Zannah Salter

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Research Assistant. Microbiome 🦠 pathogen genomics 🧬 STEM Ambassador (and also interested in goth stuff 🖤 capoeira 🤸‍♀️ and crafts 🧶)
Based in Cambridge, UK. She/her.
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Zannah_Du
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3898-8504

Meanwhile, I looked at how the #microbiome differs between children who carry O. hominis (before and after acquisition), and children who don't.

The availability of a large 16S dataset, allowing us to curate a subset of well matched carriers/non-carriers, was a huge advantage here.

Fortunately we were able to use some prior #16S and #metagenomic data to identify candidate samples from the enormous archive!

Postdoc Siobhan Brigg laid the groundwork and MSc student Celine De Allende took up the challenge: culturing, sequencing, analysing the genomes.

Sun rise over the May day morris at Wandlebury!

"The Devil’s Dyke Morris Men have danced on May Day at Wandlebury Country Park, just south of Cambridge, “since time immemorial”... i.e. the early 1980s" 😂

#CambridgeUK

Went to a Roving Researcher showcase event today. On my way in everyone kept asking if I'd seen the massive photo... 😂

The Cambridge Festival is underway, an extravaganza of 500 public workshops, concerts, activities, exhibitions & talks, over a few weeks in spring.

I'll be part of the West Cambridge Family Open Day today! Come along for activities at the Vet School! #CamFest #CambridgeUK

https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/west-cambridge-family-open-day-2025

West Cambridge family open day 2025 | Cambridge Festival

Join a wide selection of interactive family events set to take place across the University's West Cambridge Campus. The West Hub will be open on Saturday the 22nd March from 10am -4pm. Free visitor car parking is available across the day at West Cambridge car parks: 1, 6, 7 & 8.

We have an art centre nearby that does lots of schools outreach, and this is one of their excellent pamphlets for kids! "Brutalism for beginners" 😂

ASM have now made a statement (not an apology) and some content is becoming available again. It's pretty disingenuous stuff.

Some pages are still not available, for example a history piece about the end of slavery in the US (👇 screenshot of their claim to "honor the day" with a broken link)

For example, if you were to search for queer scientists and see this link... this is where the page now takes you 😡
We have been crafting some seasonal decorations. I'm particularly proud of my Count Duckula who will preside over the sweet bowl
The last 3 days has been our batizado & troca de cordoes in #Cambridge! We were joined by guests and teachers from Brazil, France, Czechia. Many friends old and new. All my photos are blurry except this one 😂 of Contramestre Coisado & Instrutor Espinho, Negaca #Capoeira