Kate Baker
Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Connecting pathogen evolution with public health outcomes. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kate Baker🚀 Happening this week! 🧬 Dive into the TyphiNET AMR surveillance dashboard with Dr Zoe Dyson, LSHTM 🦠 Discover how genomics data is powering public health insights ➕ Featuring an ECR talk from Dr Parul Sharma, Emory University 📅 Thurs 5 Feb @ 12pm GMT 🔗 Register: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/th...
- Reposted by Kate Baker📢 Call for Abstracts! 📊 We're now accepting abstract submissions for Lightning Presentations at the TARGetAMR Conference 2026! 🧠 📅 Deadline: Friday 20th March, 5pm GMT 🔗 Submit yours here: www.targetamr.org.uk/now-open-cal... #TARGetAMR26
- Anyone else stuck in some sort of time warp today??? ⏳🕰️⏰⏱️⌚ I have so far received an APC invoice for a paper published in 2021 and a Research fish reporting request for a grant that ended in 2020
- Reposted by Kate BakerThe Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications, aimed at non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more and apply by 11 March: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newton-inter…
- @pducambridge.bsky.social is 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...
- Reposted by Kate BakerDear #AMR #genomics and big data community: please be informed that the programme of the Wellcome AMR conference in Hinxton on March 23-26th is now online: coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimi... - please register before Feb 24th for onsite participation
- Reposted by Kate BakerWe are excited to announce that as of January 1st @yhgrad.bsky.social is the new Director of @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social, joining him is @jeff-imai-eaton.bsky.social, as Associate Director. Join us in congratulating Yonatan and Jeff in their new roles! ➡️ Learn about CCDD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URu...
- Just two more days to submit your abstracts to the @shigellameeting.bsky.social - can't wait to see everyone there! www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
- Reposted by Kate Baker🫁 AIR 2026 registration closing 19th Jan Focused on respiratory infection, microbiomes and immunity, with amazing speakers. Incl genomics, single-cell, spatial and systems approaches. 📍 Wellcome Genome Campus 📅 11–14 Feb coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/air-20...
- Happy New Year Shigellophiles! There's only 105 days to go ... don't forget to get your abstract in!
- Come and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
- It’s that magical time of year 🥳 when we delete all work apps from our phones 🙌 Happy holidays everyone, and catch you in 2026! Oh, and don’t forget to register for the @shigellameeting.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kate Baker📣 UKHSA survey on gonorrhoea testing practices in England UKHSA is inviting sexual health services & diagnostic labs to take part in a national survey on current gonorrhoea testing practices across England. ⏱️ 15 minutes 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2026 🔗 Take part here: surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo
- Reposted by Kate BakerThe final piece of my PhD work is now published in Science Translational Medicine! We present a new framework to jointly infer epidemiological and antigenic parameters from multi-pathogen population serological studies🦠 www.science.org/stoken/autho...
- Reposted by Kate BakerWe are recruiting for a number of PhDs in the HPRU in Public Health Genomics, based at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, in collaboration with UKHSA. 🦠🧬 Apply below to work on cutting-edge science and public health priorities! (NB deadline of 9th January / UK only due to funding restrictions) (1/7)
- Reposted by Kate BakerCome and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
- Travel bursary deadline closing tomorrow - get your abstracts in December 16!
- Reposted by Kate BakerWork on respiratory immunology or microbes? Interested in big data, omics or the latest in vitro models?... Treat your lab to a christmas present of AIR 2026 registration! Feb 11th-13th, registration closing soon: coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/air-20...
- Reposted by Kate BakerAttending ESCMID global and want to go to #Shigella2026 afterward? There are several direct flights a day from Munich to Paris www.skyscanner.net or why not reduce your carbon footprint and take in the European countryside by train www.raileurope.com/en? Most options <£100 See you there!
