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Pop-Up Shop 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

For those who were not able to visit us in person.

For those who did visit us and want to re-live their experience.

And for those who might be thinking about running a similar event.

The content of our pop-up shop is now fully online.

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Photo album: Superbugs Pop-up 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us Photos from the Pop-Up Science Shop in the St David’s Dewi Sant shopping centre in Cardiff from 7th July to 3rd August 2025 A selection of photos taken during pre-booked school visits and on open day...

Some numbers.

📆 28 days
🧑🏼‍🔬 54 volunteers
🎓 3 universities
🛝 8 activities
💰 6 treasures
🧟 11 horror show booths
🖼️ 52 picture frames
🦟 100 live mosquitoes
👪 4,955 visitors
🏫 11 school visits
🎯 900 sticker challenges
🔍 753 treasure hunts
🧫 1,254 body swabs
📝 258 feedback forms
📸 >500 photos
🤷🏼 0 regrets

Pop-Up 2025 - Horror Show — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

Our Horror Show is now online, providing an overview of some of the most devastating infectious diseases in human history.

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NKG2A-mediated immune modulation of natural killer cells by Staphylococcus aureus Abstract. Natural killer (NK) cells are specialized lymphocytes that help protect against viruses and cancer. However, in the context of bacterial infectio

Meanwhile in scientific news - our latest paper.

NKG2A-mediated immune modulation of natural killer cells by Staphylococcus aureus Abstract. Natural killer (NK) cells are specialized lymphocytes that help protect against viruses and cancer. However, in the context of bacterial infectio

Meanwhile in scientific news - our latest paper.

And that's a wrap. We have closed now, after 4 weeks of Superbugs fun for schools, families and everyone interested in the microbial world in, on and around us.

Thank you to everyone visiting us and supporting us!

We would have not been able to deliver such an ambitious pop-up shop over the past 4 weeks without an army of 54 enthusiastic and tireless volunteers from across Cardiff Uni, Cardiff Met and Swansea Uni, and beyond!

THANK YOU !!

Come and find us in the St David's Centre in Cardiff!

Pop-Up 2025 - Horror Show — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

Launching...

The online version of the Superbugs Horror Show that you can currently explore in the St David's Dewi Sant shopping centre in Cardiff until 3rd August.

Free entry, no booking required.

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Superbugs pop up science shop in Cardiff attracts thousands of visitors Researchers from Cardiff University and Swansea University have created a pop-up science shop in Cardiff's St David's Shopping Centre

Superbugs pop up science shop in Cardiff attracts thousands of visitors

@eberlmat.bsky.social @drjontyrrell-micro.bsky.social

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Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes

Meanwhile the news.

To learn more about antibiotic-resistant superbugs visit our educational website or come to our pop-up shop in Cardiff.

graphical abstract of Highlights of 2024: γδ T cells and bad blood

For this month's article exchange with
@immunolcellbiol.bsky.social we're highlighting 'Highlights of 2024: γδ T cells and bad blood' by @eberlmat.bsky.social

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...

And this why we do what we are doing.

Best feedback ever. ♥️

Our latest award is now an official display item in our pop-up shop.

@ibmscience.bsky.social

When you think you are throwing colourful rings at a giant wooden bacterium but in reality you are learning how plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes are transferred between bacteria.

Visit our little shop of horror.

Displaying some of the most devastating infectious diseases in history, and explaining how advances in science and in medicine succeeded in controlling most of them.

👉🏻 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025

Superbugs - Discover the microbial world in, on and around us!

St David's Dewi Sant shopping centre in Cardiff

7th July - 3rd August 2025.

Free event.
No booking required.

👉🏻 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025

Pop-Up 2025 - Body Swabs — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

And here are the microbes that people in South Wales carry on their hands, in their noses and ears, in their belly buttons and armpits, and on the screen of their mobile phones...

More than 300 swabs taken already, and this is only the beginning!

www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/body-swabs

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And this is why we are running a month-long pop-up shop in the heart of one of the UK's busiest shopping centres.

There's a lack of public knowledge of infections and vaccines, but plenty of misinformation and disinformation.

Diseases like measles are preventable. Vaccines save lives.

<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the article title to read more.

What can I say, my paper has just been cited.

"Eberl summarizes the role of γδ T cells in tissues during sepsis while referring to 58 Taylor Swift song titles—how many can you find?"

But I can only find 54 songs myself now. 🤦🏼‍♂️

<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the article title to read more.

What can I say, my paper has just been cited.

"Eberl summarizes the role of γδ T cells in tissues during sepsis while referring to 58 Taylor Swift song titles—how many can you find?"

But I can only find 54 songs myself now. 🤦🏼‍♂️

And here are some photos from last week's awards ceremony at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.

👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/photo-album-pop-up-2025

#winning

Thank you to everyone from St Martin's School for visiting our pop-up shop in Cardiff today!

Update.

#IBMSAwards25 #IBMSWinner @ibmscience.bsky.social
@drjontyrrell-micro.bsky.social @eberllab.bsky.social

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Looking forward to the epic battle between the Oasis and Superbugs pop-up shops next week, directly facing each other in the St David's Centre.

🔍 Now in Bioinformatics Advances: “Prediction of the infecting organism in peritoneal dialysis patients with acute peritonitis using interpretable Tsetlin Machines” 

Explore the full study: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf140 

Authors include: @eberllab.bsky.social, @rishadshafik.bsky.social

Wait until you see our own pop-up shop that is going to open directly opposite the Oasis merch store on 7th July.

👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025

@visitcardiff.bsky.social

Superbugs takeover at St David’s Cardiff with free interactive pop-up Superbugs Pop-Up Science Shop will open at St David’s Cardiff this summer offering free, hands-on activities for families. Transforming a retail unit at the city shopping destination into an interacti...

Superbugs takeover at St David’s Cardiff with free interactive pop-up!

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Prediction of the infecting organism in peritoneal dialysis patients with acute peritonitis using interpretable Tsetlin Machines AbstractMotivation. The analysis of complex biomedical datasets is becoming central to understanding disease mechanisms, aiding risk stratification and gui

"Prediction of the infecting organism in peritoneal dialysis patients with acute peritonitis using interpretable Tsetlin Machines"

Now available @bioinfoadv.bsky.social.

An amazing collaboration between @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social, @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @leedsbeckett.bsky.social!

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Ready to welcome you.

"Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us."

Pop-up Science Shop
St David's Dewi Sant
Cardiff

7 July - 3 August

👉🏻 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025