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Chris Creevey

@hairyllama.bsky.social
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All things Microbes, DNA and Computers Professor of Computational Biology @ Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). www.creeveylab.org

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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We recently hosted our first ever International day for Biodiversity event in @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Thank you to our keynote, Dr Cathy Maguire from the Office for Environmental Protection, speakers, poster contributors, & organising committee for helping make the event such a success
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I've spent far too much time resurrecting Clann, the 23(!) year old supertree tool nobody asked for but apparently I couldn't let die 😅 V5.1: Now with ML & RF criteria, ML topology tests, OpenMP parallelisation, source-tree weighting, landscape clustering & a python API github.com/ChrisCreevey...
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GitHub - ChrisCreevey/clann: Clann: Investigation of phylogenomic signal using supertrees
Clann: Investigation of phylogenomic signal using supertrees - ChrisCreevey/clann
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Last chance to apply for our funded PhD opportunity. w. Prof. Fredric Coulon @ Cranfield University. This will investigate expansion of ML models for AMR phenotype detection to agriculture settings to create a sensor-ready hit list. Detail here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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From Genomic Context to Sensor Design: Computational Identification of AMR Biomarkers in Agriculture (project at Queen's University Belfast) at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - From Genomic Context to Sensor Design: Computational Identification of AMR Biomarkers in Agriculture (project at Queen's University Belfast) at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD....
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Mizrahi Lab @mizrahilab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Excited to share our lab’s latest paper in Microbiome! 🧬 We’ve developed "ProFiT-SPEci-FISH", a new pipeline to solve a classic problem: linking plasmids to their specific bacterial hosts in complex samples like the human gut. (1/7) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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ProFiT-SPEci-FISH: a novel approach for linking plasmids to hosts in complex microbial communities at the single-cell level - Microbiome
Background Plasmids are influential drivers of bacterial evolution, facilitating horizontal gene transfer and shaping microbial communities. Current knowledge on plasmid persistence and mobilization i...
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 15/12/2025
NEWS! Inaugural FIFA Peas Prize awarded to Captain Birdseye newsthump.com/2025/12/15/i...
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Inaugural FIFA Peas Prize awarded to Captain Birdseye
FIFA has awarded its inaugural Peas Prize to Captain Birds Eye.
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Fully funded #PhD project available for Oct 26 start FoodBioSystems DTP w. Prof. Fredric Coulon @ Crandfield University. This will investigate expansion of ML models for AMR phenotype detection to agriculture settings to create a sensor-ready hit list. More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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From Genomic Context to Sensor Design: Computational Identification of AMR Biomarkers in Agriculture (project at Queen's University Belfast) at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - From Genomic Context to Sensor Design: Computational Identification of AMR Biomarkers in Agriculture (project at Queen's University Belfast) at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD....
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Its been an incredible three days of outstanding science at the Holoruminant.eu annual meeting here in QUB. Its such a privilege to host this amazing team. As we enter the final year of the project, there are so many exciting papers and tools to come. #EUH2020 #ruminant #microbiology
Photo of presentation in action with a a complex graph on screenPhoto of presentation in action with a large phylogenetic tree on the screenGroups photo of the meeting participants
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
James has done a great job of putting our latest preprint in context, led by @lucydillon.bsky.social. A combined ML and pangenome approach of over 16K genomes reveals the possibility of evolutionary dead ends in MDR organisms that could be exploited therapeutically. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Genomic constraints shape the evolution of alternative routes to drug resistance in prokaryotes
Background Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is wh...
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Wonderful to see the launch of the School of Biological Sciences! 🎓 @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social newest undergraduate degree programmes! BSc Agricultural Sciences and BSc/MSci Veterinary Biosciences - exciting opportunities for the next generation of scientists #HE #Degrees
Presentation of the new degree programmes
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Science is the ultimate team sport! Next week @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social hosts researchers from 15 countries for the EU H2020 HoloRuminant project. International collaboration, different perspectives, shared data, common goals! 🌍🐄 Looking forward to it! #HoloRuminant #MicrobialEcology #EUH2020
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 25/08/2025
Our newest title, Microbiology Outlooks is now open to submissions! If you have a review, perspective, or commentary to contribute, submit to this forward-looking journal covering all areas of microbiology research: microb.io/Mout. #NewJournal #Mout
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Nicole Dubilier @nicoledubilier.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay! Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis
The partnership between corals and their intracellular algal symbionts has long been a textbook example of mutually beneficial association. In this essay, Mikhail Matz argues for an updated view in which the coral acts more as a farmer of algal cells to support its own growth.
