Yamni Nigam

Swansea University Professor of maggots; Bigging up STEM gender equality; LOVES insects, wild dancing, Greek mythology, red wine, the Manics & Pierce Brosnan.

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Amazing learning, with fun and games ❤

[Love a Maggot @loveamaggot]

Wonderful day with Year 2 pupils, visiting our Maggot Team @SwanseaUni! 😍

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Loved this public engagement 😍

[Love a Maggot @loveamaggot]

Wonderful to meet the ladies of Llandeilo WI yesterday, sharing our maggot stories! 🐛🥰

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Thank you so much for the invite! Loved talking about medicinal maggots with you all 😍

[Gower Lore @BevJRogers]

What a fabulous and inspiring event we have just had @GowerHeritage with @yamnette who spoke about her amazing @loveamaggot campaign and about the important and fascinating work being undertaken by her team @swanseauniversity

Never again will I look at maggots with disgust!

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Oh wow Em!! Good on you!! How brilliant! 👏😍

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Lol! 😍

[Love a Maggot @loveamaggot]

Loving maggots coming to the National Botanical Garden of Wales! @SwanseaUni

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

The amazing world of maggots comes to the Gower!! 😍

[Love a Maggot @loveamaggot]

So looking forward to this! ❤️

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Yay!! So do we! 🤣

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

What a fab day today @SwanseaUni Science Festival @The_Waterfront! Totally exhausted but we are doing it all again tomorrow! #loveamaggot @ioan_humphreys Thank you to my awesome Team and my dancing Maggot!

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Wonderful news, believe in yourself Em, you are awesome!! 😍🤩

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Wonderful to be at the Grove Golf Club this morning, sharing our @SwanseaUni maggot research with the lovely gentlemen of Porthcawl Probus 🩵

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

A brilliant research conference organised by @DrEmmaRees today! Fabulous to see so much awesome health research being undertaken @SwanseaHSC @SwanseaUni and, oh yes, and a little bit of maggot loving too! @ioan_humphreys ❤️

[Love a Maggot @loveamaggot]

Very interesting day, and what a fantastically organised conference! 😍 @DrEmmaRees @SwanseaUni

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Just awesome!! So well done!! 👏❤

[Carys Davies @carysdavies_52]

Over the moon to receive a First Class Honours in Paramedic Science. All the hard work has paid off!🎉🚑💚

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Brilliant day, teaching our student nurses all about maggots for the treatment of chronic wounds! Nice one M23!👏 @SwanseaUni

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

@jruddchemist @YouandCO2CCE Awesome to meet you too, a very inspiring afternoon! ❤

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

@welshcrucible @jruddchemist @SwanseaUni @loveamaggot @YouandCO2CCE So lovely to meet Crucible Class of 2024!! What an amazing bunch. Thank you! Very good luck to you all! 💖

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

#InsectWeek24

[Love a Maggot @loveamaggot]

What a wonderful week to introduce our medicinal maggot campaign to @GowerHeritage and @walesbotanic @insectweek @BevJRogers Viva Lucilia sericata! 🪰

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

@BevJRogers, it was amazing meeting you @SwanseaUni today! So looking forward to introducing our maggots to @GowerHeritage and @walesbotanic ❤

[Gower Lore @BevJRogers]

Met with the amazing Professor Yamni Nigam today about the Love A Maggot project at Swansea University. We were blown away about how fascinating these little creatures are and how they are helping patients heal from wounds. #swanseauni #maggots #health #healing #nhs #swansea

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

A huge pleasure to chat with your students @themullanyfund, all really interested in pursuing healthcare degrees! So proud to be a mentor for your charity and looking forward to seeing some of these guys @SwanseaUni in the future!!

[Cronfa Mullany @themullanyfund]

Thank you to @yamnette and Dean Snipe from @SwanseaUni for speaking to e-Mentoring students about life in healthcare and the work they do!

Students gained an insight into the process of applying to healthcare degrees and learned about the amazing power of maggots to heal wounds!

[Yamni Nigam @yamnette]

Brilliant! Well done Carys! 👏

[Carys Davies @carysdavies_52]

Very honoured to have been nominated and to receive an award for my dedication and commitment as a course representative over the last three years🤩 @SwanseaUni @SwanseaHSC @ParaScienceSU