Great advice in Nature on writing - Start small, but just start. Pen to paper, fingers to keyboard. Ready, set, write!
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Great advice in Nature on writing - Start small, but just start. Pen to paper, fingers to keyboard. Ready, set, write!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Antibiotic contamination is being found in the Grand Canyon - so sad to see implications for AMR even in this protected environment.
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#amr #antibiotics #silentpandemic
Higlighting some of the work and activities across the network that are addressing antimicrobial resistance.
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A reminder to please register for our annual Winter Lecture to mark World Aids Day!
This event is strictly in person.
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1848003872...
18-24 November marks World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW).
Throughout the week, we will be sharing stories, research and activities relating to AMR to showcase the incredible work happening in and around The University of Edinburgh.
#WAAW
#WAAW25
Research Focus: World AMR Awareness Week 💊 🥼 🧫
Special edition of our monthly Research Focus to mark AMR Awareness Week - featuring papers on the topic of AMR from members of Edinburgh Infectious Diseases.
Full article here: edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news/latest-...
#WAAW
#WAAW25
New drug target identified in fight against resistant infections 💊
A new study suggests the discovery of a new mechanism of resistance to common antibiotics could pave the way for improved treatments for harmful bacterial infections.
#WAAW25
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Potatoes evolved from tomatoes - read all about it in this week's @cellpress.bsky.social
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Interesting reading in @cellpress.bsky.social this week in three papers that explore monoclonal antibodies against #mpox infection
www.cell.com/cell/issue?p...
Cheap drug could fight malaria by spoiling mosquitoes’ blood meal | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Interesting and somewhat sobering comment in @nature.com about the potential penalties of interdisciplinary research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🐕 Research Focus: From managing free-roaming domestic dog populations to the genomics of crossbred cattle 🐄
@roslininstitute.bsky.social
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Interesting particle in Science this week confirming the leprosy bacterium existed—and may have been widespread—in North and South America before European contact | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Many congratulations to #HostsPathogensGlobalHealth PhD student Mackenzie Moore for being awarded 1st place for first year PhD student posters at the R(D)SVS PGR Student Conference 🎉🎉🎉 @roslininstitute.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🧪
Many congratulations - great to see this project getting underway🎉
Catch up on our latest newsletter packed with events, job listings and seminars happening in the EID community!
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🎉 Thank you to all who attended our 14th Symposium last Friday 🎉
It was an amazing day with plenty of interesting talks, community building, poster sessions and a wonderful Ker Memorial Prize Lecture delivered by Prof Andy Waters from @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Read full report: shorturl.at/EswNv
What's up, and what's down - #Darwin deconstruction of the #darwin building as seen from #Ashworthlabs #biology #kingsbuildings @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social - 11 March to 20 May 2025 🏢🏗️🧪
Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!
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Many congratulations to our two poster prize winners - Rose Blake @roslininstitute.bsky.social and Anneza Abid @edinburghnapier.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #EIDsymp25
Final presentation of the day - Ker Memorial Lecture given by Prof Andy Waters @uofglasgow.bsky.social - Malaria parasite transmission: towards the end of the beginning?
Shift in gears now as Ting Shi discusses new framework protocols being developed to guide future responses to emergence of Pathogen X, and importance of robust data to inform the guidelines #EIDsymp25
And now the final session before tea - @jrossfitz.bsky.social talking about his favourite organism - S.aureus #EIDsymp25
Richard Wheeler keeping us all awake in the post-lunch session with a great talk about swimming in trypanosomatid parasites #EIDsymp25
Next up is Martha Kivecu discussing the origin of Plasmodium falciparum #EIDsymp25
An absolutely fascinating set of talks from first two sessions of the @uoe-eid.bsky.social annual symposium today, from ECAs and established researchers alike. Very excited about the next set of talks post lunch!
Pigs are a mixing vessel for influenza A - Vayalena Drampa @roslininstitute.bsky.social discussing her work to study host factors required for Influenza replication #EIDsymp25
Stew Burgess from the Moredun Research Institute, talking about the impacts and treatments for sheep scab - a major disease burden for UK sheep farmers and their flocks #EIDSymp25 @moredunfoundation.bsky.social
Really interesting to hear about Amy Sweeny’s work on the changes in microbiome communities during aging in the wild sheep population on St Kilda #EIDsymp25
Now for the short talks by early career researchers - first up Josh Richards talking about study of the microbiome in the mouse population on the Isle of May #EIDsymp25