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Tuberculosis inspired textiles!

Check out the work of my friend Lucy Turner who has created some textile designs based on various tuberculosis objects (if you look carefully you can see some based on the 96-well plates we classify).

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Tuberculosis: from Victorian fashion to citizen science

This public event comprised three talks, each about 15-25 minutes long. Videos of each talk can be found on YouTube, links below.

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BashTheBug at ECCMID2018

BashTheBug has just got back from the recent European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Madrid, Spain. You can see some descriptive analysis of the first-dataset on this poster (free to access).

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Public Engagement Roundup April 2018

MMM Scientists have participated in a range of events, from science festivals and museum events, to art/science talks.

We attended the Oxford Brookes Science Festival and the Museum of Natural History Super Science Saturday, showcasing the award-winning crowdsourcing  Bash The Bug  project.

Bash The Bug goes from strength to strength

The ‘Bio Art and Bacteria’ Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford concluded this March, which showcased numerous artistic works created by Artist Anna Dumitriu with MMM Scientists.

MMM Scientists  contributed to a lecture series  associated with the event

We also assisted with a number of family events, aimed all age ranges with the world of bacteria and bio art!

At the Science Museum, London, the Superbugs Exhibition continues, featuring bacterial agar plates created by Anna Dumitriu with MMM Scientists

The ‘Antibiotic Resistance Quilt’, created by Dumitriu with MMM Scientists Kevin Cole and Nicola Fawcett has been displayed in the Science Museum, Dublin

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BashTheBug is one year old!

BashTheBug was officially launched one year ago today. Since then 10,213 people from all over the world have classified 735,070 images of M. tuberculosis growth, which is one every 43 seconds all year.

You’ve finished three datasets; an initial validation set from seven clinical laboratories from four continents and then two further datasets from two different Asian countries with a high burden of TB. (Well, we are 1,206 classifications short of the 121,305 we need to finish the second country, but you will probably finish that sometime tomorrow!)

BashTheBug has won an award and several of you have spotted artefacts in the plates (see here and here) that we missed.

Here’s to our second year and our first results, which we will share with you soon.

 

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Super Science Saturday

Researchers from ModMedMicro showed BashTheBug to the public today at the Oxford Natural History Museum as part of Super Science Saturday. Thanks to Nick, Tree, Ali and others!

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Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar

A week ago on Saturday, BashTheBug and Lucy Turner together ran a stall at the annual, extremely popular Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar.

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Classifications update

It has been a while since I provided an update on how many classifications everyone is doing. We are approaching a significant milestone; to date 9,705 people have contributed to BashTheBug! It will be BashTheBug’s first birthday in a bit over a month on Saturday 7 April 2018, so hopefully our 10,000th person will join the project before then!

Overall you’ve done 677,620 classifications as of yesterday! I’ll keep a eye out for when we go over 750,000 classifications.

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Crystallisation of Clofazimine

This is another great example of how volunteers spot things that we, the professional scientists, miss.

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December 2017 Newsletter

For a quick roundup of MMM’s activity in the last quarter of 2017, you can download our newsletter below.