Spoiler alert: No Enterococcus species should be overlooked!

So well deserved!!! Congrats @tmcoque.bsky.social and @sanmillan.bsky.social!!!

New paper about VVE, an emerging threat menancing #enterococcus diagnostics and infection control!

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@bactdrugs.bsky.social

During World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, @Ana R. Freitas, UCIBIO researcher at the @BacT_Drugs, spoke on national radio about the rising challenge of antimicrobial resistance and the importance of informed public action.
🔗 Link (in Portuguese): www.rtp.pt/play/p15569/...

Bacterial warfare is associated with virulence and antimicrobial resistance - Nature Communications Bacteria employ a range of competition systems that deliver toxins to inhibit competing strains. This study shows that these systems are particularly important for the ecology of virulent and antibiot...

So happy to share this! Bacteriocins were first discovered over 100 years ago, but what do they actually do? We look at >1000 bacteriocin plasmids and find links to virulence and antimicrobial resistance, and frequent bacteriocin sharing in Enterobacteriaceae.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Picture of a page from the journal "Nature", which begins: Scientists need more time to think E-mails and instant messaging are core to research - but also a distraction. Researchers should study their impact on science, and how they can claw back time to concentrate.

Scientists need more time to think and so do I. So do you.

Emails and messaging are the OG brainrot, and scrolling makes it so much worse.

I've spent a lot of coaching time with clients on creating more distance from their phone, literally and figuratively. Much benefit.

The recordings of the 6-hour webinar on Bacterial Strain Taxonomy for Genomic Surveillance are now available through the @ecdc.europa.eu ECDC Learning portal: learning.ecdc.europa.eu/course/view.... - cgMLST, SNPs, K-mer based strain nomenclatures applications and more!

Great first day at the #IMMEM XIV occurring in Porto, Portugal!

So happy to host and welcome you in our city!

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Congratulations Ana! 🎉

As you main supervisor, I am very proud of your journey ending in a European PhD title with a successful thesis on #enterococci.

Huge Thanks to the jury opponents @GuidoWerner and @MariaMiragaia!

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Still time to register and join us on Monday for the next @esgem-sg.bsky.social webinar together with EFWISG.

Excited to share the first beta release of AMRrules at #ABPHM! (Poster 42 tonight)
interpretamr.github.io/AMRrules

#IMMEM XIV late-breaker abstract submission closes this Friday!

Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of the scientific programme on microbial typing & #genomics.

Learn more and submit your late-breaker by Friday, 23 May 2025: ow.ly/gBxl50VSlwr

#IDSky #clinmicro

Plasmid–bacteria associations in the clinical context Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing global health problems, with plasmids playing a central role in its evolution and dissemination. Over the past decades, many studies have inv...

New opinion paper from the lab!

www.cell.com/trends/micro...

PlasmidScope: a comprehensive plasmid database with rich annotations and online analytical tools Abstract. Plasmids are extrachromosomal genetic molecules that replicate independent of chromosomes in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotic organisms. They co

A huge, new resource for plasmid research - PlasmidScope is a database of 852,000 #plasmid sequences with a rich set of annotations, automated online analysis and interactive visualisation academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Please visit: www.icarecourse.org
@ICARe_AMR has a great atmosphere and location @LesPensieres , with a unique faculty and a special session on #AMR #genomics with François Lebreton @flebreton.bsky.social and myself – great opportunities for networking and scientific discussions

Still speechless about this distinction!!

As a new ESCMID Fellow, the responsability is even higher.

Thank you to all that somehow contributed to it and to @escmid.bsky.social ExCom!

I can only promise to continue dedicated to the society and the ESCMID community 🫶🏼

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Last but not least:

Today we presented the APPLE project assessing linezolid resistant enterococci carriage in hospitalized patients from different countries - a project funded by a @escmid.bsky.social study group grant and led by Jennifer Bender & Guido Werner.

Incredible start of the day at the #ESCMID Global 2025 with @aresarroyom.bsky.social talking about plasmids transfer 🙌🏼 we still have a lot to learn about these fascinating elements!

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We are already here at the great ESCMID Global 2025! Looking forward to meet good friends and to learn a lot ☺️@natachacouto.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

Let’s meet in Vienna!

Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality.

WHAT A SURPRISE!

A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome Nature - A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common...

The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha

Thank you Willem, great initiative this one ☺️

Me!

Superb work, congrats Daria et al.!!!!

👏 Kicking off the week with our latest publication by #AnaPereira et al.:

"Insights towards the impact of subinhibitory chlorhexidine on antimicrobial susceptibility and horizontal gene transfer in Enterococcus faecium" published in the Science of The Total Environment.

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