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Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Delighted to have played a part in this preprint - some really nice longitudinal data showing how carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales evolve and persist in hospital sink drains, featuring some lovely plasmids ⤵️ doi.org/10.64898/202...

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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our next speaker this morning is down the drain, Greg McCallum from University of Liverpool: "The hospital sink drain microbiome: a melting pot for antimicrobial resistance plasmids" #Meehubs26

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The ContamCalendar 2026 is full of microbe-related dates so you can celebrate microbiology for the whole year 📅🧫🦠

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The ContamCalendar 2026 will likely be the final calendar we make, so we wanted it to be a great one. The new design folds out to be A3, perfect for displaying the beautiful microbes inside 😍 Also full of microbe-related days throughout the year 📆🦠🧫🍄

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Happy Noodlococcus day to all those who celebrate! 🍜🧫🦠 We’re in 3 different continents now but all celebrating the 6th anniversary of the discovery of our noodle-y friend by eating some delicious noodles @prob91.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social @gemccallum.bsky.social

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It was great fun writing this review with @gemccallum.bsky.social , even if our conclusions are rather scary. Lots of important pathogen evolution must be occurring outside of the infection context...

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Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Delighted to have this review out with @jpjhall.bsky.social! We discuss the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome, highlight studies providing evidence of transfer, and consider strategies to mitigate these risks 🪠🦠 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

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The hospital sink drain microbiome as a melting pot for AMR transmission to nosocomial pathogens - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - The hospital sink drain microbiome as a melting pot for AMR transmission to nosocomial pathogens

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Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Happy to finally have this out! It has been a fun side-project that we’ve been slowly working on for a while 🍜 I think it has turned out as a nice story, and demonstrates some important issues with historic taxonomic classifications in genome databases. All from investigating a contaminant! ⤵️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025... 1/15 🧵

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

the Noodlococcus story of @contamclub.bsky.social is out now! #MicroSky christoph: happy to have contributed a teensy bit

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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🍜🧬 Pan-fried noodles 🤣🤣🤣 Big shoutout to @contamclub.bsky.social for cooking up the story of Noodlococcus We’re proud to have been part of the journey — from mystery microbe to full-genome feast 👨‍🍳🧫 📖 recipe available ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025... #MicroSky #MicrobialMysteries #ProudServiceProvider

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

👀👀👀 A landmark paper (in the field of Kocuria rhizophila genomics). Thanks to @gemccallum.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social and others to get this over the line.

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Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Have really enjoyed my day at #IOIECR25 @ineosoxford.bsky.social Enjoyed some amazing talks and enjoyed presenting my work investigating antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

ContamClub has officially reached every continent on Earth! 🌎🌍🌏 This set of ContamMerch are with Bodil and Livvie who work at the South Georgia Heritage Trust in Antarctica - @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social Antarctica marks 7/7 continents that ContamCalendars have been delivered to since we began 🗺️📆🦠

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Special delivery from @contamclub.bsky.social (@gemccallum.bsky.social)! How cool are these socks!? 🧪🔬 #MicroSky

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Want your ankles to look this good this December? Get your ContamSocks below!!! 🧦🦠🧫 ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2025 🗓️🚨‼️ The ContamCalendar is back for another year! It’s a great one and we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄 Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️

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Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Had a great day at the AMR in microbiomes worshop thank you very much @rwheatley8.bsky.social for organising!

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Amazing talk by @gemccallum.bsky.social (post-doc with @jpjhall.bsky.social) on his hospital sink microbiome project, including Greg's undercover ICU sink microbiome notes and scary genomes of Pseudomonas, Aeromonas, Citrobacter.

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Greg McCallum @gemccallum.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Had a great time so far at #MicroBio24 and enjoyed presenting the start of my post-doc work on the hospital sink drain microbiome today 💧🦠

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