Greg McCallum
@GEMcCallum
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Post-doc at the University of Liverpool studying HGT in the hospital sink drain microbiome | Co-founder of @ContamClub
Liverpool, England
Joined October 2018
Now published! 🎉🧫🍜 https://t.co/qVWDA4eFdz
🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/vZgaOPjKWo 1/15 🧵
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Delighted to have this review out with @jpjhall! We discuss the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome, highlight studies providing evidence of transfer, and consider strategies to mitigate these risks 🪠🦠 https://t.co/w7btHu1NcX
nature.com
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - The hospital sink drain microbiome as a melting pot for AMR transmission to nosocomial pathogens
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Happy to finally have this out! It has been a fun side-project that we’ve been slowly working on for a while 🍜 I think it has turned out as a nice story, and demonstrates some important issues with classifications in genome databases. All from investigating a contaminant! ⤵️
🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/vZgaOPjKWo 1/15 🧵
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🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/vZgaOPjKWo 1/15 🧵
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🍜🧬 Pan-fried noodles 🤣🤣🤣 Big shoutout to @ContamClub for cooking up the story of Noodlococcus We’re proud to have been part of the journey — from mystery microbe to full-genome feast 👨🍳🧫 📖 Full recipe available ➡️ https://t.co/ypfww7jewd
#MicrobialMysteries
biorxiv.org
The laboratory contaminant Noodlococcus was named for its coccoid cells and unusual colony morphology, which resembled a pile of noodles. Along with laboratory characterisation and electron microsc...
🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/vZgaOPjKWo 1/15 🧵
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Have really enjoyed my day at #IOIECR25 @IneosOxford Enjoyed some amazing talks and enjoyed presenting my work investigating antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome
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📣 Speaker alert #IOIECR2025
@GEMcCallum from @LivUni will explore the role of the sink microbiome in spreading #AMR 💧 Join us on March 21 for our ECR conference on ‘Multidisciplinary Approaches to Tackle AMR’ ️➡️ https://t.co/boNLLrQPGQ
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Very few sets of ContamSocks left! And ContamCalendars running low! If you still want some then get them soon! 📆🦠🧫🧦 Available at ➡️ https://t.co/OdL6DX4gU9
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ContamClub has officially reached every continent on Earth!🌎🌍🌏 This set of ContamCalendar and socks are with Bodil and Livvie who work at the South Georgia Heritage Trust in Antarctica Antarctica marks 7/7 continents that ContamCalendars have been delivered to since we began
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‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2025 🗓️🚨‼️ The ContamCalendar is back for another year! It’s a great one and we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄 Get yours here ➡️ https://t.co/OdL6DX4gU9 ⬅️
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Happy Noodlococcus Day to all those who celebrate 🍜🦠 On this day in 2019, we discovered this noodle-y colony contaminating an old plate, leading to the creation of ContamClub 🧫✨
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Had a great time so far at #MicroBio24 and enjoyed presenting the start of my post-doc work on the hospital sink drain microbiome today 💧🦠
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The ContamCalendar 2024 is selling fast and the first batch of deliveries have started to arrive! 📆🦠🧫🍄 Can't wait for you guys to get your hands on them. Get yours here ⤵️ ➡️ https://t.co/OdL6DX4gU9 ⬅️
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Not so fun for me but very glad to be home after 7 weeks in hospital following a 14.5 hour heart surgery. Turns out I've had endocarditis for nearly 9 years despite years of antibiotic treatment. Hopefully the surgery and antibiotics this time will clear it 🤞🫀💊
Fun fact about this year's ContamCalendar - it was created entirely from a hospital bed after I spent 7 weeks in hospital following heart surgery. This surgery was actually partially related to both contamination and the ContamCalendars.... 📆🫀🩺🦠
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🚨 CONTAM CALENDAR 2024 🚨 AVAILABLE NOW ➡️ https://t.co/OdL6DX4gU9 ⬅️ First 20 orders will get a ContamClub sticker!!! We hope you love this year's ContamCalendar showcasing some of our favourite submissions from the ContamClub community 📆🦠🍄🧫 Keep contaminating! ❤️
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On this day in 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday and started sorting through some petri dishes containing Staphylococcus that he had left on his bench whilst away. 🏖️🧫 One of the plates caught his eye, and made for the ultimate ContamClub submission:
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@GEMcCallum takes us behind the scenes of their #MGen publication, where they focussed on creating a workflow for analysing meta3C/Hi-C data for linking resistance genes to their bacterial hosts in the human gut in our latest blog. Read it here 👇
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Unfortunately I do wonder how many more milestones we can reach before this website as we know it fully dies... But until then, keep sharing your contams with us 💛🦠🧫🍄
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