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🍃Silver LEAF ♻️
As a wet lab, our group is aware of the impact our research activities have on the environment. We have therefore taken steps to embed...
Alex McCarthy
2 days ago1 min read
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🔍 We're Hiring 📢
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the McCarthy lab. About the Research GBS diseases are a major cause of...
Alex McCarthy
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Congratulations Dr Catton
Congratulations to Erin who successfully defended her PhD thesis "The exploitation of CEACAM1 by streptococcal pathogens" on July 15th...
Alex McCarthy
Jul 16, 20241 min read
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UK E. coli Outbreak in the Telegraph
An outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) occurred in the UK in June 2024, leading to severe diarrhoea and hospital...
Alex McCarthy
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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Keystone Symposium on INHIBITORY RECEPTORS IN IMMUNE HOMEOSTASIS, DISEASE AND THERAPY, January 2024
The Keystone Symposium on Inhibitory Receptors in Immune Homeostasis, Disease, and Therapy was held in the picturesque setting of...
Alex McCarthy
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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Congratulations Dr Lewis Marffy
Alec successfully defended his PhD thesis on 25th October 2023. Congratulations Alec! Thank you to examiners to Dr Angela Nobbs...
Alex McCarthy
Nov 6, 20231 min read
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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 The K1 capsule in E. coli
Our new paper from the lab - led by Sergio Arrendondo-Alonso (University of Oslo), George Blundell-Hunter (UCL), Joey Fu (Technician in...
Alex McCarthy
Jun 15, 20232 min read
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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Streptococcus pyogenes & puerperal sepsis
Our new paper from Erin Catton - PhD student in the lab - was published in April in Nature Communications. Congratulations Erin and all...
Alex McCarthy
May 12, 20231 min read
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PhD position available
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to identify and characterise new host-pathogen interactions using multidisciplinary...
Alex McCarthy
Nov 10, 20221 min read
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GRC Streptococcal Bioloy 2022
The lab was well-represented by Alex, Erin and Alec at GRC Streptococcal Biology 2022 conference in Maine. We all really enjoyed...
Alex McCarthy
Aug 22, 20221 min read
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Poster Prize
Congratulations to Alec for being delivering a prize winning poster at the Rising Scientist Day 2022 in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial...
Alex McCarthy
May 23, 20221 min read
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Welcome to Vera
We welcomed Verato the lab this week who is studying at Imperial College studying for a MRes. We are really excited that Vera is joining...
Alex McCarthy
Apr 8, 20221 min read
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Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2022
The lab will be represented in Belfast by Alec and Alex. Alec will present on Monday afternoon 17:15-17:30 in the Microbial Cell Surfaces...
Alex McCarthy
Apr 3, 20221 min read
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New paper from the Lab - GBS immune evasion
Our new paper with Brian Geisbrecht lab is published this week in the Journal of Immunology. Congratulations Alec! In this project, we...
Alex McCarthy
Mar 5, 20221 min read
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Welcome to Lola and Felix
We recently welcomed Lola and Felix to the lab who are both undergraduate students at Imperial College studying for a BSc in Infection &...
Alex McCarthy
Mar 5, 20221 min read
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