PhD researcher investigating the development of surface sampling protocols to improve IPC

Joined March 2021
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Massive thank you to Samuel Watkin and Claire Walker for writing todays guest blog linked Environment Network 2024 event on risk assessment #EN2024 Environment Network 2024: Environmental risk assessment what do we need to know? | Girlymicro (girlymicrobiologist.com)
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And another one from @SamWatkin7! Neonatal incubator decontamination examined. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Is hydrogen peroxide vapour room #decontamination compatible with molecular pathogen detection from the #builtenvironment? Samuel Watkin delivers his verdict… #HISCON
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#HISCON, Annual Conference 2024 has started with informative sessions followed by Q&A on Infection Prevention Control @HIS_infection @girlymicro @SamWatkin7
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Great 1st group trip out for the Environmental Monitoring team @GreatOrmondSt (plus @SamWatkin7) to improve our learning around Legionella and how we can embed research and best practice in order to do it better @WMSoc1
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17 Apr 2024
Check out our paper looking at trends in culturable microbes on communal surfaces in a bone narrow transplant unit! Do high bacterial counts alone mean higher risk...?
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27 Mar 2024
Really excited that our review on Clostridioides difficile in paediatrics has been published!
Super excited that our review on C. dif in paediatrics is published. Massive thank you to @MicrobioSoc for requesting it & to @SamWatkin7 for doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Also, shout out to my fellow author on twitter @TheHealthcareS1 microbiologyresearch.org/con…
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Major FOMO about missing out on #FIS2023 today On the upside, the paper I talked about in my session yesterday is now available frm @IPIP_Open on PPI & AMR #WAAW Tnx 2 co-authors @NicoBalders @SamWatkin7 @HelenR27 @ADSMicro @drlenaciric @NosocomialThe sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Includes a session on: Insights into infection research collaborations between clinicians & academics – experiences shared by Samuel Watkins (PhD Student), Assoc Prof. Lena Ciric from @ucl & Dinesh Aggarwal from @Cambridge_Uni & @sangerinstitute 🔗 bit.ly/3O7ooiE
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Includes a session on: Insights into infection research collaborations between clinicians & academics – experiences shared by Samuel Watkins (PhD Student), Assoc Prof. Lena Ciric from @ucl & Dinesh Aggarwal from @Cambridge_Uni & @sangerinstitute 🔗 bit.ly/3O7ooiE
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PhD Top Tips: So you've decided you want to start a PhD It's that time of a year, the time of year when I get a no. of people who want to talk about doing a PhD. I thought it might be useful to share the questions I ask when we meet & why I ask them. girlymicrobiologist.com/2023…
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Always nice to see all your trains cancelled after a particularly long stint in the lab...
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Great to see @SamWatkin7 poster get so much attention at #asmicrobe
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17 Jun 2023
Really interesting rapid fire session on cleaning smarter, tracking phage spread in public spaces - large reductions in risk with targeted cleaning interventions #ASMicrobe
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16 Jun 2023
Fantastic first day at #ASMicrobe! Great talks on pathogen aerosols, organism sequencing and tickborne pathogens! @drlenaciric @ADSMicro @TheHealthcareS1 @HelenR27 @girlymicro
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Tick borne infections. How will climate change impact this in the future…. #ASMicrobe
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Come see the amazing Helen Richard @HelenR27 and her poster in the Applied and Environmental Science track at #ASMicrobe poster 743! Or drop her a message with any questions
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#UCL and #GOSH massive enroute to Houston, Texas for #asmicrobe2023 🦠 @girlymicro @ADSMicro @SamWatkin7 @HelenR27 @drlenaciric @mel
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