Dave Baker
@tweakyaustin
Engineer come bio-technologist running core Sequencing at the Quadram, UK. Loves family, food and football. Views are my own.
Back in March 2020 I had an idea… #CoronaHiT, for sequencing SARS-CoV-2 genomes on both @Illumina and @nanopore, cheap and easy - using on-bead tagmentation and PCR barcoding of @NetworkArtic PCR products. Thanks to a lot of colleagues @TheQuadram genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
🎉 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 take part, helping us advance #ColorectalCancer screening!
🚨 Big milestone for Ellele Health! Our Sampling Device is now UKCA marked for the GB market—a huge step toward transforming gynaecological health with better and more comfortable diagnostics. If you're working in #WomenHealth, #Diagnostics, or #ClinicalResearch let's connect! 💡
A reminder that registration for CampyUK 2025 is now open and places are starting to fill: 👉 campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk/home Please feel free to share with friends
The vaginal microbiome plays a crucial role in gynaecological health. @ElleleHealth, 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
Two of our Clinical Associate Professors are researching the use of pharmacogenomics in palliative care - the first time this has been explored in the UK. Pharmacogenomics can help guide individualised prescribing by looking at how our genes affect how we respond to medicines.
Great to see some legends of the game 🧪🔬🖥️🦠☕ @sheppard_lab Prof Nick Thomson and Prof Alan McNally
Great to host friend and colleague Prof. Amirul Islam Mallick @iiserkol at the @LSHTM as part of the partnership to address animal diseases and health 🦠🔬🧫🐥 @BBSRC @DBTIndia @SubhadeepG0794
Exciting PhD opportunity. If you would like to explore the role of gut bacteria in obesity and you're passionate about microbiome research and metabolic health, apply now! 👉 shorturl.at/3iaEK #PhD #Microbiome #GutHealth #ObesityResearch #Microbiology
The @MPTFOffice 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.
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 @TheQuadram onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Zelenskyy’s White House meeting with Trump and Vance
My team @NUOMICS are looking for a scientific officer initially until end of Nov 25. Experience of DNA sequencing @PacBio @illumina, @nanopore or molecular biology advantageous. Great experience to come and work in a busy externally facing genomics service tinyurl.com/37vew5ez
For all Campylobacter enthusiasts/opponents, we are hosting the @CampyUK2025 conference in Oxford in September. campyuk.web.ox.ac.uk
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 @CPA_Secretariat. Next week, we will officially commence the NAP implementation by conducting PPS training.
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 @DrJasPlummer @NeBanovich for sharing their thoughts. #spatial genengnews.com/topics/omics/i…
Strengthening microbial risk assessment for food safety & AMR using @nanopore. Thanks to @NMIMR_UG, @AfricaSeq @FAO for empowering African scientists & institutions. Let's utilize @nanopore platforms we have received from @AfricaPGI to perform bacteria sequencing @Wande_A
It was an absolute delight to deliver a course on cholera genomics alongside the esteemed @nrt_thomson Thank you @sangerinstitute for the opportunity to share knowledge and engage in such an important topic.
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 @TheQuadram @DrRobKingsley
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨Excited that the work from my PhD at the @TheQuadram @NarbadLab is now published in the @MicrobioSoc journal. The nisin O biosynthetic gene cluster lacks a leader-peptide cleaving protease but is distributed across gut-associated genera. microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…