Robert Atterbury

@AstroMikeMerri Did the report also recommend a further consultation?

As a token academic on the committee, I was the only one who expressed the view that this was a dreadful outcome: we’d been given money to try innovative ideas; if all had succeeded, we had not been anywhere near sufficiently innovative. My comment was met with blank stares. 4/4

What is the difference between academics and professional services? Let me tell you a story. Years ago, the University was given a large sum of what was called “Roberts money” to trial innovative approaches to encouraging PhD students to consider careers outside academia. 1/4

@AstroMikeMerri They love a few (unsalted) peanuts placed under a medium-sized rock. Kept mine coming back regularly and stopped them ripping up the turf.

Several days on, still excited about the fact that there was a *badger* in my urban back garden!

New paper out in Frontiers in Microbiology! We propose a roadmap for using bacteriophages in veterinary + One Health medicine to help tackle antimicrobial resistance. Grateful to our collaborators who made this possible. Read more: frontiersin.org/journals/micro… #Phage #OneHealth #AMR

Delighted to share our new paper on antimicrobial resistance patterns in wastewater across urban and rural Nagpur, India — highlighting the value of wastewater surveillance for One Health. Huge thanks to all collaborators! 🔬🌍 frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

Great collab with @baileysecker Adam Blanchard and Samantha Windle at @uniofnottingham , Ha Thanh Dong and Janchai Wongkaew at @AsianInstituteofTech , Le Thanh Dien (Van Lang U), David Huchzermeyer (North West U), Bernard Hang’ombe (U of Zambia) and Saengchan Senapin (Mahidol U).

Our latest study is the first comparative genomic analysis of Lactococcus from diseased trout in Africa, Vietnam & Thailand, with potential implications for #AMR, #Phagetherapy, and disease management. Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.7…

Interested in investigating the use of bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections? Come work with me and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social Professor Lesley Hoyles as a research associate on an exciting project funded by The Urology Foundation vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Delighted to share our published paper ‘Epigenetic Therapies in Endocrine-Related Cancers: Past Insights and Clinical Progress’ in @MDPIOpenAccess in the journal Cancers mdpi.com/2072-6694/17/1… with @nottm_bbsrc_dtp doctoral candidates as authors too.

Making advances and sharing vital scientific knowledge is always exciting, really proud to work with brilliant scientists on this review paper published today: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

I am delighted to share our latest research into human and canine osteosarcoma mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/6… @MDPIOpenAccess @Life_MDPI #BoneCancer

@markowenmartin That's great!

Beatrice the Biologist made this for me years ago. It’s wonderful.

It’s a busy week with our latest @AHEEditors paper also published with great international collaborators.

we ( @remidenise @TSPKU ) have updated taxMyPhage so it now uses the latest ICTV taxonomy (VMR40_MSL) ictv.global/vmr. Available at github.com/amillard/tax_m… Website version will be updated v shortly

@markowenmartin That's brilliant. I'd have loved that as a kid.

@RobAtterbury1 That same student made the outfit. And later on, this padawan costume.

When a former student and valued friend sends you a photo from 25 years ago. Me before academia broke me. Jenny and our F1-A, now a grown man, in a Drosophila costume. Students in a genetics lab I taught. Happy memories of good people.

New Research: Genomic and phenotypic characterisation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from canine otitis externa reveals high-risk sequence types identical to those found in human nosocomial infections frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #Microbiology

@markowenmartin Very true.

@RobAtterbury1 I think that people can be that way.

I don't know if this is true, but I remember reading it. Birds in a flock, even if sick, fake being well to avoid predation. Until they finally drop. Most of us fake being okay. Make sure you have some folks to whom you can express yourselves openly, who accept you as you are.

A fully funded, competitive BBSRC PhD studentship (North East England DLA) available, working in collaboration with @CJStewart7 , @andrewnelsonphd and @SaadleeS. Aims are modulating bacterial community structure/function using engineered bacteriophages. tinyurl.com/5csa9hun

💛LoVis4u - a visualisation tool for comparative genomics and sequencing coverage profiles is now published! See our paper in NAR GB: doi.org/10.1093/nargab…