Catherine Troman

Delighted to work with Prof Kehinde, Lola and the Typhoid Environmental Surveillance Study team #TESS ⁦@UniIbadan⁩ ⁦@UniIbadan_COM⁩ ⁦@iruka_okeke⁩ to help establish standard lab and field protocols protocols.io/workspaces/typ… 1/2

Great progress on the first two DDNS sequencing runs with the Omani CHPL #polio team! @OmaniMOH @VaccineEpi @NIBSC_MHRA @MRC_Outbreak @polionanopore

Training in direct detection and nanopore sequencing (DDNS) for rapid #polio outbreak detection underway with the Central Public Health Laboratories in Oman. @OmaniMOH @VaccineEpi @NIBSC_MHRA @MRC_Outreak @polionanopore

Rapid analysis of DDNS poliovirus data using @AineToole 's Poliovirus Investigation Resource Automating Nanopore Haplotype Analysis (PIRANHA) software running in ARTIFICE- from RNA to sequences in 2.5 days. @OmaniMOH @VaccineEpi @NIBSC_MHRA @MRC_Outbreak @polionanopore

The emergence, spread and evolution of a vaccine-derived poliovirus in London detected by testing sewage Huge effort especially from @NIBSC_MHRA and @UKHSA sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Huge congratulations to Dr @Bm_Boyes who successfully defended his PhD thesis today, passing with minor corrections. If you want to know anything about the glacial history of the Kola Peninsula, Ben’s the person to ask! Many thanks @uniofbrighton for funding his studentship.

The @labgenpath team has been trained in next-generation sequencing with the MinIon platform (DDNS) for direct detection of poliovirus in stool. This technique offers a real opportunity to reduce the response time to epidemics. imperial.ac.uk/news/236294/im…

Had a great two weeks with the @labgenpath team at INRB working on @nanopore sequencing of poliovirus and other enteros. Exciting work ahead! @MRC_Outbreak @NIBSC_MHRA @inrb_kinshasa @unmc

The @labgenpath of @inrb_kinshasa received on March 21, a team of biologists, bioinformaticians and virologists from Imperial college of London, UNMC and National Institute for Biological Standards and Control for 10 days of work on various issues around the new polio vaccine.

Filming in the lab today! These video's will support the team's training of their protocol for direct detection of #poliovirus by @nanopore sequencing around the world. @TromanCatherine @AlexShaw_AS @VaccineEpi

we're recruiting! 1 postdoc in the lab to work (in London) on direct detection and @nanopore sequencing of poliovirus (mol biol experience needed) imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti… 1 postdoc to work on #polio epidemiology and modelling (initially remote) imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti… pls RT

very pleased to release this report and open access protocols to detect and sequence poliovirus direct from stool Represents hard work from a big team @gatesfoundation funded Authors @AlexShaw_AS @TromanCatherine @SalmaanSharif @AineToole @arambaut 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you're in UK, now is good time to sign up for flusurvey.net, which was set up during 2009 flu pandemic to track community illness. It's easy to fill out each week, and provides valuable data on milder infections. Here are some insights it's previously produced... 1/

When we started developing RAMPART the idea that you could analyse seq data in real time seemed rather aspirational. Today: a still-sequencing #SARSCoV2 @nanopore genome from Brazil already up on @nextstrain. Amazing to get to work with @jaquegj @CaddeProject @NetworkArtic et al

@AineToole @nanopore It looked ok on the flow cell check but when the run started it had 5 pores sequencing

@AineToole @nanopore Yes, it does 😅

Tried out our Flongle for the first time today... will see how it fared tomorrow! #MinION #flongle @nanopore

Having a good time so far!