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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 months

Fully funded PhD opportunity! Come and join us in Norwich and combine laboratory work with bioinformatics to investigate how bacterial chromosomes change when exposed to antimicrobial drugs! Comes with excellent training, see

Knot so simple: untangling bacterial chromosome structure, conformation and gene expression...

PhD Project - Knot so simple: untangling bacterial chromosome structure, conformation and gene expression (EVANS_U24MMB) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

Imagine how much scientific progress would be made if we spent as much time doing research as we spend writing grant applications that don’t get funded.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

6 years

Delighted to have been awarded a @wellcometrust seed award! Looking forward to working with Daniel Brewer and @Lisa_Crossman on factors driving evolution and spread of #AntibioticResistance @UeaMed

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

Really pleased to get this out - a great collaborative effort! #Bacteriophage may be playing a role in spreading carbapenem resistance in #Acinetobacter baumannii

Diversity of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and bacteriophage-mediated spread of the...

Carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii are prevalent in low- and middle-income countries such as Egypt, but little is known about the molecular epidemiology and mechanisms of resistance in these settings....

www.biorxiv.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

2 years

I'm very proud to say huge congratulations to @EricaSzLi for passing her PhD viva today! Looking forward to celebrating this with you soon! Thanks very much to @GCAGATGCAATG and @gemma_langridge for examining!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Where did all the free-to-publish journals go?! Want to publish some non-grant funded work but don’t have a spare £3-4K kicking around! Any suggestions of any microbiology-themed journals I could consider?

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Delighted to finally be able to share this work done with the excellent Alejandro Viale. This one's been gestating for nearly a decade! Microevolution in the major outer membrane protein OmpA of Acinetobacter baumannii | Microbiology Society

Microevolution in the major outer membrane protein OmpA of Acinetobacter baumannii

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

2 years

Delighted this out - very supportive editorial process from ⁦⁦ @MicrobioSoc ⁩! Great collaboration with ⁦⁦ @Alaaaboulfetouh ⁩, Jenny Mattock, Dann Turner and ⁦ @EricaSzLi ⁩ where we find a carbapenemase-carrying #phage in #Acinetobacter

Diversity of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and bacteriophage-mediated spread of the...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Isn’t it nice when you do some experimental evolution, sequence the genomes, and the resulting SNPs actually make sense!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Did you know that viruses 🦠 can infect the bacteria that infect you? 🤒 And those viruses 🦠 could turn the bacteria into superbugs? For @pintofscience I wanted to tell you about some work we’ve been doing on superbugs 1/4 #PintSizedScience #Pint20Norwich

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Delighted to have been involved, with great collaborators, in this study of #Acinetobacter population genomics in South America, published in #mSphere

Origin of OXA-23 Variant OXA-239 from a Recently Emerged Lineage of Acinetobacter baumannii...

A. baumannii is a major cause of nosocomial infections all over the world. Although many isolates from developed countries have been studied in terms of their genome sequence, isolates from Latin...

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Early Christmas present! Great work from @Y_Takebayashi published in JAC @BSACandJAC - congratulations! @DrPhilWarburton @MutantBug Variability in carbapenemase activity of intrinsic OxaAb (OXA-51-like) β-lactamase enzymes in Acinetobacter baumannii

Variability in carbapenemase activity of intrinsic OxaAb (OXA-51-like) β-lactamase enzymes in...

AbstractObjectives. To measure the variability in carbapenem susceptibility conferred by different OxaAb variants, characterize the molecular evolution of

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Congratulations to @Y_Takebayashi and thanks for all your hard work! Great collaboration with ⁦ @MutantBug ⁩ ⁦ @DrPhilWarburton ⁩ on contribution of OxaAb (OXA-51-like) beta-lactamases to Carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

Variability in carbapenemase activity of intrinsic OxaAb (OXA-51-like) beta-lactamase enzymes in...

