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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Genetics - come and join our department! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Out today: an opinion piece we’ve been thinking around for a while now to narrow the diarrhoeal disease surveillance gap between high income settings and LMIC through traveller genomics. Check it out here 👇 1/8 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

👀👇 New work on sexually transmitting Shigella (press-friendly: bit.ly/4bBarEL) From continued collaboration with @clairejenkins2.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social, @pducambridge.bsky.social co-lead @hsalje.bsky.social, a talented student Julia Marshall www.linkedin.com/in/julia--ma..., and others! 🧫🧬💊

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Are you interested in how your genomics work can meaningfully feed into addressing the UK National Action Plan on AMR? 🧬🧫 🦠💊 Then check out our handy personal view out today in Lancet Microbe … 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024–29

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human and animal health, in addition to environmental resilience. Countries set the agenda on thei…

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We are looking for a new lab administrator (0.5 FTE) - come and join in pushing forward our research and impact in infectious disease! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Come and join us in Paris 2026 to talk all about Shigella!

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Oscar Cortes-Azuero @ocortesazuero.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

📢 Thrilled to see that our work on chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemiology in Brazil is out in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social 🧵

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I hope all my fellow #shigellaphiles have 20 - 24 April 2026 blocked out in their diaries for @shigellameeting.bsky.social next year in Paris! In the meantime, check out (and join) our starter pack to start community building now 🧫

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This one has been a long time coming: we delivered this through institutional changes and the team incubated two babies 👶 👶 alongside this phenomenal work dissecting the genomic epidemiology of a globally important Salmonella serovar causing iNTS disease worldwide! 🧬 🧫 💊

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This week, @emiliefinch.bsky.social and @jandraor.bsky.social from our team delivered a hands-on workshop on infectious disease modelling. Participants from KAUST were introduced to the fundamentals of transmission dynamics. Huge thanks to all the participants for their curiosity and engagement.

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

@ksbakes.bsky.social is representing PDU at the GRC Microbial Population Biology conference this week introducing the AMR through time and space session - check out the work of the other attendees here:

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Smashing time at the @pducambridge.bsky.social retreat this week!

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Ipswich looking glorious in the sun. Brilliant 48h with the @pducambridge.bsky.social solving the pressing questions in infectious diseases, competing in penalty shoot outs and cooking up a storm #PDURetreat

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Final one before the weekend ... check out this amazing new preprint from @charlotteechong.bsky.social where she uncovers what the dominant forces are shaping accessory genome dynamics in the WHO AMR priority pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🧫 🛡️💊

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Check out the latest from the lab on Sexually Transmissible shigellosis where @lewiscemason.bsky.social and co unpick why this relatively obscure disease re-emerged endemically in the 21st Century 🔬 🧫 🕵️ 🧬

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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge @geneticscam.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It's the 3rd week of Women’s History Month and we want to introduce you to Dr Angkana Huang [Hat], Postdoctoral Research Fellow @pducambridge.bsky.social Read about her research project and how she is involved in making science more equitable in the Global South ⬇️ www.gen.cam.ac.uk/womens-histo...

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Check out this amazing new NextFlow GWAS pipeline (based on pyseer) by our very own @rositea.bsky.social, a first year PhD student in the PDU!

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A way to use cross sectional serological data to reconstruct the changing circulation patterns of pathogens. All in an R package.

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Great way to start the year! A paper in @nature.com by our amazing @noemie presenting a way to use sequences to identify pathogen lineages, quantify their fitness, and identify potentially important genes/snps . Works across bugs, even with minimally and biased set of sequences.

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Great way to finish the year! Paper by our @huangat.bsky.social in @pnas.org showing that relying on seroconversions in cohorts will usually lead to horribly biased #dengue incidence estimates whereas models relying on age data from local hospital typically robust.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Certain sublineages of antimicrobial resistant bacteria dominate the surveillance landscape, but what causes them to become resistant? Check out our latest work in Shigella to find out and/or read the thread below www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.27.24316207v2 1/n

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Malaka De Silva @malakades.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Very excited to present our latest work as my first post on Bluesky. Thanks to all co-authors for their valuable contributions! A truly mammoth effort with many different fields of expertise coming together. Looking forward to working with all of you in future as well. #Microsky

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Really enjoying having @atjcagan.bsky.social in the @geneticscam.bsky.social who drew this fab piece at our recent research day. Contains some exciting teasers for our next awesome piece of work landing before Christmas! Thanks Alex!

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Really excited to launch the new iteration of the Bakery as part of the Pathogen Dynamics Unit, co-led with @hsalje.bsky.social and @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social Has been awesome working together this last year and really excited for things to come! Please follow and repost.

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Pathogen Dynamics Unit @pducambridge.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Hello world! After a year in the making, the Pathogen Dynamics Unit is ready to launch! Check out our website (pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk) and follow the team (bsky.app/profile/did:...) to keep up with the latest from our infectious disease supergroup based at @geneticscam.bsky.social

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