@sam_willcocks

Lecturer at Brunel University London, working in the fields of TB drug discovery and antimicrobial resistance.

Joined January 2015
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Clare Chandler@AnthroAMR10 May 2024
We are hiring! 0.5fte Project Manager and 1.0fte Project Administrator to support our #AMR capacity strengthening work with @FlemingFund in #Ghana and #Zimbabwe jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.asp… and jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.asp… Please share!

Jobs at LSHTM

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📢 The Tanner Lab is #recruiting a #ResearchAssistant! We're looking for a team-player with a bachelor’s degree, excellent organisational & #lab management skills to perform experiments, help students & others & ensure smooth day-to-day running of the lab: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHK841/resear…
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Quite important example for therapy failure and BDQ resistance development despite obviously effective background regimen. Much more research needed @unam_na @FZBorstel @medinflame @trans_evo wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…
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Inspired and refreshed by a fantastic Winter @AcidFastClub Meeting! Thank you to all the organisers @brunelun #acidfastclub
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Jeremy Farrar@JeremyFarrar6 Sep 2023
UK Set to Rejoin EU Horizon Science Program After 2-Year Absence - good news for science, research, health, international collaboration, culture, careers - simply great news. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

UK Set to Rejoin EU Horizon Science Program After Two Year Absence

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has given the go-ahead for officials to finalize a deal to allow the UK to re-join the European Union’s €95.5 billion ($103 billion) Horizon science program, according to...

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Brunel has an open position for a Microbiology/ Immunology Lecturer. May suit ambitious early career scientists seeking to transition to an independent position. Happy to discuss, just send me a message. careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy…
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Great fun filming with @Raksha_Digs @LSHTM for @channel5_tv. The Great Stink continues tomorrow at 9pm!
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Today marks the end of one chapter @LSHTM and the start of a new one @Bruneluni An opportunity to thank the many friends, students and supportive colleagues over the years who have so enriched my experience (you know who you are). Onwards!
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A pleasure meeting with early career researchers @imperialcollege this evening to discuss the ins and outs of academia. Thank you @kkrohnhuse for the invitation!
Julia Sanchez Garrido@JuliaSanchezBio11 Nov 2022
Replying to @JuliaSanchezBio
Thank you @sam_willcocks from @LSHTM for such a great talk combining insights into the different stages in his academic career (Groot stages 😝), the research involved & very useful advice for us #postdocs! And congrats for your new position @Bruneluni! #DoIDECR22
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Our ambitious study defining the genes required for the survival of M. bovis in cattle is finally out in MBio! We used Tnseq to identify 300 genes required for survival and show commonalities with mouse models. We identify some novel virulence factors and
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Starting a new patient on #TB treatment. This is all the tablets they need to take for just one week - 10 tablets a day! It’s just too much! We desperately need more tolerable regimes already 😖🥺
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Great session on #WorldTBDay on understanding MTB in the post-Genomic era from: Prof McHugh; Dr Evangelopoulos; @TerryKipkorir and @gmknght . Thank you to my awesome co-chair, Dr Honeyborne! 👏
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Sam Willcocks retweeted
UCL-TB@UCLTB24 Mar 2022
Looking forward to our UCL-LSHTM World TB Day Symposium later today, >700 registered, joining @CITC_TB for our final session. Starts 1230 GMT: eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-tb-… @LSHTM_TB @MRCCTU
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We have used Tn-seq in M. bovis to screen genes required in vivo. Known "core" virulence factors seen (as expected - but also some novel observations! @jenni_jane1 @Meesh5_AJ @irileniaN @WerlingLab @ValwynneF @sam_willcocks and other not on Twitter. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Defining the genes required for survival of Mycobacterium bovis in the bovine host offers novel...

Tuberculosis has severe impacts in both humans and animals. Understanding the genetic basis of survival of both Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the human adapted species, and Mycobacterium bovis , the...

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1/2 New year, new opportunities! Are you interested in discovering new drug targets to combat #tuberculosis? We are pleased to announce a fully-funded Bloomsbury PhD position in our lab @LSHTM co-supervised by the fantastic Prof. Sanjib Bhakta @BirkbeckScience See link below ➡️
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A Christmas present..finally "officially" out: frontiersin.org/articles/10.… with loads of data, a new genome...etc @marie_bartens @Meesh5_AJ @ScienceisGlobal @FrontImmunol @RoyalVetCollege @EarlhamInst
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8/ New variants are a reminder if we needed it that the pandemic is far from over, inequity is what will extend the pandemic. We do need to do inclusive public health better including urgent equitable access to vaccines & all the tools needed stop pandemic.
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Host adaptation among Mycobaterium spp. has always fascinated me given the genetic similarities. A pleasure to work on this publication with you @WerlingLab @Meesh5_AJ @marie_bartens
Werling Research Group@WerlingLab26 Nov 2021
Finally "officially" accepted. Epic work by @marie_bartens with @Meesh5_AJ @sam_willcocks @ScienceisGlobal on species-specific pathogen recognition and infos for a newly assembled cow breed genome #BrownSwiss frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #WomeninStem @FrontImmunol @RoyalVetCollege
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Sam Willcocks retweeted
Anil Koul@anil_koul15 Nov 2021
Well said by my colleague Dr. Dirk Lamprecht that Bedaquiline has been transformational and how new TB drug discovery in PPP mode is key to NextGen TB therapies! @ProteienSeun @lshtm @JNJGlobalHealth @LSHTM @doctorsoumya @CSIR_IND @DBTIndia
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