Communications Team

Tracking a deadly shapeshifter

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 Communications Team bacteria, Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, pneumonia, poppunk, serotypes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, vaccination, vaccines min read

A global child killer constantly changes its coat to evade destruction, but a worldwide network of scientists is using genetics to get one step ahead.

Software developers discussing ideas at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Day in the life: Software Developer – making research happen

June 3, 2019June 12, 2019 Communications Team analysis, coding, day in the life, Genetics, Genomics, LIMS, sanger institute, software developer, visualisation min read

Meet two people whose software skills enable the Sanger Institute’s scientists to make their ground-breaking genomic discoveries

Sanger Life

Equality and Diversity – not just about fairness

May 30, 2019June 12, 2019 Communications Team bame, diversity, edi, equality in science, ethnicity, inclusion, lgbt, lgbtq, minority, race min read

We’ve come a long way, but the journey isn’t finished yet…

Sanger Science

We’ve got the power

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Communications Team biosciences data, cooling, data, data centre, electricity, genomes, heat, IT, life sciences data, power, pue, servers, simon binley, ups battery min read

Running one of the largest biosciences data centres in Europe as efficiently as possible requires cool heads and even cooler machines

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Infectious diseases make a comeback in Venezuela following healthcare crisis

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Communications Team diseases, Healthcare, infections, Infectious disease, malaria, monitoring, pathogen, pneumonia, venezuela min read

The experiences of a friend of a Sanger Institute researcher reveal how parasites and bacteria are now threatening the country’s population

Dr Sam Behjati, recently awarded the Dr Simon Newell Early Career Investigator of the Year award, by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and children’s charity SPARKS

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Caring for children with cancer

May 15, 2019May 16, 2019 Communications Team cancer, child, childhood, children, data, drugs, gosh, great ormond street hospital, research, sam behjati, sam newell, sparks, tumours min read

We explore the world of award-winning cancer scientist, Dr Sam Behjati

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Sanger’s super-sized sequencing scales new heights

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Communications Team 10 PB, bioinformatics, data centre, dna sequencing, genomes, Genomics, illumina, novaseq, petabases, terabases, uk biobank min read

We’re celebrating: we’ve just read the same amount of DNA in one year as we achieved in the previous 25 years combined. This dizzying speed offers unprecedented possibilities to unlock new understanding in health and disease

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CRAM-ming it in

March 29, 2019April 3, 2019 Communications Team bam, cram, data, data storage, DNA, file format, ga4gh, genome data, open access, sam min read

An impending flood of genomic data threatens to overwhelm scientists’ abilities to store and share it. Next-generation compression seeks to CRAM it all in

Nicole Wheeler talking at an Open Saturday

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The importance of public engagement on antibiotic resistance

January 18, 2019January 21, 2019 Communications Team AMR, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, public engagement min read

Nicole Wheeler talks antibiotics, antibiotic resistance and public engagement – and letting people use real software on real data to track antibiotic resistance around the world

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Disability, Inclusion and Science

January 14, 2019January 15, 2019 Communications Team disability, equality in science, inclusion, Sanger Life, social model of disability, stephen hawking min read

Distinguished disability rights campaigner, David Ruebain, joined us last month at the Wellcome Genome Campus. He spoke on disability and inclusion in science, as part of the campus Equality in Science event series.