No mention yet of wastewater genomic surveillance for influenza A virus but this is critical to properly assess community spread gov.uk/government/pub…

Scooped! 👇🏻

This time two years ago we had literally just run a very tentative first sample of wastewater- and now we have this amazing new lab in DKB. Very excited to see what comes next- let’s hope it’s a return to regular surveillance! QUB Wastewater based Epidemiology Group

“Hi. Can I borrow some boiled water please? Our manhole cover is frozen shut” “…..” *grins awkwardly* “Not crazy, but that probably sounds so, eh?” “…..” *stares* “…um..ok…” “Thanks that worked a treat.” *probably smiles unnervingly* “….ok…” *shuts door hurriedly*

If only indeed…still waiting on that phone call…

Hey! #AcademicTwitter I would I'm conducting a live experiment on 29/02 using #coldplasma with Applied Microbiology International This is my first time attempting something like this, so it could go either way! Would genuinely appreciate any support! Register below👇 @QUBEngageMHLS @PharmacyAtQUB

We're looking for an enthusiastic PostDoc interested in water quality, pathogens and AMR to join our Acclimatize team at University College Dublin! Closing date 12 noon, 16 April nature.com/naturecareers/…

Nice job Aaron! First PhD conference presentation under your belt relaying the results of our influenza A wastewater work and how you’ll carry these methods forward for wider environmental monitoring of avian influenza. Public Engagement MHLS School of Biological Sciences #Microbio24

Excellent talk from Andrew Singer (Andrew Singer) on wastewater surveillance #Microbio24 Microbiology Society COVIDPoops19

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 Reynolds laura sala Niamh Martin UCD SBBS UCD Earth Institute One Health Research Acclimatize 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 Marina I. Reyne 🪶 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.