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Find out how food structure plays a key role in digestion and health ⤵️

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(4/5) 🧵Follow the links below to learn more:

About B. wadsworthia and our diets🥩: buff.ly/ST6Z67F

About the Langridge group's conference success 🏆: buff.ly/iByJNtI

About phages shaping the lung microbiome, in collaboration with the Becky Mayer Centre for Phage Research 🦠: buff.ly/WRmrpYs

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(4/5) 🧵 Be in the know on the latest preprints🦠

Postdoctoral Researcher @ryancook94.bsky.social from the Adriaenssens lab shared a preprint with exciting preliminary findings on how bacteriophage may shape lung microbial ecosystems in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients 🫁

Emma Water (L), Alice Nisbet (M) and Gemma Langridge (R) attend the International Symposium on Salmonella & Salmonellosis, standing in front of a sign that reads 'I3S' for the conference.

(3/5) 🧵 Get updates from our labs, like @langridgelab.bsky.social. They presented award-winning talks and posters at the International Symposium on Salmonella & Salmonellosis🏆

PhD student Alice studies typhoidal Salmonella and Dr Waters studies genomic rearrangements on Salmonella virulence🧬

Photo of rod-shaped Bilophila wadsworthia bacterium. Taken by Mike Paxhia.

(2/5) 🧵 Stay up to date on discoveries in food, the gut microbiome and human health research, like Early Career Fellow @lizsayavedra.bsky.social’s research into a gut bacterium that uses diet to turn against us🥩

B. wadsworthia adapts to high fat diets to outcompete other gut microbes🦠

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Gut Thinking - For Registered Healthcare Professionals Only Boosting immunity - where the microbiome fits in and opportunities for patient care.

Are you a registered healthcare professional?🏥

🗣️ Check out Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology (PCSG)'s free upcoming talk on "Boosting immunity: where the microbiome fits in and opportunities for patient care" featuring our researchers

🗓️ Tuesday 21 October

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📅 Save the date! An Oral Tissue Collaborative (OTC) Symposium: Building Excellence in Oral Tissue Biobanking will be taking place on 10 October 2025

📍 Indianapolis, United States and online

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Norwich University of the Arts illustration exhibition - Quadram Institute Illustrations inspired by upcoming human studies will be on display in the public atrium at the Quadram Institute.

An exhibition displaying work from a collaboration with Norwich University of the Art's Illustration course is currently on display in our atrium until the end of this week🎨

The illustrations range from a bespoke nail gut microbiome set to digital imagery of bergamots 💅 🍋 ⤵️

A family of six gathered around an island in a kitchen with food on it.

✅ Live in England? 📍

✅ Are several members of your family willing to give a stool sample? 👪

You can take part in our PEARL-AGE study understanding how microbes are shared within families.

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Yesterday was #BeerDay, so here's some beer science 🍻

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae made history, not just for its beer-making talents, by also becoming the first eukaryote to be fully genome sequenced. A eukaryote is an organism whose cells contain a nucleus 🧬

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We’ve had four @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Broadcast and Multimedia Journalism students with us over the summer and they’ve all been absolute stars. Great to work with Tabby, Chloe, Anna and Nemi. Read all about it. 👇

It’s #RNADay! RNA helps interpret and convert the instructions in our genetic material, DNA, into proteins in our bodies 🧬

It falls on August 1 since AUG represents one of the codons – or codes – encoded in RNA that starts protein production.

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Broadcast journalism students bring bioscience to new audiences - Quadram Institute At the Quadram Institute, our communications team work to build the reputation of the institute by communicating our research and impact across the globe. The team were recently joined by students…

🆕 Blog! @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Broadcast journalism students bring bioscience to new audiences 📽️
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🆕 Listen back to Professor Martin Warren @vitaminb12lab.bsky.social on BBC Radio Norfolk talking about new @aria-research.bsky.social funding for future food research on Norwich Research Park 📻

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New tool for measuring functional capacity developed - Quadram Institute Researchers, clinicians and people with ME have worked together to develop a new way of measuring functional capacity

FUNCAP is now freely available online at in Norwegian, English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish. Japanese and Italian translations are underway 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇸🇪

#ThrowbackThursday to #NorwichPride 🌈

This year was a very joyful celebration of our NRP #LGBTQ+ community. Our #ProudScientists and colourful lab coats hopefully inspired the next generation to believe that anyone can become a scientist, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

Typhoid Mary, genetic tricks and disease detectives; meet Salmonella Typhi - Quadram Institute Typhoid is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by a microbe called Salmonella Typhi. PhD student Alice Nisbet studies this dangerous microbe.