Objectives This study aimed to measure the variability in carbapenem susceptibility conferred by different OxaAb variants, characterise the molecular evolution of oxaAb and elucidate the contribution...

www.biorxiv.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Thought I’d bought myself 20 mins rest, only to find my 4 year old had given themselves and our 2 year old a hair cut. A bad one. It’s nearly bedtime, it’s nearly bedtime, it’s nearly bedtime......

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Benjamin Evans

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2 years

Pleased this little study with collaborators is out! Acinetobacter baumannii Sampled from Cattle and Pigs Represent Novel Clones | Microbiology Spectrum

Acinetobacter baumannii Sampled from Cattle and Pigs Represent Novel Clones | Microbiology Spectrum

Over the last decades, huge amounts of information have been obtained for clinical isolates of A. baumannii and the clones they belong to. In contrast, very little is known about the genomic identity...

journals.asm.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Coming soon: fully funded PhD studentships led by Dr Stephanie Schuller (on pathogenesis in enteroaggretive E. coli) and me (on niche adaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa) @UeaMed . Full adverts after Easter. Please contact us for further info! @micronorwich @UEAResearch

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Have a great story about #Acinetobacter #AntibioticResistance and virulence from a genomic perspective? Please submit to our Frontiers in #Microbiology Research Topic! @FrontMicrobiol

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Exciting funded PhD studentship with @FionaWalsh14 on antimicrobial resistance in drinking water (+ other projects). Apply soon - deadline 19th July!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

On The Life Scientific on @BBCRadio4 this morning: there is less time between an iPad and a T-Rex than between a T-Rex and a Stegosaurus. Wow.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Hey micro Twitter: I’m writing a book chapter on molecular epidemiology of AMR in humans and animals - what are people’s favourite studies that I absolutely should include?

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Amazing conference dinner at #acinetobacter2019 amongst the dinosaurs!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Heard the kids laughing a lot - thought ‘how nice they’re playing together!’. Go in the room and they’re covered in black paint. So’s the furniture. And the carpet. And the walls. It’s not washable. We’re currently trying to sell our house. 😳

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Congratulations to Dr Clara Cosgaya Castro for a fantastic PhD thesis defence! #acinetobacter #AMR Thanks to Lucia Gellego, @IgnasiRocaS and Jordi Vila for a great time in Barcelona!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Working from home conundrum: is it ok to have ice cream for lunch?

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

I think another couple of weeks of ‘home educating’ and I’ll have learnt all the words to the songs from both Frozen and Frozen 2

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

My 7 days in isolation has just turned into 14 - now with my wife, 2 year old and 4 year old. I’m going to need some more entertainment ideas...

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

11 months

Not a great start to the day - a lovely big mug of tea, then one elbow later I have a very wet desk, keyboard, paperwork, rug etc. and in my haste to clean it up I head butted a cactus 😳

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Benjamin Evans

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2 years

Nice new study from Santiago Castillo-Ramirez and team on the resistome of #Acinetobacter baumannii @MicrobioSoc

The promiscuous and highly mobile resistome of Acinetobacter baumannii

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Important to consider non-clinical isolates to understand evolution and transmission of drug resistance

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Congratulations to @ThemisCharalam1 for a great PhD viva defence - it was a pleasure to examine! Welcome to the club Dr Charalampous! 🎉 @TheQuadram

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Two exciting microbiology PhD studentships available at UEA () and Quadram Institute () in Norwich! Application deadline extended to 13th Oct - contact mrcdart @norwichresearchpark .ac.uk for details!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

9 months

Want to do a PhD on a superbug on a super campus? Come and join us!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Delighted to share the results of a fantastic collaboration with Alejandro Viale - our first preprint! Microevolution in the major outer membrane protein OmpA of Acinetobacter baumannii

Microevolution in the major outer membrane protein OmpA of Acinetobacter baumannii

Acinetobacter baumannii is nowadays a relevant nosocomial pathogen characterized by multidrug resistance (MDR) and concomitant difficulties to treat infections. OmpA is the most abundant A. baumannii...

www.biorxiv.org

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

Just did my daily allowance of exercise with the kids outside, but given it was walking at the pace of a 2 year old, I’m not sure how much exercise I got...

