Danna Gifford
@dannagifford.bsky.social
PI and Lecturer, University of Manchester
https://dannagifford.com @MERManchester.bsky.social
https://dannagifford.com @MERManchester.bsky.social
Gifford lab alumna Magdalena Kurteu giving us a sneak peek of her @pintofscience.uk talk! @mermanchester.bsky.social
@magdalenakurteu.bsky.social
@magdalenakurteu.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Gifford lab alumna Magdalena Kurteu giving us a sneak peek of her @pintofscience.uk talk! @mermanchester.bsky.social
@magdalenakurteu.bsky.social
@magdalenakurteu.bsky.social
OK stuff just got personal 😡😤
January 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
OK stuff just got personal 😡😤
The are 2 kinds of 🐢, cryptodira (hidden-neck turtles) & pleurodira (side-necked turtles). I think this guy with his neck retracted would beg to differ...
(North Americans also don't tend to call these terrapins, they are turtles even if they are freshwater)
(North Americans also don't tend to call these terrapins, they are turtles even if they are freshwater)
January 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The are 2 kinds of 🐢, cryptodira (hidden-neck turtles) & pleurodira (side-necked turtles). I think this guy with his neck retracted would beg to differ...
(North Americans also don't tend to call these terrapins, they are turtles even if they are freshwater)
(North Americans also don't tend to call these terrapins, they are turtles even if they are freshwater)
I love this poster made by PhD student Zahraa Al-Baqsami. "The Recovery Station" hangs on the wall of our lab to remind us that bad days and uncertainty are normal parts of research, but not to internalize it. Fortunately no setbacks today 😅 still great to read while waiting for the centrifuge 🦠🧫
December 13, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I love this poster made by PhD student Zahraa Al-Baqsami. "The Recovery Station" hangs on the wall of our lab to remind us that bad days and uncertainty are normal parts of research, but not to internalize it. Fortunately no setbacks today 😅 still great to read while waiting for the centrifuge 🦠🧫
Danger, PI in the lab ⚠️
December 13, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Danger, PI in the lab ⚠️
Thanks to examiners Alasdair Hubbard @dralhubb.bsky.social and Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social and to Rosie's co-supervisor Chris Knight @knightjar.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Thanks to examiners Alasdair Hubbard @dralhubb.bsky.social and Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social and to Rosie's co-supervisor Chris Knight @knightjar.bsky.social
🦠🎇Congratulations to the soon-to-be Dr Rosie Clover 👩🏼🎓! The O.G. MERMan PhD student, and the first student to graduate from the Gifford lab, proud supervisor moment 🥺😄 @mermanchester.bsky.social 🎓
December 6, 2024 at 8:36 PM
🦠🎇Congratulations to the soon-to-be Dr Rosie Clover 👩🏼🎓! The O.G. MERMan PhD student, and the first student to graduate from the Gifford lab, proud supervisor moment 🥺😄 @mermanchester.bsky.social 🎓
Tot de volgende keer Wageningen! Congratulations to Dr Alanna Leale, who defended her thesis yesterday on the microbial ecology and evolution of fermented foods. Thanks Alanna for also organizing a seminar for the examiners. Great to see former colleagues at WUR. Sad that it was only a short visit!
November 14, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Tot de volgende keer Wageningen! Congratulations to Dr Alanna Leale, who defended her thesis yesterday on the microbial ecology and evolution of fermented foods. Thanks Alanna for also organizing a seminar for the examiners. Great to see former colleagues at WUR. Sad that it was only a short visit!
Sneak peek... 🤫 I'm unreasonably excited that I now have a method for colouring all of these fim genes the same colour....
October 24, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Sneak peek... 🤫 I'm unreasonably excited that I now have a method for colouring all of these fim genes the same colour....
What’s your current social media strategy?
August 27, 2024 at 7:01 AM
What’s your current social media strategy?
#Evo2024 Tomorrow! Giving my talk on mutators, multidrug resistance evolution and evolutionary rescue. 516B at 9:30 Tues 30 July in the Evolutionary Rescue Symposium.
July 29, 2024 at 8:53 PM
#Evo2024 Tomorrow! Giving my talk on mutators, multidrug resistance evolution and evolutionary rescue. 516B at 9:30 Tues 30 July in the Evolutionary Rescue Symposium.
The original is linked below, which has the EXIF data. It was taken on my Canon PowerShot A80 (4.0 MP), which was a great little camera until the CCD failed and started turning all my photos pink . The figure from PLOS Biol 2008 is also mine, same camera
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c3nim...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c3nim...
June 24, 2024 at 3:54 PM
The original is linked below, which has the EXIF data. It was taken on my Canon PowerShot A80 (4.0 MP), which was a great little camera until the CCD failed and started turning all my photos pink . The figure from PLOS Biol 2008 is also mine, same camera
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c3nim...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c3nim...
📢 The University of Manchester's #AMR Network Symposium, happening this Friday! With over 200 network members across the institution and Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, we're poised to tackle big questions in AMR using Team Working and interdisciplinary collaboration.
May 13, 2024 at 5:34 PM
📢 The University of Manchester's #AMR Network Symposium, happening this Friday! With over 200 network members across the institution and Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, we're poised to tackle big questions in AMR using Team Working and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Policy panels, unanswered questions, insights from e-Health, ...
April 22, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Policy panels, unanswered questions, insights from e-Health, ...
Kicking off RESIST3! A day of networking and discussion about integrating mathematical modeling into AMR Policy.
April 22, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Kicking off RESIST3! A day of networking and discussion about integrating mathematical modeling into AMR Policy.
Very pleased that the MERMan lab has achieved a silver award in the LEAF sustainability initiative!
Thanks to the current and former lab members who have contributed
Want to improve your lab's sustainability? Participate in LEAF:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...
Thanks to the current and former lab members who have contributed
Want to improve your lab's sustainability? Participate in LEAF:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...
January 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Very pleased that the MERMan lab has achieved a silver award in the LEAF sustainability initiative!
Thanks to the current and former lab members who have contributed
Want to improve your lab's sustainability? Participate in LEAF:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...
Thanks to the current and former lab members who have contributed
Want to improve your lab's sustainability? Participate in LEAF:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...
Chilly (European) robin #officebirds
January 18, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Chilly (European) robin #officebirds
Cladonia pleurota (?)
December 28, 2023 at 6:40 PM
Cladonia pleurota (?)
Very lucky to have Chris Marx speaking today at University of Manchester
December 1, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Very lucky to have Chris Marx speaking today at University of Manchester
Controversial, but it's WWII. Penicillin was an allied discovery, Prontosil was German. Its discoverer Domagk was stopped from accepting a Nobel for it by Nazi Germany. Efforts to scale up penicillin production to treat battlefield wounds & wartime propaganda cemented penicillin in the public's mind
November 9, 2023 at 8:19 AM
Controversial, but it's WWII. Penicillin was an allied discovery, Prontosil was German. Its discoverer Domagk was stopped from accepting a Nobel for it by Nazi Germany. Efforts to scale up penicillin production to treat battlefield wounds & wartime propaganda cemented penicillin in the public's mind