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UKCEH Molecular Ecology

@ukceh-moleco.bsky.social
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Research group, mostly based at UKCEH Wallingford, using molecular techniques to understand function, and dynamics of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Particular interest in #AMR, #eDNA & #microbial #ecology

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🍄‍🟫💻 Explore UKCEH’s new Fungi Explorer, an interactive tool revealing the hidden world of soil fungi across Great Britain using DNA data from 1,000+ Countryside Survey soil samples. Search species, map distributions, or match your own DNA sequences. connect-apps.ceh.ac.uk/fungal-explo…
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🌊 What's driving pollution on Lough Neagh? This #WorldLakeDay, learn more about our CLEAR-Neagh project, which is using environmental DNA and advanced microbial analysis to trace sources of pollution across the catchment. 🧪 Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Next week, @amycthorpe.bsky.social & Meri Anderson are travelling to Auckland for #ISME20 Amy will be presenting on 'National-scale biogeography and function of river biofilm microbial communities’ 🌊🦠 in the microbial atlases and biogeography session (20th August) And... ⬇️
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Tomorrow, @rachelapayne.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social are travelling to Brisbane for #EDAR8 next week, hosted by SAAFE CRC They will both be presenting in the antifungal session on Thursday (11am-1pm) 🧫🍄 @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Summer update 🌞🌷💮 Check out what we've been up to ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Happy World Environment Day 🌿🌍 We thought we would take the opportunity to share some of the recent papers from the Molecular Ecology group which focus on #eDNA 🧬, microbial ecology 🦠, #AMR 🧫 & #OneHealth 💊 @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Better late than never - our April monthly wrap up! 📆🧬🧫 Check out what we've been up to ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🗓️ Time for our March wrap up!🌷☀️ Check out what we've been up to ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check out our latest paper, work led by @amycthorpe.bsky.social titled "River Microbiomes as Sentinels of National-Scale Freshwater Ecosystems" 🦠🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @susheelbusi.bsky.social @lindsaynewbold.bsky.social @joedtaylor.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🧵 @hollytipper.bsky.social & @danread.bsky.social have a new paper out titled "Spatiotemporal profiling of antimicrobial agents during wastewater treatment – a national study" with Adegbenro Daso and Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern Check it out ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ukceh.bsky.social
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Spatiotemporal profiling of antimicrobial agents during wastewater treatment – a national study
Effective wastewater treatment is critical for public health; however, the persistence of antimicrobial chemicals within these systems presents challe…
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Susheel Bhanu Busi @susheelbusi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Looking forward to presenting our #CLEARNeagh project in the UK Freshwater Quality Research Programme webinar. We’ll explore #eDNA and #AMR monitoring across the catchment which may identify drivers of degradation and support long-term recovery. #freshwater #river #riverpollution #LoughNeagh 🌍💧
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@buzzingbennett.bsky.social's first PhD paper has just been published, titled "Molecular detection of honeybee pathogens in honey from a UK citizen science program" 🐝🦠 Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary below ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social @lindsaynewbold.bsky.social
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Molecular detection of honeybee pathogens in honey from a UK citizen science program
Fruits, legumes, oilseeds and nuts have a high dependency on insect pollination, of which the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) is a critical contributor.…
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Isobel Stanton @istanton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Our latest paper has just been published in Environment International! Check it out here ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ukceh.bsky.social @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social
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Predicting antifungal concentrations that select for resistance: an enhanced approach to establish environmental thresholds
Antifungal resistance (AFR) is an emerging threat. Understanding the concentrations at which antifungals select for resistance is critical for guiding…
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🗓️ Time for our February wrap up! Check out what we've been up to ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Happy #WomenInSTEM day! 👩‍🔬 The Molecular Ecology group at @ukceh.bsky.social comprises of many fantastic women👩‍🔬 conducting research on all things #molecular #ecology, #AMR, #microbes 🧬🦠🧫 Stay tuned as we introduce you to some them over the course of today ⬇️
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🗓️ It's January wrap up time! Our researchers have been busy kicking off the new year with lots of different activities including sampling, presentations, project meetings, training and lots of lab work! Check out what we've been up to ⬇️ @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Really excited that the Molecular Ecology group is going to be leading this project! ⬇️🌊 Stay tuned as we introduce our researchers working on this, and for updates on sampling and lab work!
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨Second new #job advert of the week!🚨 We are currently recruiting a Molecular Ecology Research Assistant to the Molecular Ecology group who will be working on all things #microbes, #AMR & #eDNA 🦠🧬🧫 Details on how to apply ⬇️ ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...
