Dave Baker
@tweakyaustin
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Engineer come bio-technologist running core Sequencing at the Quadram, UK. Loves family, food and football. Views are my own.
Norfolk, UK
Joined April 2009
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
link.springer.com
Genome Medicine - We present CoronaHiT, a platform and throughput flexible method for sequencing SARS-CoV-2 genomes (≤ 96 on MinION or > 96 on Illumina NextSeq) depending...
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#CampyUK register by 7th Sept to secure your place! 📅 24-25th Sept, Oxford UK 👉 https://t.co/IZeNviLDl8
@MicrobioSoc @OxfordBiology @IneosOxford
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Anybody out there getting strange quality profiles from Nextseq2000 600cycle X-leap kits? Dip at 100 cycles and poor read 2.
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☀️🎉 Summer Party at Darwin College 🎉☀️ Yesterday we came together to celebrate progress, connect beyond remote working & our growing teams, and enjoy a BBQ + punting 🚤 Even better, we received confirmation of a major milestone in our cancer diagnostics research — more soon!🥂
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🎉 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!
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🚨 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! 💡
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A reminder that registration for CampyUK 2025 is now open and places are starting to fill: 👉 https://t.co/WnzGn5I33X Please feel free to share with friends
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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
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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.
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Great to see some legends of the game 🧪🔬🖥️🦠☕ @sheppard_lab Prof Nick Thomson and Prof Alan McNally
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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
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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! 👉 https://t.co/C4cDHJvpWJ
#PhD #Microbiome #GutHealth #ObesityResearch #Microbiology
uea.ac.uk
PhD The Role of Bilophila wadsworthia in Microbiome-Driven Metabolic Dysfunction: Impact of Obesity-Associated Microbiomes (NARBAD_Q25MMB) 2025/26 | UEA
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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.
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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
https://t.co/0XVUDrsfU5
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
In this study, we show that the sulfur compound commonly found in cruciferous and allium vegetables and the main human metabolite of S-methyl-L-cysteine sulfoxide, called S-methyl methanethiosulfon...
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Zelenskyy’s White House meeting with Trump and Vance
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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
fa-etnb-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
Do you have research experience in molecular biology, next generation sequencing, and the application of genomics?
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For all Campylobacter enthusiasts/opponents, we are hosting the @CampyUK2025 conference in Oxford in September. https://t.co/ikCF4xV9ie
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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.
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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
https://t.co/jSkqHEwCo6
genengnews.com
Illumina announces a new NGS-based spatial technology kit and new software platform, Illumina Connected Multiomics.
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