It's our new #sequencers! 🧬

We've just bought the #illumina MiSeq i100 and NextSeq 1000!

Our staff are currently be trained on both of these 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

@lindsaynewbold.bsky.social @amycthorpe.bsky.social @rachelapayne.bsky.social

We also conduct experimental research - particularly on the impact of different environmental chemical pollutants on #AMR 💊🚜

Last year, we published a meta-analysis on this topic area too! Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We process our monitoring samples in a variety of ways, which include #phenotypic testing for #AMR, as well as using #molecular methods such as #qPCR and #sequencing to look for specific antimicrobial resistance genes 🦠🧬👩‍🔬🧫

#WAAW

@lindsaynewbold.bsky.social also gave a talk recently on the National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS) at the AgZero+ all staff meeting! 🍯

Find out more via the links below ⬇️

NHMS: honey-monitoring.ac.uk
AgZero+: agzeroplus.org.uk

Finally, @buzzingbennett.bsky.social gave a talk on his PhD titled "Assessing the Impacts of Nosema on the Gut Microbiome of the Western Honeybee" 🐝

@rosieelliott.bsky.social only recently started her PhD at UKCEH but presented a poster on her Master's work from the University of Bath, in collaboration with UKCEH on assessing the fate and mobility of #AMR genes in wastewater 🦠🧫

Meri Anderson a poster on her PhD work on using short-read and long-read sequencing to compare microbial diversity! 🦠🧬

@lrwalsh.bsky.social presented a poster titled "Living Rent Free: Freshwater Zooplankton and their Parasites" 🌊

Hi there, would it be possible for our research group page to be added to this starter pack? Our group does a lot of metagenomics in our microbial work! Thanks so much!

Hi there, would it be possible for our research group page to be added to this starter pack? Our group does a lot of microbial bioinformatics in our work! Thanks so much!