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PhD Opportunity
The South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership is currently advertising PhD projects. This is a slightly complicated process, but basically comes down to prospective students picking a project offered by scientists working at participating universities and institutions and applying to … Continue reading
Posted in cool science, Cornwall, environment and human health, PhD opportunity
Tagged BBSRC, ECEHH, ESI, GW4, Mahasweta Saha, Michiel Vos, PhD, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, PML, Ruth Airs, seaweeds
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Paper out: Staphylococcus cornubiensis sp. nov., a new member of the Staphylococcus intermedius Group (SIG)
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
ExeterMarine
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
NERC ‘FRESH’ PhD studentship
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
Group Update
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 Claudia Capello, Daria Swigon, ECEHH, Michiel Vos, Nika Lo, Rafael Hernandez, Tiffany Morcom
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Living with Environmental Change 2016/2017
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
Living with Environmental Change IV
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 Bouke Wiersma, ECEHH, Edvard Glucksman, ESI, HEPE, Katrina Wyatt, Living with Environmental Change, Lora Fleming, Mel Austen, Pecha Kucha, Peter Cox, Rachel Turner, Ruth Garside, Steve Simpson, teaching, Tim Taylor
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Living with Environmental Change I
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
Antibiotic resistance risk for coastal water users
Recreational users of coastal waters such as swimmers and surfers are at risk of exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria, according to a new study by Anne Leonard, Lihong Zhang, Andrew Balfour, Ruth Garside and Will Gaze published this week. We … Continue reading
Self-funded PhD positions available
Advertised on the site FindAPhD: an advert describing opportunities to work with Will Gaze or myself at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health. Just to make it abundantly clear: this is and advertisement for a SELF-FUNDED PhD position, … Continue reading
Posted in cool science, Cornwall, environment and human health, ongoing work
Tagged ECEHH, Michiel Vos, PhD, Will Gaze
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