Tom Connor
@tomrconnor.bsky.social
Public health genomics and big computers working in Wales. Parent of two small children. Gamer, foodie, geek. Also likes cats. Views my own.
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From @torstenseemann.bsky.social at @pha4ge.bsky.social Conference; "We are stealing from research money to support public health."
We need dedicated funding for maintaining & supporting public health infrastructure & pipelines. Not just startup, not just in pandemics.
We need dedicated funding for maintaining & supporting public health infrastructure & pipelines. Not just startup, not just in pandemics.
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
From @torstenseemann.bsky.social at @pha4ge.bsky.social Conference; "We are stealing from research money to support public health."
We need dedicated funding for maintaining & supporting public health infrastructure & pipelines. Not just startup, not just in pandemics.
We need dedicated funding for maintaining & supporting public health infrastructure & pipelines. Not just startup, not just in pandemics.
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Excited to announce the start of ARTIC2! 🎉
ARTIC2 builds on the success of ARTIC aiming to make sequencing more equitable and accessible. 🤝🧬
EVE Group at @swisstph.ch is a key team member - we'll be helping make sequences easier to store and share via Loculus & @pathoplexus.org ! 🌎
More below! 👀👇🏻
ARTIC2 builds on the success of ARTIC aiming to make sequencing more equitable and accessible. 🤝🧬
EVE Group at @swisstph.ch is a key team member - we'll be helping make sequences easier to store and share via Loculus & @pathoplexus.org ! 🌎
More below! 👀👇🏻
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham
Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Excited to announce the start of ARTIC2! 🎉
ARTIC2 builds on the success of ARTIC aiming to make sequencing more equitable and accessible. 🤝🧬
EVE Group at @swisstph.ch is a key team member - we'll be helping make sequences easier to store and share via Loculus & @pathoplexus.org ! 🌎
More below! 👀👇🏻
ARTIC2 builds on the success of ARTIC aiming to make sequencing more equitable and accessible. 🤝🧬
EVE Group at @swisstph.ch is a key team member - we'll be helping make sequences easier to store and share via Loculus & @pathoplexus.org ! 🌎
More below! 👀👇🏻
Looks like a great course in a great location!
Molecular and Genomics Approaches to Clinical Microbiology in Africa course in September 2025
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/molecu...
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/molecu...
Molecular Approaches to Clinical Microbiology in Africa — 20230902
Discover the revolutionary potential of molecular techniques in clinical microbiology for tackling infectious diseases
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Looks like a great course in a great location!
Lovely to be here in The Gambia - have had a fantastic couple of days doing training already with the ARTIC project; now for some discussions around public health genomics and cloud computing. Very pleased to have been able to help organise this and help set the scene this morning.
In collaboration with CLIMB BIG DATA & @articnetwork.bsky.social, we are hosting the 2-day 'Cloud Computing in Africa conference under the theme: Building Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Pathogen Genomics,' to better understand and improve population health and health care systems in #Africa.
February 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Lovely to be here in The Gambia - have had a fantastic couple of days doing training already with the ARTIC project; now for some discussions around public health genomics and cloud computing. Very pleased to have been able to help organise this and help set the scene this morning.
Reposted by Tom Connor
Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology (21-23 May 2025) is open for registrations!
Spread the word - @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy @pathogenomenick.bsky.social
@ewanharrison.bsky.social @wvschaik.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @firefoxx66.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
Spread the word - @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy @pathogenomenick.bsky.social
@ewanharrison.bsky.social @wvschaik.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @firefoxx66.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
Bluesky
anharrison.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology (21-23 May 2025) is open for registrations!
Spread the word - @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy @pathogenomenick.bsky.social
@ewanharrison.bsky.social @wvschaik.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @firefoxx66.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
Spread the word - @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy @pathogenomenick.bsky.social
@ewanharrison.bsky.social @wvschaik.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @firefoxx66.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
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Pandemics need to be killed in the cradle. Even though we don’t know if these mutations make H5N1 a pandemic virus, we know they raise the potential risk. Eliminating viruses with human adaptive mutations and preventing further adaptation should be the absolute top priority.
November 17, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Pandemics need to be killed in the cradle. Even though we don’t know if these mutations make H5N1 a pandemic virus, we know they raise the potential risk. Eliminating viruses with human adaptive mutations and preventing further adaptation should be the absolute top priority.
Reposted by Tom Connor
Out now: genomics analysis of Pseudomonas in bronchiectasis — expanding geography & increasing 10-fold publicly-available genomes. High diversity between patients, key genes undergoing parallel evolution or diversification, differences & similarities to CF. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
Global genomic diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bronchiectasis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common pathogen in the bronchiectasis lung, associated
with worsened outcomes. P. aeruginosa genomic studies in this context have been limited
to single-country, Eur...
www.journalofinfection.com
September 25, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Out now: genomics analysis of Pseudomonas in bronchiectasis — expanding geography & increasing 10-fold publicly-available genomes. High diversity between patients, key genes undergoing parallel evolution or diversification, differences & similarities to CF. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...