Conor Meehan
@con_meehan
Researching WGS/Epi/Taxonomy of pathogenic mycobacteria and evo of microbiomes. Irish-born, Nottingham-working. Call me Conchúr if you can pronounce it. He/They
Our MOOC AMR DB course is now open for registration! Please share this link to anyone who may be interested futurelearn.com/courses/antimi…
We are running a massive online open course on AMR databases starting end of the month. Its completely free, study at your own pace and its ~15 hours overall over the 3 weeks (although you can finish any time in a year). Please spread in your networks! …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimicr…
Two weeks left for the abstract submission deadline (Nov 12th) to @MicrobioSoc Annual Conference 2025 in Liverpool. Hoping to get lots of submissions for the Urogenital Microbes session. Fantastic line up of invited speakers already. Please share. microbiologysociety.org/event/annual-c…
Congratulations to @con_meehan and colleagues on the publication of their new manuscript! academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…
📢PHA4GE Webinar Registration Open! Join us for: "Selecting the method & data for building transmission networks: a Mycobacterium tuberculosis case study" 🎙️ @con_meehan, Nottingham Trent University 🗓️ Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #Genomics #PublicHealth
Great to see this paper out from @WinterJody's team. Congratulations to PhD students Stephen and Rebecca! Menadione reduces the expression of virulence- and colonization-associated genes in Helicobacter pylori microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… @ntu_research @NTUSciTech
Join us for our Publishing Fundamentals webinar, dedicated to the publishing process! Hosted by #MGen Editor @con_meehan & a Microbiology Society Publishing Editor, this event will take place on 4 March and is free for members to attend. Register here: buff.ly/3CPZCAR
How should editors and reviewers deal with proposals to reclassify medically relevant bacteria? The guidelines of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…) now provide an answer.
I wrote an article for @ConversationUK on whether birdflu is likely to be the next biggest problem in infectious diseases. theconversation.com/which-infectio…
We are hiring remote bioinformaticians at @theiagen . If you have a passion for microbial bioinformatics or public health, send your CV to [email protected] . You can be based nearly anywhere but need to be available to work US business hours.
It's never too late to celebrate😃! Glad to share that I won the Second Best Poster Prize at the East Midlands AMR Network Research Conference! Grateful to my supervisory team @con_meehan @blackpassiflora @Dan_Whiley1 for their invaluable support! 💫
I have a funded PhD opportunity through MIBTP to look at pneumococci in adults with @MikeyJ (also check out two other projects with Mike and Prof. Joan Geoghegan on other respiratory pathobionts) link here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… Happy to be contacted with questions
I have three PhD studentships available currently through the MIBTP DTP warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... on different aspects of the respiratory microbiome, interaction with mucin with @LucyICM the resistome with @mmcbuckner and pathobionts with @Bacterioskeptic
PhD available. The project is VERY interdisciplinary, combing social science, biophysics and microbiology to understand inequalities of UTIs treatment + replicate them in vitro to help choose the correct antibiotic. Pls share, home students only #AMR tinyurl.com/45d8h54u
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 2025: I’ah Donovan-Banfield (@idb_virology), Dr Ariangela Kozik (@dr_kozik), Dr Nikea Pittman (@nikeapittman), Dr Chelsey Spriggs (@Dr_Sprggs), Dr Ninecia Scott and Dr Kishana Taylor (@kyt_thatsme).
🚨 The Whelan lab is hiring! 🚨 We are looking for a PDRA to join our lab at U of Manchester. We & collab @Mata_Lab are seeking someone interested in interdisciplinary techniques to est a hydrogel biofilm model to study microbe-pathogen interactions jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…
New preprint out from @SamJTDMicro (PhD), @SaraGarnettx (MRes), @fiona_newberry (post-doc), @dp_negus and Lesley Hoyles. COVID lockdown meant Sam needed to change the focus of his PhD for a while. This is the result. Isolated phages and MAGs --> 2x number of known weberviruses.
Weberviruses are gut-associated phages that infect Klebsiella spp. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio
Excited to share BakRep - our latest work published in @MicrobioSoc #MGen >661,000 bacterial genomes, uniformly characterized & annotated, enriched with metadata, accessible via a flexible search engine doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0… 👇 1/7
@MicrobioSoc @PaulHoskisson @con_meehan @widdowquinn @SBtotheDub @apreston243 @NicolaJHolden @NCTC_3000 @Tucker303 @tinaljoshi @alanmcn1 @_Faecal_Matters @PeterCotgreave use of most recent validly published bacterial names is not mandatory #editors
Congratulations to our Uganda partnership lead, Dr. David Musoke, on his recent induction as a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS). This prestigious and well-deserved recognition was awarded on November 1, 2024. We are proud to work with you @DavidMusoke14
when you get a tough question after your talk but you have the perfect supplementary slide
It’s now live! Built on the wonderful AllTheBacteria database by @shenwei356, @johnlees6, @ZaminIqbal & co!
New: Compare your sample to 2 million public genomes! ⚡️ When you upload a new sample to Solu Platform, we automatically compare it to all public pathogen genomes and show the closest matches. Try it: platform.solugenomics.com