Our team wore blue for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2025💙

Research into how resistance emerges, spreads and can be prevented is vital. Our group works to understand these processes and develop better tools to detect, monitor and combat antimicrobial resistance.

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Why is antimicrobial awareness important?

Antimicrobial resistant infections are rising. In the next 25 years an estimated 39.1 million people globally will die from infections with antimicrobial resistance.

So what can you do to help? Something as simple as finishing your course of antibiotics!

Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi & parasites change over time - leading to medicines being less effective against them.
Here you see bacteria growing and antibiotics (the small discs) which kill the bacteria...unless they are resistant!
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'Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate project'.

Akika investigated how the gut microbiome influences longevity, with fieldwork in Nagano, Japan—home to the country’s longest-living population.

Read the blog post here ➡️ bashthebug.net/2025/08/22/l...

Looping out bacteria (well couscous) is harder than it looks!

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Come and play our dance mat game named after me! Outside John Lewis in the Westgate as part of the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social showcase!

Come and find @modmedmicro.bsky.social at the Westgate in Oxford as part of the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social showcase!

Join us this half term at Westgate, Oxford to find out how our scientists are working to improve your health!

📅 29 May 2025
⌚ 10:00am – 3:30pm
📍 Westgate Oxford, Leiden Square (OX1 1PE)

🔗 oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/heal…

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