I do stuff involving things... those things being bacteriophage, and that stuff being something that kinda resembles science... 🏴 Postdoc
Joined April 2010
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Chris retweeted
11 Jan 2024
Over the past two years, we've been working with @GenepoolTV & @Emma_WattsTV to document our journey from phage discovery to treating our first-ever patient suffering a superbug infection.
'Last Chance to Save a Life' premiers in one month!
youtube.com/watch?v=aj2zMhr8…
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Chris retweeted
13 Nov 2023
We have key dates to announce for #VoM2024 !
See the post below for our upcoming abstract submission, registration, and notification for presenters!
13 Nov 2023
✨#VoM2024 KEY DATES✨
Head over to our website to check out the key dates and add them to your calendar 🗓️
Time to start thinking about your #abstract submissions!
vom2024.org/key-dates
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Chris retweeted
4 Oct 2023
A bus driver earns £36.5k in Edinburgh
30 Sep 2023
⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Bioinformatician to join our Food, Microbiome and Health programme.
💷 £35,300 to £43,750
🗓️ Apply by 3 October
➡️ buff.ly/45BLSSO
ALT A social card with an image of coding. On the right a green quadrangle with the text "Bioinformatician, assisting the interpretation of microbiome research projects generated as part of the Food, Microbiome and Health programme. Salary: £35.300 to £43,750. Contract length : 4 years. Apply by 3 October 2023." One the left the Quadram Institute logo.
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Chris retweeted
21 Aug 2023
The latest work from our lab where we conduct the largest experimental validation of gut phages to date!
This included >2000 anaerobic incubations, >900 viral DNA extractions, and >400 genomes seq. This work was led by our PhD grad @SofiaDahlman
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Chris retweeted
9 Aug 2023
We've developed a simple tool to reorient complete microbial genomes to begin with conventional start genes - originally dnaA for bacteria, but also for plasmids, phages & custom genes @viji112 @BeardyMcFace @susiegriggo_ @BhavyaPapudeshi
github.com/gbouras13/dnaaple…
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Chris retweeted
13 Jun 2023
What factors affect variability in the gut phageome?
Great review from @Tobin__Ciara @AShkoporov @colinhillucc!
annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10…
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Chris retweeted
24 May 2023
Are you looking to integrate multi-omic data, such as #microbiome and #metabolomics measurements?
I'm absolutely thrilled to announce Anansi, our @tpq__ & @jfcryan @Pharmabiotic new framework and accompanying #Rstats package is now available on @arxiv! arxiv.org/abs/2305.10832
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Chris retweeted
16 May 2023
APC Microbiome Ireland @Pharmabiotic PI @colinhillucc is recruiting a Research Assistant to join his Gut Phageomics Lab to investigate the role of #phages in gut microbiome structure, function & assembly. Please apply here: ore.ucc.ie/ using job ID 067334.
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Chris retweeted
6 Mar 2023
Looking for a #postdocposition in #microbiology #phage biology, or #microbiome science? Join us on an @ERC_Research funded project #PHAGENET to study how bacteriophages accelerate HGT and bacterial evolution in the gut microbiome.
@Pharmabiotic @UccMicrobiology
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Chris retweeted
28 Feb 2023
Hot homemade soup ✅
Fresh filled rolls ✅
Tea & coffee ✅
Newspapers ✅
Laptops & Internet access ✅
Community library ✅
All we need now is YOU!
Toasty Tuesday at Cliftonhill Stadium....we're open now until 3pm
Come along for a blether & some good company 🤝
❤️💛❤️
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Chris retweeted
31 Jan 2023
Excited to help out on this paper with @Hasanyesilkayaa studying regulation of pneumococcal capsule @PLOSPathogens, excellent work @Dgglanville @UlijaszLab
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Chris retweeted
20 Jul 2022
NERC just sent an email out recognising that the cost of living increase means its PhD stipend isn't sufficient to live on.
Their solution isn't to increase it, it's to suggest students start selling Avon and sign up to clinical trials...
@ARIES_DTP @UKRI_News @NERCscience
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Chris retweeted
9 Jul 2022
A Review in @NatureRevMicro explores some of the mutualistic aspects of phage–bacterium interactions in the human gut and suggests that this relationship should not be characterized as a fight to the death between enemies. go.nature.com/3ORWJA9
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"Mutualistic interplay between bacteriophages and bacteria in the human gut" nature.com/articles/s41579-0…
New review by @AShkoporov, myself, and @colinhillucc on how phage and bacteria in the gut are not each other's 'enemy' but rather, as Captain Holt would say are each other's...
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Chris retweeted
22 Jun 2022
We are hiring! A 2-year @ERC_Research funded postdoctoral position is available in #PHAGENET project to study phage transduction and HGT in the human #microbiome at @Pharmabiotic and @UccMicrobiology. Apply at ore.ucc.ie/ (job ID 057691)
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Chris retweeted
11 Oct 2021
MDPI Journals and their peculiar editorial process.
Just asked to be removed as a guest editor from @VirusesMDPI, a journal which I had considered as a very good platform in the past. #MDPI
@MDPIOpenAccess @antibioticsmdpi @Micro_MDPI
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Chris retweeted
30 Sep 2021
Government says ‘large number of tankers’ has been assembled to try and solve the fuel crisis - unclear if it’s a typo:
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Chris retweeted
25 Aug 2021
Last two months were nice to me. Our pneumococcal Rgg1518 paper is now out pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3432… (Co-author) and my first first author manuscript was just accepted !!! @UoLRespSci @LeicesterMID thanks to @Hasanyesilkayaa @OscarKuipers1 @LuHiller ulijaszlab.com
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Chris retweeted
19 Aug 2021
Christopher Turkington @Chrisjrt et al published a preprint on hafeZ, a #tool able to identify ‘active’ prophages within bacterial genomes through genomic read mapping buff.ly/3xWN95w
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Chris retweeted
11 Aug 2021
Postdoc position available with me @Flinders to work on phages and viruses
flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.c…
DM/email for more information
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