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Research group of Prof Matthias Eberl at Cardiff University • Unconventional T cells • Immune fingerprints in acute infections • Public involvement and engagement • @superbugs.bsky.social profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/eberlm

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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For all teachers looking for new content to spice up their science classes after the summer break. 👇🏼
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Teacher's Corner — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's good to be back. It's only been 26 years.
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A large-scale event to increase public understanding of infection and health, raising awareness of antimicrobial resistance, and showing that science can be fun. Running daily over 4 weeks, made possibly by an army of volunteers and supporters, and attracting almost 5,000 visitors. 1/
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Institutions must avoid a dangerous and emerging misconception: that academic research should be financially self-sustaining. Historically, society has not expected classical music to justify its existence through commercial profitability, and neither should it expect fundamental science to do so."
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Building clinical translation on squares of discovery - Nature Reviews Immunology
Why do so many promising immunotherapies fail to reach their potential? Adrian Hayday argues that transformative clinical advances depend on protecting specialized ‘squares of discovery’ in which deep...
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There are only few certainties in my life. One of them is that I'm extremely unlikely to die of tetanus, diphtheria, polio, rabies, typhoid, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella or pertussis. And definitely not of smallpox. #VaccinesSaveLives
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The results are in! 🦠🧫 Thanks to everyone coming to Y Storfa last week and participating in our activities. #ScienceIsFun #AMR #Swansea
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Y Storfa 2026 - Body Swabs — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A great couple of days at the #BIGEvent26! The BSI team has been exploring new ideas in public engagement and science communication, while connecting with communicators from across the STEM community. Lots of inspiration to take forward! 🧬 @big-stem-network.bsky.social
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
SUPERBUGS IS BACK IN TOWN. #SummerTakeOver #Swansea
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Superbugs Summer Take-over! 🎪 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
‍Come join us at Y Storfa in Swansea this summer and explore the fascinating world of microbes that live in, on and around us!
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Looking forward to attending the BIG Event 2026 in York this week @big-stem-network.bsky.social and co-chairing a session on pop-up shops with @acescicomm.bsky.social ! #STEM #SciComm #PublicEngagement Here's a summary of the pop-up shop we ran last summer:
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Pop-Up Shop 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Looking forward to attending the BIG Event 2026 in York this week @big-stem-network.bsky.social and co-chairing a session on pop-up shops with @acescicomm.bsky.social ! #STEM #SciComm #PublicEngagement Here's a summary of the pop-up shop we ran last summer:
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Pop-Up Shop 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
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γδ T cell Forum @forum-gd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Please join us for our July #GDTcellclub webinar with talks by Dr. Favour Obuseh and Prof. Jeroen Said on Thursday, July 16 at 12pm EDT. Zoom link: nyulangone.zoom.us/j/9589051706... Zoom ID: 958 9051 7066 Passcode: 369081 @eberlmat.bsky.social @payalyokota.bsky.social @clairemci.bsky.social
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So we have just received a small grant to develop an educational escape room, in partnership with Cardiff University, Swansea University, Public Health Wales and several secondary schools across South Wales. Watch this space!! 🦠🧫🔬🧩💷
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Bugs Bunny Counting His Money
ALT: Bugs Bunny Counting His Money
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Cardiff University School of Medicine @cumedicengage.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚀Day 1 of our Work Experience Programme is underway! We welcomed an enthusiastic group of students eager to explore science. 🧬 #LifeScienceChallenge Mae Diwrnod 1 ein Rhaglen Profiad Gwaith wedi dechrau! Heddiw, croesawon ni grŵp brwdfrydig o fyfyrwyr eiddgar i ddysgu am fyd gwyddoniaeth.
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Cardiff University School of Medicine @cumedicengage.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🎉That's a wrap on our Work Experience Programme! Thank you to all our students and staff for an inspiring week of discovery, learning and science. We hope to see you again! #LabWorkExperience Dyna ddiwedd ein Rhaglen Profiad Gwaith! Diolch i’n myfyrwyr, staff am wythnos ysbrydoledig. 🚀
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I work on an obscure aspect of a very rare immune cell in the human body that most scientists and textbooks safely ignore, and I have had more people show up at a seminar I was once invited to give as a junior researcher for which my host had completely forgotten to send out announcements.
