Collaboration during a crisis – the Lighthouse Lab volunteers

Fatima R. Ulhuq; Sophia K. Berry; Lucy Kelly; Ben Stansfield; Anna Deal; Harriet Lester

doi:10.1099/mic.0.000960

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Collaboration during a crisis – the Lighthouse Lab volunteers

Fatima R. Ulhuq¹, Sophia K. Berry², Lucy Kelly³, Ben Stansfield^4,5, Anna Deal⁶ and Harriet Lester⁷
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Affiliations: ¹ Microbes in Health and Disease Theme, Newcastle University Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK ² Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK ³ School of Life Sciences, Gibbet Hill Campus, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK ⁴ Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK ⁵ Department of Physiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA ⁶ Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK ⁷ Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
*Correspondence: Fatima R. Ulhuq, [email protected];[email protected]
Published: 28 July 2020 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000960

Abstract

As a group of early-career researchers, we recount our experiences of volunteering at one of the national Lighthouse Labs based at the UK Biocentre in Milton Keynes. We worked together as part of a multidisciplinary team to support the large-scale processing of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) swabs from across the whole of the UK.

Received: 13/07/2020
Accepted: 14/07/2020
Published Online: 28/07/2020

Keyword(s): collaboration , COVID-19 , Lighthouse Lab , pandemic , teamwork and volunteers

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.

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