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

Came through to find the kids having emptied a bag of flour, a bag of sugar, and mixed it up with water on the floor. Pretty speechless 😮

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Benjamin Evans

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3 years

Not sure my profile is impressive enough to represent the whole discipline.....

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Obviously fake news - we all know when a PI appears to not know the answer it’s because we’re encouraging active learning in our students. Right?

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 months

This is all well and good, but when will I feel like a grown up?

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Benjamin Evans

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3 years

Got the Pfizer jab - made me feel young again!

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Benjamin Evans

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5 years

Fully funded PhD position with me @UeaMed , co-supervised by John Wain @TheQuadram , on niche adaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa! Please pass the message on! @micronorwich @MicrobioSoc

Jekyll and Hyde: The switch from environmental resident to antibiotic-resistant superbug in...

PhD Project - Jekyll and Hyde: The switch from environmental resident to antibiotic-resistant superbug in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (EVANSU19FMH) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

After spending a lot of time in the lab this week running an experiment (and generally getting in the way of my lab group) the results show....good evidence to support my null hypothesis 😕

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

8 years

Delighted to announce that in July I will be taking up a lectureship at the Norwich Medical School at @uniofeastanglia !

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

I always knew my fitness tracker would come in useful one day...

Varun Kothamachu

@VarunKothamachu

5 years

Now you can track bacterial growth using fitness tracker. ODX: A Fitness Tracker-Based Device for Continuous Bacterial Growth Monitoring @cappa_cit @CIT_ie @TyndallInstitut @UCCResearch @univofstandrews

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Benjamin Evans

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5 years

Looking forward to #Acinetobacter2019 in Frankfurt today - hope delayed flights due to KLM strike don’t mean I miss the start!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Another fully funded PhD studentship with Stephanie Schuller @UeaMed , with me as second supervisor, on what makes enteroaggregative E. coli pathogenic! Please pass the message on! @micronorwich @UEAResearch @MicrobioSoc

What makes enteroaggregative E. coli pathogenic? Identifying diagnostic markers for strains of high...

PhD Project - What makes enteroaggregative E. coli pathogenic? Identifying diagnostic markers for strains of high virulence (SCHÜLLERU19FMH) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Friday was our first day after 14 days of self isolation. Friday night my wife and I had a bit of a temperature, so back into isolation we go!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Finally relented this morning and put a jumper on. Holding off on the heating though - a cup of tea will keep me going for now ☕️

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Having met a new friend at the park, our 5 year old daughter proceeded to tell them our full names and my wife’s email address. Need to book her onto a GDPR refresher course....

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

2 years

Check out a number of new PhD studentship opportunities in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia, including one with me and @danbrewer on #Acinetobacter #genomics

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Think I’ve been indoctrinated by my 4 year old daughter - I’m still listening to the Trolls World Tour soundtrack even though they’ve left for school...

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 months

Did some bioinformatic analysis this afternoon. I swear it’s like speaking with a stroppy teenager.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Moving house on 18th December (hopefully). Internet installation date in the new house - 29th December. Guess I’ll need to read a book or something.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Just tried to swipe up a piece of paper to read the next paragraph. I need more sleep and less time on the iPad!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

I should now officially be addressed as The Bacterial Baron

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Asked our 5 year old “do you like school dinners?” Reply, “Yes, they’re good. Dinner at home isn’t quite so good” 😳

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

6 years

Fantastic PhD opportunities with great people!