Typhoid Mary, a cook in the 19th Century, unintentionally infected wealthy families with typhoid🍽️ She was a healthy carrier of the disease.

In collaboration with @ukhsa.bsky.social, retrospective identification of carrier patients is part of the detective work we do🔎

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Honestly the FSRN has been _incredibly_ successful - very glad to see it continue and delighted to be able to help drive it forward!

Safe Food, Strong Science: UK Research Network Gears Up for Next Phase - Quadram Institute The Food Safety Research is hosted by the Quadram Institute, and co-led by Dr Matthew Gilmour and Dr Maria Traka, and we’re delighted to have the opportunity to drive forward the next phase of the…

🆕 Backed by new @ukri.org BBSRC and @foodgov.bsky.social funding, the Food Safety Research Network is expanding its work to tackle the UK’s most pressing foodborne risks: by connecting science with those who feed the nation.

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We're tackling hidden hunger as part of the Zero Hidden Hunger EU project 🍽️

This project looks to develop food-based strategies which reduce deficiencies within population groups📝

Learn more about hidden hunger and our work⤵️
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Do you have a bachelors degree or equivalent in a scientific discipline and skills in implementing strategic engagement plans and ensuring high-quality deliverables?

Check out our current vacancy ⤵️

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New tool for measuring functional capacity developed - Quadram Institute Researchers, clinicians and people with ME have worked together to develop a new way of measuring functional capacity

Although designed with and for people with ME, FUNCAP could also contribute to studies of functional capacity linked to #longCOVID, where post-exertional malaise is increasingly being recognised as a symptom.

Norwich University of the Arts illustration exhibition - Quadram Institute Illustrations inspired by upcoming human studies will be on display in the public atrium at the Quadram Institute.

🆕 Illustrations created by Norwich University of the Arts students inspired by our upcoming human studies will be on display in the public atrium at the Quadram Institute until 8 August 🎨

From the Land of Ice to a Life That’s Nice - Work in Norwich Discover how microbiologist Matt Gilmour moved from Canada to Norwich, combining cutting-edge Listeria research at the Quadram Institute with family life and UK culture. His journey highlights why…

From the land of ice to a life that’s nice 🌞

This #NorfolkDay check out our Group Leader Dr Matthew Gilmour's blog for Work in Norwich about his family's move from Canada to Norwich, and why they love living in Norfolk ⤵️

Norwich Pride 2025 Norwich Research Park

New tool for measuring functional capacity developed - Quadram Institute Researchers, clinicians and people with ME have worked together to develop a new way of measuring functional capacity

Our researchers hope that FUNCAP will be a valuable tool to improve the diagnosis of ME/CFS, and better measure its impact on peoples’ lives, alongside other established tests for other aspects of the condition.
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Typhoid Mary, genetic tricks and disease detectives; meet Salmonella Typhi - Quadram Institute Typhoid is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by a microbe called Salmonella Typhi. PhD student Alice Nisbet studies this dangerous microbe.

🆕 Blog! Meet Salmonella Typhi, the microbe that causes typhoid, has genetic tricks up its sleeves and made Typhoid Mary infamous 🦠

Learn more from disease detective, PhD student @nisbetalice.bsky.social, who studies this microbe 🔍

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Dr Bushra Schuitemaker in a graduation gown

Dr Claire Elek with her supervisor Dr Evelien Adrianssens

Congratulations to all our former PhD students who are graduating this summer! 🥳

Here you can see our former students Dr Bushra Schuitemaker and Dr Claire Elek who graduated earlier this month 📸

Discover more about our PhD and student opportunities 🎓
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