We asked our undergraduate intern student Harry Riley about his experiences working with the VIRAQUA team:

“I’ve had a really good time working on the VIRAQUA project over the past month, it’s given me great experience in lab and field …

The use of coliphage (viruses that infect E. coli bacteria) is becoming widely accepted as a suitable indicator of enteric virus contamination in environmental samples including water and bivalve shellfish. Cefas use coliphage as a surrogate for norovirus infectivity, and …

VIRAQUA participated in the Bangor Science Festival on March 11th 2017, hosted by Bangor University as part of British Science Week.  We had several ‘hands on’ activities on offer including pathogen painting and bugs in bivalves which we used to …

We are delighted to announce that our M-degree student has passed with DISTINCTION!  Vanessa Kienmoser joined the VIRAQUA team in September 2016 for her M- degree research project, focusing on the quantification of, and optimal extraction method for enteric viruses …

The second paper to be publish from the VIRAQUA project has been published and is now available to download (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12560-017-9293-5).  In this study, the authors developed and validated two multiplex qRT-PCR assays for aquatic sediment and shellfish samples …

A collaborative paper, co-authored by Davey Jones, Shelagh Malham and others from Bangor University, Liverpool University, Natural Resources Wales and Bangor Mussel Producers Ltd. reviewing the risk of norovirus infection from the consumption of shellfish had been published in Food …

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Last week, members of the Viraqua Project headed down to Bristol’s Watershed for the Inaugural meeting of the Environmental Microbiology and Human Health (EMHH) Programme Integration Group (PIG).

The EMHH Programme incorporates; the VIRAQUA project (tracing enteric viruses through the …

Bangor University has just held its inaugural Research Excellence Awards celebrating the high standard of research at the University.

The Viraqua project were very proud to see Dr James McDonald awarded the Rising Star Award. “This Award celebrates an academic …

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