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Systems Immunity Research Institute @cusystemsimmu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Improving COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Ethnic Minority Communities in Wales: A Community-Based Approach" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
During the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation and vaccine hesitancy disproportionately affected ethnic minority communities across the United Kingdom, including in Wales. Muslim Doctors Cymru (MDC), a...
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you're a science teacher at a secondary school in Wales and would like to help us create an educational escape room please drop us an email or DM us. It will just take 5 minutes of your time to complete a short survey.
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Gary Graham: It's Like A Big Puzzle
ALT: Gary Graham: It's Like A Big Puzzle
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γδ T cell Forum @forum-gd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just saying.
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Bridging Science and Society: Public Engagement as a Catalyst for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention" Editorial @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social written together with the amazing María Teresa Pérez Gracia.
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<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
Public engagement is vital to building trust and increasing awareness and understanding of infectious disease research and preparedness, but it needs to be backed by training, recognition and sustain...
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So the lyrics of which song are hidden in this article?
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So the lyrics of which song are hidden in this article?
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
When your closest collaborator, trusted mentor and longtime office mate for the past 20 years all retire at the same time.
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a little girl is playing with a seesaw in a yard .
ALT: a little girl is playing with a seesaw in a yard .
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γδ T cell Forum @forum-gd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The first official announcement is out! The 12th International γδ T Cell Conference will take place in Wrocław, 18-21 May 2027. Please share widely across your networks. #gd2027
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Wrocław to Host the 12th International γδ T Cell Conference - Łukasiewicz – PORT
From May 18 to 21, 2027, Wrocław will host the 12th International γδ T Cell Conference, a leading global meeting for researchers studying γδ T cells – immune cells with tremendous therapeutic potentia...
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Bridging Science and Society: Public Engagement as a Catalyst for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention" Editorial @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social written together with the amazing María Teresa Pérez Gracia.
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<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
Public engagement is vital to building trust and increasing awareness and understanding of infectious disease research and preparedness, but it needs to be backed by training, recognition and sustain...
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γδ T cell Forum @forum-gd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you had one suggestion for next year's meeting what would it be? #gd2027
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γδ T cell Forum @forum-gd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
So there is a venue and a date confirmed for next year's conference. Stay tuned for the official announcement. #gd2027
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Funny Spock: Wouldn't You Like To Know?
ALT: Funny Spock: Wouldn't You Like To Know?
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our latest preprint is out now - beautiful work led by Kate Davies in James McLaren's lab in collaboration with Bristol and Dublin. "Superantigen-driven polyfunctional CD4+ T follicular regulatory cells impair tonsillar plasmablast function and class-switched antibody production"
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Superantigen-driven polyfunctional CD4+ T follicular regulatory cells impair tonsillar plasmablast function and class-switched antibody production
Invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections have high mortality and reinfection rates, in part due to impaired development of enduring antibody-mediated immunity. The generation of pathogen-specific ant...
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our latest preprint is out now - beautiful work led by Kate Davies in James McLaren's lab in collaboration with Bristol and Dublin. "Superantigen-driven polyfunctional CD4+ T follicular regulatory cells impair tonsillar plasmablast function and class-switched antibody production"
researchsquare.com
Superantigen-driven polyfunctional CD4+ T follicular regulatory cells impair tonsillar plasmablast function and class-switched antibody production
Invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections have high mortality and reinfection rates, in part due to impaired development of enduring antibody-mediated immunity. The generation of pathogen-specific ant...
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Data manipulation at a breathtaking scale by commercial providers of crucial research reagents. As if the few remaining lab scientists didn't face enough obstacles already.
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thoroughly recommended reading. @ottoenglish.bsky.social
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Flattery indeed. Thank you very much.
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Supporting meaningful public involvement and engagement in health research: a call for feedback on unsuccessful grant proposals "This article is in the 90th percentile (ranked 3rd) of the 32 tracked articles of a similar age in Research Involvement and Engagement." 😎
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Supporting meaningful public involvement and engagement in health research: a call for feedback on unsuccessful grant proposals - Research Involvement and Engagement
Funders increasingly emphasise patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) as an integral component of health and biomedical research. This shift reflects broader commitments to inclusivity, ...
