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Andy Millard

Associate Professor in Bacteriophage Bioinformatics at University of Leicester; Co-Director of Becky Mayer Centre for Phage Research; expert in phage-host interactions and antimicrobial resistance.

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Jun 22, 2026

The friendly virus

Jun 22 · 26m

Marnie ChestertonHOST

7:00

In the lab next door, Professor Martha Clokie and co-director of the project, Dr. Andy Millard, showed me what was in store for my sample as they process from poo to DNA sequence

Andy MillardGUEST

7:11

So you can see here, this is a lawn.

Andy MillardGUEST

7:14

So it looks slightly yellow in color.

Andy MillardGUEST

7:16

We take a spot, so a small drop of that, and we spot it on top to quickly screen to see whether or not there is any viruses present.

Andy MillardGUEST

7:25

And if there are, you can see we start to get clearing in the middle.

19 MINS LATER

Marnie ChestertonHOST

26:34

So Andy, you see with the ecosystem developing, it's gonna be natural phages first and then synthetic phages as a later stage?

Andy MillardGUEST

26:41

Yeah, I think so.

Andy MillardGUEST

26:42

I think it's gonna be really important that we understand the biology of the huge diversity of phages that we... that are natural phages to start with.