@ModMedMicro

Research Unit in John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford. Work on antimicrobial resistance and health-care associated infections.

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Joined May 2013
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ModMedMicro@ModMedMicro1 Jul 2025
Come and work with us! Senior Biostatistical Researcher bit.ly/4kRfZxI Senior Bioinformatic Engineer bit.ly/4ecl0hF both Grade 8 or 7, closing noon Tue 8 Jul Computational Mycobacteriologist Grade 7, closing noon Fri 4 Jul bit.ly/4ndKOhF @NDMOxford
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Come and work with me and use the 53,897 samples of M. tuberculosis we have collated to help tackle this important disease! We are part of OxCoD4TB that is developing new therapeutics for TB. Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July bit.ly/4ndKOhF
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Come and find us at the @OxfordBRC showcase in the Westgate! @ModMedMicro
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Come and work with us! Programme Manager is a key central role that sets large strategic objectives and manages practical issues across the MMM Unit. Grade 9, £55,636 - £64,228, deadline noon 6 Jan 25 bit.ly/4fGgnwv
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ModMedMicro retweeted
EIT Oxford
@EITOxford11 Sep 2024
🚨 Global Health Update at EIT Oxford! We’re pleased to announce that today marks the official launch of @EITPathogena, our first genomic analysis tool developed by the Pathogen Programme, one of the first health and medical science initiatives at EIT Oxford! With a mission to reduce lives lost to infectious diseases and to prevent local outbreaks from becoming pandemics, EIT Pathogena is a global, free tool for public health professionals. By leveraging the cutting-edge, cloud-based technology of @Oracle, EIT Pathogena empowers users to process, analyse, and share genomic sequence data to combat infectious diseases. Explore more at eit-pathogena.com 🌍 #PathogenProgramme #EITPathogena #EITOxford #GenomicInnovation #InfectiousDiseases #Genomics #HealthTech
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The winner of our poll at the ⁦@OxfordBRC⁩ open day was “Antibiotics with fewer side effects”! ⁦@ModMedMicro⁩
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Getting prizes ready for our @BashTheBug stand at the @OxfordBRC open day at the Westgate centre in Oxford on 30th May! More info to follow....
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Our preprint with the results of our @the_zooniverse project @InfectInspect is live on @medrxivpreprint #CitizenScience @ModMedMicro @NDMOxford @oxmartinschool @KavliOxford @OxfordPhysics @OxfordBRC medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Cakes to celebrate the release of ⁦@_gpas_⁩ version 1.0.0 last week 🥳
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David Eyre@drdavideyre4 Dec 2023
Nanopore sequencing of influenza... is effective, shows evidence of frequent transmission across the UK, and highlights the role healthcare-acquired 'flu plays in onward spread in hospitals, read more here: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @ModMedMicro @bdi_oxford @OxfordBRC @nickdsandy

Nanopore sequencing of influenza A and B in Oxfordshire and the United Kingdom, 2022-23

Objectives We evaluated Nanopore sequencing for influenza surveillance. Methods Influenza A and B PCR-positive samples from hospital patients in Oxfordshire, UK, and a UK-wide population survey from...

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Are you an experienced bioinformatician? Are you interested in AMR, infectious disease and diagnostics? Come and work with us! Senior Bioinformatician post (Grade 8) Closing date: noon 3 Jan 2024 bit.ly/mmm_sbio
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Come and work with us on infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance! Research Software Engineer, Grade 7, closing date 10 Nov 23 bit.ly/mmm_rse @ResearchSoftEng
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Hostile: accurate host decontamination of microbial sequences biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_bioinfo
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Great work by @ViktoriaBrunne1 — preprint out before the end of her first year @Ox_DTP DPhil in @_fowlerlab_ / @ModMedMicro She mined the @crypticproject TB dataset to identify mutations compensating for RIF resistance and showed their effect on growth in a 96-well plate.
bioRxiv@biorxivpreprint22 Jun 2023
Compensatory mutations are associated with increased in vitro growth in resistant clinical samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Open Day bashthebug.net/2023/05/12/ox…
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#BashTheBug ready for the public #Oxfordwestgate @OxfordBRC @NIHRresearch @ModMedMicro @OxResServ @OxEngage Please RT, or better, come and see us!
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Infection Inspection was featured in @newscientist magazine in @layallivs column about citizen science! Check it out: newscientist.com/article/mg2…

Become a citizen scientist in the fight against antibiotic resistance | New Scientist

Sign up to a project called Infection Inspection and help researchers confront the rogue microbes that threaten to unleash an apocalypse of untreatable disease

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A huge thanks to @the_zooniverse users who have volunteered with our project so far! 🙌 It has been great chatting with you and watching the classification numbers climb! Your work will help us better understand what our bacteria look like 🔬 and your enthusiasm is infectious!
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The Zooniverse@the_zooniverse7 Feb 2023
Can you tell the difference between an antibiotic resistant E. coli and a sensitive one? zooniverse.org/projects/cono…
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_fowlerlab_@_fowlerlab_3 Feb 2023
PhD applications for the Computational Discovery programme close on Wed 1 March Taking the structure of proteins into account: predicting if infections are resistant to β-lactam antibiotics using graph-based convolutional neural networks  bit.ly/3Hmcnm0
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