Linzy Elton, PhD

Hello! 👋The OHRIGAME project aims to understand the fate of antimicrobial drugs in poultry productions in South-East Asia and transboundary movement of AMR and antimicrobial residues in meat. We're multidisciplinary, integrating studies from biological and social sciences!

Our objectives in Vietnam: -Evaluate #AMR in chicken gut -ID reasons for high level of drugs in meat, eggs, chicken feed and water -Relate to chicken AMR profiles -Use questionnaires to understand farmers’ motivations for under-reporting -Alignment with Vietnamese NAP for AMR

The #CCMBucketHat headed to the Republic of Congo in January with @LinzyElton to run a 16S sequencing workshop and attend the CATCR steering meeting at la Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale (FCRM) in Brazzaville! It's first trip of 2026 and it made a new friend 🦍👀

Funded PhD Applications are now Open @KeeleUniversity Doctoral studies on '#Mammalian diversity and #zoonotic risk at rural waste interfaces: linking livelihoods, land-use and emerging disease in the midlands of the UK.' #mammalian-diversity-and-zoonotic-risk-at-rural-waste-interfaces:-linking-livelihoods,-land-use-and-emerging-disease-in-the-midlands-of-the-united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">keele.ac.uk/surf/currentca…

TB is an increasing problem in certain areas in the UK, often due to migration from endemic areas. It's curious that all cases appear to be latent, but better safe than sorry... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Interested in learning how to combat infectious disease threats to humans and animals? PhD studentships available through the BBSRC-funded Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Programme. Deadline 23rd January 2026. surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-hea…

The #CCMBucketHat was in Maputo, Mozambique last week with @leticiamwildner and @LinzyElton to undertake a clinical trials site visit at @instituto_ins

The #CCMBucketHat was in Lithuania last week with @LinzyElton & @DallasRoulston when they visited @NVSPL1 to run a workhop on using @nanopore for surveillance of pathogens and #AMR, #metagenomics of wastewater and #16S for clinical samples! Thanks to the team for hosting us!

Don't forget, there's a plain language summary of our recently pubished paper utilising #metagenomics to identify #pathogens and #AMR in veterinary hospital environments on my blog: linzyelton628749128.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/pla…

Published! Our paper utilising #metagenomics to look at #pathogens and #AMR in the veterinary environment, and how it relates to clinical infections: microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

We held our Lab Olympics today, congratulations to all competitors, especially team 'Number one' for coming first!

The team at @ZymoResearch have written a blog about the use of environmental #metagenomics in two of our recent papers, highlighting its use for #AMR #surveillance across #OneHealth settings bioscience.co.uk/blog/environme…

If you're working on #genomics #surveillance #OneHealth and #AMR, consider publishing your research in the Antibiotics special issue! Link below 👇

In a collaboration between @HerpeZ, @UCL_CCM and @NHSBartsHealth, researcher Rosalind @roro_micro has spent 3 weeks in Zambia helping to develop @nanopore #metagnomics for non-malarial febrile illness diagnosis from blood samples! @JohnTembo1982 @kathrynharris26 @LinzyElton

COYS!!!

@JohnTembo1982 Nice one John!

In our final video on #clinicaltrials, @LinzyElton explains what a site coordinator does when they visit each of the labs! Coordinators work closely with the lab teams to help make sure that all work is being done according to the trial guidelines, making the data robust.

Apply now for a fully funded PhD with KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, supported by NIHR! Conduct your research at a world-class research programme, with complete support for tuition, stipend, and research costs. Click here to apply: shorturl.at/u6N6k Deadline: May 27, 2025

Next up in our series of videos on #clinicaltrials, @LinzyElton explains what a day in the life of our laboratory scientists looks like! We work with sites all over the world and each trial is different, but with many hundreds of #tuberculosis patients enrolled, it's always busy!

We're part of many #tuberculosis #ClinicalTrial studies, and site coordinator @LinzyElton has made a series of videos to try and dispel the myths about clinical trials! First up, a look at OptiRimox; why (and how) it's run, and why trials are so important!