Nathan Burton

Massive congratulations to Nathan today @PhageBurton @MIBTP_BBSRC for successfully defending his thesis!! Huge thanks to @friendlymicrobe and @Ellie__Jameson for being his internal and external examiners! Nathan is looking for PDRA positions and I can highly recommend him!!!

Brilliant to see the work from my PhD finally published! Cheap push: I’m looking for my next role if anyone needs a phage biologist/microbiologist?

@northernassist Hello, at Blackpool North, why do you implement the atypical procedure of making passengers queue to get onto the platform, meaning people are slowly let on once the train arrives? Seems to massively delay the departure of the train. Thanks!

@northernassist Please turn on the air conditioning on your trains! (Especially ones going between Manchester Airport - Blackpool North) The trains are designed to handle peak Spanish heat, i’m sure they can cope with some mild British sun!!

Thank you @northernassist for finding my bag at midnight! I thought I would never see it again.

Really enjoyed giving my talk today at #Microbio24. Thanks everyone who came to listen to my 💩 jokes. @MicrobioSoc

Won a bottle at the @microbesNG stand today at #Microbio24, best time of the day. Made sequencing with them even more worth it ❤️. For anyone into Biofilms - my talk is at 17:05 today in the Kilsyth room (level 0) on re sensitising biofilms to antibiotics.

Excellent talk by @JessicaLewisMic at #Microbio24 today. Is there a hero out there that can help with her strange multi contig phage genome?!

Good luck to all the Sagona lab members presenting their work via talk or poster @MicrobioSoc meeting!

I'm delighted to share the first paper from my PhD published in @ACSSynBio! SpyPhage: A Cell-Free TXTL Platform for Rapid Engineering of Targeted Phage Therapies. doi.org/10.1021/acssyn… #TXTL #phage #phagetherapy #synbio #cellfree

Fascinating talk at the #ECCMID2022 conference on a patient self administering phage therapy to their prosthetic joint infection with phage’s because doctors were not allowed to administer it themselves! :o

Last but not least, @mashedbanana made me think about temperate vs lytic phage prevalence in the gut, and @PhageBurton ended the day with a really relevant talk on combining phage and antibiotics to treat S. aureus biofilms 🦠 7/n

Skyline view of Belfast at #Microbio22 conference 👌

If you're in Belfast this week please come and check out my poster (B023) at the microbial physiology and molecular biology forum on Wednesday! #microbio22

Please check the work of my two PhD students @gurneet_dhanoa and @PhageBurton @MicrobioSoc meeting in Belfast #Microbio22

@antonia_sagona @gurneet_dhanoa @MicrobioSoc I’m giving the last talk of the conference on the treatment of staphylococcal biofilms using a novel phage cocktail. 4:45pm, Thursday, Hall 2A. 😁

New paper! with @antonia_sagona @huba_marton and @LabGibson pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Great weather for 2 sunny days of #PhgOx21, don’t hesitate to DM for any questions on my poster!

Investigation of in vitro #phage #therapy with free and encapsulated phage targeting S. aureus infection in human cells #PhgOx21, #NBurton

Great visit to the Finham sewage plant today! Hopefully these sewage samples with have lots of #bacteriophages that can treat antibiotic resistant S. aureus infections! Thanks Hannah and @stwater.