Introducing the ContamCalendar 2024 📆🦠🧫🍄 on sale tomorrow! Loved putting this together, can't wait for you guys to get your hands on this 💥 Retweet, like, and follow Contamination Club for your chance to win one 💥

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.... 📆🫀🩺🦠

🔔New Pre-print🔔 TL;DR: The opportunistic pathogen A. lwoffii is more constrained in acquiring & developing antibiotic resistance 🦠 Jessica Blair Rob Moran Freya Harrison @babs_clough Dr Ross McInnes Dr Eva Frickel Mark Webber biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excellent work from ⁦DETECTIVE⁩ consortium. Big shout for ⁦Ibrahim Xiaoliang Ba⁩ ⁦Rob Moran⁩ and ⁦@DrEmmaDoughty⁩ and colleagues in China. Also leadership of ⁦@alanmcn1⁩ and ⁦Willem van Schaik @[email protected]⁩ nature.com/articles/s4146…

The new pre-print from the David Grainger! Really cool work mostly done by the talented Charles Cooper. Charles noticing a strange grey colony snowballed into this great story.

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 Ann Snaith for the help on this too! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

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

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! 🦠

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!

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

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

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!

I'll have some limited Contamination Club merch on hand too!

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). nature.com/articles/s4425…

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 🧫✨

‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2025 🗓️🚨‼️ The ContamCalendar is back for another year! It’s a great one and we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄 Get yours here ➡️ contam.club ⬅️