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Nicola Holden

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Prof. of Food Safety at SRUC, interests in all things food micro. Happily based in Scotland, UK. Views my own. pure.sruc.ac.uk/en/persons/nicola-h…

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Oh no, not again! Come join us at #VTEC2026 to see what's happening about this pathogen www.vtec2026.org/outline-prog...
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Outline Programme - (VTEC 2026) International Symposium On Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia Coli Infections - P&J Live
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Applied Microbiology International @amiposts.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Raw milk: The latest episode of AMI’s ‘Under The Lens’ video series turns the spotlight on the contentious issue of raw milk, with Prof Emmanuel Adukwu interviewing Prof Nicola Holden and Dr Gil Domingue. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/under-t... @srucnews.bsky.social @nicholden.bsky.social
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Under the Lens: Nicola Holden and Gil Domingue weigh in on the raw milk debate
The latest episode of Applied Microbiology International's 'Under The Lens' video series turns the spotlight on the contentious issue of raw milk, with AMI Trustee Professor Emmanuel Adukwu interviewi...
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
#foodsafety Check out the #VTEC2026 stellar keynote speakers, conference activities, the P&J Live venue and your trip to Aberdeen. A big thanks to our wonderful local committee, co-organisers SRUC and CPD & Event Services, University of Aberdeen, and very generous sponsors. www.vtec2026.org
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About - (VTEC 2026) International Symposium On Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia Coli Infections - P&J Live
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🧪 It is all getting very exciting: less than 2 months now until the #VTEC2026 conference. Find out everything you need to know about STEC, VTEC, O157, nonO157, covering all OneHealth topic areas. If you haven't registered yet, there is still time, go to the website www.vtec2026.org/registration
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Do you work on #STEC #VTEC #EHEC #Ecoli for #publichealth #foodsafety #datascience #farming or in #biosciences 🧪 Want to join the community for the triannual conference in Aberdeen (UK) next year? The #VTEC2026 conference website has all the info you need. Just head to www.vtec2026.org
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About - (VTEC 2026) International Symposium On Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia Coli Infections - P&J Live
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Last chance alert!! the deadline for abstract submission to #VTEC2026 is TODAY! Only 250 words, you can still do it :) www.vtec2026.org/call-for-abs... 🧪#foodsaftey
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Call for Abstracts - (VTEC 2026) International Symposium On Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia Coli Infections - P&J Live
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Delighted that our #EcoSalPlus review, with Jeri Barak, on colonisation of plant hosts by E. coli and S. enterica is in an ASM SDG Spotlight Collection. Our article sits under #SDG2, Zero Hunger, for #foodsafety. journals.asm.org/asm-sdg-spot... Gorgeous artwork by @eliza-coli.bsky.social
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Really chuffed that our article on the sequencing side of the UK Crop Microbiome Biobank has just been published. Thanks to Payton Yau and Sue Jones for the hard work. Great team effort with CABI, RRI, JIC, SRUC and Hutton. Read the walk-thru for the #microbiome analysis here: rdcu.be/eBOBB
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Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters @crew-waters.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🌊Interested in becoming a Project Manager at the Centre of Expertise for Waters? 📍Aberdeen 🗓Apply by 26 Aug 🔗 tinyurl.com/CREWrole Take a look at our most recent work connecting water policy and science below: 💧AI & Flood Forecasting ➡️ tinyurl.com/AIFlooding 💧AMR Register ➡️ tinyurl.com/ScotAMR
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 02/04/2025
Thank you for attending day three of #Microbio25! Annual Conference would not be possible without the revenue generated by publishing. Learn more about #PublishingForTheCommunity on our website:
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Publishing for the Community
We are not for profit – publish with us to benefit your community. As a Society publisher, we are not for profit and everything we offer our community happens thanks to the revenue generated by…
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 01/04/2025
Thank you for attending day two of #Microbio25! Annual Conference would not be possible without the revenue generated by publishing. Learn more about #PublishingForTheCommunity on our website:
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Publishing for the Community
We are not for profit – publish with us to benefit your community. As a Society publisher, we are not for profit and everything we offer our community happens thanks to the revenue generated by publishing.
