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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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-…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I've added all of my @nanopore tutorial videos to my blog site to make them extra accessbile! linzyelton628749128.wordpres…
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