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Molecular Ecology Research Assistant
Salary - £31,942 to £33,898 Fully site based Based in Wallingford, Oxfordshire We reserve the right to close this advert early if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early. 18-Mo...
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨 New Job Alert 🚨 We're currently recruiting a Lab Manager to manage the @ukceh.bsky.social Wallingford labs! 🔬🧪👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 They will be responsible for all labs but will be part of Molecular Ecology group 😊 Details on how to apply ⬇️ ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca... @lindsaynewbold.bsky.social
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Laboratory Manager
Salary - £38,939 - £41,321 Fully site based Location: Wallingford. Oxfordshire Closing date: Friday 30th January 2026 We reserve the right to close this advert early if we find the right candidate, so...
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Susheel Bhanu Busi @susheelbusi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#MichaelBennett presenting his work on bee pathogens as part of the #NationalHoneyMonitoringScheme at @ukceh.bsky.social Supervisors: @lindsaynewbold.bsky.social and #BenWoodcock
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Susheel Bhanu Busi @susheelbusi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#LaraWalsh & #AlexandraLewis presenting their posters on #Zooplankton #parasites and #AMR at #MMEG2025
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Susheel Bhanu Busi @susheelbusi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#LaraWalsh supervised by @joedtaylor.bsky.social presenting their flash talk on parasites in Zooplankton
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Check out everything our researchers have been up to at #MMEG2025 in Susheel's thread below! ⬇️
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Most of our group is at the Molecular Microbial Ecology Group (MMEG) meeting over today and tomorrow! Keep an eye out for them and their presentations! 🦠🧬 @ukceh.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Molecular Ecology Christmas party 2025 🎄☃️🥂
Photo showing most of the Molecular Ecology research group wearing christmas hats, having a meal
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Isobel Stanton @istanton.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📢 All #PhD #adverts now live 📢 All on #AMR 🦠🧫 in the #environment 🌊🌱 and deadlines are throughout January! For details of different projects, see thread below ⬇️ #WAAW #WAAW25 #WAAW2025
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We got a very exciting delivery last week! Can you guess what's in the box? 🧬📦
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It's the final day of World #AMR Awareness Week #WAAW #WAAW25 🦠🧬🧫 Our researchers have a number of #PhD studentships studying #AMR which will start in Sept/Oct 2026. The @ukceh.bsky.social LinkedIn page has collated all our available PhD studentships here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mabvvus
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#amr #amr #waaw #antimicrobialresistance | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)
🚨 PhD opportunities! This World AMR Awareness Week is the perfect time to explore new research projects with our #AMR researchers Isobel Stanton, Holly Tipper, Andrew Singer & Daniel Read, plus UKCEH,...
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Happy World #AMR Awareness Week! #WAAW #WAAW25 At @ukceh.bsky.social our AMR researchers work on both #bacterial and #fungal AMR! We undertake research monitoring AMR in many different environments (water 🌊, wastewater 💩, air 💨, soil 🌱 & plants 🌿), which means we get out in the field a lot!
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Over the summer, @amycthorpe.bsky.social presented at @sedadnasociety.bsky.social in Tromsø, Norway. Amy presented her research using lake sedimentary #DNA to reconstruct historical #microbial dynamics in the Lake District in response to nutrient status 🦠🧬🌊
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In October, @brionyjones.bsky.social presented at the European Commission's Joint Research Council in Ispra for a AI4SoilHealth meeting earlier in the month. The presentation title was 'Global F.A.I.R.ness of co-located microbial and soil health data in public genomic repositories.' 🌱🦠🧬
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Lauren Cook @laurens-colours.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Really inspiring attending this day at the @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Centre for Art and Ecology – possibly the world’s first university centre dedicated to this field!
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
@laurens-colours.bsky.social was recently invited to present at a @britishecologicalsociety.org & @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social event on art & science 🎨 Lauren's full talk on scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling can be found here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGdA...
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Scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling with Dr Lauren Cook
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
@buzzingbennett.bsky.social has been busy doing lots of talks and outreach recently on his PhD project and the National Honey Monitoring Scheme! Michael has given a lab tour to fellow PhD students, spoken at the National Honey Show 2025 and talked to the Kennet Beekeepers Association 🐝🍯
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
@hollytipper.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social went to visit the Unilever labs yesterday to meet up with their PhD student Olivia Mescall and her other supervisors @profjrsnape.bsky.social & Katie Endersby! As well as talking about Olivia's PhD, they went on a tour of the Unilever labs! 🥼🧪
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Check out the latest from #MolecularEcology @ukceh.bsky.social Led by @amycthorpe.bsky.social, new research highlights the utility of river #biofilm #bacteria for freshwater biomonitoring.
