NNF Postdoctoral Fellow at DTU Biosustain. Interested in the discovery and evolution of biosynthetic pathways.https://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.social/post/3mllkunc3hc2pOur study into the incredible genome of Embleya australiensis has been published in Microbial Genomics. We've shown that Embleya carry gigantic secondary chromosomes around 4 - 6 Mb in size! Enjoy reading and don't hesitate to reach out! https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.001704 🧪💻🦠 1/411 May 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:b5al7bsi7ew4ldt23vvrl4vs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllkunc3hc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.social/post/3meb5jvfwhs2oA heads up to my dual citizenship friends. 🇬🇧 🇺🇳 They are updating the rules about which passports you can use to enter the UK - so don't get caught out! If you will be negatively impacted by this change, please reach out and make your voice heard! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Feb 2026 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:b5al7bsi7ew4ldt23vvrl4vs/app.bsky.feed.post/3meb5jvfwhs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.social/post/3m3wzk5gdq22zDid you know most 'complete' Streptomyces genomes are missing their telomeres? Thanks to David and Tues hard work, we now have a new tool to recover them! A pleasure to be part of a team. :) 🦠🧪💻 #microsky [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Oct 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:b5al7bsi7ew4ldt23vvrl4vs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3wzk5gdq22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.social/post/3luwsupt7ec2gVery cool! More labs should do this! :) [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jul 2025 09:57 +0000at://did:plc:b5al7bsi7ew4ldt23vvrl4vs/app.bsky.feed.post/3luwsupt7ec2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.social/post/3ltjr4atva227Our new preprint is out! EEC1 is a massive 4.2 Mb secondary chromosome from Embleya australiensis. Conserved across Embleya, these are the first replicons of their kind in Actinobacteria and the largest secondary replicons in bacteria identified to-date! 1/6 🦠🧪🧬🔬 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.662523v109 Jul 2025 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:b5al7bsi7ew4ldt23vvrl4vs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltjr4atva227https://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.social/post/3lpecnhejx22mCan we all agree to stop using the word 'bacterial' in the titles of studies that only investigate proteobacteria. Okay? Thanks! 🧪🦠17 May 2025 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:b5al7bsi7ew4ldt23vvrl4vs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpecnhejx22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/thombooth.bsky.social/post/3lpc4oxvntc2n🚨getphylo workshop announcement🚨 (Please share!) Are you interested in building genome-scale phylogenies - fast? Or want to explore the evolution of gene clusters? Then getphylo might be the tool for you! I will be running online workshops on the 26th and 27th May. 🧪💻 1/316 May 2025 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:b5al7bsi7ew4ldt23vvrl4vs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpc4oxvntc2n