Luke Acton
@lukeacton.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at University of Birmingham. Microbiome, Bifidobacterium, Early Life.
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Luke Acton
Quadram Institute
3 months ago
๐ Salmonella cases are at ten-year high in England โ hereโs what you can do to keep yourself safe ๐ฆ ๐ฐ Our Research Group Leader
@drrobkingsley.bsky.social
explains the science of Salmonella in the
@uk.theconversation.com
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Salmonella cases are at ten-year high in England โ hereโs what you can do to keep yourself safe
There was a 17% increase in cases observed from 2023 to 2024 in the UK.
https://buff.ly/Y6RIul4
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Really thrilled to finally have this work published, a fun read for all the Salmonella and Phage enthusiasts
add a skeleton here at some point
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Luke Acton
5 months ago
Big thanks to our amazing volunteers, researchers, and everyone who joined the conversation! Grateful to Thinktank for the space to pilot this project and UoBโs Public Engagement team for the funding support! ๐
#PublicEngagement
#Teamwork
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Luke Acton
Pint of Science UK
5 months ago
๐ฅThis is what the second night of
#pint25
looked like in the UK๐ฌ๐ง! What an amazing night across our 45 locations! Thanks for all your posts!๐ Can you spot yourself in the collage?โจ Are you ready for the final night? Don't miss your last chance to join us! Programme & tickets:
pintofscience.co.uk
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Amazing evening talking science
@pintofscience.uk
in Birmingham Was really great to present some of the amazing data from
@halllab.bsky.social
Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !
5 months ago
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It's been great to spend the last two weeks visiting
@ucc.ie
to learn techniques for mutagenesis in Bifidobacteria! Lots of new knowledge to bring back to
@imibirmingham.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Matthew Dalby
8 months ago
This is my great new preprint with
@drvishalcpatel.bsky.social
and
@halllab.bsky.social
. We investigated the gut microbiota in patients with liver disease in which we show an increasing dominance of Enterococcus in the gut of patients with more severe liver disease.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pathological expansion of gut microbiome-associated Enterococcus in advanced cirrhosis corresponds with multilevel perturbations of the gut-liver-immune axis
Background Chronic liver disease (CLD) is a progressive condition that, in its advanced stages, leads to cirrhosis with related clinical complications, and can lead to acute-on-chronic liver failure (...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.25322003v1.full-text
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