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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

#AMGDMar26 social media prize runner up for yours truly. The content wasn’t strong enough to generate engagement this week. And you’ve got to be all killer and no filler when so many people have given up socials for lent. We do not let this slip, we go to Belfast. More of the same. We go again.

Seminar room with the projector displaying screenshots of the socials posts. My posts referencing benny hill and Heather Small’s Proud (one for the music of the millenium and Miranda fans out there). Winning post from Magdalena.
Raymond on the left and David at the lectern

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Brilliant talk from Prof Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social looking at the application of the skills we’ve learned this week toward outbreaks and pandemics plus the importance of democratising genomics and bioinformatics!

Photo in a small seminar room, white slide with the title Genomics, data sharing and stopping outbreaks becoming pandemics. David on the left and Nick behind the lectern

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A late update for Day 5 of #AMGDMar26 on Friday our final day was blessed with beautiful sunshine in B15. A stark contrast to Thursday’s rain and strong winds. Enjoyed wrapping up our top secret task: the disease outbreak scenario 🔬🦠

Bright sunshine with hazy clouds in the sky, view looking out over the car park towards old Joe and University of Birmingham campus

Bright blue skies above the medical school, small traffic including an sls van sporadic commuters dotted throughout the photo

View of the canals beside Snow Hill station, the water reflecting back blue skies and surrounding buildings

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

#AMGDMar26 Back once again with the very jazzy outputs: colour coordinated (ooooo) and also alongside pangenome work using phandango (aaaaaa). Bairn’s phylogenetic arboretum with trees from a number (3) different coding origins

Coloured and separated phylogenetic tree with the fictional samples from infected patients highlighted red, suspects highlighted blue and the civilians as white

Phandango software plotting phylogenetic tree data and pangenome analysis

File path from the course. White background. Folder symbol/day3/task_arboretum/ then three folders with mash tree, parsnp and snippy based trees

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

#AMGDMar26 Bairn’s first phylogenetic tree, please ignore the reflection of the light at one of the nodes it’s not a clade experiencing a damascene intervention it’s purely the reflection from the ceiling.

Phylogenetic tree on a white background, light reflecting off of one of the lines associated to a clade

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Day 4 of Analysing Microbial Genomic data #AMGDMar26 Working with Core and Pangenomes and building phylogenetic arboretums. More overcast today and being battered by the wind but lovely conditions for coding!

University of Birmingham medical school big old brick/stone building with clock tower towards the back of the shot.

Small lecture room with a white title slide with the text Analysing Microbial Genomic Data. Day 4 part 1. David behind the lecturn on the right and Izzie on the left.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Utilised the lunchtime walk to visit the market on campus to get some grapes and this walloping slab of Raspberry and Peach cobbler cake. Absolutely zero slump this afternoon, sailed through to coffee and onto home time.

Paper plate with a large beige slice of cake lying on top of it thick cream in the centre of the cake. Slice covers the whole plate. Peach slices and raspberries on the top with cooked peach slices in with the cream centre.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Great presentation from Helen from @microbesng.bsky.social , outlining the different sequencing products and procedures. Will be feeding back to people on Tyneside!

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Day2 of #AMGDMar26 brought back my struggles with for loops during PhD bioinformatics training. The morning very much felt like Dr Jon Tickle running on custard getting to grips with sequencing data, quality checks and trimming on a small scale. But by home time I was shovill’ing with the best of em

Bullring statue in Birmingham New Street, a large metal bull on the concourse of a train station, light coming through the ceiling panes.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Plenty of merch #AMGDMar26 including a tote bag, j’adore a tote bag. Notebook and laptop sticker all with the course logo on. #yesplease Also looking forward to completing a top secret task. Applying skills to a fictional scenario. Once more. #yesplease

Brown envelope with red top secret stamp beside course notebook

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

After some Benny Hill-esque running round New Street finding platforms to take me the ~3 miles in 5 minutes. I arrived in Edgbaston armed with my map and supported by Pharmacy students made it to where I needed to be! Thank you to the UoB students!!

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Early start Monday morning to travel down to Birmingham for #AMGDMar26 Intentions of updating the timeline on the train were derailed by having minimal arm space and musical chairs. Nutrition provided by Greggs.

Central station main entry facing northbound toward the clock reading 05:10

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Second talk from BvdB covering cell surface biology in Bacteroides. Always great to see the pedal bin and TonB plug. J’adore the pedal bin. Massive thank you to the #dreamtheme speakers, attendees and organisers. And to @winterhalterlab.bsky.social for chairing!

Busy seminar room, Bert behind the lectern to his right a white title slide, text reads Cell Surface Biology of Bacteroides.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Couple of @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social updates also. Building upon our structural biology strength int he theme and a little bit of #glycotime too. We had fantastic talks from @jlreyre.bsky.social and Bert van den Berg. Jean-Lou with a fantastic talk building on the Lowe lab work on D-arabinases.

Busy seminar room, at the lectern Jean-Lou to the right, the chair Charles with a dark shirt and glasses, to the right again the projected slides: a white background title slide.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The invited speakers were clinician @tomhellyer.bsky.social giving insight to stewardship in a clinical care setting and @liverpooluni.bsky.social ‘s Ishwar Singh talking about teixobactins. Great to hear insight on a clinical study and attempts at complex synthetic chemistry that biology with ease

Tom in a blue shirt behind a Newcastle university lectern, behind him two large screens with white background and black text reading antibiotic stewardship in critical care.

