(1/9) I’m very excited to share that my paper describing a new genus: Allocoprobacillus, and its type strain Allocoprobacillus halotolerans LH1062, and a new species Coprobacter tertius LH1063 is published in #ISJEM Microbiology Society ! 💩🦠🥳 Read it here: go.shr.lc/3D3OkFu

Two proud PhD supervisors today Hall Lab & Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈! Huge congrats to nteng on passing her viva with only minor corrections 🥳
Nancys Big C Cancer Charity PhD work was on #microbiome & #breastcancer with exciting outputs tbc..!
Thanks to examiners Alison Mather & Kaitlin Hazel Wade (she/her)!

Congratulations to nteng 🥳It was a privilege to have gotten to know you in your final year of PhD and see all of your hard work come together. I hope you celebrate and take a well deserved break!

Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 Woohoo amazing !

(2/9) I first thought I messed up the QC, as these two isolates could not be matched to a valid isolate published in GTDB-Tk or TYGS. Turns out, it’s because they’re ~novel. LH1062 was isolated from a 58yo breast cancer patient while LH1063 was isolated from a healthy 51yo female

(7/9) Meanwhile, we obtained a genome of 25 contigs for LH1063. This was suggested to be a novel species belonging to the genus Coprobacter.

(5/9) Phenotypically LH1062 is Gram +ve. It can surprisingly tolerate in 1-20% salt concentrations. LH1062 can acidify carbohydrates similar to C. cateniformis.

(4/9) The highest 16S rRNA identity was to Longibaculum muris at 93.04%. The highest ANI was 79.3% to L. muris, however highest dDDH was to Coprobacillus cateniformis at 21.7%. The highest AAI was 73.25% to C. cateniformis.

(6/9) We decided to name the genus: Allocoprobacillus, as it fit the characteristics of Coprobacillus the most and as it could tolerate a relative high amount of salt named the species halotolerans.

(8/9) The highest ANI was to Coprobacter secundus, 77.81%. Phenotypically it was similar to its siblings however it could not tolerate ox gall unlike its siblings. Being the third species of the genus Coprobacter we named it Coprobacter tertius.

Great to see nteng's #IJSEM 's Microbiology Society paper now out - describing a new genus and new species from the human gut #microbiota . For more details see Nancys nice thread below! 👇💩🦠🧬💻🧫

(3/9) LH1062 was possibly a novel genus so we wanted the *best*. And the QIB Core Sequencing delivered, providing 1 beautiful contig for this bacterium. Genomic investigations suggested it belonged to the family Erysipelotrichaceae.

(9/9) Thank you to everyone at Quadram Institute and TU München for the help. Special shout out to Raymond Kiu Hall Lab ChristianZenner QIB Core Sequencing and Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 for the support.

Congratulations Nancy nteng and to both supervisors :)
Well done! 🥳

Hall Lab Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 nteng Big C Cancer Charity Alison Mather Kaitlin Hazel Wade (she/her) Congratulations Dr nteng !!

Hall Lab Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 nteng Big C Cancer Charity Alison Mather Congrats again, nteng! Well deserved 😊

Hall Lab Quadram Institute Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 nteng Big C Cancer Charity Alison Mather Kaitlin Hazel Wade (she/her) Congratulations!! 🥳 nteng

Attending #microbio23 ? Then swing by today's poster session from 4.30-5.40pm to find out about #breastcancer #microbiome with nteng P224, #Bifido #Membranevesicles with Anne Jordan P242 & optimised skin #microbiome methods with Iliana Rosa Serghiou M.Sc B.Sc (Hons) P289. 🧬💩🤱💻📊

nteng Hall Lab Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 Quadram Institute Best of luck in your new position!

nteng That’s our Nancy 🥰