Andrew McDowell
@DrMicrobiome
Aspiring polymath. “All I know is that I know nothing” 🇮🇱
You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week. How do these micro and nanoplastics affect your microbiome? Watch this space. We are starting a PhD project to look at this further @NICHE_ULSTER @UlsterUniBiomed. nautil.us/you-eat-a-cred…
32 highschool students. 1 week. Real CRISPR experiments! At @UlsterUni's UGenie summer school, Year 13 students knocked out genes in E. coli, ran PCRs, and analysed gels using Bento Lab. We spoke with @DrMicrobiome about making complex molecular biology concepts feel real.
Nice overview of genome editing. press.asimov.com/articles/crisp…
Great piece by @bethanwolfenden on UGenie @UlsterUniBiomed @UlsterUni.
UGenie 2025 is due to commence in August. This article by @bethanwolfenden @theBentoLab gives great insight into the Academy’s activities @UlsterUniBiomed. bento.bio/story/ugenie-u…
Training Biology teachers from across NI key molecular biology skills with @theBentoLab that they can transfer back to the classroom. Many thanks to @atky33 @RachelleIrwin15 for invaluable help @UlsterUniBiomed.
Some 80s vibe tonight with Back To The Future @BTTFmusical
Deadline is fast approaching for UGenie 2025 applications. See link below if you know year 13 pupils who may be interested. Unfortunately, we won’t be bringing back Woolly Mammoths but you’ll still develop lots of skills in CRISPR for genome editing! ulster.ac.uk/study/undergra…
Fun day teaching year 14s how to analyse PCR products on @theBentoLab as part of our Ulster Life Science and Biotech (ULife) Education hub for schools and colleges @UlsterUniBiomed. Looking forward to more tomorrow @RachelleIrwin15 @atky33.
Only 4 weeks left to apply for UGenie 2025! Please share. We take applications from all over the province.
We are now delighted to announce that UGenie 2025, funded by the Garfield Weston Trust, is open for applications. Deadline is 1st May 2025. Applications and further information on the event can be found at the link below @UlsterUniBiomed @StudyAtUlster ulster.ac.uk/study/undergra…
SCHOOLS' CUP FINAL PREVIEW: Royal School Armagh v Wallace High School Remembering Royal School Armagh's 'Captain Fantastic' John McCall who left legacy as 'an inspirational leader' trib.al/tv2oK6E
The slaughter and barbaric murder of Christians, Druze and Alawites by Islamic extremists in Syria, is still not making a ripple on mainstream media. The videos and pictures are extreme and I cannot share them, but why is there relative silence? Are these deaths of less…
Fantastic opportunity for year 13 pupils to learn and develop lab skills in gene editing while studying on the Coleraine campus. Will be a great boost to CV, and help make a more informed choice about higher education.
We are now delighted to announce that UGenie 2025, funded by the Garfield Weston Trust, is open for applications. Deadline is 1st May 2025. Applications and further information on the event can be found at the link below @UlsterUniBiomed @StudyAtUlster ulster.ac.uk/study/undergra…
Fantastic #AICRIstart Innovation Fund pitch by @AineMcGill @UlsterUni @PersonalMedNI and Luisa Silva @UL on improving stool sample collection procedures in cancer diagnosis.
Well done to Dr. Áine McGill from @PersonalMedNI who was speaking this afternoon about her plans for gut microbiome analysis in CLL at the 2nd #AICRIstart symposium @UlsterUni @drkylematchett
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Your daily cup of tea could be dosing you with billions of microplastics Recent studies reveal that nylon, polypropylene, and cellulose teabags release staggering amounts of micro- and nano-plastics into each cup—up to 1.20 billion particles per milliliter These plastics don’t…
Delighted to share our latest CF paper demonstrating the ability of selective inhibition of furin by BOS-318 to increase elexacaftor–tezacaftor–ivacaftor-mediated improvements in airway hydration and mucociliary transport. @DrLisa_Douglas @DrJamesReihill 👏publications.ersnet.org/content/erjor/…
Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains. nature.com/articles/s4159…
We have a PhD opportunity @UlsterUniBiomed examining the effects of microplastics on human microbiota. This work builds on current studies within the microbiology group @NICHE_ULSTER on bioremediation of plastic waste. Details below. ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcolleg…