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Fanny Wegner

@fwegner.bsky.social
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Viruses, bacteria, fungi, infectious diseases, and evolution. Based in Zürich, Switzerland.

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Fanny Wegner @fwegner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📣Call for abstracts — WBF 2026, Session NEX5: “Microbial communities as One Health drivers.” Davos, 14–19 Jun 2026. Community-level mechanisms, AMR & practical interventions (experimental/computational/interventional). Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 → tinyurl.com/4un5a8a4 #OneHealth #Microbiome #AMR
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World Biodiversity Forum @worldbioforum.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🌎🌿About to miss the session proposal deadline? Good news🍀! We've extended it to 1 September 2025 (end of day, all time zones). No submissions after that, no further extensions, so submit now on shorturl.at/YeHuz! WBF2026 is next June in ☀️ Davos, Switzerland!🇨🇭 #BiodiversityForum #WBF2026
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Helena Seth-Smith @thebelsian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Using a target enrichment approach across a panel of bacterial STIs doi.org/10.1099/mgen... , we have identified a new lineage of LGV Chlamydia trachomatis doi.org/10.1099/mgen... .
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Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs
Rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising, and accessing their genomes provides information on strain evolution, circulating strains and encoded antimicrobial resistance (AM...
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Helena Seth-Smith @thebelsian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
With love in the air, there is no better time to talk about STIs ;-). I am incredibly proud to present back-to-back papers from my lab, published today in Microbial Genomics.
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Evaluating methods for genome sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted bacteria directly from clinical swabs
Rates of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising, and accessing their genomes provides information on strain evolution, circulating strains and encoded antimicrobial resistance (AM...
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Mark Pallen @mjpallen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.
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Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Article on potential health risks emanating from the arctic thebulletin.org/2024/11/a-ri...
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A rising danger in the Arctic: Microbes unleashed by climate change
As climate change melts permafrost, microbes will emerge. The world isn’t paying enough attention to the potential threat they pose.
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Cengiz Akandil @cengizakandil.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Industrial activity in the Arctic is rapidly increasing and now we can map hotspots of development at pan-Arctic scale. Our latest paper is out. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Oil and gas extraction regions are the hotspots of light-emitting human activity in the Arctic
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
The major human bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes multidrug-resistant infections in people with underlying immunodeficiencies or structural lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). W...
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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Now published: "Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Check out the podcast to hear co-senior author Eric Nelson talk about the twists and turns of our study (around 18:25): www.science.org/content/podc...
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Phage predation, disease severity, and pathogen genetic diversity in cholera patients
Despite an increasingly detailed picture of the molecular mechanisms of bacteriophage (phage)–bacterial interactions, we lack an understanding of how these interactions evolve and impact disease withi...
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
How will history books recount COVID? kucharski.substack.com/p/how-will-h...
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Marco Galardini @mgalactus.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
The HZI will hire up to twenty (20!) tenure-track research groups under the broad topic of "Microbial Stargazing" (🦠🌌). The first round of 4 positions is now open; the call closes on the 10th of December. Please share! www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
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