Dr Sophie Howard
@Sophie__Howard
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Senior Editor at The Lancet Public Health. Previous researcher in microbiology and plastic-eating bacteria. Views are my own.
London, England
Joined February 2014
Had an excellent first day at #ssm2024, looking forward to today. I’m here from The Lancet Public Health if you want to reach out @TheLancetPH @SocSocMed
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RT @GreenpeaceUK: Want to take a stand on plastic pollution this year? Join the #BigPlasticCount! For one week in March, thousands of us…
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RT @BrunelResearch: Plastic-eating enzymes could potentially be developed to dissolve plastic bottles faster and create material to make n…
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Exciting to have our latest work out! We found 2 novel PET-degrading enzymes and show that increasing biofilm can increase degradation @McCarthy_Ronan @Nature_NPJ @BrunelResearch @RecoverBBI @NERCscience
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RT @McCarthy_Ronan: Does rewiring bacteria to form more biofilm increase the efficency of plastic degrading enzymes? Short Answer: Yes Lo…
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RT @JKRuffles: Brain tumour genetic network signatures of survival -now published in @Brain1878. Paper here: A gr…
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RT @AMIposts: Scientists have enriched expanded polystyrene waste from a beach in Ireland to isolate a bacterium which proved to contain th…
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RT @McCarthy_Ronan: A few years ago we collected some waste plastic on a beach and what happened next is a pretty cool story. Check it out.…
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Had a great week at @Unipisa for the @RecoverBBI project meeting and giving a talk at the 2nd conference on green chemistry and sustainable coatings. @BrunelResearch Met lots of great collaborators and ate lots of great food!
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RT @JKRuffles: Brain tumour segmentation with incomplete imaging data - out now in @braincomms! 1) We offer a framework for tumour segment…
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RT @JKRuffles: Revealing the role of the right frontal lobe for fluid intelligence (problem solving). Delighted to share our new collabora…
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RT @McCarthy_Ronan: Delighted to share this work on the antimicrobial and antibiotic potentiating activity of artificial sweeteners against…
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RT @ukbiofilms: 🦠This #BiofilmWeek we’re highlighting exciting research across our partner institutions. 🎙Lyuboslava Harkova, @Bruneluni s…
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RT @npjDigitalMed: New article! Read Representational ethical model calibration in npj Digital Med
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It may be 2 years since I finished, but I finally had my PhD graduation ceremony and collected my bound thesis! @CMBI_Imperial @FillouxLab #OurImperial
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Fantastic plenary this morning by Elisa Granato @Prokaryota, throw back to my PhD work on bacterial warfare and T6SS 🧫 #FCOM22
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Had a great time in Belgrade so far at #FCOM22, thanks for my FEMS attendance grant @FEMSmicro! I have an e-poster #675 on plastic biodegradation by bacteria if you want to check it out on the online platform
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