
Citizen Phage Library
@citizenphage
Harnessing viruses to combat antimicrobial resistance through Citizen Science
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27-10-2020 15:05:16
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Today, we teamed up with Exeter Science Centre and visited St James School to talk about phage therapy with Year 9. The students brought in samples for us to process to look for phages. We rushed the samples back to the lab so Christian and James could start the phage hunt!


“We may soon reach a tipping point when #AMR surpasses heart disease & other so-called lifestyle illnesses as the leading cause of death” Food and Agriculture Organization's Keith Sumption explains what needs to be done to help mitigate & contain the risks of #AntimicrobialResistance bit.ly/3FL4uTC

Do you know people working on #CitizenScience? Interested in getting exemples on how #CitizenScience is helping advance #eDNA #metabarcoding research Louis Bernatchez Kristina Gjerde Katrina West Paola Palacios Barreto JC Cubillos @[email protected] @lynseyrharper Marcio Pie Camila Duarte Matthew C Yates Bettina Thalinger


The team of Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure are excited to announce the approval of the STAMP #Phagetherapy protocol by the National Human Ethics Committee of Australia! buff.ly/3LEjUfV



Very important new report by Access to Medicine Foundation finds that lack of access to antibiotics is fuelling #antibioticresistance 👉bit.ly/3zvlopm



Phage Hunting at the Bacteriophage Oxford Conference with Julie Fletcher @SamuelGrenrod and Christian Fitch . A very inspiring two days with great talks. Lovely to see people in person! #PhgOx22



Thanks to Torquay Museum for hosting us today for a talk about antibiotic resistance and phage therapy! Some great questions and lots of sampling kits were given out,


Did you know that phages can be isolated from your own backyard? 🧫🔎 See how a Year 10 student visiting The Westmead Institute for Medical Research and I (Stephanie Lynch, PhD) are using the citizenphage.com process to get from environmental samples (right) to hopefully isolated phages (left)🧵


Exciting Day! Our first batch of phages being shipped to Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure for use in their efforts to treat patients. The CPL was conceived as an international network of connected hubs sharing resources and data. Great to see this first step come to fruition!
