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caesarean section infants’ gut microbiome differences are driven by delivery mode, not by antibiotic exposure.
august 2, 2024
sophie leech takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'delivery mode is a larger determinant of infant gut microbiome composition at 6 weeks than exposure to peripartum antibiotics' published in microbial genomics.
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demystifying borrelia: novel computational methods to detect and identify ospa types
june 19, 2024
dr jonathan t lee and dr li hao take us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘development of a sequence-based in silico ospa typing method for borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato’ published in microbial genomics.
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microbe talk - roots of resistance: exploring amr in ancient mouths
june 13, 2024
for this episode of microbe talk clare was joined by the wonderful gwyn dahlquist-axe and francesca standeven, archaeological scientists who study amr and ancient human oral microbiomes. they're on the podcast to discuss their review into diet, disease and antibiotic resistance from ancient human oral microbiomes published in microbial genomics.
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delving into the diversity of fusobacterium nucleatum
june 7, 2024
claire crowley takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. polymorphum recovered from malignant and potentially malignant oral disease exhibit heterogeneity in adhesion phenotypes and adhesin gene copy number, shaped by inter-subspecies horizontal gene transfer and recombination-derived mosaicism' published in microbial genomics.
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on the limits of 16s rrna gene-based functional profiling
may 14, 2024
monica matchado and markus list take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'on the limits of 16s rrna gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling' published in microbial genomics.
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from custom pipeline to scalable software: assembling complete bacterial genomes from long and hybrid reads with hybracter
may 13, 2024
george bouras takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'hybracter: enabling scalable, automated, complete and accurate bacterial genome assemblies' published in microbial genomics.
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using genomics to identify antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea
march 27, 2024
dr teresa street take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'target enrichment improves culture-independent detection of neisseria gonorrhoeae and antimicrobial resistance determinants direct from clinical samples with nanopore sequencing’ published in microbial genomics. -
antimicrobial resistance surveillance within highly vulnerable patient populations: at the forefront of amr emergence
march 6, 2024
william c. shropshire takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'identification of a novel cg307 sub-clade in third-generation-cephalosporin-resistant klebsiella pneumoniae causing invasive infections in the united states‘ published in microbial genomics.
