Luke Acton
@lukeacton.bsky.social
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham. Microbiome, Bifidobacterium, Early Life.
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🆕 Salmonella cases are at ten-year high in England – here’s what you can do to keep yourself safe 🦠
📰 Our Research Group Leader @drrobkingsley.bsky.social explains the science of Salmonella in the @uk.theconversation.com ⤵️
📰 Our Research Group Leader @drrobkingsley.bsky.social explains the science of Salmonella in the @uk.theconversation.com ⤵️
Salmonella cases are at ten-year high in England – here’s what you can do to keep yourself safe
There was a 17% increase in cases observed from 2023 to 2024 in the UK.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🆕 Salmonella cases are at ten-year high in England – here’s what you can do to keep yourself safe 🦠
📰 Our Research Group Leader @drrobkingsley.bsky.social explains the science of Salmonella in the @uk.theconversation.com ⤵️
📰 Our Research Group Leader @drrobkingsley.bsky.social explains the science of Salmonella in the @uk.theconversation.com ⤵️
Really thrilled to finally have this work published, a fun read for all the Salmonella and Phage enthusiasts
Interested in #Salmonella #genetics and / or #phage ? - check out our newly published manuscript that implicates the reversible deletion of the wzy gene in S. Typhimurium (and likely other important Salmonella serovars) in evasion of phage predation journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Reversible excision of the wzy locus in Salmonella Typhimurium may aid recovery following phage predation
Author summary Salmonella Typhimurium is a major pathogen of livestock that adversely affects productivity and animal welfare and poses a risk of foodborne disease in the human population. Antibiotics...
journals.plos.org
May 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Really thrilled to finally have this work published, a fun read for all the Salmonella and Phage enthusiasts
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Big thanks to our amazing volunteers, researchers, and everyone who joined the conversation! Grateful to Thinktank for the space to pilot this project and UoB’s Public Engagement team for the funding support! 🙌 #PublicEngagement #Teamwork
May 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Big thanks to our amazing volunteers, researchers, and everyone who joined the conversation! Grateful to Thinktank for the space to pilot this project and UoB’s Public Engagement team for the funding support! 🙌 #PublicEngagement #Teamwork
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🔥This is what the second night of #pint25 looked like in the UK🇬🇧!
What an amazing night across our 45 locations! Thanks for all your posts!👓
Can you spot yourself in the collage?✨
Are you ready for the final night? Don't miss your last chance to join us!
Programme & tickets: pintofscience.co.uk
What an amazing night across our 45 locations! Thanks for all your posts!👓
Can you spot yourself in the collage?✨
Are you ready for the final night? Don't miss your last chance to join us!
Programme & tickets: pintofscience.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🔥This is what the second night of #pint25 looked like in the UK🇬🇧!
What an amazing night across our 45 locations! Thanks for all your posts!👓
Can you spot yourself in the collage?✨
Are you ready for the final night? Don't miss your last chance to join us!
Programme & tickets: pintofscience.co.uk
What an amazing night across our 45 locations! Thanks for all your posts!👓
Can you spot yourself in the collage?✨
Are you ready for the final night? Don't miss your last chance to join us!
Programme & tickets: pintofscience.co.uk
Amazing evening talking science @pintofscience.uk in Birmingham
Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social
Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !
Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social
Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !
May 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Amazing evening talking science @pintofscience.uk in Birmingham
Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social
Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !
Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social
Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !
It's been great to spend the last two weeks visiting @ucc.ie to learn techniques for mutagenesis in Bifidobacteria! Lots of new knowledge to bring back to @imibirmingham.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's been great to spend the last two weeks visiting @ucc.ie to learn techniques for mutagenesis in Bifidobacteria! Lots of new knowledge to bring back to @imibirmingham.bsky.social
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This is my great new preprint with @drvishalcpatel.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social. We investigated the gut microbiota in patients with liver disease in which we show an increasing dominance of Enterococcus in the gut of patients with more severe liver disease.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pathological expansion of gut microbiome-associated Enterococcus in advanced cirrhosis corresponds with multilevel perturbations of the gut-liver-immune axis
Background Chronic liver disease (CLD) is a progressive condition that, in its advanced stages, leads to cirrhosis with related clinical complications, and can lead to acute-on-chronic liver failure (...
www.medrxiv.org
February 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is my great new preprint with @drvishalcpatel.bsky.social and @halllab.bsky.social. We investigated the gut microbiota in patients with liver disease in which we show an increasing dominance of Enterococcus in the gut of patients with more severe liver disease.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...