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Arrived at last for #Microbio25 Looking forward to our session tomorrow Beyond the Lab, come join us in Hall 3B from 1015
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 01/04/2025
We hope that you’re enjoying Annual Conference! If you have ever benefited from our events, grants or networks, consider publishing with us: journals revenue supports all that we do for our community. Please submit to give back. microb.io/3o6DvhI
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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/03/pres...
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President Trump eliminates two key food safety committees
The Trump Administration has eliminated two USDA food safety advisory committees that have been in place for decades. The U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#foodsafety news from the #WHO: 7th June 2025 is World Food Safety Day. This year's theme is 'Science in Action' (nope, can't escape the irony). Some great resources on the website to use www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
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World Food Safety Day 2025
Science is at the heart of food safety. It helps us understand what makes food unsafe and guides us on how to prevent foodborne diseases. The theme of World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2025 draws attent...
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
If you would like to join us on our crop #microbiome journey there are still have a few days to apply for a PhD project. We are in Aberdeen, Scotland - a great place for wildlife, history, the outdoors, and bioinformatics of course! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This looks like it will be a fun event - celebrating slow fermentation and real bread. Time to roll up the sleeves and get the sourdough cultures warmed up scotlandthebread.org/event/scotti... #foodstudies #foodsystems #urbanfood #urbanagriculture #foodconsumption
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Scottish Festival of Real Bread 2025 - Scotland The Bread
Date: Saturday February 15th, 2025 Location: Bowhouse, Fife The Scottish Festival of Real Bread is back, and it’s the perfect way to kick off Real Bread Week 2025 (15 to [...]
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
If you are looking for a home for your climate change associated #microbiome work, AMI's Sustainable Microbiology has a themed call out at the moment academic.oup.com/sumbio/pages...
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Sustainable Microbiology Calls for Papers
Sustainable Microbiology is a broad-scope, fully open access journal aiming to demonstrate the current and future role of microbes in improving global economic,
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
@microbiologysociety.org great to see you here, looking forward to the #microbiology stories
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
bsky.app/profile/unni... a nice story for @aythyafuligula.bsky.social
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Prof Tom Solomon CBE @runningmadprof.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🚨 Exciting opportunity! @thepandemicinst.bsky.social is forming a Public Steering Group to ensure community voices shape our work in pandemic preparedness. Want to help make a difference? Learn more & apply here: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/join-ou... #PandemicPreparedness #PublicEngagement
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Jay Hinton @jayhinton.bsky.social · 04/12/2015
Here's the link to the WHO Global burden of foodborne diseases report www.who.int/foodsafety/areas_work/f…
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Estimating the burden of foodborne diseases
Around the world unsafe food is known to cause more than ...
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docrodi.bsky.social @docrodi.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Produce is the cause of almost half of all foodborne illnesses, followed by dairy and eggs at 20 percent, meat and poultry at 22 percent, and fish and shellfish at just 6 percent. See bottom of page for good food safety tips to use this coming new year. www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/12/brea...
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Breakthrough in ag water will be benefit to raw produce food safety
Calling it a  “a landmark achievement . . . to improve food safety,” an FDA webpage is hailing the agency’s approval of a antimicrobial
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
One for @aythyafuligula.bsky.social :)
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#foodsystems post For the budding photographers out there, there is still time to submit to the 'Food for Thought' competition from @scafarc.bsky.social - you have til 9th Jan! www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
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Food for Thought: Capturing the Big Picture | 16th October 2024
People of all ages across Scotland are invited to explore different perspectives around food using art and photography.
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#foodsafety Always good to have the reminders about safely enjoying smoked fish at this time of year www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/fo...
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Listeria monocytogenes | Food Standards Scotland | Food Standards ScotlandArrow_DropdownArrow_leftArrow_RightIcon_AlchoholIcon_Alchohol_RoundalIcon_AppleIcon_Apple_RoundalIcon_BacteriaIcon_Bacteria_Ro...
Information from Food Standards Scotland about listeria and how you can prevent getting it.
