Super-excited to be organising the first in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social network today and tomorrow. We will be launching an initiative for pump-priming and an amazing comic by Eddie Ross on AMR Genomics

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A huge thank you to our brilliant collaborators at The Department of Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Sanger @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @cazares-adr.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social and The UoM @brockhurstlab.bsky.social #Phage #Plasmid #AMR #EvolutionaryBiology

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Happy to share that our latest research on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of MDR plasmids and PDPs is now out (open access vAuthor) in The ISME Journal doi.org/10.1093/isme... Here, we explored how plasmid-dependent phages (PDPs) act as a selective pressure against the spread of multidrug resistance

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Bacterial immune proteins have repeatedly evolved to become parts of eukaryotic immunity. But how? Our new preprint uncovers a recent horizontal transfer event & shows how eukaryotes co-opted a toxic bacterial immune protein 🦠🧪🧵 1/

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It’s a strong look, and guaranteed to make people give you a wide berth

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