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Is there only one "path" that evolution tends to take when a new trait arises? Or can the trait arise in more than one way? In other words, walking back from a particular evolutionary "destination", do we always take the same path? The answer might be "no", at least some of the time. In fact... 1/n
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New preprint from the group: @lucydillon.bsky.social analysis of 16,000+ genomes finds Bacteria cannot combine certain resistance genes as they are mutually exclusive, forcing them down incompatible evolutionary paths. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671315v1 @jomcinerney.bsky.social
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Genomic constraints shape the evolution of alternative routes to drug resistance in prokaryotes.
Background: Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is w...
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Available now: Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship (with BBSRC NILAB) Integrating AI and Taxonomy-Free Classification for Enhanced Microbiome Analysis of One Health Environments. Merging AI & microbiomics to drive impactful advancements in One Health. Apply here: www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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REF: NILAB-2025 - BIO-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Final day! You have until 23:59 GMT+0 March 10 to apply yo the LinneSys scheme. We (@systassn.bsky.social and @linneansociety.bsky.social) provide up to 1500GBP for taxonomy and/or systematics projects. You just need to be a member to apply. Apply TODAY: systass.org/linnesys/
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LinneSys: Systematics Research Fund
LinneSys: Systematics Research Fund The Councils of The Linnean Society of London and The Systematics Association jointly administer this fund for the benefit of systematics research. The Fund has …
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
On the eve of international women’s day, it’s worth being reminded why it’s so important.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's #DarwinDay! Here is Charles Darwin as part of the series "Men of the Day" (1871) from Vanity Fair (UK), a weekly magazine. Unsigned chromolithograph by James Jacques Tissot that is accompanied by an article by Thomas Gibson Bowles. Read here: bit.ly/40S5cdP
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 12/02/2025
#OnThisDay in 1941 the first patient, Albert Alexander, was treated with Penicillin. This event marked the success of antibiotics and their application in medicine. His story serves as a testament to inspire researchers to develop new life-saving antibiotics in an effort against AMR #KnockingOutAMR
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Love this :D
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Phil B. Pope @microbesrule.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Congratulations DR @cmkobel.bsky.social on the successful defense of your thesis 🙌🏼 Massive thanks to @hairyllama.bsky.social and @manuelkleiner.bsky.social for the time and your style which made the day all the more entertaining.
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Aberystwyth Uni Computer Science @abercompsci.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
First up a bioinformatics project with Dr Wayne Aubrey Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions at Aberystwyth University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions at Aberystwyth University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Karen Siu Ting @telmatobita.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
3 funded PhD opportunities to work with me and my new lab. 2 led by me and the other I will co-supervise with parasitologist Prof. Geoff Gobert, QUB. #PhD #bioinformatics #Genomics #AI #biodiversity See next post to find out about these projects! 👇
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Karen Siu Ting @telmatobita.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#PhD 1: Effects of Mercury in Amazonian Amphibians 🐸 as part of BBSRC funded NorthWestBio DTP. Based at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Project: tinyurl.com/frogHg Apply: tinyurl.com/NWBapply Deadline: 06/01/2025
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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
He’s making a list…
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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If science talks were like social media videos #science
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
For anyone attending VIBE/ICBG conference 2024 this week in Galway, keep an eye out for some Creevey Lab members, including talks by Emmet Campbell and John-Paul Wilkins and posters by @lucydillon.bsky.social and Corey Woods. vibe-icbg.com/Event_Schedu...
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Not a bad start to a Tuesday, listening to Prof. Brian Cox putting all the petty things in perspective 🤯
Prof Brian Cox on a stage talking in front of a picture of a vast and colourful galaxy
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
First time for me to be at Stormont, meeting First and Deputy First ministers as part of the launch of the Aquaphage project led by Tim skvortsov at QUB Pharmacy to tackle the algal blooms in Lough Neagh.
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
🚀 Join Us as a Computational Research Fellow! 🌱 Passionate about sustainable food systems? The Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems @QUBelfast is hiring! Innovate and transform the agri-food sector with us. 🌍 📢 Apply Now: go.qub.ac.uk/5gkbc #JobAlert #SustainableFood
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
We have a fully funded PhD opportunity to start on Oct 2025 on "Harnessing Explainable AI to Identify Key Microbial Drivers of Reduced Ruminant Greenhouse Gas Emissions" funded by SUSTAIN (www.sustain-cdt.ai/creevey) Closing date Sunday 27th October 2024! Please share.
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Creevey 2025 Q2122 | SUSTAIN
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
Join us for a competitively-funded PhD studentship applying machine learning for early-warning of AMR-Associated One-Health risks in Wastewater. Open to international students! Apply here: qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline August 1st! #metagenomics #AMR #OneHealth
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REF: SBIO-2020-1244 - BIO-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Congratulations Dr. Lucy Dillon on passing her viva yesterday! 🥳. Many thanks to examiners @jomcinerney.bsky.social and Dr. Deirdre Gilpin and convenor Dr. Simon Cameron.
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