Richard Birtles

Friend to the overlooked pathogens on the planet, frequently distracted by 11 overpaid non-Mancunians in blue.

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

@JolyonMaugham Gritstone way.

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

@Chaos_1973 @DrWigley Happy Birthday, hope life down south is treating you well.

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

@TheMountingB Sonoma

[Steve Pullan @StevePullan]

Into Pathogen Genomics & Public Health?

Now recruiting 9 *permanent* positions @UKHSA Porton Down.

Molecular biology and Bioinformatic roles

Principal Bioinformatician (G7)
Senior Bioinformatician Scientist (SEO)

3x Senior Scientist (SEO)
4x Research Scientist (HEO)

[Ian Goodhead @IanGoodhead]

Great to see this out. Proud that our @SalfordScience @GCRF project to build capacity in #Gulu Uganda contributed in part to this incredible work.

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

@CofCdivM Am I right in thinking John Foxx is a Chorley man? HaHaHa was indeed brilliant. As were Ultravox's other early albums (even Vienna IMO).

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

@ShrewGod @ATU_GalwayCity Good luck Allan, a well deserved escape!

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

https://t.co/jXVxQxl9TW

[MEaSURE Project @MeasureUoM]

First in-person project meeting today for @MeasureUoM. Lots to discuss from ongoing fieldwork to future experimental and modelling plans. Keep an eye out for future updates!

[Emilie Bouhsira @EBouhsira]

Interested in Medical and/or Veterinary Entomology? The third edition of the Entomology Summer Course will be held in Toulouse from 4 to 8 July 2022. Detailed programme and practical information can be found at the page here below.…https://t.co/tfkSyYH9de https://t.co/KueNZnF9Ga

[Microbiology Society @MicrobioSoc]

This case study takes us to Uganda, where Prof. Richard Birtles received funding to investigate #COVID transmission routes in and out of refugee settlements. Read why @BirtlesR believes knowledge exchange with colleagues at @GuluVarsity was so important: https://t.co/XC4DHQLRXQ

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

Dunno what the fuss is all about #beginnersluck

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[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

@DrWigley @winstanley_c Very much hoping your leaving do will involve a flat-bed truck, a sound system playing Handsworth's finest, and chicken, peas and rice.

[Ian Goodhead @IanGoodhead]

48 more #COVID19 samples from the last month now sequencing in Northern Uganda. The incredible @DrJudy_Mwangi here leading the effort to get the Gulu lab going.

[Abdel Abdellaoui @dr_appie]

Africa, if its borders were defined by ethnicity and language

[Richard Birtles @BirtlesR]

Great articles by @VincenzoLorus18 and @HarunaAmadu19 in the latest WAAVP newsletter https://t.co/sJjW6WReyj

[Chloe James @ProfChloeJames]

Well Done to Gavin Ackers-Johnson who defended his PhD viva today. We are so proud! Thanks to examiners @DrJoeLatimer and Dr Ben Evans. Got so excited forgot to take a pic to mark the occasion so here he is in action instead 🎉

[Raquel Castillo-Contreras @RCastilloCont]

@gmentaberre @BirtlesR @XaviFernandezA1