Eleanor Hayles

🚨Funded PhD with @mmbdtp.bsky.social & @gemma-langridge.bsky.social

Brilliant project in a brilliant programme, with a great supervisory team!

Funded PhD position available in @langridgelab.bsky.social! Excellent project in a very supportive, driven & knowledgable group 🧬

Lovely reminder from @langridgelab.bsky.social that today’s actually the first day of the final year of my PhD – only a slightly daunting prospect…

Delighted to share that @stevenrudder.bsky.social has passed his viva today!! Congratulations Dr Rudder, and a huge thank you to @alisonmather.bsky.social and Prof Adrian Egli for examining. Steven, this is so well deserved, we're all super proud of you #PhDone

Lovely to see that our latest paper investigating #SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology in #Norfolk was one of the most read papers last month in #MicrobialGenomics!

Read here: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

As we leave late summer behind & enter autumn & some normality, we have been able to get together to celebrate some awesome achievements by our @stevenrudder.bsky.social & @eh-hayles.bsky.social. In a Langridge lab tradition, both received their coasters of their 1st author papers in the group!🎉🥳🎊

How SARS-CoV-2 impacted Norfolk: What a three year study taught us - Quadram Institute “In the five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, we’ve learnt a lot – not just about the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) but also how to track the spread and evolution of microbes th...

Waiting for the rain to stop? ⛈️ Need a good read? 📃

Our @eh-hayles.bsky.social has written a blog discussing her research exploring & understanding how SARS-CoV-2 spread & evolved in #Norfolk during the #COVID-19 pandemic 🦠

She shows the powers of #sequence surveillance & #epidemiology💪

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Norfolk, UK, March 2020–December 2022 In the UK, the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) established a real-time national genomic surveillance system during the COVID-19 pandemic, producing centralized data for monitoring severe acut...

Read the full paper in #MGEN here: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

#SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #genomics #epidemiology #coguk #Norfolk

Key highlights:
🔍 401 SARS-CoV-2 lineages were detected across the pandemic timeline
🔍 5 Variants of Concern were identified — with Alpha, Delta, and Omicron dominating
🔍 Four distinct regional epidemic waves identified
🔍 Clear variation in wave patterns between different regions

How SARS-CoV-2 impacted Norfolk: What a three year study taught us - Quadram Institute “In the five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, we’ve learnt a lot – not just about the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) but also how to track the spread and evolution of microbes th...

I've written a blog discussing my recent published research into SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology in Norfolk throughout the pandemic!

Find it here: quadram.ac.uk/blogs/how-sa...

🆕 Blog! Our PhD student @eh-hayles.bsky.social discusses her research exploring and understanding how SARS-CoV-2 spread and evolved in #Norfolk during the COVID-19 pandemic 🦠

➡️ buff.ly/YgTTNVG

Thank you Leo! and for your support with the phylogenetics - much appreciated 🙂

Massive thank you to @yaasircheema.bsky.social for this great podcast about the paper!

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Norfolk, UK, March 2020–December 2022 ReSay · Episode

Prefer to hear about the latest, awesome science in podcast summary instead of reading the entire paper?

Our @eh-hayles.bsky.social's @microbiologysociety.org paper has already been turned into a podcast episode!

Listen here or read the paper here www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Thanks Emma!!

doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

Thrilled to share my first, first author paper is now published in MGen!! See more below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Our @emmabeansworth.bsky.social will be presenting her latest work on the impact of genome rearrangement on #virulence & #AMR 💊 go see her at poster 102

Our @nisbetalice.bsky.social will closing the conference with the final talk looking at 20 years of #typhoidal Salmonella in England & Wales 🧫

Our @nisbetalice.bsky.social, @emmabeansworth.bsky.social & @gemma-langridge.bsky.social are having a magnifique time at #I3S. Currently they are enjoying talks in the #comparativegenomics session where Emma will also present her poster (102) showing genome rearrangement can impact #virulence & #AMR

Good luck Alice!!!!

Very grateful to have been invited to present my research on #SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology in #Norfolk at the Norwich Health Innovation Conference today!

I’m also presenting my PhD work on #STEC Shiga toxin subtype stx2a for the first time! Swing by poster 41 to learn more about the subtype and its prevalence in the UK between 2016 - 2024. Thanks to @ellarodwell.bsky.social & Claire Jenkins at @ukhsa.bsky.social for support with this project!

Excited to be back at #ABPHM25 in Cambridge this year! Lots of very insightful talks and demonstrations of #bioinformatics & #genomics and their use in public health.

Bacterial genome structural variation: prevalence, mechanisms, and consequences A vast number of bacterial genome sequences are publicly available. However, the majority were generated using short-read sequencing, producing fragmented assemblies. Long-read sequencing can generate...

Aww look at these trend setters in #microbiology! Interested in the large genome structural variation that isn't accounted for in short read #sequencing & consequences these have, read the latest review by our @emmabeansworth.bsky.social & @gemma-langridge.bsky.social

#academicsky #academicchatter

🚨New publication🚨
Thrilled to share our article about the Importance of Diversity & Representation in Science, now out in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance @springernature.com

Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @blancaps.bsky.social & @edcoakes.bsky.social for their awesome support

Demystifying infectious intestinal disease; My PhD placement in food safety policy - Quadram Institute PhD student Sam Mellor recently completed a placement at the Food Standards Agency, uncovering the burden of infectious intestinal disease in the UK.

"The PIPS placement is a great opportunity to diversify your CV in whatever way you want.”

💬 PhD student Sam Mellor

Today I presented my PhD research at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference in Liverpool! Thanks so much to the Microbiology Society! @microbiologysociety.org

Alice Nisbet stood beside her scientific poster describing her work on examining typhoidal Salmonella.

At #MicroBio25? Don't miss our @nisbetalice.bsky.social from @quadraminstitute.bsky.social at poster 301! 👩‍🔬 She's presenting her exciting research with @ukhsa.bsky.social on #typhoidal #Salmonella in England & Wales over to last 20 years, with some fascinating insights into bacterial carriage!🦠

Excellent @mmbdtp.bsky.social PhD project available with an excellent supervisory team ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Our @eh-hayles.bsky.social was also in Manchester last week for the @ukhsa.bsky.social #UKHSA25 conference. Apparently there was some great discussions around current public health research and how we are preparing for the future, including how to make the health system more equitable for all