Modernising Medical Microbiology

PhD position (Oxford, UK) An exciting opportunity to study the strain dynamics of E. coli across a unique cohort spanning health to disease. with @samlipworth.bsky.social at @modmedmicro.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2600

Come and work with me — postdoc position advertised! You’ll work as part of a team developing new inhibitors to Klebsiella by carrying out computer simulations to work out which lead/target combinations are less likely to evolve resistance @modmedmicro.bsky.social fowlerlab.org/2026/10/21/a...

I am looking for prospective DPhil (PhD) students interested in using computational methods to understand and predict antibiotic resistance. bit.ly/3WesMmh All applicants will be considered for an NDM Prize Studentship. Deadline is Tuesday 1 December 2026.

Tiny microbes, big questions and plenty of curious minds at New Scientist Live! We had a brilliant time this weekend bringing our research to life🔬 Curious about what we got up to? Check out our blog post to see Droplet Detectives and Sinks Under Siege activities🦠 ➡️ bashthebug.net/2026/10/13/d...

Droplet detectives and sinks under siege: MMM at #NewScientistLive We spoke to over 500 people about how bacteria can spread from hospital sinks and how we might prevent it, with hands-on activities from our @BashTheBug team! Thanks to Medical Research UK for funding our stand! #Microbiology

Fantastic to have been selected for this, we found the reviews constructive and help us on the next version. @philipwfowler.bsky.social @nickdsandy.bsky.social @melodyjp101.bsky.social @modmedmicro.bsky.social @bashthebug.net

FUNDING: Calling all early career researchers with an OUH contract!   The OHSRC are offering grants of up to £10,000 to NHS staff (including honorary contracts) whose research will help patients of the OUH. Find out more and apply 👉https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/researchers/grants/ Deadline: 15 October

We're offering a great DPhil opportunity to look at comparing E. coli strain dynamics in gut in health and disease with ultimate aim of developing novel therapeutics. Opportunity to learn wet and dry lab skills including long-read metagenomics, biostastical + ex-vivo modelling. Happy to chat pls RT!

Great new work from @dotnagy.bsky.social who has developed EpiSENTRY which performs sample size calculations for public health WGS surviellance studies. She applies to data from the NEKSUS study to estimate how much sequencing is enough for GNBSI surviellance in England. @modmedmicro.bsky.social

Infusoria BioArt exhibition exploring microbiology opens at the John Radcliffe Hospital! 📅 26 September – 6 November 2026 📍 Artlink Corridor Gallery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford #ArtAndScience #Microbiology #AntimicrobialResistance #InfectionPrevention #PublicEngagement

Beyond the basin: my research internship at Oxford Hospital sinks are essential for handwashing, but beneath the basin lies a complex microbial environment that may present challenges for infection prevention... Read more on our blog! #AMR #InfectionPrevention

New publication from @modmedmicro.bsky.social on metagnomic RNA virus detection from upper respiratory samples - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @nickdsandy.bsky.social @treestreet.bsky.social @dotnagy.bsky.social @samlipworth.bsky.social @oxfordbrc.bsky.social

Microbiology is coming out of the lab! Infusoria, a new exhibition by MMM Artist-in-Residence Anna Dumitriu, runs in the JR Hospital from 26 Sept–6 Nov 2026. New works inspired by Oxford research explore hospital sinks, wastewater, water microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance.

Read our new blog post! Risk factors for antimicrobial resistance in cancer patients and survivors: an electronic health record study by Annie Hu

NIHR webinar on BashTheBug on YouTube BashTheBug was originally a large international citizen science project that invited anyone to help us classify how well different samples of M. tuberculosis grew in the presence of a range of antibiotics. It ran from 2017 to 2021 and in that time 46,427…

Thanks to the team for all their hardwork preparing and delivering the activities, especially in this heatwave! 🌞🌞🌞

And our DNA detective programme was a smash🕵‍♀️ Follow the bioinformatic instructions to figure out which patient in a ward has which infection, and work out from the hints which drugs will help the patient get better!

The Mystery Outbreak poster was a hit! A cluedo-esque mystery where you had to follow the clues to find the source of illness in the hospital 🔍

Everybody loved the strawberry DNA extractions!🍓 Participants learnt how this technique can be used by scientists to diagnose infections in patients and the data used by doctors to see if the infection has any resistance and then choose which antibiotics to prescribe🧬 @oxfordbrc.bsky.social

We had an amazing time in Westgate, Oxford today! We had many attempts to 'bash the bug' and get the high score for the day on our dance mat 💃🕺 where overusing antibiotics causes resistance so you have to be careful what you're prescribing!💊 #AMR #ScienceOutreach #Microbiology #Oxford

Come see us at the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social showcase! We'll be in Westgate, Oxford 10-3.30. We'll be bringing the dance mat so come and try to beat the germs with antibiotics and claim the high score💃🕺 #AMR #PublicOutreach @ox.ac.uk

Long-read sequencing of Mycobacterial tuberculosis is comparable to short-read sequencing for antimicrobial resistance prediction and epidemiological studies. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717216v1

Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis is available and recommended! Early diagnosis is a gamechanger. Ask your provider for access to WHO-recommended rapid tests for TB, including the latest near-point-of-care tests, to ensure a quick diagnosis and early treatment.

Open datasets such as these are key for tackling AMR in diseases such as tuberculosis. #WorldTBDay

Since 2017 the CRyPTIC project collected and collated 53,897 clinical TB samples with genetics and drug susceptibility testing data. You can download the datasets via crypticproject.info and v4.0.0 will appear later this year. #WorldTBDay @modmedmicro.bsky.social

Bash the Bug at ATOM Festival: Dancing, Germs, and the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance! We had a fantastic time this weekend at ATOM Festival in Abingdon, bringing microbiology to life with our Bash the Bug public engagement activities.

It was fantastic to see so many people getting involved, asking great questions, and learning about microbiology in the sunshine. Thanks to everyone who came to say hello, and to our brilliant team for all their enthusiasm! #BashTheBug #Microbiology #PublicOutreach #ATOMFestival

We had a brilliant time this weekend at ATOM Festival in Abingdon! ☀️🦠 We brought along our favourite interactive activities to help people learn about antimicrobial resistance #AMR, including our dance mat game where you fight germs with antibiotics, and we tested everyone’s handwashing skills!

1/4 Thrilled to get this metagenomic diagnostic study over the line. We have an in house method that targets RNA viruses in respiratory samples, and evaluated this against 344 prospective samples tested by multiplex PCR. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint from us @modmedmicro.bsky.social where we validate the diagnostic accuracy of a metagenomic nanopore sequencing method for respiratory RNA viruses. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you a post-doctoral microbiologist interested in characterising bacterial resistance evolution and want to apply your knowledge and expertise to developing new therapeutics for Klebsiella (and other Enterobacterales) infections? Then we need you! Apply now bit.ly/3MX39Ce close date March 13th 👀