Dave Baker
@tweakyaustin
Engineer come bio-technologist running core Sequencing at the Quadram, UK. Loves family, food and football. Views are my own.
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Strengthening microbial risk assessment for food safety & AMR using Oxford Nanopore. Thanks to Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, SEQAFRICA Food and Agriculture Organization for empowering African scientists & institutions. Let's utilize Oxford Nanopore platforms we have received from @AfricaPGI to perform bacteria sequencing @Wande_A
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨Excited that the work from my PhD at the Quadram Institute NarbadLab is now published in the Microbiology Society journal. The nisin O biosynthetic gene cluster lacks a leader-peptide cleaving protease but is distributed across gut-associated genera. microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…
Interested in microbiome and Salmonella? Then apply for our summer vacation bioscience research scholarship project: “Niche competition between pathogens and microbiota in the gut” tinyurl.com/33upx4bc Quadram Institute Rob Kingsley
It was an absolute delight to deliver a course on cholera genomics alongside the esteemed Nicholas Thomson Thank you Wellcome Sanger Institute for the opportunity to share knowledge and engage in such an important topic.
Just days before #AGBT25, Illumina drops a new spatial technology. Still early (very early) days but they gave me a sense of what is coming. Thanks to Dr. Jasmine Plummer 👩🏻🔬🧬🇨🇦🇺🇸 Nick Banovich for sharing their thoughts. #spatial genengnews.com/topics/omics/i…
It's finally here! The Zimbabwe One Health AMR National Action Plan (NAP) has been released. It was a pleasure to meet esteemed colleagues from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) HQ. Next week, we will officially commence the NAP implementation by conducting PPS training.
For all Campylobacter enthusiasts/opponents, we are hosting the CampyUK2025 conference in Oxford in September. campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk
Latest publication from my previous Institute showing how different sulfur groups from broccoli not just sulforaphane can affect prostate cancer cell metabolism. Please have a read Quadram Institute onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
The UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office we received in Zim has played a critical role in catalyzing the implementation of the AMR NAP. This week, a dedicated team is actively engaged in crafting scientific publications that will highlight the success stories emerging from these funds.
Great to host friend and colleague Prof. Amirul Islam Mallick IISER Kolkata at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as part of the partnership to address animal diseases and health 🦠🔬🧫🐥 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Department of Biotechnology Subhadeep Gupta
Great to see some legends of the game 🧪🔬🖥️🦠☕ Sheppard Lab Prof Nick Thomson and Prof Alan McNally
The vaginal microbiome plays a crucial role in gynaecological health. Ellele Health, we are exploring how the Ellele Sampling Device can capture valuable microbial & cellular insights from the vaginal environment, enabling early disease detection & personalised women’s healthcare
