https://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3m5ltd5w34c2cCan bacteria remember? Read our Perspective published today https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02185-314 Nov 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ltd5w34c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3lwhaamnyjs25Well done to Dr Hiba Shareefdeen on defending her PhD thesis today. Thanks to co-supervisor Paul Ross and examiners Heather Allison and Cormac Gahan. @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social15 Aug 2025 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwhaamnyjs25https://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3lrdpew7h7c2wWhat role does the microbiome play in the action of pre- pro- post- and syn-biotics? Is it an actor or a stage? @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.04.01711 Jun 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdpew7h7c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3lpjmvcv6j22iCongratulations to Ciara Tobin (and my co-supervisor ⁦‪@AShkoporov‬⁩) on conducting her PhD viva today. We’re so proud of what she’s done on crAssphage across multiple disciplines. ⁦‪@apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @uccmicrobiology.bsky.social19 May 2025 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjmvcv6j22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3ljnuo2suj224Nice to be quoted in this article by Carl Zimmer in the NYT yesterday @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/health/human-virome-program.html05 Mar 2025 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljnuo2suj224https://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3lfu75i7pdk2fThis study by Nati Rios Colombo shows how off-target effects compromise treatment of C. difficile in a bacterial community Full article: Synergistic and off-target effects of bacteriocins in a simplified human intestinal microbiome: implications for Clostridioides difficile infection control16 Jan 2025 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfu75i7pdk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3lcib5hqpws2yFeel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422302855904 Dec 2024 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcib5hqpws2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/colinhillucc.bsky.social/post/3lbujy4h3rk2bFirst post on a lovely story from the lab that shows that Faecalibacterium prausnitzii can package its own genome in bite-size segments in phage-like capsids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623857v2.full.pdf26 Nov 2024 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:axv5ilsb7oay2jb4ictegmx6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbujy4h3rk2b