OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Nicole and colleagues have recently developed a diagnostic platform based on fluorescent sample labelling, optical detection, and machine learning classification of viruses. Results can be obtained within a couple of minutes and we have been able to differentiate SARS-CoV-2 from negative clinical samples, as well as from other common respiratory pathogens such as influenza and seasonal human coronaviruses, with high accuracy.
Nicole Robb is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick Medical School, a visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford Physics Department and a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. Her current research interests include using biophysical techniques to study viral replication and development of rapid pathogen diagnostics. She is co-founder of a spinout company that is working on rapid viral testing and is PhD Course Director of the University of Warwick’s Institute for Global Pandemic Planning (IGPP).