- Get the dates in your calendars guys: June 27 - July 2 2027 for the GRC in Microbial Population Biology 🧬 🧫 🌴
- It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky
- Reposted by Kate BakerIt’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky
- Reposted by Kate BakerDr Somenath Bakshi is 1 of 8 @cam.ac.uk researchers who will receive a share of the @erc.europa.eu's €728m Consolidator Grant awards this year www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid... He will map how bacterial physiology controls the infection dynamics of phage – a #virus that infects & kills #bacteria 🦠
- Reposted by Kate Baker📢 Thrilled to see that our work on chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemiology in Brazil is out in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social 🧵
- New Research The epidemiology of chikungunya virus in Brazil and the potential impact of vaccines: a mathematical modelling study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by Kate BakerOne week remains to submit #early #abstracts and apply for #travel grants for the #Shigella meeting! #MicroSky #IDSky 🦠🧫🔬 @ksbakes.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @marteynlab.bsky.social @christinafaher1.bsky.social www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
- Treat yourself this Christmas to a registration for the #Shigella2026 meeting in Paris!
- 🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention 📅 April 20-24, 2026 📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home @embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kate Baker🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention 📅 April 20-24, 2026 📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home @embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kate BakerMetaPointFinder: A new approach for detecting mutation-driven antimicrobial resistance directly from metagenomic reads. Fills a major gap in current resistome profiling by capturing chromosomal AMR mutations that metagenome tools miss. github.com/aldertzomer/...
- Reposted by Kate BakerOpening of a Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr , Paris research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...
- Reposted by Kate Baker🚨 Registration is now OPEN! 🎉Join us for the TARGetAMR Annual Conference 2026 on Thursday 14 & Friday 15 May at The Studio, Birmingham 🦠Connect, collaborate & tackle antimicrobial resistance ✨Secure your spot today! 👉 Register now: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta... #TARGetAMR26
- These two things aren’t mutually exclusive: open.spotify.com/track/5NS0ip...
- Reposted by Kate BakerPoster deadline for the Keystone Microbiome Meeting in Banff is December 30th www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/... Will be a great meeting focused on human microbiomes, spanning basic, mechanistic, and applied. Organized by myself, @amibhatt.bsky.social , and Harry Sokol. Join us!
- These are gold
- Twitching was like Pokémon Go before there was Pokémon Go … minus the battles I guess 🦅 🦢 🐦
- Okay, it's the start of the academic year and there have been further funny (and some frustrating) mix ups ... just a gentle reminder that there are two of us - try to make sure you have the right one ...
- Reposted by Kate BakerEncourage creativity and storytelling for young folk 9+ with a copy of Graphic Novel Builder: the illustrated guide to making your own comics! With an intro by Alice Oseman! ✏️ www.edwardross.co.uk/shop/p/graph...
- Reposted by Kate BakerReally pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab. We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung. The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- I have a wonderful colleague who calls these things out by saying “It’s interesting you think that, what makes you think that?”
- Normally I would agree with this but it’s 2025 and the 30th of November is right there. A conveniently located Sunday. It’s gonna happen people.
- Reposted by Kate Baker#Abstract submissions are open for The #Shigella Meeting! If you would like to be considered for a #travel #grant, abstracts are due December 16, 2025. Regular submissions due January 14, 2026. Show us your #science! @shigellameeting.bsky.social 🦠 🧫🔬 #Microsky #IDsky
- Don't forget to register for the #1st ever @shigellameeting.bsky.social at Pasteur next year! Apr 20 - 24 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
- This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics, therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026
- Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫 🗓️ 23-25 March 2026 Submit abstract by 1 December 📩 Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field. 📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm #MicroSky #AMR2026
- Reposted by Kate BakerHappy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use
- Reposted by Kate Baker🚨Job claxon 🚨 University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
- Reposted by Kate BakerLondon interdisciplinary #PhD position now open with myself, @sergemostowylab.bsky.social, & @gmknght.bsky.social on #phage -bacteria-host immune dynamics for WHO priority bacterial pathogens #Klebsiella, #Shigella, and #Staph. Combines cellular microbiology, genomics, & mathematical modelling.
- Reposted by Kate BakerKnow metagenomics and could spare 2 mins? I'm applying for funding to build a visual repository for metagenomic classification data (not sequence data). To support the application, I have a short 2 minute survey and it would be a big help if you could fill it in: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Kate BakerIf you’re at @astmh.bsky.social #ASTMH2025 check out our session today on Enteric Pathogen Genomics & Evolution (room 717, 16:30) featuring @ksbakes.bsky.social on Shigella, plus 2 other great talks on V. cholerae phages, and Salmonella!
