Category Archives: ongoing work

Apply to the NERC GW4 PhD studentship “Context-dependent acquisition of antibiotic resistance mechanisms”

Posted on October 29, 2018 by

Together with collaborators Prof. Will Gaze (College of Medicine and Health, Exeter), Prof. Angus Buckling (Biosciences, Exeter) and Prof. Ed Feil (Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath) I have an advert up for a 3.5 year PhD position here in Penryn. … Continue reading →

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on bioRxiv: Using the Wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens

Posted on May 23, 2018 by

In the past few years I have worked on and off (i.e. doing pilot experiments, having a grant proposal rejected) on a very simple, but I believe quite powerful, assay to detect pathogenic bacteria in environmental samples. As it stands, … Continue reading →

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Symposium Penryn 28-31 August 2018: Resolving Microbial Communities at Strain-level Resolution

Posted on May 14, 2018 by

I have the pleasure to announce a symposium/workshop to be held here at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus 28-31 August focusing on strain-level resolution metagenomics. Metagenomics involves the high-throughput sequencing of random DNA fragments isolated from microbial communities, followed … Continue reading →

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ExeterMarine

Posted on May 4, 2018 by

The University of Exeter has a large contingent of researchers involved in Marine Sciences. As this perhaps has been a bit underappreciated in the past, Prof. Brendan Godley is currently leading the charge to tell the world what amazing activities … Continue reading →

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The Transition from Class Room to a Year of Research

Posted on October 17, 2016 by

A guest post my BSc student Michael Tadesse who joined us last year for a lab project: In the academic year 2015-2016, I undertook a Professional Training Year (PTY) at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) in … Continue reading →

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Group Update

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

A very long while without a post on this blog, so high time for an update. This blog is mainly written by me with occasional (very good!) guest posts by members of Will Gaze‘s group (see e.g. here). It features … Continue reading →

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Discovering New Antibiotics

Posted on July 14, 2015 by
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