Communicating a pandemic

Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles

Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab

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*Gross misrepresentation of the fungi in the ICMP… *Hopefully not just

penicillin again and again…

Brent CoppBevan Weir

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08 Dec 2004 10:16:24

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What makes a microbe infectious?

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Science/research doesn’t end with a journal publication…

Scientist-communicatorImage credit:AM Show

http://youtu.be/UUUytRoI-5g

And then the pandemic arrived…

Scientist-communicator

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Toby Morris(@XTOTL)

How we science!

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