- For anyone else whose Mac Outlook 365 has started making regular, massive faux pas through Autocorrect recently: Start typing new email > Edit > Spelling and Grammar > uncheck 'Correct Spelling Automatically'. Literally just called a new collaborator Baby because of this ... 🙄
- Are you hungry for some Shigella news? Why not come to the 1st International Shigella meeting www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home 20-24 April 2026 Paris
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- Why attend the @shigellameeting.bsky.social in 6 months you ask? (🧵) 🦠 🧫 🔬 #Microsky #IDsky What a question and a grand request, To muse on why scientists should travel for a pest! Forget lonely lab benches and the pipette's cold song, There are better pursuits for which researchers long.
- Reposted by Kate BakerFunded PhD position available in @langridgelab.bsky.social! Excellent project in a very supportive, driven & knowledgable group 🧬
- Can we stop calling it a slow pandemic yet?
- Between 2018–2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40% of the pathogen–antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual rise of 5–15%. Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u
- If it were GDP we would definitely refer to 5% - 15% as booming … maybe we’re in a booming pandemic of AMR
- Reposted by Kate BakerWe are running a hackathon at EBI in Feb: biomics.bacpop.org If you are at EMBL, ETH Zurich, GRC or GIMM working on a biological problem in data science or programming, consider putting a project forwards!
- Reposted by Kate BakerSign up for tomorrow's hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Danny Dorling of @ox.ac.uk. He'll be discussing the politics of epidemiology & public health in the UK 📅 Wed 15 October, 1 PM (UK) Register - buff.ly/wblZfOx @dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social
- Abstracts you're thinking about for this conference might also be suitable for our Nature AMR collection in the genomics of resistance - open until March 24 2026! www.nature.com/collections/...
- Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫 🗓️ 23-25 March 2026 Submit abstract by 1 December 📩 Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field. 📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm #MicroSky #AMR2026
- Reposted by Kate BakerEnhanced virulence and stress tolerance are signatures of epidemiologically successful Shigella sonnei @sydneylmiles.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social 🙏to transformative collaborative effort www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Kate BakerPresent your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫 🗓️ 23-25 March 2026 Submit abstract by 1 December 📩 Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field. 📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm #MicroSky #AMR2026
- Reposted by Kate BakerWe had the in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social leadership team today. We have some great plans for AMR genomics for the next year (and beyond), so follow us for updates!
- Reposted by Kate Bakernew preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
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- Reposted by Kate BakerThis is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
- ⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater. The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable. interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
- Reposted by Kate BakerThe @embo.org self-leadership for women scientists course focuses on 4 pillars of experience as a human being + researcher: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-management + self-growth. Places still available on 14-16 October online course: www.embolableadership.org/course/self-... #SelfLeadership
- Reposted by Kate BakerI can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun
- Reposted by Kate BakerTenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...
- Microsoft Outlook just told me some of my attachments are "pretty large" and asked if I wanted to upload to OneDrive instead. How come you're allowed to use superfluous adverbs Outlook while all my "really"s and "very"s get your snooty little blue line?!
- Reposted by Kate BakerA great opportunity to attend the #Shigella meeting April 20-24, 2026! Abstract submissions are open! @shigellameeting.bsky.social #Microsky
- Why not apply for a Microbiology Society grant to support your attendance at @shigellameeting.bsky.social? microbiologysociety.org/grants/all-g...
- Reposted by Kate BakerDelighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n
- Reposted by Kate BakerNewly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization. Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
- Reposted by Kate Baker🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
- Reposted by Kate BakerCome and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Output != Productivity, which is a measure of efficiency, and the first Figure in this paper seems to suggest that women actually produce more papers per year than men (albeit from a disadvantaged starting point, x-axis is years in research). Graphical abstract also seems misleading on this.
- How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ
- Reposted by Kate BakerRegistration & abstract submissions are open for the #Shigella meeting! Travel grants available too! All are welcomed, whether you are active in #Shigella research or interested in the 21st century perspective on this formidable pathogen! 🦠 🧫 #Microsky www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
- Reposted by Kate BakerIntroducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer
- Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography: A Generalisable Framework for Studying Multivariate Drug Resistance biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Kate BakerWe will be talking about our favorite microorganism #Shigella at the @shigellameeting.bsky.social in April 2026! 🦠 🧫 @ksbakes.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @marteynlab.bsky.social