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Isobel Stanton @istanton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨New #PhD #adverts alert🚨 I currently have two PhD studentships being advertised on environmental #AMR ⬇️ More being advertised soon 👀 @ukceh.bsky.social @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social
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Lara Walsh @lrwalsh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Always a pleasure at the UKCEH PGR Get Together - some amazing PhD projects going on here! Great opportunity to chat about the parasites lurking in Windermere zooplankton populations too... 🦠 @ukceh.bsky.social @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yesterday was our Annual Postgraduate Showcase at UKCEH! A number of our PhD researchers participated by presenting their research as either a poster or as a talk! 🦠🐝🧬
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
@joedtaylor.bsky.social & @laurens-colours.bsky.social recently attended the @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social meeting at @zslofficial.bsky.social Joe gave a keynote talk titled: "Biodiversity and importance of microbial eukaryotes in freshwater lakes" 🦠🌊
Joe presenting his keynote talk, on a slide titled "Integrating DNA-Based monitoring in Lakes"
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Last month, @hollytipper.bsky.social & @istanton.bsky.social attended the Microbiome Innovation and One Health Conference in Oxford 🦠🧫 They co-presented on their work on #AMR in environmental microbiomes, as well as attending the networking event at @morethanadodo.bsky.social 🦖
Isobel Stanton presenting the title slide of a presentationHolly Tipper presenting a slide showing how wastewater is an interface between human activities and the environmentHolly and Isobel at Oxford's Natural History Museum in front of one of the dinosaur fossilsPhoto of a dinosaur fossil
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Lauren Cook @laurens-colours.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Excited to be speaking at this, plus my first time being a 'Conference Artist'! I'll be sketching during the talks and hosting an art corner over lunch time 😄
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Denise has recently published research titled "A lidar based national model of hedgerows and other woody linear features in rural England" 🌱 Check it out here ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A lidar based national model of hedgerows and other woody linear features in rural England
Hedgerows and other woody linear features (WLF) are important semi-natural habitats, cultural features and potential carbon stores in farmland across …
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Andrew's latest paper was published today, titled: "Environmental hazards from pollution of antibiotics and resistance-driving chemicals in an urban river network from Malawi" 💊🌊 Check it out here ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Environmental hazards from pollution of antibiotics and resistance-driving chemicals in an urban river network from Malawi - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Environmental hazards from pollution of antibiotics and resistance-driving chemicals in an urban river network from Malawi
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The work on evaluating the UK's #AMR National Action Plan was recently published which focused on stakeholder opinions on the implementation of the 2019-2024 plan 🦠 Check it out below ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @hollytipper.bsky.social @oxonandrew.bsky.social @rebeccaglover.bsky.social
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Stakeholder views on the implementation of the UK’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) National Action Plan (2019–2024) in relation to AMR in the environment
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment is an important component of One Health AMR research and is increasingly incorporated into AMR National Action Plans (NAPs), including the UK’s AMR...
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Tim recently published a paper on how soil properties in agricultural systems impact microbial genomic traits 🦠🌱🚜 Check it out here ⬇️ academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes...
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Soil properties in agricultural systems affect microbial genomic traits
Bacterial genomic traits are related to soil properties in agricultural systems.
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@laurens-colours.bsky.social recently published a paper on the design of an eDNA qPCR assay to detect invasive Chinese mitten crab 🦀 - work that was undertaken during her PhD. Check it out here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Design and Validation of a Single‐Species Environmental DNA qPCR Assay for the Detection of the Invasive Chinese Mitten Crab Eriocheir sinensis
The Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) is considered amongst the most damaging invasive species globally; however, the UK distribution of the species is not well known, with current management ....
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Welcome back to our "meet the researcher" series! Previously we introduced you to our PhD students. Next up - our staff! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🌊🌱🦠🧬
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Check out the latest paper from our group 🌱🧬⬇️ Led by our researcher Tim Goodall @susheelbusi.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social
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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Welcome to our "meet the researcher" series!👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Tune in over the next week as we introduce you to our UKCEH Molecular Ecology PhD researchers and tell you a bit about their projects! 🧪🧬🦠
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