To mark #EarthDay2024 I am happy to release this new long-form video tour of my solo exhibition “Fragile Microbiomes” Thackray Museum of Medicine which explores the precarious ecosystems we inhabit and that inhabit us. See it for yourself in Leeds, UK until 23rd June. youtu.be/qzZRFQSvFho?si…

🔬Join us on May 30 for to find out about the amazing healthcare research taking place in Oxford and benefitting patients . Our annual Joint Open Day event with NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre at Westgate Oxford

Join us Westgate Oxford at the end of May to learn about drug-resistant bugs in all sorts of fun ways from the scientists themselves! And a chance to win awesome prizes, of course!!! #NIHR ModMedMicro #OxfordBRC

❌ Cut demand
🤔 Reconsider the plastic system
♻️ Radically increase our recycling rate
⚠️ Make sure plastic doesn't have toxic additives in them

Oxford Martin School's Prof Cameron Hepburn shares the four major things to reduce the impact of plastics on the environment ⬇️ #EarthDay

'We recycle only 9% of the plastics we produce.'

Oxford Martin School's Prof Cameron Hepburn explains why we need to redesign the plastics system.

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Who says research can't be sustainable? Let's celebrate this EARTHDAY.ORG with the scientists ModMedMicro lab working to stop antibiotic resistance AND save the planet by disposing of plastics and electronics responsibly. Happy belated #EarthDayEveryDay #NIHR

Getting prizes ready for our Bash The Bug stand at the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre open day at the Westgate centre in Oxford on 30th May! More info to follow....

Very pleased that Creative Tourist have placed 'Fragile Microbiomes' at number 3 in their Top Picks of Exhibitions in Manchester and the North (above number 4 Yorkshire Sculpture Park and number 5 Leeds Art Gallery!)

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Last October, our Vice-Chair,Teresa Street, who is also a senior research scientist ModMedMicro, went to Zimbabwe to teach a team of scientists to genome sequence SARS-CoV-2. You can read about her work in her blog for Bash The Bug : shorturl.at/uyEVX

Time for 'Where's Molly the Microbe' #2, this time hiding as Tuberculosis in the spirit of #WorldTBDay2024 . Can you spot the bug that has infected 1/4 of the world's population!?

What a turnout from the Micro Team at the #OX5RUN2024 to support Oxford Hospitals Charity 💙, with £1,151 raised! It's not too late to donate: oxfordhospitalscharity.enthuse.com/pf/micro2024.

Want to help us to understand how to protect people from being infected with #TB ? We are recruiting participants for the #Tuberculosis Revaccination Study (TB046TO) #WorldTBDay orlo.uk/xxUoM

Ahead of #WorldTBDay , listen to #TB researcher Viktoria Brunner, who explains their latest publication 'Compensatory mutations are associated with increased in vitro growth in resistant clinical samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis' orlo.uk/oLbu4 ModMedMicro

Pyrazinamide is one of 4 first-line antibiotics used to treat #TB . Researchers ModMedMicro have shown how machine learning can enhance the sensitivity/specificity of pyrazinamide resistance prediction & highlight novel mutations to investigate #WorldTBDay orlo.uk/fpO8G

To speed up diagnosis and determine #AMR , researchers ModMedMicro developed a low-cost way to prepare DNA for sequencing from patient samples to avoid the slow lab process of growing #TB bacteria & help decide the right treatment more quickly #WorldTBDay orlo.uk/6NckF

On 5 June (6pm, Weston Library) Prof Helen McShane & Philip Fowler will talk about ‘ #Tuberculosis : vaccines, diagnostics and experience’ as part of Oxford Kafka #WorldTBDay Learn more about other Kafka events: orlo.uk/iT0R6 Jenner Institute ModMedMicro Bodleian Libraries

So inspiring and reassuring to see so much great research dedicated to tackling tuberculosis (TB), one of the biggest infectious disease killers in the world! #WorldTBDay2024

Complex pathogens like TB need research input from people with all kinds of expertise: meet some of our experts on bioinformatics, software engineering, lab sequencing, and clinical research who are working together to #EndTB

NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Global Pathogen Analysis Service (GPAS) Bash The Bug #YesWeCanEndTB

Just 2 days to go until #OX5RUN2024 ! Can you help the keen team of runner-researchers ModMedMicro to support the brilliant Oxford Hospitals Charity 💙 by donating at: oxfordhospitalscharity.enthuse.com/pf/micro2024 ?

Join us for this free public talk on 16 April with leading data scientists on how NHS healthcare data is being used to transform diagnosis, treatment and care.
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