@catanscombe

Lead Molecular Scientist at MLW, microbiologist, clinical scientist, bioinformatician, clutterer of desktop, travel lover. Views are my own

 Blantyre, Malawi
Joined December 2016
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Fantastic night celebrating 25 years of @MlwTrust Amazing to hear about the dedication of so many people. Here’s the the next 25 years
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Gotta catch them all- vaccines not diseases. Blantyre DHO doing an amazing job again to vaccinate as many people as possible. #VaccinesWork
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Time critical PCR, and this happens
Hard hitting truth. "Travel Apartheid" on small countries that have no political abd financial muscle. It's a human rights issue indeed! – at Malawi
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US travel bans on southern African countries because of the omicron variant of COVID, are becoming increasingly ridiculous.
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Omicron was in the Netherlands before South Africa alerted the world - we may never know where it originated, another reason to underline the importance of not laying blame & seeking to punish mol.im/a/10258965

Omicron was in the Netherlands BEFORE South Africa alerted the world

The RIVM health institute in the Netherlands has found the mutant Covid strain in samples dating from November 19 and 23, before South Africa alerted the WHO on November 24.

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Malawi's 7 day average SARS-CoV2 cases is 5, we have detected no Omicron, and we have actively looked for it. Yet we got red listed
Lisa McNally Ⓥ@Lisa_McNally129 Nov 2021
Six more cases of Omicron found in the UK. Many more more will emerge over the next few days. Do what you can to avoid infection and make sure you have had all the vaccines for which you're eligible... nhs.uk/conditions/coronaviru… - bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5…
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I escaped up a mountain #whatredlist @ Mulanje Mountain instagram.com/p/CW1D35YvgzBp… – at Malawi
Exciting opportunity to come work at MLW as our lead microbiologist! Come and join an awesome team in this beautiful country! lstmed.ac.uk/lead-laboratory…
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Very exciting opportunity to work at MLW. Lead Microbiologist position now open. Malawi is a beautiful country and a great place to live. Plus there are lots of great colleagues to work with :) lstmed.ac.uk/lead-laboratory…
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Getting ready to set up a small sequencing lab (Miseq plus MinION) any advice?
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Get them young! #multitasking
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One year after touching down in Malawi I got vaccinated. It’s been a busy and stressful year, but I’ve got to work on a great team @MlwTrust to set up Covid testing and in country sequencing.
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So it begins! 360,000 AZ vaccine doses in the country. A good start for over 500,000 frontline healthcare workers who are first in line in #Malawi. Thanks & keep 'em coming, COVAX. (Had to go and have a quiet little grateful cry at this news)
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Great to be part of the team achieving the first sequencing in Malawi using the @NetworkArtic and @nanopore
Jen Cornick@micro_jen31 Jan 2021
Replying to @micro_jen
...& proud of the sequencing work that has resulted from this WT COVID grant which will inform the Malawian Governments COVID response. Led by @catanscombe & @KGBscience @LivUni_IVES @MlwTrust @WTCGHR @benjamesmorton
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Can't believe we are still having the 'can everyone mute their mike' discussion
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The #WhiteHouse #COVID19 #Outbreak has affected 34 people as far as we know. There are 12 COUNTRIES with less cases including #NewZealand #Vietnam #PapauNewGuinea #Sudan #Yemen #Liberia #Cambodia #Malawi #Botswana #Barbados #Tanzania #Bhutan
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Dear twitter, we are trying to scale up our Covid testing in Malawi. We have a Qiagility and a Qiasymphony, but are struggling to program both. Can anyone help?
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2020 the year it became socially acceptable to turn up to work smelling of alcohol
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Based on this analysis, do we conclude the CDC haven't heard of Primer3? Or have a license for Geneious. It actually boggles the mind.
Elisabeth Bik@MicrobiomDigest4 Mar 2020
The CDC-provided COVID-19 primers have potential issues with hairpins and dimerization, writes @tomeraltman. In his new blog post, he designs better candidate primers to help develop better diagnostic kits. Please RT. #COVID19 #COVID_19 #Coronavirus tomeraltman.net/2020/03/03/t…

Technical Problems with Existing CDC COVID-19 Primers, and an Improved Set of Primers

Summary

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