Molecular diagnostics for water quality analysis in Jammu

Another successful portable molecular diagnostics for water quality analysis workshop, this time with Sidharth Maheshwari and his team at the Indian Institute of Technology Jammu. Within one week from water sampling to millions of superhigh accuracy reads. Undergraduate and postgraduate students extracted DNA from 24 samples for next generation sequencing with the portable MinION device of Oxford Nanopore Technologies. From Newcastle University for the world.

Conference in Samsun

Relaxing with my good friends Profs Yuksel Ardali and Hrissi Karapanagioti after a successful Climate Cooperation and Green Deal Symposium 2022 in Samsun at Ondokuz Mayis University. Yuksel and Hrissi visited Newcastle University with their children for a few months over 10 years ago. It goes to show the importance of face to face meetings and informal conversations, which transform professional contacts into life-long friendships.