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Supporting meaningful public involvement and engagement in health research: a call for feedback on unsuccessful grant proposals "This article is in the 90th percentile (ranked 3rd) of the 32 tracked articles of a similar age in Research Involvement and Engagement." 😎
link.springer.com
Supporting meaningful public involvement and engagement in health research: a call for feedback on unsuccessful grant proposals - Research Involvement and Engagement
Funders increasingly emphasise patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) as an integral component of health and biomedical research. This shift reflects broader commitments to inclusivity, ...
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
With hantavirus, Ebola and meningitis making recent headlines, here's an interactive timeline to explore devastating infections throughout history and the scientific and medical advances to fight and prevent them. www.superbugs.online/timeline 🦠 🧫 🔬 💊 🏥
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Timeline 'R' Us — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
Of superbugs and superheroes. Timeline 'R' Us – Explore devastating infections through the ages, alongside crucial scientific discoveries to help control them.
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
At the heart of Superbugs is the aim of improving public knowledge on the microbial world in, on and around us. Through various projects we have tried to achieve this using a variety of different strategies. In April 2026, the latest journey began: a Superbugs Escape Room! 🦠🧫🔬🧩🎲
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Our first Escape Room — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
‍At the heart of Superbugs is the aim of improving public knowledge on the microbial world in, on and around us. Through various projects we have tried to achieve this using a variety of different str...
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
IBMS Podcast S4 Episode 10: An in-depth conversation about public engagement with our very own Dr Jonathan Tyrrell, Lecturer of Biomedical Sciences & Medical Microbiology at Swansea University @ibmscience.bsky.social @drjontyrrell-micro.bsky.social
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S4 Episode 10: Public Engagement with Dr Jonathan Tyrrell
Episode 10 features an in-depth conversation with Dr Jonathan Tyrrell, who is a Lecturer of Biomedical Sciences & Medical Microbiology at Swansea University He talks to Rob about his IBMS Award-winni
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Converting a large vacant retail unit in one of the UK's busiest shopping centres into a professionally designed interactive and immersive science experience - with information, exhibits, activities, live presentations and fun games 2/
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
How to teach the public something useful about health and disease, have loads of fun and even get a paper out of it. 👉🏽 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub... 🦠🧫🔬😷💊💉
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
How to teach the public something useful about health and disease, have loads of fun and even get a paper out of it. 👉🏽 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub... 🦠🧫🔬😷💊💉
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
These viruses have been known problems in Korea for so long that there’s literally a M*A*S*H episode about them. People work their whole careers on viruses most people have never heard of…so that you never have to hear about them.
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Really, really proud of this one. "Impact of a large-scale interactive and immersive science pop-up shop about infection and hygiene on visitors and volunteers" Out today in Frontiers in Public Health. @superbugs.bsky.social @cumedicengage.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Impact of a large-scale interactive and immersive science pop-up shop about infection and hygiene on visitors and volunteers
Infectious diseases pose persistent and evolving challenges to global health, exacerbated by rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and vaccine hesitancy. The...
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Containing the longest acknowledgements section I have ever written, to give credit to the large number of people who directly and indirectly allowed this event to take place. This was a massive team effort, so many thanks again to everyone who contributed! 5/
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you want to learn more about our work, read about our activities, use our educational resources or want to collaborate with us - visit our Superbugs website or get in touch! 6/6 @superbugs.bsky.social
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Pop-Up Shop 2025 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Providing a comprehensive evaluation of short-term learning outcomes for visitors, long-term changes in attitudes and perceptions, and the impact of the event on those who delivered the event. 4/
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Hosting primary and secondary schools on organised school trips, providing scientific content in an engaging way, and featuring an exhibition of school art from across Wales and Tanzania - and our very own horror show illustrating some of the most detrimental outbreaks of infections in history! 3/
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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is so cool! #SciComm #MicroSky
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A large-scale event to increase public understanding of infection and health, raising awareness of antimicrobial resistance, and showing that science can be fun. Running daily over 4 weeks, made possibly by an army of volunteers and supporters, and attracting almost 5,000 visitors. 1/
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Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Really, really proud of this one. "Impact of a large-scale interactive and immersive science pop-up shop about infection and hygiene on visitors and volunteers" Out today in Frontiers in Public Health. @superbugs.bsky.social @cumedicengage.bsky.social
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Frontiers | Impact of a large-scale interactive and immersive science pop-up shop about infection and hygiene on visitors and volunteers
Infectious diseases pose persistent and evolving challenges to global health, exacerbated by rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and vaccine hesitancy. The...
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