Better late than never - our April monthly wrap up! 📆🧬🧫 Check out what we've been up to ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social

@rachelapayne.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social started their sampling campaign, sampling wastewater 💩 to look for resistant & multidrug resistant bacteria 🦠🧫 in different demographic populations 👵🏙️🎓

🧵 @hollytipper.bsky.social & @danread.bsky.social have a new paper out titled "Spatiotemporal profiling of antimicrobial agents during wastewater treatment – a national study" with Adegbenro Daso and Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern Check it out ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ukceh.bsky.social

@buzzingbennett.bsky.social's first PhD paper has just been published, titled "Molecular detection of honeybee pathogens in honey from a UK citizen science program" 🐝🦠 Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary below ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social @lindsaynewbold.bsky.social

Our latest paper has just been published in Environment International! Check it out here ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ukceh.bsky.social @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social

@oxonandrew.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social travelled to the University of Lincoln meeting for a project meeting for their NERC Seedcorn project on modelling AMR in the environment 🦠🌊. Check out a blogpost on the meeting here: graziellaiossa.weebly.com/news/worksho...

"I work on both bacterial 🦠 and fungal 🍄 #AMR in the environment with a particular interest in how chemical pollutants drive resistance 💊. I also work with policy colleagues to deliver evidence to tackle these challenges" - @istanton.bsky.social

Happy #WomenInSTEM day! 👩‍🔬 The Molecular Ecology group at @ukceh.bsky.social comprises of many fantastic women👩‍🔬 conducting research on all things #molecular #ecology, #AMR, #microbes 🧬🦠🧫 Stay tuned as we introduce you to some them over the course of today ⬇️

@rachelapayne.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social took a trip to their local sewage treatment plant to have an induction and take some practice samples for an upcoming sampling campaign investigating multidrug resistance in different population demographics 🦠🧫💩

🗓️ It's January wrap up time! Our researchers have been busy kicking off the new year with lots of different activities including sampling, presentations, project meetings, training and lots of lab work! Check out what we've been up to ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social

🚨Second new #job advert of the week!🚨 We are currently recruiting a Molecular Ecology Research Assistant to the Molecular Ecology group who will be working on all things #microbes, #AMR & #eDNA 🦠🧬🧫 Details on how to apply ⬇️ ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

Come work with us!

Molecular Ecology Christmas party 2025 🎄☃️🥂

📢 All #PhD #adverts now live 📢 All on #AMR 🦠🧫 in the #environment 🌊🌱 and deadlines are throughout January! For details of different projects, see thread below ⬇️ #WAAW #WAAW25 #WAAW2025

It's the final day of World #AMR Awareness Week #WAAW #WAAW25 🦠🧬🧫 Our researchers have a number of #PhD studentships studying #AMR which will start in Sept/Oct 2026. The @ukceh.bsky.social LinkedIn page has collated all our available PhD studentships here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mabvvus

Our recent paper on #stakeholder opinions on the delivery of environmental components of the UK's #AMR National Action Plan has been written up into a blog! 🦠🌊 Check out the paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... And the blog below ⬇️ @oxonandrew.bsky.social @hollytipper.bsky.social #WAAW

We process our monitoring samples in a variety of ways, which include #phenotypic testing for #AMR, as well as using #molecular methods such as #qPCR and #sequencing to look for specific antimicrobial resistance genes 🦠🧬👩‍🔬🧫 #WAAW

Happy World #AMR Awareness Week! #WAAW #WAAW25 At @ukceh.bsky.social our AMR researchers work on both #bacterial and #fungal AMR! We undertake research monitoring AMR in many different environments (water 🌊, wastewater 💩, air 💨, soil 🌱 & plants 🌿), which means we get out in the field a lot!

@hollytipper.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social went to visit the Unilever labs yesterday to meet up with their PhD student Olivia Mescall and her other supervisors @profjrsnape.bsky.social & Katie Endersby! As well as talking about Olivia's PhD, they went on a tour of the Unilever labs! 🥼🧪

🚨New #PhD #adverts alert🚨 I currently have two PhD studentships being advertised on environmental #AMR ⬇️ More being advertised soon 👀 @ukceh.bsky.social @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social

Yesterday was our Annual Postgraduate Showcase at UKCEH! A number of our PhD researchers participated by presenting their research as either a poster or as a talk! 🦠🐝🧬

Last month, @hollytipper.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social attended the Microbiome Innovation and One Health Conference in Oxford 🦠🧫 They co-presented on their work on #AMR in environmental microbiomes, as well as attending the networking event at @morethanadodo.bsky.social 🦖

The work on evaluating the UK's #AMR National Action Plan was recently published which focused on stakeholder opinions on the implementation of the 2019-2024 plan 🦠 Check it out below ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @hollytipper.bsky.social @oxonandrew.bsky.social @rebeccaglover.bsky.social

@istanton.bsky.social is an Environmental Molecular Microbiologist with a particular interest in dissemination, selection & transmission of both bacterial and fungal #AMR. Isobel has undertaken numerous pieces of work for policy, including an evaluation of the UK’s AMR National Action Plan 🦠🍄🧬

Tim recently published a paper on how soil properties in agricultural systems impact microbial genomic traits 🦠🌱🚜 Check it out here ⬇️ academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes...

@laurens-colours.bsky.social recently published a paper on the design of an eDNA qPCR assay to detect invasive Chinese mitten crab 🦀 - work that was undertaken during her PhD. Check it out here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Come meet our Molecular Ecology researchers! 🦠🧬🧑‍🔬

First up, @rachelapayne.bsky.social who is a Molecular Microbiology Research Assistant. Rachel investigates environmental AMR, focusing on antifungal resistance in air & soils, & antibacterial resistance in rivers. She uses a combination of lab, field & desk-based studies to carry out her research🧫🦠

🚨 New #OpenAccess paper in #Environmental #DNA! 🚨 Led by #TimGoodall @ukceh.bsky.social with @danread.bsky.social we tested whether #soil #eDNA metabarcoding can capture plant #biodiversity & vegetation cover across the UK 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

Really looking forward to working with Ruby & meeting her in York in a couple of weeks! @profjrsnape.bsky.social

Really excited to start working with Olivia ⬇️🦠 @profjrsnape.bsky.social @hollytipper.bsky.social

Welcome to our "meet the researcher" series!👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Tune in over the next week as we introduce you to our UKCEH Molecular Ecology PhD researchers and tell you a bit about their projects! 🧪🧬🦠

Follow our group's new page to see what we're up to! ⬇️🦠🥼

Welcome to the new UKCEH Molecular Ecology group Bluesky page! We are a research team, primarily based in Wallingford, working on all things #molecular 🧬, #microbes 🧫, #eDNA 🌊 & #AMR 🦠! Stay tuned as we introduce our researchers & to find out more about our work🧬🧪

@istanton.bsky.social it was SO great working with you and Holly on this article, out TODAY in Global Health Action! Well done 👏 ✔️ 👍 👌 😀 🙌 👏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Catch me and Isobel Stanton discussing #AMR in the environment and wastewater, and what this means for human health 🦠💊🥼 Podcast link below 🔽