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Exciting day at London’s Science Museum for the #InnovationforGrowth meeting where we’re showing off AirSeq technology from @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @nhm.org

Meeting organised by @ukri.org to highlight the importance of research and innovation for economic growth.

Researching the biology of bacterial biofilms to boost bioremediation - Quadram Institute Research into how the biofilms of Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria could help clean up metals from wastewater

🆕 Blog! This #BiofilmsWeek we catch up with Dr Heather Felgate to discover how studying the biofilms of Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria could help clean up metals from wastewater 🦠

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Quadram joins new initiative to develop liver disease models and reduce animal research - Quadram Institute Quadram is part of an innovative new project developing a liver disease model that will reduce reliance on animal testing

Dr Naiara Beraza will contribute expertise in the role of the microbiome as a regulatory mechanism of the gut-immune-liver axis during health and disease to the development of this immunocompetent gut-liver-adipose tissue model in healthy and MASLD conditions.

Science communicator Gabriel Astorga wins at the UK and Ireland TikTok Awards - Quadram Institute Gab Astorga, a social media creator and Quadram Institute microbiologist secured the top-spot in the Books and Learning category at the TikTok Awards UK & Ireland 2025. Now in its second year, the…

🆕 @gabastorga.bsky.social , a social media creator and Quadram Institute microbiologist secured the top-spot in the Books and Learning category at the TikTok Awards UK & Ireland 2025 ✨

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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to establish gut-brain/gut-CNS microfluidic chip systems to enable the study of the role of microbial products in regulating gut-immune-CNS communication 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
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Rethinking Omega-3s for Health and Sustainability « Nutrition# « Cambridge Core Blog The paper “Sustainable and available sources of omega-3 fatty acids for health: are the current dietary recommendations, food sources and legislation fit for purpose?“, published in Nutrition…

📰 A paper our Group Leader Dr Maria Traka contributed to "Rethinking Omega-3s for Health and Sustainability" is the @nutritionsociety.bsky.social 's paper of the month ⤵️

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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Chris Quince based at the Quadram Institute and @earlhaminst.bsky.social in the Food, Microbiome and Health programme 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
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Quadram joins new initiative to develop liver disease models and reduce animal research - Quadram Institute Quadram is part of an innovative new project developing a liver disease model that will reduce reliance on animal testing

🆕 Dr Naiara Beraza from the Quadram Institute is part of an innovative new project developing an interconnected multi-organ platform that replicates non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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🚀 We’re delighted to share that OriCol™, manufactured by TOGL, has achieved CE marking under EU MDR (2017/745)!
This milestone reflects compliance with the EU’s rigorous standards for safety, performance and quality.
#CEmark #MedTech #Innovation #Oricol

From kitchen to infection; The hidden story of Campylobacter in our kitchens - Quadram Institute Dr Bilal Djeghout explains how he's developed a new kitchen model experiment to study in the lab how Campylobacter spreads in the kitchen

"My experiments show that Campylobacter can survive on cutting boards longer than expected, even though it is normally sensitive to oxygen."🦠

💬 Dr Bilal Djeghout

Ben Goldsborough MP talks to NNUH Consultant Dr Emma Webb

Dr Laura Bardon, Andrew Stronach, Dr Emma Webb, Dr Maria Traka and Professor Martin Warren in Parliament

Professor Martin Warren talks to Adrian Ramsey MP

Dr Laura Bardon and Dr Emma Webb talk to Melissa Haynes Agoro

Our researchers are in Parliament today for @senseaboutsci.bsky.social's #EvidenceWeek talking to policymakers about hidden hunger in the UK 🗣️

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From kitchen to infection; The hidden story of Campylobacter in our kitchens - Quadram Institute Dr Bilal Djeghout explains how he's developed a new kitchen model experiment to study in the lab how Campylobacter spreads in the kitchen

🆕 Blog! Dr Bilal Djeghout explains how he's developed a new kitchen model experiment to study in the lab how Campylobacter spreads in the kitchen 🍴
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Are you passionate about nutrition science and the potential of #fermentedfoods to transform plant-based diets?

Check out our current vacancy ⤵️

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Interestingly, #drugs for the nervous system (antidepressants/antipsychotics) stand out: #SSRI/ #SNRI/ #TCA push the gut #microbiome into alternate states, lowering functional redundancy(lower capacity to respond) and ramping up antimicrobial-resistance proteins.
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1 in 5 people in the UK are estimated to be deficient in #vitaminD during winter and spring 📉

Our ViTaL-D Study aims to understand whether tomatoes biofortified through gene-editing tomatoes to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅

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@enriquetagarcia.bsky.social thanks for hosting me this week! Implemented low cost custom full length 16S V1-9 on @nanoporetech.com

Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”

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New £644K Microbiome Innovation Network to drive UK Bioscience Research and impact health, food, and environments - Quadram Institute The Microbiome Innovation Centre at the University of Liverpool, the National Biofilms Innovation Centre, the Quadram Institute, Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Oxford have been…

🆕 New £644K Microbiome Innovation Network to drive UK Bioscience Research and impact health, food and environments.

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities.

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New blog post – A quick look at Roche's SBX
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Quadram Institute football team captain, Emad, shows off his footwork.

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Our Quadram Institute football team scored an impressive 26 goals at the annual Norwich Research Park 5-a-side tournament ⚽

The team came 4th out of 7, facing tough opposition against @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social 🥉

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Dave Baker shows a visiting group the sequencing facility at the Quadram Institute

We were delighted to welcome board members and visitors from the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group today 🏥

We're excited to work with NHS partners to strengthen clinical research and innovation for the communities we serve.

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🎉 Another milestone for Origin Sciences! We’ve opened our new clinical suite at Hollinswood House, Telford, to support our £1m #TRIOMIC study in partnership with SaTH. Over the next year 6,000 symptomatic patients will help us advance #ColorectalCancer screening and improved patient pathways!

🎉 Ellele Health turns ONE! 🎉

In just 12 months, we:
✅ Gained UKCA mark for sampling device
📄 Published joint HPV testing whitepaper
📈 Ran Ellele01 study
📅 Planned new gynae cancer detection study
💡 Were selected for Lynch syndrome testing study
❤️ Built a kick-ass team!
& we’re just getting started!

☀️ Summer Party at Darwin College ☀️
Yesterday we came together to celebrate progress, connect beyond remote working & our growing teams, and enjoy a BBQ + punting 🚤

Even better, a major milestone in our research into cancer diagnostics was confirmed — more on that soon!🥂

#CancerResearch #Teamwork

Genome-wide screening using TraDIS accelerates identification of key adaptive mutations of longer-term evolution experiment in Escherichia coli. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.673662v1

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🚨 Abstract submissions for CampyUK 2025 are now open! Join us in Oxford (24–25 Sept) to explore the latest in Campylobacter research.

🗓 Deadline: 31 July

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#CampyUK2025 #Microbiology #AMR #OneHealth

Fabulous kick off talk at #GenomeScience25 from @matthewcobb.bsky.social discussing just a few of Francis Crick’s great conceptual leaps (and some less stellar moments) in the understanding of molecular biology and evolution as outlined in his new biography: get it on the Xmas list amzn.eu/d/fIPxARk

Our new preprint is out! EEC1 is a massive 4.2 Mb secondary chromosome from Embleya australiensis. Conserved across Embleya, these are the first replicons of their kind in Actinobacteria and the largest secondary replicons in bacteria identified to-date!

1/6 🦠🧪🧬🔬

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