Josie Bryant
@Josie_M_B
Group leader at Wellcome Sanger Institute working on bacterial genomics🔬 with focus on chronic lung infections 🫁 and within-host evolution
I'm so excited to be returning to @sangerinstitute this September as a group leader in the parasites and microbes program 🎉 My lab will be trying to understand microbial evolution in the lungs of people with chronic lung disease. Blog post about me and thread 👇 1/
We are delighted to welcome @Josie_M_B as a new group leader @sangerinstitute ✨ She's returning to Sanger to study how microbes in human lungs evolve and adapt 🦠🫁 and how this affects health and disease 🔬 #WomenInScience #ScienceTwitter bit.ly/3QWgW9f
We are delighted to share that our very own Yvette Hooks has been shortlisted for a 2025 Papin Prize: the Professor Lord Bhattacharyya Lifetime Achievement Award 🎉 The award recognises continued excellence across an individual's technical career 🌟
our work mapping the molecular + cellular progression of lung damage in severe COVID-19 is out @NatureComms ! A covid side project that turned into a labour of love over the years & really happy @THJimmyLee & Sam pushed this collaboration over the line. nature.com/articles/s4146…
Happy to share this summary of my recent work in the lab, piloting the use of PAXgene-fixed samples for 10x Xenium. Hoping to be able to make use of PFPE samples for cool genomics-transcriptomics
Optimisation of Xenium automated in situ sequencing for PAXgene-fixed tissue samples biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_molbio
“More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution” Tragically & far too young my amazing sister ❤️. theguardian.com/society/2025/f…
Conducting research in LMICs is undeniably challenging, with brain drain often surpassing reverse brain drain. Grateful to @NatureRevMicro for the opportunity to share an opinion discussing both the difficulties and rewards of working in this space. rdcu.be/d7O5Q [1/2]
Two days remaining to apply for a Postdoc in my team exploring somatic mutational landscapes across primate species. The position is based @GeneticsCam and will involve collaboration with @sangerinstitute and @UCBerkeley
🦍Postdoc in Somatic Evolutionary Genomics🦍 Join my team @GeneticsCam on a pioneering project mapping somatic mutations across primates! 🌍Collaborate with experts @UCBerkeley & @sangerinstitute. 🔍Experience in genomics? Apply by Nov 16! Details: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48757/
⭐ Excellence fellowships accepting applications ⭐ for Black ECRs who have a degree from the UK. sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellcome… I have an amazing spatial transcriptomics project available on the world's most important pathogen 🦠, TB: sanger.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… Please reach out!
Rapid tuberculosis diagnosis from respiratory or blood samples by a low cost, portable lab-in-tube assay | Science Translational Medicine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
1 week left to apply
If you have experience in sc/spatial transcriptomics with an interest in microbes....come and join our team as a computational postdoc: sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/WellcomeSang... Incredibly exciting datasets on host-microbe interactions in the lung. Pls RT and reach out if you are interested
Closing date 26/03
AI-based imaging of zebrafish Position with @MostowyLab @FuchterMatt @briscoejames jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…
Really fun to write this paper on spatial transcriptomics with @SarahBuddenborg . It’s an exciting technique that has a lot of potential in Parasitology for new insights.
In our Jan issue: Entering the #spatial age of parasite #genomics, authored by @SarahBuddenborg & @stephenrdoyle highlighting Simone Haeberlein & colleagues’ @NatureComms article. #Transcriptomics #Helminths #Fasciola #hepatica @sangerinstitute @jlugiessen cell.com/trends/parasit…
Interested in predicting AMR in bacteria? We show ignoring phylogenetic structure in genome collections leads to overly optimistic evaluations of machine learning methods for AMR prediction. With @YanyingYu and @nwheeler443. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Faculty opportunity @sangerinstitute in the Parasites & Microbes programme! Seeking microbiologists & data scientists passionate about high-throughput omics to tackle big questions. Apply now: sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellcome…
There are four (that's right four) academic posts at the School of Biological sciences at Cambridge University. Check them out here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?categor... Gr10/11 (AssocProf/Reader; now Prof) Closing 26/1/25. Looking for excellent, collaborative people. Spread the word!
Our bodies are home to millions of microbes, and @Josie_M_B (Group Leader, @SangerInstitute) will be with us at #FOG2025 to tell discuss the respiratory #microbiome at #spatial resolution. Register now: hubs.la/Q02WX_8N0
Prize Medal 2025: Professor Richard Lenski, Michigan State University, USA (@michiganstateu)
Meet Arnav - he's just finished up his Masters' at the Sanger Institute and is on track to merge infectious disease research with clinical work, as he begins his studies @harvardmed. Visit the blog for the full story of Arnav's journey⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2024/10/31/unp… @ChurchillCol
I am hiring a Research Assistant microbiologist! We are new, expanding research group at @UccMicrobiology and @Pharmabiotic studying anaerobic gut bacteria. Deadline for applications 29th November. Apply here: ore.ucc.ie Job ID: 081111