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Alex Morgan @Alex_Morgan1995

Clinical trial statistician and infectious disease modeller. I still unironically enjoy DnB in 2024.

Joined August 2013
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Dishon Muloi@dishonmuloi
22 Nov 2023
Out now @LancetMicrobe a collaborative effort summarising the utility of genomics in the surveillance of #AntimicrobialResistance at #OneHealth interfaces doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(2… @ILRI @sydney_vet @rnzadoks @LivUni_IVES @EssackSabiha @ksbakes @ElitaJaun #WAAW2023

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1/n Taxation of veterinary antibiotics? Could it be a solution to reduce antimicrobial resistance? [🧵1/4] doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.202… Yes, potentially. Our paper in One Health suggests a similar effect of taxes when compared with current bans on antibiotic usage in food animals.

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3/n This study combines price elasticities of demand and epidemiological modelling to simulate the relationship between antibiotic resistance, antibiotic usage in food producing animals and changes in antibiotic prices.
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4/n Thank you @thvanboeckel @eth_en, @moran_dominic @EdinburghUni for their collaboration, and @sbonhoeffer for his precious feedback.
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Check out our modelling work published recently in One Health! This PhD work shows that reducing antibiotic usage in livestock can increase human foodborne disease - but can be stopped by ensuring adequate biosecurity at the farm to fork pathway 🐮 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Big thanks to co-authors @BvanBunnik Jaap Wagenaar and Mark Woolhouse
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A very very important read nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame

Nature - With researchers reporting high rates of anxiety and depression, calls are growing to fundamentally change science before it’s too late.

nature.com
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This absolutely inexcusable
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Edinburgh AMR Forum@EdiAMR
23 May 2023
Great day at the ⁦@OECD⁩ symposium on #AMR in livestock production in a one health context ⁦@EdinburghUni⁩ ⁦@BioCarys⁩ ⁦@moran_dominic⁩ ⁦@GlobalAgEd⁩ ⁦@edin_EID⁩
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Thomas Van Boeckel@thvanboeckel
24 Mar 2023
[🔴 NEW PAPER 🌍] A Global Map of Bushmeat activities in @EIDjournal. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29… 🦫🦎🦍 An original idea of Dr Soushieta Jagadesh (@Soushie13) during her postdoc at @ETH_en 🧵1/n
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A new study from @RanyaMulch estimating the global usage of antimicrobials in food-producing animals 💊 A fab paper from some pretty great scientists - Congrats @thvanboeckel, Yu Wang and @mariusgilbert!
Thomas Van Boeckel@thvanboeckel
2 Feb 2023
[🚨Paper] How many tonnes of antimicrobials are used globally each year in food-producing animals🐄🐓🐷🐑? In 2020, we estimate this to be ~99,500 tonnes and -on current trends- project a 8%⬆️ by 2030 (~107,500 tonnes)... (1/5) journals.plos.org/globalpubl…
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Thomas Van Boeckel@thvanboeckel
31 Jan 2023
[Job 🔴] Interested in AMR epidemiology? This is for you 🙂. ▶️shorturl.at/jlm68 We are looking for a multilingual microbiologist, pharmacist, or epidemiologist to develop resistancebank.org AMR data identification, extraction, curation, analysis.
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Zoonoses & EID@ZoonoticDisease
9 Dec 2022
Out now @BMCMedicine, analysis of the epidemiology of #AMR Ecoli in proximate humans, livestock & wildlife in urban Nairobi @dishonmuloi @ZoonoticDisease @edin_EID @EdinUniUsher @ILRI @LivUni_IVES #onehealth #genomics bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.co…

Genomic epidemiology of Escherichia coli: antimicrobial resistance through a One Health lens in...

BMC Medicine - Livestock systems have been proposed as a reservoir for antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria and AMR genetic determinants that may infect or colonise humans, yet quantitative...

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BioPod @EdinburghUni@BioPodEdinburgh
29 Nov 2022
New episode OUT NOW! @RoseDoyle teamed up with @BioCarys from the new @EdiAMR podcast, to chat to @bawee about #AntimicrobialResistance, the spread of resistant bacteria and his deep dive into a huge #genomics dataset from Nairobi. @Ed_Infect_Diseases @ScienceUoE @AMResistance
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Brian Ferguson@brianjaffa
16 Nov 2022
🎥 New crowdfunding campaign launched to “raise £2 million in a fortnight” to secure the future of the @filmhouse building in Edinburgh as an “an independent and cultural cinema hub.” 🎥 scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a…
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Pretty cool to receive this, alongside many other fab scientists who worked on the UK COVID response in the last few years
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Bram van Bunnik@BvanBunnik
26 Oct 2022
📣Exciting opportunity for a #PhD project on effects of environmental factors on the global distribution of #AMR here @EdinburghUni @roslininstitute! Open to international students! Please RT! findaphd.com/phds/project/ea…

EASTBIO: Effects of environmental factors on the global distribution of AMR at University of...

PhD Project - EASTBIO: Effects of environmental factors on the global distribution of AMR at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

findaphd.com
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Thomas Van Boeckel@thvanboeckel
8 Aug 2022
At long last. First conference with the (almost) full AMR mapping team from ETH #ISVEE2022. @ChengZhao20 @nico_criscuolo @RanyaMulch @Alex_Morgan1995 Also thanks to many efforts of @LauraHu03235933 and @Jppires_ in past years.
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