PhD; Interested in bacterial population genomics, evolution, genomic epi, antibiotic resistance, horizontal gene transfer. E. coli self-portrait in banner pic

Joined July 2020
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Woohoo! Yay! Big congratulations Bill!! Very happy for you! 🎉👏
Years ago while I was weighing the offer of a faculty job here a very senior British scientist in my field sniffily told me “They’ll never give you tenure” But that turned out to be one of their less good predictions, and I am now not only a full professor - but with tenure
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Thrilled to share our new paper on Listeria monocytogenes in New York in collaboration with NY Dept Health! Most from blood, CSF. We found diverse lineages, intrinsic & mobile AMR & virulence genes, persistence across geographical & temporal scales @odionikh
Ikhimiukor and coll reconstruct the population genomic structure from 936 Listeria monocytogenes isolates throughout a two decade surveillance program in NY, identifying long-term persisting clones driving the local infection dynamics @CheAndamMicro 👉genomemedicine.biomedcentral…
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Super happy that our recent paper on bloodstream Klebsiella is featured in @NatureComms Editors' Highlights in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases nature.com/collections/jedgc…
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Thrilled 😁to share our new paper from the lab on Klebsiella pneumoniae genomics from bloodstream infections, IncF plasmids & ESBL. With Isabella Martin (Dartmouth) @odionikh @sr_stephanie @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Big congratulations Karin! 👏👏👏 What a privilege to have taken your course (genomics and bioinformatics) many, many years ago!
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Well done! @sr_stephanie Long-term genomic surveillance of bloodstream pathogens is critical.
New work from @sr_stephanie @Joshuaureus @CheAndamMicro et al. published last week in @npjAMR on lineages of #Staph aureus causing bloodstream infections and their roles in #resistance 🦠💊🏥 (1/5) nature.com/articles/s44259-0…
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Another very important event in our lab! Lunch International Food Fest! #LIFF24 @odionikh @sr_stephanie @kathrynpiper_ @manumog @JoseARodrigues8
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Cheryl P Andam retweeted
New first-author paper out on @npjAMR. Genomic evaluation of S. aureus from bloodstream infections over 12 years. ST8 took place over ST5 at some point. The rise of ST8 associated to a very clonal population with same genetic background. 1/3 nature.com/articles/s44259-0…
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Led by PhD student @kathrynpiper_. With @odionikh @sr_stephanie @teddygofficial
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New findings published in #mSphere provide important insights into the underlying genetic basis for the success of S. aureus as a highly adaptable and resistant pathogen. @CheAndamMicro journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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Maybe a lifetime supply of EXPO markers for our lab? 😁
EXPO markers are one the pillars of science! Andam lab crew on @UAlbanyLSRB Halloween 2023! @CheAndamMicro @manumog @BuiatteAna @kathrynpiper_ @CampyloBoocter
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And we won best costume!
EXPO markers are one the pillars of science! Andam lab crew on @UAlbanyLSRB Halloween 2023! @CheAndamMicro @manumog @BuiatteAna @kathrynpiper_ @CampyloBoocter
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Wonderful session and great co-chair to have!
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Successful session on HGT (or the origins of hopeful monsters) organised with @CheAndamMicro at #SMBE2023. Thanks again to our wonderful speakers: @goyoiraola @Lucy_Weinert Talia Karasov, Héloïse Muller & Fanny Mazzamurro!
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Happy to share our new paper @iScience_CP! We use an agent-based model to study cooperation in a public goods game. We show that homologous recombination provides a mechanism to enforce cooperation in bacteria cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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3 of them from my lab! 👏
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More sugar Stephanie? 😄
Enjoy the warm weather with us at the Capital district postdoc association: Today we enjoyed spring with ice cream🍨🍦 Last saturday we met at the Troy Festival! Keep an 👁 there is more activities to come!
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Yes we all love to eat! Fish festival next time?
Some lab members at #ASMicrobe, and the rest at this important event that took place today in Albany. First Brunch International Dessert Festival. On #BIDF2023 we deeply explored the sugar levels of different countries and continents. @manumog @CheAndamMicro @odionikh @BuiatteAna
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Thanks @BostonBacteria for the recognition!
Let's celebrate Dr. Cheryl Andam, associate professor at Univ. at Albany (SUNY)! Her lab studies population genomics and antimicrobial resistance in pathogens! Looking at different bugs mechanisms that drive drug tolerance! is important for combatting this threat! #AAPIHM
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A fantastic lab to be part of!
A blast end of semester with an international food festival and farewell party to our lab assistant #Marven, who is going to Med School. 9 countries and 4 continents represented. This is the beauty of science! @CheAndamMicro @odionikh @manumog @kathrynpiper_ @MaestroLimpioNY
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And check out our Behind the Paper on Nature Community! microbiologycommunity.nature…

Overlapping ecology and geographical proximity drives horizontal gene transfer and thus the evolution of opportunistic pathogens from the Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus group, as revealed by comparative genomics.@CheAndamMicro, @sr_stephanie, @odionikh nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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