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John-Paul presenting his work on developing a computational approach to improve the monitoring of NI wastewater derived sequence data for known and cryptic SARS2 variants #Microbio24 Microbiology Society Public Engagement MHLS School of Biological Sciences Creevey Lab

Da Chief! Prof John McGrath (Irish Nutrient Sustainability Platform) presenting the research outputs from NI’s WBE programme for SARS2 and our work with UK PATHSAFE Microbiology Society #Microbio24 School of Biological Sciences Public Engagement MHLS Food Standards Agency Department of Health Public Health Agency

Our metagenomic study describing the impact of agricultural and urban practices on antimicrobial resistance genes (resistome) in rivers is out!   Tristan Nolan liam laura sala @NiamhMartin9 UCD SBBS UCD Earth Institute One Health Research Acclimatize 2 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Literally flocking to work in QUB Wastewater based Epidemiology Group. This little guy made a surprise entrance to the lab today to find out about Andrew Lee flu paper. Delivered safely back outside by @MarinaIReyne 🪶 QUB Pharmacy School Public Engagement MHLS School of Biological Sciences

This is why it is critical to get as much virus sequence info you can from wastewater. Our ( QUB Wastewater based Epidemiology Group developed by Andrew Lee ) “mega-WGS” protocol can distinguish human and avian-like sequences. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Marc Johnson Yep. As we had shown in our pre-print last year (soon to be published), “meta” WGS of IAV is not only possible, but it’s surprising what you can find circulating in the wastewater ie avian and human. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

An exciting day! 1. The UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2024 to 2029 (tinyurl.com/52tx58ss) has been published today. I am pleased to see that #phage therapy has been named as one of the key solutions for antimicrobial resistance (#AMR) in the report,

Hard to believe but it has been 4 years since this account was created! How far wastewater monitoring has come. Thank you to all of our followers and supporters!!

The EU Wastewater Observatory for Public Health has released new updates on SARS-CoV-2 and H5N1: …stewater-observatory.jrc.ec.europa.eu/media/bulletin… …stewater-observatory.jrc.ec.europa.eu/media/bulletin…

🚨Pre-print alert 🚨: Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 WGS datasets from +VE individuals and wastewater samples in Northern Ireland. Props to Evan Troendle for drawing all the data from the NI COG-UK and SARS2 Wastewater Surveillance programmes together and the efforts of all co-authors.

Need another reason why wastewater surveillance is key to effective public health? Check out QUB Wastewater based Epidemiology Group newest paper in The Lancet Microbe. Excellent work from Andrew Lee and the whole team!! 💩💩💩💩💩 QUB Pharmacy School School of Biological Sciences QUB MHLS Faculty

Our one-health influenza wastewater paper finally online now in The Lancet Microbe Preprinted a year ago(!) we use sequencing to characterise IAV in wastewater showing both human and non-human (avian!) viruses are present.

Glad to see our influenza A wastewater paper is now published in the The Lancet Microbe Now over to Andrew Lee in the studio for a roundup of our findings.

Influenza A in wastewater in Ireland: detection of human and avian influenzas, including H13s and a 2344b-like NS segment. 👉thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Wastewater based epidemiology can help underpin the One Health approach…and it really is a cheap and cheerful method of surveillance. BioTechniques BioTechniques invited me to waffle a bit about our influenza A work tinyurl.com/45y2bh8w

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Full house today at Riddel Hall for the #AMR #OneHealth Knowledge Exchange Event as part of World AMR Awareness Week 2024. This event is a collaboration between Futures AMR Network,  AMR Hub Queen's University Belfast 🎓, NI AMR Network, AFBI, Public Health Agency, Ulster University & DAERA #WAAW2024

🚨 New video alert! 🚰💡 Dive into wastewater-based epidemiology—where science meets public health! We've made it simple and fun for everyone to understand. Watch now, follow us, comment, and share! Let’s spread knowledge, not just germs. 🌍🙌 👇🏻 youtu.be/ylFgMKi0fRU?si…

In NI we built a world leading programme to proactively monitor these virus, with results in real time and often in advance of clinical cases. It’s such a shame-and a worry-that we are no longer utilising this investment to support public health QUB Wastewater based Epidemiology Group Alan Stout

Looking forward to our 2 day meeting with the movers and shakers in the world of wastewater from across the 4 UK nations. Nice to finally meet some folks in person rather than virtually!