Anne joined us to talk about her incredible research career and her experience of returning to research after an 8 year break, through the Janet Thornton fellowship. She also shares incredible insights into life with twins and the balance she has found.
Here are some resources that you might find useful after listening to our conversation with Anne:
Returning to Research
The Janet Thornton Fellowship, facilitating a return to research for people who took a career break of a year or more for family, health or caring
reasons:
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/equality-in-science/janet-thornton-fellowship/
The Daphne Jackson Fellowship, which is a national University-based scheme that, like the Wellcome Sanger Institute Janet Thornton Fellowship, offers opportunities to return to research after a career break (of at least two years in this case) again for family, health or caring reasons.
https://daphnejackson.org/about-fellowships/
Literature
Anne's only microbial genomics paper so far supported by other members of Gordon Dougan's lab and colleagues at the Wellcome Genome Campus at the time, as well as Salmonella strains provided by Jeremy Farrar when he was in Vietnam and lots of Southern blots by a talented undergraduate project student Sara Jenks, who went on to study medicine:
https://jb.asm.org/content/187/7/2469.long
Putting Salmonella onto Anne's precious tissue culture cells resulted in this publication comparing adhesive properties of Salmonella enterica subspecies I Typhi, the causative agent of typhoid, and Salmonella enterica subspecies I Typhimurium, which causes gastroenteritis in immun-competent humans:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18599820/
Anne's research into in vitro phenotypes of Citrobacter rodentium from mouse stool, which was a joyful collaboration with Dr Siouxsie Wiles in Gad
Frankel's lab:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457907002286?via%3Dihub
Anne's work in the Camilli lab in the USA on Vibrio cholerae outer-membrane vesicles as a cholera vaccine tested in mice, in collaboration with Dr Stefan Schild and wonderful colleagues at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh where she spent a month working with rice water stool from patients:
https://iai.asm.org/content/78/10/4402.abstract
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3256948/
Anne's foray into immunology in the infant mouse model, work carried out with support from a talented technician Bharathi Patimalla:
https://iai.asm.org/content/82/6/2434.short
Multiples
Advice for people with multiples - Anne recommends finding a local Club for peer support, some of which are listed by the National Charity Twins Trust, which has loads of brilliant resources:
If you have premature births or sick children the charity Bliss is an amazing support:
Music: 'Lion' by Sapajou
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