Centre for Clinical Microbiology (CCM)

The #CCMBucketHat headed to the Republic of Congo in January with @linzyelton.bsky.social to run a 16S sequencing workshop and attend the CATCR steering meeting at la Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale (FCRM) in Brazzaville! It's first trip of 2026 and it made a new friend 🦍👀

nterested in learning how to combat infectious disease threats to humans and animals? PhD studentships available through the BBSRC-funded Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Programme. Deadline 23rd January 2026. www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...

The #CCMBucketHat was in Maputo, Mozambique last week with Leticia Muraro-Wildner and @linzyelton.bsky.social to undertake a clinical trials site visit at the Instituto Nacional de Saúde

The #CCMBucketHat was in Lithuania last week with @linzyelton.bsky.social & @dallasroulston.bsky.social visiting NVSPL to run a workhop on using @nanoporetech.com for surveillance of pathogens and #AMR, #metagenomics of wastewater and #16S for clinical samples! Thanks to the team for hosting us!

A metagenomic approach to One Health surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in a UK veterinary centre There are currently no standardized guidelines for genomic surveillance of One Health antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This project aimed to utilize metagenomics to identify AMR genes present in a comp...

Published! Our paper utilising #metagenomics to look at #pathogens and #AMR in the veterinary environment, and how it relates to clinical infections: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Aisha's winning agar plate

Team 'Number one' who came first!

We held our Lab Olympics today, congratulations to all competitors, especially team 'Number one' for coming first!

Blog: Environmental AMR surveillance in clinical settings – insights from two metagenomic case studies

The team at @zymoresearch.bsky.social have written a blog about the use of environmental #metagenomics in two of our recent papers, highlighting its use for #AMR #surveillance across #OneHealth settings www.bioscience.co.uk/blog/environ...

Some of the CCM clinical trials team joined the PanACEA annual meeting in Cape Town, South Africa 3-5 June. A celebration of all the work achieved, and a look forward to all of the things we can work towards with PanACEA3!

In our final video on #clinicaltrials, @linzyelton.bsky.social explains what a site coordinator does when they visit each of the labs! Coordinators work closely with the lab teams to help make sure that all work is being done according to the trial guidelines, making the data robust.

Those of you who have followed us on other platforms know that the #CCMBucketHat has been to 6 continents and over 10 countries in the last two years! We'll keep you updated with it's travels!

The UNITE4TB laboratory coordinator team caught up at CCM as part of the annual meeting held in London last week. Do we see a #CCMBucketHat?

Next up in our series of videos on #clinicaltrials, @linzyelton.bsky.social explains what a day in the life of our laboratory scientists looks like! We work with sites all over the world and each trial is different, but with many hundreds of #tuberculosis patients enrolled, it's always busy!

We're part of many #tuberculosis #ClinicalTrial studies, and site coordinator @linzyelton.bsky.social has made a series of videos to try and dispel the myths about clinical trials! First up, a look at OptiRimox; why (and how) it's run, and why trials are so important!

Are you interested in @nanoporetech.com sequencing? Want to do whole genome sequencing? Our postdoc @linzyelton.bsky.social has published a tutorial video for the Rapid Barcoding kit (RBK114) to help you get started! pandora.tghn.org/sequencing/s...

Are you interested in @nanoporetech.com sequencing? Want to sequence amplicons or do #metagenomics? Our postdoc @linzyelton.bsky.social has published a tutorial video for the Rapid PCR Barcoding (RPB114) kit to help you get started! pandora.tghn.org/sequencing/s...

Clinical Microbiology The Centre for Clinical Microbiology (CCM) aims to reduce the burden of infectious disease through research to improve diagnosis and treatment of microbial infections. We aim to apply new technologies

Hello! We're the Centre for Clinical Microbiology at @ucl.ac.uk and we undertake research on infectious diseases both here in the UK and internationally: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...