Tag Archives: ECEHH

Paper out: Staphylococcus cornubiensis sp. nov., a new member of the Staphylococcus intermedius Group (SIG)

Posted on September 11, 2018 by

My colleagues Aimee Murray, Lihong Zhang and Will Gaze and I have an ongoing collaboration with colleagues from the Royal Cornwall Hospital John Lee and Richard Bendall on the detection of ‘Staphylococcus intermedius Group’ (SIG) in human infections. These bugs … Continue reading →

Posted in paper out! | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in cool science, Cornwall, environment and human health, ongoing work, teaching | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

NERC ‘FRESH’ PhD studentship

Posted on January 12, 2018 by

Applications are open January 15th – February 15th for a PhD studentship “Combining a novel phenotypic virulence screen with genomic approaches to uncover bacterial acquisition of multi-drug resistance and virulence in aquatic environments”. The studentship is organised through a NERC … Continue reading →

Posted in cool science, Cornwall, environment and human health | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Group Update

Posted on June 23, 2017 by

High time for another Group Update, as I have a great bunch of (inter)national students working in the lab at the moment. Back left on the photo is Rafael Hernandez (USA), who is a second year Medical Student at Stony … Continue reading →

Posted in Group Update | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Living with Environmental Change 2016/2017

Posted on November 29, 2016 by

I am reaching the end of the semester teaching the module ‘Living with Environmental Change’ together with Professor Lora Fleming. (I have written four blog posts I, II, III and IV last year about the first time we ran this … Continue reading →

Posted in cool science, Cornwall, environment and human health, Living with Environmental Change | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Living with Environmental Change IV

Posted on December 27, 2015 by

Our module ‘Living with Environmental Change’ ended a few weeks back and it is high time for a (brief) wrap up after the previous posts highlighting the guest lectures on the course (here, here and here). As the module was … Continue reading →

Posted in cool science, environment and human health, Living with Environmental Change | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Living with Environmental Change I

Posted on October 16, 2015 by

This semester, head of the European Centre Professor Lora Fleming and myself have started the brand-new undergraduate module “Living with Environmental Change”. Somewhat complicatedly, we are teaching this module to students in different years and in two different locations: the … Continue reading →

Posted in environment and human health, Living with Environmental Change, teaching | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment