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Paper Out: Determining the prevalence, identity and possible origin of bacterial pathogens in soil

Posted on October 9, 2020 by An Bollenessor

I am pleased to have an Open Access paper out in Environmental Microbiology with visiting MSc student Jacopo Ferraresso, MbyREs student Benedict Lawson (shared first authors), Sion Bayliss and Sam Sheppard from the University of Bath, Barbara Cardazzo from the … Continue reading →

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Paper Out: Using the wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens

Posted on January 4, 2019 by An Bollenessor

A good start of the year by having a paper published. I blogged about the bioarxiv* version a while back so will keep it short this time: we injected environmental (water and sediment) samples in the Galleria caterpillar and, where … 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 An Bollenessor

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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