UEA

@uniofeastanglia

6 years

Applications now open for @the_MRC funded iCase #studentships on #antibiotic discovery at UEA! Funded for 3.5 years, join a supportive group of #microbiologists and benefit from collaborative training at @TheQuadram : #PhD #Microbiology

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Fluorescence-based detection of natural transformation in drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Thanks to my lab group for my COVID-delayed birthday present! I wonder which of these they think I’ll be using most?

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

6 years

Big news on open access publishing - immediate OA mandatory from 2020 for #UKRI funded research

Adam P Roberts 💙

@GCAGATGCAATG

6 years

European science funders ban grantees from publishing in paywalled journals inc Nature & Science from 2020 incs UKRI

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

Awoken this morning by my four year old instructing my two year old to smash an egg on the floor by the bed, which he dutifully did. Now seeping between the floor boards.... @lockdownparent

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

10 months

It was a pleasure today that after 2.5 years I could say to my PhD student, “see, I told you that sometimes an experiment can work first time!”

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Finally home after a great #acinetobacter2019 after an unplanned overnight stay in Amsterdam courtesy of KLM! Great meeting up with friends and colleagues - looking forward to the meeting in 2021!

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

For some bizarre reason our new house has locks on the outside of some internal doors - I’ve just discovered the kids have locked me in the office and my wife can’t hear me shouting...

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Benjamin Evans

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3 years

Daughter (just turned 5): the Easter Bunny isn’t real, it’s just a person in a costume. Me: why do you think the Easter Bunny isn’t real? Daughter: because a bunny couldn’t carry a basket 🧐 I thought the magic might last for a little longer! 😟

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

7 months

I have reached the stage in life where I am genuinely delighted to receive a large garden compost bin for Christmas.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

7 years

#PLOSBiology : Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoproducts determine antibiotic efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus

Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoproducts determine antibiotic efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus

Author summary Accurate prediction of antimicrobial efficacy is essential for successful treatment of a bacterial infection. While many studies have considered the impacts of genetically encoded...

journals.plos.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 months

Kid’s birthday party today, so to avoid being wasteful I have no choice other than to have this for dinner

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Congratulations guys, really well deserved!

Gemma Kay

@Gemma_L_Kay

5 years

@Justin_OGrady lab of the year! Well done everyone @ThemisCharalam1 @ThisIsAlp @AlexJTrotter @TheQuadram #UKDiagnostics

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

I have completely lost track of what day of the week it is.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse...

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

This counts as maths home-schooling, right?

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Benjamin Evans

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1 month

Was looking at some bacterial colonies on a plate for the first time in a while yesterday - couldn’t focus on them up close. Think it’s time to bow to the inevitable 👓

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

8 years

Funded PhD studentship available in my lab!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

One day I will learn that if the first time you run an experiment you get interesting results, that when you repeat it you won’t 🙄

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 months

Little birthday present to myself. Yes, it’s solid.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 months

Me: please can you run this program, it’s just over there? Computer: no it isn’t. Me: are you sure? I just put it there! Computer: no you didn’t. Me: can’t you just have a little look for it? Computer: you don’t understand me.

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Benjamin Evans

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4 years

I’ve given up trying to explain to our 4 year old why ‘yoghurt’ has a ‘h’ in it.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

The kids don’t seem to quite understand why it wasn’t a good idea to put glitter glue on the iPad... 😟

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

6 years

Antibiotic resistance plan to fight 'urgent' global threat

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Fully funded PhD opportunity! Come and join a great team with ⁦ @johnwain6 ⁩, @Alaaaboulfetouh ⁩, ⁦ @Lisa_Crossman ⁩, Dann Turner and myself ⁦ @UeaMed ⁩ to investigate #Acinetobacter epidemiology using genomics!

Finding the source and tracking transmission of an antibiotic-resistant superbug, Acinetobacter...

PhD Project - Finding the source and tracking transmission of an antibiotic-resistant superbug, Acinetobacter baumannii at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 months

11 days left to apply! Project is co-supervised by Dr Emma Waters @EmmaBeansworth () - you couldn’t get a more supportive supervisor! Come and join us!

