Dr Eleanor Townsend and Dr Ellie Jameson are part of a documentary on the ‘Secret Science of Sewage', being aired on BBC TWO at 9pm on Thursday 18 March.

The researchers have been filmed collecting samples from Minworth Sewage works and characterising the phages they contain, as a possible solution in the fight against antimicrobial resistant bacteria. Dr Eleanor Townsend was filmed in the School of Life Sciences imaging suite, imaging the phages on the Transmission Electron Microscope. Dr Ellie Jameson had the opportunity to go back and discuss the results with Dr George McGavin at Minworth a week later.

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