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Laura Hollis

@laurahollis.bsky.social
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PhD Microbiology & Infection graduate, UoB | 🏳️‍🌈

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Another brilliant PhD student joins the IMI alumni list
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Laura Hollis @laurahollis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thrilled to have passed my PhD viva yesterday! A wonderful way to end 4 great years in the Geoghegan lab.
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Sheppard Lab @sheppardlab.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Find @lillycummins.bsky.social to know more about the evolution and spread of E. coli ST131 ! #Microbio26 @microbiologysociety.org @ineosoxford.bsky.social
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Ilyas Alav @ilyasalav.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My main postdoc paper is now out in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Using flow cytometry, we show that the nucleoside analogues azidothymidine, didanosine, stavudine, and trifluridine reduced transfer of AMR plasmids pCT and pKpQIL (1/3)
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Mechanistic insights into plasmid transfer inhibition in Enterobacterales by nucleoside analogues - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Mechanistic insights into plasmid transfer inhibition in Enterobacterales by nucleoside analogues
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Lilly Cummins @lillycummins.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past two years thinking about genome evolution and how recent research revealing complex gene-gene interactions has complicated traditional ‘gene-centric’ genomic approaches to evolution. So here is a review that consolidates these thoughts! rdcu.be/e6pHY
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Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution
Nature Reviews Genetics - Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic...
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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥 Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠 Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC
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Ilyas Alav @ilyasalav.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... My first corresponding author paper is now out in MMBR @asm.org! In this review, @csdetweiler.bsky.social and I assess the evidence for RND efflux pumps as virulence determinants in Gram-negative bacteria.
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Beyond antibiotic resistance: evidence for resistance-nodulation-division (RND) efflux pumps as virulence determinants | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
SUMMARYEarly in evolution, cells acquired the ability to use energy to export waste and toxic products against a concentration gradient. In Gram-negative bacteria, the resistance-nodulation-cell divis...
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Lilly Cummins @lillycummins.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨New pre-print 🚨 We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Genome co-adaptation and the evolution of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacterial pathogens is a major threat to global health, rendering standard treatments ineffective and increasing the risk of severe infection or death. Re...
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Institute of Microbiology and Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Culture club! Do probiotic yoghurt drinks really contain live bacteria? Let's find out at IMI Summer school 2025 🦠🦠
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Institute of Microbiology and Infection @imibirmingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/04/2025
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity 💜 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
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Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research @ineosoxford.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
💻 @lillycummins.bsky.social uses bioinformatics to monitor and predict the evolution of resistance in bacterial genomes. Read more about her research ➡️️ www.ineosoxford.ox.a...
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Lilly Cummins @lillycummins.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Very happy to have completed my viva this morning 🥳 Thanks to my examiners and my supervisors @alanmcn1.bsky.social @nwheeler443.bsky.social for all their support throughout my PhD
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Its now official that the amazing @lillycummins.bsky.social is a super phenomenal microbial genomicst. PhD viva passed with NO CORRECTIONS! Even with Jukka Corander as examiner! Thanks to Jukka, @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social and @jessicamablair.bsky.social for examining
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Lilly Cummins @lillycummins.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
New paper! 📣 We looked at the prevalence of type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) across E. coli and characterised the systems present in renowned MDR lineages ST410 and ST131 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... (1/2)
Boxplots showing the presence of T6SS genes across 21 STs of E. coli, grouped by phylogroup.
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Well done for getting this out @lillycummins.bsky.social! @alanmcn1.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Parallel loss of type VI secretion systems in two multi-drug-resistant Escherichia coli lineages
The repeated emergence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli clones is a threat to public health globally. In recent work, drug-resistant E. coli were shown to be capable of displacing comm...
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Our latest, from the phenomenal @lillycummins.bsky.social out today in Mgen. We show parallel loss of T6SS through gene deletion in two MDR E. coli lineages. This shows our previous displacement work isnt driven by Type VI www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
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