Ishwar behind the Newcastle university lectern in a grey jumper behind him two large screens displaying white background with black text: tackling 21st century bacteria with 21st century chemistry: the teixobactin story.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Final WAAW post because, let’s face it, antimicrobial stewardship shouldn’t just be for just one week. The session at Newcastle University @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social was organised by a group of undergraduates including @microbiologysociety.org champion Eloise. #microbiochamps

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Fantastic talks across medical students, NHS staff and PhD students. Nice chats with people about their work and wider microbiology. Getting a bit of championing the @microbiologysociety.org in aswell #microbiochamps. Also great see the old haunt in its new form, still as windy as it ever was!

The John Dawson Sciences Complex at dusk, icy wooden slats of the quad out front. Lights still on in the offices and labs.

Plenty of lense for on a selfie of John (myself) dressed like a cat burglar or former apple owner to brace against the icy conditions. The John Dawson Science Complex in the back ground, the entry foyer with a lime green glow.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Following up with last weeks adventures, Wednesday was a trip on the new metro through to Sunderland for a job fair and then the AMR awareness symposia run by the University of Sunderland School of Medicine.

The new metro, headlights on, in resplendent bright yellow arriving onto platform 1 at Gateshead on the way to South Hylton. Beige tiles and deep grey walls.

Light blue program with the title 1st anti microbial resistance awareness symposium. Book of abstracts. Logos for university of Sunderland, Royal Society of chemistry and world AMR awareness week.

Busy seminar room with a white and blue title slide welcoming to 1st AMR awareness symposium at University of Sunderland

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Second talk was from another of M3031's finest, Finn Brady from @jmarlesw.bsky.social lab working on the general stressosome 🫡 Lovely to see how this story is moving along!

Photo of the seminar room with Finn on the left by the lectern, displaying a white title slide with title bacterial stressosome complexes and a structural diagram similar to a cauliflower. White in the middle with pink projections.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Busy week last week kicked off with another billy belter of a seminar from @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social First talk from James Haycocks from @banzhaflab.bsky.social with some cool work with chemical genomics on Vibrio. It's great seeing the high throughput plates in action. #dreamtheme

Busy seminar room, James on the far left in a grey jumper. Prof. Stewart between the lectern and the white title slide on the big screen.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Second talk was from Prof. Frank Sargent with an interesting talk on TXSS. Another set of brilliant talks from the #dreamtheme, with plenty of further reading, thanks to speakers, @dave-bolam.bsky.social chairing and the other organisers from the theme!

Same busy seminar room with Prof. Sargent at the computer on the left and a blue title screen.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Great to attend @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar series yday, 1st talk from Kathleen of @jmarlesw.bsky.social lab with a brilliant Structural Biology 101 from an ÄKTA aficionado for the angstrom averse, to explain the structure discovery pipeline and what’s making structural biologists so sad.

Busy seminar room with Kathleen front left pointing toward the title slide

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Apple and date slice. Yes. Please. 10/10. Moist filling but a firm base. Crumble on the top. I think that’s pushed the lemon drizzle to the side. It’s certainly outcompeted the NCL carrot cake that’s for sure. It’s been a week, I’m still thinking about it. It’s good stuff don’t miss out.

Apple and date slice with a crumble on top, place on a white plate.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Three cakes on offer at Manchester. Pink lemonade cake. 7/10. Had two slices one very good, one a bit dry. Averaged the two. Not troubling NCL lemon drizzle. Pink dragonfruit cake. 6/10. Rich icing, but cake itself fell short. It was good but room for improvement.

Two slices of cake, the pink lemonade with pink/purple mottled sides and the Pink Grapefruit beige cake with bright pink icing

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We also had great speakers in Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts from Durham and Liverpool and Mark Leake from @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social discussing experiences and opportunities of interdisciplinary collaboration. Loads to think about from this session and already signposted two people towards PoLNET!

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The afternoon focused on interdisciplinary collaboration. Strengthening your networking and how best to sell your expertise and what you need to be a good collaborator. ‘The best research you can do is talk to people!’ was a the first important step to opening collaboration.

Picture of Lisa with slide which includes a picture from an expedition and the Terry Pratchett quote ‘the best research you can do is talk to people’.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Lunch was paired with networking time chatting about our backgrounds, current research and how good this apple and date slice was. Lots of microbiologists in the house, coming from institutes all over the country.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The morning session looked at mentoring, career planning and goal setting. Invited speakers were @claudiabonfio.bsky.social , James Duce and @kamarameenali.bsky.social shared career paths from more linear to a vine network between NHS, academia, industry and independent organisations.

A slice of hard rock sweet the type you’d get from the seaside in the pre Snapchat era. With Events Rock written in the middle.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This time last week I had a brilliant time at the Early Career Symposium. after a lovely amble from the station to The Core @manchester.ac.uk it was pretty much registration time complete with coffee and pink lemonade cake. More on that later.

Overcast sky in Manchester City centre. A clock tower poking out the top of building works.

The foyer of The Core building with white walls, white tiled floor and a glass ceiling. The wall reads “Inspire…, Invent…,Innovate…”

Pink lemonade cake, several slices of soft cake with pink mottling

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Early start this morning for @biochemsoc.bsky.social Early Career Symposium in 0161 exploring collaboration, mentorship and networking 🐝 #BiochemEvent Exciting few days in the North West to come!

View from platform 8 central station facing out towards the quayside and Gateshead dark skies broken by lit windows

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thank you to @proftracypalmer.bsky.social for providing the chocolate cake and apricot roll (eaten before photo taken) which more than held their own against the Lemon drizzle cake (the jewel in the crown of NCL catering )

Chocolate cake in a tray with milk chocolate icing and white chocolate shavings.

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John Clark-Corrigall @johncorrigall.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Kicking off my Bluesky #content with a view from the train window on my way to @amiposts.bsky.social early career meeting in Liverpool #LAM_ECS2025 Looking forward to a busy day of microbiology 🧫🔬

Image of the bridges across a calm river Tyne from a train window, yellows and oranges of sunrise starting at the horizon.

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