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Arezoo Pedramfar

University of Leicester

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Organism:E. coli· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Who Infects Whom? Exploiting Bacterial Minicells for Targeted Virome Enrichment and Phage-Host Interaction Analysis through an Integrated Metagenomic Approach

Arezoo Pedramfar, Emma Ensenat, Natalie Allcock, Andrew D. Millard, Edouard E. Galyov

This paper develops a method to identify phage-host interactions using bacterial minicells, revealing a distinct E. coli-specific virome and novel phage species.

bioRxiv · Apr 9, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology

Rolling out plaque-2-sequence: a single plaque sequencing approach enabling rapid, low-cost sequencing of phages directly from plaques

Slawomir Michniewski, Rebecca Glenny, Andrew Kinsella, Kane Porter, Kayne Wright, Sophie Harrison, Nzubechukwu I Ugokwe, Amani Alrashidi, Srwa.J. Rashid, Chisomaga Eke, Jack C. D. Lee, Faizal Patel, Theo Josephs, Arezoo Pedramfar, Max Coleman, , Andrew D. Millard

This paper introduces plaque-2-sequence, a low-cost, high-throughput method for sequencing phage genomes directly from plaques, enabling rapid and scalable genomic analysis of phages.

bioRxiv · Nov 1, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology