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Anirudh Jakhmola

@funnirudh.bsky.social
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I engineer and manipulate viruses, in the literal sense. #Cdiff #phage #CryoEM MRC DiMeN DTP PhD Student @University of Sheffield | Int BS-MS @NISER Bhubaneswar | Former Intern @MPI Evol Bio, Plön

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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After a collective 28 hours of GPU time, the exosome for MD simulations for our iGEM project is ready. Now to do this exact thing 4 more times for other exosomes.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amazing! It makes my C diff phages look boring.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People insert genes in the lacZ site of M13 and disrupt it. So the wild type with the intact lacZ would be blue plaques, and the mutants with the disrupted gene would be white plaques.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Colourful phages will be my new favourite hobby
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Blue white screen but instead of the gene being in the bacteria, it is in the phage.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Harvested the soft agar and its SOOO BLUE!!
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It made me very jealous of people who’s projects revolve around fun and non-temperamental phages.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Working with M13 phages is so much fun because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PLAQUES TURN BLUE!?!?
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
End of 3rd year presentation really made me realise that job application season is coming towards me in the next few months.
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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why did some #viruses evolve to be #giants while others did not? Our perspective piece on this topic with Eugene Koonin. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Why did some viruses evolve to be giants while others did not? | PNAS
Viruses are ubiquitous mobile genetic elements that are obligate symbionts of cellular life forms and replicate exclusively within host cells. The ...
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congrats! It was a really cool preprint so looking forward to reading this version.
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Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's finally published! What a journey @brownlab.bsky.social and I have been on with this one (ask me about it over a pint 🍻). Super excited to be able to say that it's finally out in Trends (author gift link to follow)! 🦠🧫 #phagesky
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Their favourite grid square on the carbon film
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Very cool work! Phage cryo-ET is beautiful.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How very cool! I admit mine doesn’t even come close to this. This is a piece of art!
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Maybe the real HGT was the friends we made along the way
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Friends stick together
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Phage on a (failed) western blot membrane. PS It’s insane how smooth these membranes are, I’d recommend writing on them.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I had seen water leak from the roof, but a squirrel leak is a first for me. The wonders of Firth Court.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very cool
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Some non-phage TEM today. It seems like our iGEM team has successfully managed to induce exosomes from HEK cells. Now to engineer its membrane and package our protein in it. #exosomes
A negative stain image of a sample with circular bilayer lipid membrane structures.
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
New #microsky#AMR Perspective paper with @penamiller.bsky.social rdcu.be/fqBJo ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE (IE MIC) AND TOLERANCE ARE NOT BACTERIAL TRAITS! Please read on if you want an explanation for this provocative claim.
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Beyond resistance and tolerance: rethinking evolutionary responses to antibiotics from the perspective of individual bacterial cells
Nature Communications - Beyond resistance and tolerance: rethinking evolutionary responses to antibiotics from the perspective of individual bacterial cells
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
~£18,000 raised so far, with IDT and Vazyme sponsoring our reagents; we are making steady progress towards our goal of engineering exosomes that cross the blood brain barrier and deliver Dravet Syndrome therapeutics. #healthcare
Screenshot of an email saying - “Hi Team Sheffield,