Emma Waters

My research interests focus on narrowing the gaps between scientific disciplines (chemistry, biology, physics, medicine, etc) to develop innovative methods that tackle the big modern scientific challe

quadram.ac.uk

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

It has begun. My daughter has just shown me a useful function on the iPad I didn’t know about. She’s 5.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Only 4 days left to apply! Come and be a part of the exciting microbiology going on across the Norwich Research Park! @NorwichResearch @micronorwich @UeaMed

Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

5 years

Fully funded PhD position with me @UeaMed , co-supervised by John Wain @TheQuadram , on niche adaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa! Please pass the message on! @micronorwich @MicrobioSoc

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1 year

@lucia_acineto @docpolski @IgnasiRocaS @KikiXanthopoul3 @leena_alhassan @sheppard_lab Missing you all this year!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Phage might be more important in creating superbugs than we had thought! We hope to work out what the phage are doing so we can stop them making more superbugs! 🧪💊👍You can read the study here: 4/4

Diversity of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and bacteriophage-mediated spread of the...

Carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii are prevalent in low- and middle-income countries such as Egypt, but little is known about the molecular epidemiology and mechanisms of resistance in these settings....

www.biorxiv.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Microbiology people - we want to measure transfer frequency of plasmids from MDR clinical bacteria (A. baumannii, K. pneumoniae, E. coli etc). Standard approach is use E. coli J53 and sodium azide to select. However, it’s a really nasty chemical - any alternatives?

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

2 years

Highlighting the importance of genomic epidemiology with unbiased sampling and a One Health approach for #Acinetobacter baumannii

Zoonotic Acinetobacter baumannii: the need for genomic epidemiology in a One Health context

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has clearly highlighted two research aspects that are relevant to other human pathogens. First, the pandemic has shown that genomic epidemiology is extremely useful for...

www.thelancet.com

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

10 months

Oh dear, there is Christmas stuff in the supermarket! (Of course, I bought some).

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

The height of entertainment. They did this if their own accord...

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

The trouble with having dinner at 5:30 pm with your kids is that you’re ready for a second dinner by 10 pm....

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

2 years

Just discovered our 5 year old has been buying multiple series of kids tv on Amazon prime - guess it’s time to set up parental controls!

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

I’m not that old, but I remember the time when you could get an RCUK grant by proposing to do some antibiotic sensitivity testing, PCRs and PFGE.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Just went in to find daughter (5 this week) had closed educational app we left her with on the iPad, opened a video streaming app, and was watching a film she likes. We’ve officially lost control.

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Must stop eating both kids left-overs and essentially having two dinners....

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Benjamin Evans

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1 year

My 5 year old son’s favourite Harry Potter house is Slytherin and his favourite (Lego) Star Wars characters are storm troopers - I’m sure it’ll all be fine….

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

1 year

New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI

The drug can target one of the three most dangerous bacterial superbugs, say researchers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

2 years

Lovely

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

4 years

Superbugs are bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics 💊 making them hard to treat🩺. Bacteria pick up resistance genes 🧬 turning them into superbugs by swapping genes with bacteria next to them. They can collect a load of resistance genes so no antibiotic can touch them! 2/4

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

1 year

Grateful to play a small part in new study from excellent colleagues Valeria Mateo-Estrada, @Ci_Tyrrell , Alejandro Aguilar-Vera, David Drissner, Santiago Castillo-Ramirez, @FionaWalsh14 Acinetobacter baumannii from grass: novel but non-resistant clones -

Acinetobacter baumannii from grass: novel but non-resistant clones

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Benjamin Evans

@DrBenjaminEvans

3 years

Unbelievable. Literally 30 seconds before I start my live teaching session, and my router decides it’s had enough and stays in a huff for the next 20 minutes. It will be so good to be able to do things in person again!

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