and Functional Genomics, with keynotes from Fabian Theis and Camille Marchet @[email protected] . Send us your abstracts (deadline 10 Sept), and join us!

We had a great time at the Community Festival this weekend! It was amazing to chat with so many people about all things microbial and see the wonderful creations on our Make Your Own Bacteria stand Social Responsibility UoM Biology, Medicine and Health UoM Science and Engineering Evolution, Infection and Genomics (EIG) UoM

#SMBE2024 poster ready to go! Come and chat about mutation rate plasticity, h2o2, simulations, fluctuation assays and e.coli // e.faecalis cocultures. (Also Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan) visits teotihuacan with Louise Flanagan , feeling very lucky to be in Mexico).

Final stretch for this microbiology #Kickstarter! We are telling the forgotten story of Fanny Angelina Hesse & agar with a graphic novel: kickstarter.com/projects/jens-… If you'd like to back this project, the deadline is Sat 20th July at 12 PM CEST! 🧫👩‍🔬

Had a fantastic time at the Genome Science 2024 conference! Was great to present another unhinged poster on my current PhD work. Hopefully see you all next year! 🧬 🦠Winnie Lee🦠 @SpillerLab #GenomeScience #GSUK24

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Join the @Multi_Defence consortium as a postdoctoral researcher within my lab University of Bath. The project will aim to understand the regulation of multiple bacterial defence systems. Apply here by 9th Sept: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a… lifesciencebath Milner Centre for Evolution

I wrote a thing for my ABSW media fellowship. It's been a real learning process and I'm very grateful to Live Science for taking the time to teach me.

Did someone say they wanted more strains of bacteria as pins and earrings? 👀 Thank you for your overwhelming amount of support! I'm now introducing K. pneumoniae, E. coli, B. pertussis, S. marcescens and P. mirabilis! 😊 pinkpetri.etsy.com

It's September now which basically means it's Halloween! Check out these spooky looking plate pins and glow-in-the-dark gel earrings 🎃💚 pinkpetri.etsy.com

6 main figs and 5 supplementary figs .

"Network" this festive season with my new microbial greetings cards! ⛄🦠 pinkpetri.etsy.com

Have recently set up a bluesky account if anyone wants to join me over there for more of the same very sparse content where I'll post when I'm at a conference and occasionally do some retweets. It's Louise Flanagan over there too!

Thanks so much to the lovely people at MMU for the fantastic Microbiology and Biotechnology Symposium today, especially the organisers Jonathan Butler and James Redfern! Very flattered to win best poster prize too (even though I was an invader from UoM 😝)

Excellent keynote today by Anthony Slate at the Manchester Metropolitan Uni Microbiology and Biotechnology Symposium! Very proud of this boy 😊🦠🧫

It was a real honour to present at the Microbiology Society annual conference! I presented some of the research we carried out on drug repurposing and bacterial vaginosis during my time in ryankean29's lab at Glasgow Caledonian University ! A big thanks to all of the collaborators! #Microbio25

Delighted to have won a poster prize at #microbio25 this week! Had a really great time at this conference, learned so much and met so many old (and some new!) faces. Thanks so much to the organisers for a great event and to the society for the travel grant too! 🚝🧪🦠