We're pleased to confirm that your project has been placed in your first-choice village, Therapeutics, for the iGEM 2026 competition.”
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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🛠️💉It's time for engineering contractile injection systems! @chipericson.bsky.social & @davidschaumann.bsky.social introduce programmable CIS - PROCIS, combining tail length control, non-native cargo loading, and cell retargeting all in one system! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/5
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Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
When is an antiphage mechanism an evolved defence adaptation? This question has been on my mind for so long, because despite the field’s rapid progress there is currently no widely agreed framework in place to answer it. So @brownlab.bsky.social and I wrote this, and I'm happy to share the preprint!
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The bacterial immune system: identifying evolved defense adaptations
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Pretty pink single colonies on my pack of soft cheese. I wish my actual plates were so lucky. If anyone know what this might be, please do tell.
Pink bacterial or fungal colonies on a pack of soft cheese
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/05/2026
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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a baby in overalls sits on a bed looking at something
Alt: Gif from “Baby’s day out”
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Bit late to the party but I presented our work at Microsoc 2026 in Belfast this year. It was great to see so many talks on such diverse topics but of course I was biased towards phages and eukaryotic viruses talks.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Congratulations to everyone involved! Glad to have contributed to this work.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Had the opportunity to present my work at Viruses of Microbes UK this year. Had a lot of fruitful discussions regarding the work and phage therapy. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Prague in July!
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Aioeux Medlow @axmedlow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thrilled to present the findings from my 2025 #SUREscheme project - 'Investigating the influence of latent bacteriophages on healthcare-associated C. difficile lysogens' - at the showcase yesterday evening. Huge thanks to @funnirudh.bsky.social and @robfagan.bsky.social for making this possible!
Standing beside my research posterDetailed view of the research poster
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Rob Fagan @robfagan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨 Fully funded PhD studentships 🚨 We have three fully funded PhD studentships available for Oct 26 start. Funded by the MRC DiMeN programme & the BBSRC Yorkshire Biosciences DTP. Details below as they are advertised. Contact me here or via email for more details or to discuss an application
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Clostridial Cell Biology Group
We are the Clostridial Cell Biology Group at the University of Sheffield. We study all aspects of cell biology, including the architecture and biogenesis of surface structures on both vegetative cells...
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Look at this beautiful CsCl gradient. I’m lying, my gradient crashed. I lost my phages and I am going home.
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Nothing feels better than a payday. #iGEM
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
You know that antibiotic use can exert pressure on bacterial populations to evolve resistance. So are vaccines exerting similar pressure on viruses? Let's talk about how vaccines MIGHT make viruses evolve to be LESS harmful over time. Warning: I'm speaking broadly here & biology loves exceptions.
Woman receiving rubella vaccination, School of Public Health of the State of Minas Gerais (ESP-MG), Brazil.
CREDIT:  Sandra Rugio, ESP-MG, via Wikimedia.
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Rob Fagan @robfagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Lab on tour - the wonderful #ClostPath2025 organisers have arranged great walking tours. Guess where we are?
@lilia-elle.bsky.social, @funnirudh.bsky.social and Rob somewhere in Paris
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We’re here, and we’re square.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
A novel two-component system controls vancomycin resistance in epidemic Clostridioides difficile www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Me seeing the price of booking the cryo-EM for 3 days.
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Jason Nomburg @jnoms.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!
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Wiep Klaas Smits (ExpBac/CMAT) @smitslab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Now engineering phages with Anirudh Jakhmola from @robfagan.bsky.social lab at @sheffielduni.bsky.social #3cdf
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Prof Paula Salgado @pssalgado.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thank you to all participants for making the 2nd #3CdF such a fantastic event! See you next year for the next one! #microsky 🧪 #Cdiff
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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Prophage induction - nice study, inducers other than MitC, but also that inducer concentration matters. Search for optimum needed to get highest titers ☝️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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High-throughput screening reveals diverse lambdoid prophage inducers
Prophages; dormant bacteriophage genomes integrated within the bacterial chromosome, play pivotal roles in shaping microbial communities when awakened. Our current understanding of prophage activation...
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Good ol’ homologous recombination!
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Managed to nab a signed copy of Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. Quite excited to read this.
Signed title page of “Everything is Tuberculosis” by author John Green
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Anirudh Jakhmola @funnirudh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The mutagenesis gods were with us this week.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies. @sarareardon.bsky.social reports www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
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Prof Paula Salgado @pssalgado.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Happy to announce 2nd #3CdF Cross-channel C. difficile Forum in Newcastle, June 4-5 for #Cdiff researchers from UK, France and Europe, w/ strong emphasis on ECRs! Thanks to @microbiologysociety.org support! event.fourwaves.com/3cdf-2025/pa... Registration & abstract submission still open! #MicroSky
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3CdF 2025
Fourwaves - 3CdF 2025
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