Researcher #AMR #sequencing, football fan & lover of all dogs that have ever existed. Senior Lecturer @UniWestLondon @CIGMiSgenomics (she/her) #GlobalHealth
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If you're <30 & grew up in UK, there's a good chance you've never had (or perhaps even heard of) the BCG vaccine. It's live, but dyk it's not just one vaccine, but a whole family tree that protects us? #Tuberculosis #Vaccine #sciencecommunication #medicalhistory #microbiology
Before the 1940s we had no antibiotics, and thus no cure for tuberculosis. So how did doctors try and cure patients? #Microbiology #science #research #sciencecommunication #InfectiousDiseases #globalhealth #Biology #MedicalHistory #Tuberculosis
Did you know that Cholera produces its own molecular weapons to trick your body into spreading it far and wide? #genetics #Microbiology #science #research #sciencecommunication #InfectiousDiseases #globalhealth #Biology #superbug
I had the privilege of attending @royalsociety Trivedi Science Book Prize award last night. I was part of this year's ScienceWrite cohort run by the incredible, brilliant Roma, Hana and Elizabeth, and I am convinced many of us will be up on that stage one day!
If you thought that the last we saw of Plague was the Black Death pandemic in the Middle Ages, you might want to keep watching... #genetics #Microbiology #science #research #sciencecommunication #InfectiousDiseases #globalhealth #MedicalHistory #plague
Millions of us carry the thrush fungi without even realising. How does it transform from commensal neighbour to infectious disease? Some evolutionary shape shifting... #genetics #Microbiology #science #research #Evolution #Biology #InfectiousDiseases #globalhealth #fungi
Where did the Black Death come from? And what can a skeleton from Latvia tell us about Plague's evolution? #genetics #Microbiology #science #research #sciencecommunication #Evolution #Biology #InfectiousDiseases #globalhealth #MedicalHistory #plague #ancientDNA
When a patient gets an infection in hospital, how do we stop it spreading? And how can we identify the source?#genetics #Microbiology #science #research #sciencecommunication #superbug #AMR
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Meet Nguyen Thi Dien, an Associate Professor at the Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA). She’s a co-PI on our project! linkedin.com/in/dien-nguyen-…
Sometimes the most important history books aren't made of paper. They're made of DNA #Evolution #ScienceCommunication #Biology #InfectiousDiseases #globalhealth #genetics #research #science #MedicalHistory #Microbiology #plague #ancientDNA
Many of us are familiar with athlete's foot, but do you know how the fungi evolved to actually survive (and thrive!) in your toes? #Evolution #ScienceCommunication #InfectiousDiseases #Biology #genetics #globalhealth #science #research #fungi
Would you be brave enough to pull a metre long parasitic worm out of your leg? This worm utilises a unique evolutionary tactic to keep it's life cycle going! #Parasitology #Evolution #ScienceCommunication #InfectiousDiseases #MedicalHistory #genetics #globalhealth #science
Darwin spent his life explaining how evolution shapes living things. Yet he may have spent decades carrying a parasite whose own survival strategies were forged by millions of years of #evolution. #CharlesDarwin #Parasitology #ScienceCommunication #Biology #MedicalHistory
How exactly does Plague use fleas to move between hosts? The clue is likely to be hiding in your sink plug hole... #evolution #genomics #globalhealth #microbiology #science #research #mystery #plague #biofilm
How can your immune system fight off a pathogen if it can't even see it? and how could that bug possibly evade detection whilst inside your body? Genetic trickery of course! #parasite #sequencing #evolution #genomics #globalhealth #microbiology #science #research #mystery
Finding the right partner can be tricky. You get ghosted. Or the opposite, they're far too needy! One parasite has taken clingy to the next level though. Relationship status: NEVER LETTING GO. #science #microbiology #globalhealth #genomics #evolution #parasite #research
Who was the first person to receive antibiotics? And did they work? Alexander Fleming's discovery was just the start of a long road to the antibiotics we use today. Bacterial evolution means we may lose them #AMR #antibiotics #microbiology #globalhealth #penicillin #evolution
The gut is a hostile, churning environment and intestinal worms have evolved some weird and wonderful ways to hang on and avoid getting flushed! #science #evolution #parasite #research #microbiology #globalhealth #genomics
Syphilis used to be incurable, until one controversial psychiatrist deliberately infected his patients with malaria. And it worked! Why? The key is in the syphilis bacteria's genes! #science #globalhealth #research #microbiology #genomics #sequencing #mystery
I've added all of my @nanopore tutorial videos to my blog site to make them extra accessbile! linzyelton628749128.wordpres…