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
#foodsafety Any thoughts on the relationship between the gastroenteritis disease symptoms and virulence factors (eae, cdt) in this outbreak of E. albertii. CDT is a genotoxin, so is it all just down to intimin - sounds a bit like an EPEC... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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An outbreak associated with Escherichia albertii in a junior high school, China | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core
An outbreak associated with Escherichia albertii in a junior high school, China - Volume 152
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Interested in what drives crop #microbiomes? We've got a PhD position open to work it out using modelling and bioinformatics. Check out www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🧪 great to see the developments at Enterobase - a fantastic resource for the #microbiology community and all associated. Congrats to all for the hard work doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
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EnteroBase in 2025: exploring the genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens
Abstract. This paper presents an update on the content, accessibility and analytical tools of the EnteroBase platform for web-based pathogen genome analysi
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Mark your calendar: the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium will be held at Hotel Antequera, in Antequera, Spain, 3-7 Nov 2025 - organized by @microsos.bsky.social, @vcarryon.bsky.social, @gstringlis.bsky.social, and colleagues 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Missouri E. coli outbreak now linked to illnesses in 6 states; leafy greens suspected www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/12/miss...
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Missouri E. coli outbreak now linked to illnesses in 6 states; leafy greens suspected
Genetic testing has shown that an E. coli outbreak thought to be limited to St. Louis, MO, is spread across six other states. Health officials suspect
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Scottish Alliance for Food @scafarc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
📣 SCAF Pump Priming Round 3 Awards! Following the announcement of the round 2 awardees and projects, we're excited to announce our next round of seed funding! 💰 🌱 Deadline: 14/02/2025, 5pm More information and application 👉 bit.ly/3TSdHDS #foodstudies
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Great to hear Wendy Russel from the Rowett Institute on Radio Scotland talking about how to reimagine the humble Aberdeen butterie, using #hemp of course! Good for hearts and soil alike. #foodstudies
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Health Inspector Jim @healthinspectorjim.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Food Safety: Grimmway Carrots linked to deadly E. coli O121:H19 Outbreak: 39 illnesses & 1 death. Recalled products were shipped directly to retail distribution centers nationwide in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #FoodRecall www.marlerblog.com/case-news/gr...
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Grimmway Carrots linked to deadly E. coli O121:H19 Outbreak - 39 Sickened
Grimmway Farms has issued a recall of select organic whole carrots and organic baby carrots that should no longer be in grocery stores but may be in
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
🧪 for all of you interested in microbe-infection models, here is an online webinar from the #MicrobiologySociety microbiologysociety.org/event/full-e...
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Microbiology Symposium: Innovative infection models- capturing the in vivo environment
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Just listened to a great description of this amazing resource - the Sourdough library, keeping food microbiology diversity alive. Has anyone been for a visit, or contributed? #foodstudies #foodmicro www.puratos.co.uk/en/about-pur...
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Sourdough Library
Located in our Center for Bread Flavour in Sankt-Vith, Belgium, the Sourdough Library gathers a unique collection of sourdoughs from all over the world, each with its own distinct charecteristics.
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Here we go again...STEC associated with a crop plant (onions), but its going to be very challenging to pin-point them directly www.food-safety.com/articles/988...
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FDA Unable to Implicate Grower in E. coli Outbreak Linked to Taylor Farms Onions Served at McDonald's
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was investigating a grower of interest in Washington state, the agency has been unable to definitively implicate a grower in the Escherichia coli o...
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Well this is interesting - for fresh produce safety www.food-safety.com/articles/987...
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EPA Approves First Antimicrobial Treatment of Foodborne Pathogens in Preharvest Agricultural Water
Setting a new a new precedent for preharvest food safety interventions, the first-ever registration of an antimicrobial treatment for foodborne pathogens in preharvest agricultural water has been appr...
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Nice vid from @SRUC FAS TV about growing and using heritage grain in a way to benefit everyone, as Scotland the Bread say 'from soil to slice' youtu.be/Sg5Yak-le-A?...
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From Field to Fork - Heritage Grain
YouTube video by Scotland's Farm Advisory Service
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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Productive visit to Bowhouse community food hub (Fife, Scotland). Happy microbiology talk about sourdough and locally grown grains.
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