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Dave Baker
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Engineer come bio-technologist running core Sequencing at the Quadram, UK.
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🆕 @gabastorga.bsky.social , a social media creator and Quadram Institute microbiologist secured the top-spot in the Books and Learning category at the TikTok Awards UK & Ireland 2025 ✨
Science communicator Gabriel Astorga wins at the UK and Ireland TikTok Awards - Quadram Institute
Gab Astorga, a social media creator and Quadram Institute microbiologist secured the top-spot in the Books and Learning category at the TikTok Awards UK & Ireland 2025. Now in its second year, the…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to establish gut-brain/gut-CNS microfluidic chip systems to enable the study of the role of microbial products in regulating gut-immune-CNS communication 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📰 A paper our Group Leader Dr Maria Traka contributed to "Rethinking Omega-3s for Health and Sustainability" is the @nutritionsociety.bsky.social 's paper of the month ⤵️
Rethinking Omega-3s for Health and Sustainability « Nutrition# « Cambridge Core Blog
The paper “Sustainable and available sources of omega-3 fatty acids for health: are the current dietary recommendations, food sources and legislation fit for purpose?“, published in Nutrition…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Chris Quince based at the Quadram Institute and @earlhaminst.bsky.social in the Food, Microbiome and Health programme 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025
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November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🆕 Dr Naiara Beraza from the Quadram Institute is part of an innovative new project developing an interconnected multi-organ platform that replicates non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Quadram joins new initiative to develop liver disease models and reduce animal research - Quadram Institute
Quadram is part of an innovative new project developing a liver disease model that will reduce reliance on animal testing
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November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🚀 We’re delighted to share that OriCol™, manufactured by TOGL, has achieved CE marking under EU MDR (2017/745)!
This milestone reflects compliance with the EU’s rigorous standards for safety, performance and quality.
#CEmark #MedTech #Innovation #Oricol
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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"My experiments show that Campylobacter can survive on cutting boards longer than expected, even though it is normally sensitive to oxygen."🦠

💬 Dr Bilal Djeghout
From kitchen to infection; The hidden story of Campylobacter in our kitchens - Quadram Institute
Dr Bilal Djeghout explains how he's developed a new kitchen model experiment to study in the lab how Campylobacter spreads in the kitchen
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November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Our researchers are in Parliament today for @senseaboutsci.bsky.social's #EvidenceWeek talking to policymakers about hidden hunger in the UK 🗣️

Read more about hidden hunger and our work to tackle it
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Ben Goldsborough MP talks to NNUH Consultant Dr Emma Webb Dr Laura Bardon, Andrew Stronach, Dr Emma Webb, Dr Maria Traka and Professor Martin Warren in Parliament Professor Martin Warren talks to Adrian Ramsey MP Dr Laura Bardon and Dr Emma Webb talk to Melissa Haynes Agoro
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🆕 Blog! Dr Bilal Djeghout explains how he's developed a new kitchen model experiment to study in the lab how Campylobacter spreads in the kitchen 🍴
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From kitchen to infection; The hidden story of Campylobacter in our kitchens - Quadram Institute
Dr Bilal Djeghout explains how he's developed a new kitchen model experiment to study in the lab how Campylobacter spreads in the kitchen
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October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Are you passionate about nutrition science and the potential of #fermentedfoods to transform plant-based diets?

Check out our current vacancy ⤵️

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 6 November 2025
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A photo of fermented pickles with the text "Research Scientist (Fermented Foods and Nutrition) to join the FlavourFerm project and explore the nutrition of fermented foods, Salary: £37,500 to £45,350, Contract length: 2 years, Apply by 6 November 2025"
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Interestingly, #drugs for the nervous system (antidepressants/antipsychotics) stand out: #SSRI/ #SNRI/ #TCA push the gut #microbiome into alternate states, lowering functional redundancy(lower capacity to respond) and ramping up antimicrobial-resistance proteins.
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dfigeys.bsky.social Daniel Figeys @dfigeys.bsky.social · 23d
From #drug cabinet → gut #microbiome: screening 312 therapeutic compounds, we mapped 4.6 million microbial protein-level responses to reveal how our drugs don’t just target us, they hit our gut microbes too.

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October 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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1 in 5 people in the UK are estimated to be deficient in #vitaminD during winter and spring 📉

Our ViTaL-D Study aims to understand whether tomatoes biofortified through gene-editing tomatoes to be high in vitamin D leads to higher levels of active vitamin D in the blood 🍅

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October 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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@enriquetagarcia.bsky.social thanks for hosting me this week! Implemented low cost custom full length 16S V1-9 on @nanoporetech.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”

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Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com
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October 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/e... Element Bio sues Illumina
Element Biosciences Sues Illumina Alleging Anticompetitive Behavior, Patent Infringement
Element has filed two lawsuits in the US and one in Germany, escalating the ongoing legal battle between the two sequencing technology firms.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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🆕 New £644K Microbiome Innovation Network to drive UK Bioscience Research and impact health, food and environments.
New £644K Microbiome Innovation Network to drive UK Bioscience Research and impact health, food, and environments - Quadram Institute
The Microbiome Innovation Centre at the University of Liverpool, the National Biofilms Innovation Centre, the Quadram Institute, Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Oxford have been…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities.

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September 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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New blog post – A quick look at Roche's SBX
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September 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Our Quadram Institute football team scored an impressive 26 goals at the annual Norwich Research Park 5-a-side tournament ⚽

The team came 4th out of 7, facing tough opposition against @thesainsburylab.bsky.social, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social 🥉

📷 Jacob Dehinsilu
Photo of the Quadram Institute football team wearing their branded, green football kits. The goalkeeper stands to the side wearing a yellow and black top. Quadram Institute football team captain, Emad, shows off his footwork. Four Quadram Institute football team members in action on the field. The Quadram Institute football team has a team huddle on the field.
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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We were delighted to welcome board members and visitors from the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group today 🏥

We're excited to work with NHS partners to strengthen clinical research and innovation for the communities we serve.

Read more about our work
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Dave Baker shows a visiting group the sequencing facility at the Quadram Institute
September 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🎉 Another milestone for Origin Sciences! We’ve opened our new clinical suite at Hollinswood House, Telford, to support our £1m #TRIOMIC study in partnership with SaTH. Over the next year 6,000 symptomatic patients will help us advance #ColorectalCancer screening and improved patient pathways!
July 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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🎉 Ellele Health turns ONE! 🎉

In just 12 months, we:
✅ Gained UKCA mark for sampling device
📄 Published joint HPV testing whitepaper
📈 Ran Ellele01 study
📅 Planned new gynae cancer detection study
💡 Were selected for Lynch syndrome testing study
❤️ Built a kick-ass team!
& we’re just getting started!
July 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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☀️ Summer Party at Darwin College ☀️
Yesterday we came together to celebrate progress, connect beyond remote working & our growing teams, and enjoy a BBQ + punting 🚤

Even better, a major milestone in our research into cancer diagnostics was confirmed — more on that soon!🥂

#CancerResearch #Teamwork
August 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Genome-wide screening using TraDIS accelerates identification of key adaptive mutations of longer-term evolution experiment in Escherichia coli. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.673662v1
September 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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🚨 Abstract submissions for CampyUK 2025 are now open! Join us in Oxford (24–25 Sept) to explore the latest in Campylobacter research.

🗓 Deadline: 31 July

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#CampyUK2025 #Microbiology #AMR #OneHealth
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