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Overview

Roger W. Pickup is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including infectious diseases, nutrition and dietetics, applied microbiology and biotechnology, food science, and epidemiology.

The scientist's recent work covers a variety of topics such as child nutrition and water access, antibiotic use and resistance, environmental education and sustainability, sustainability in higher education, leptospirosis research and findings, viral infections and vectors, and infection control in healthcare.

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Emmanuel Tsekleves, Kirk T. Semple, Manoj Roy, Dziedzom de Souza, and Collins Ahorlu.

Several publication venues have featured their work, with multiple articles appearing in the Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development and the Journal of Microbiological Methods, as well as contributions to Frontiers in Public Health, Scientific Reports, and Microorganisms.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Roger W. Pickup include:

  • Community engagement in water, sanitation and hygiene in sub-Saharan Africa: does it WASH?, 2022, Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
  • Disentangling the influence of reservoir abundance and pathogen shedding on zoonotic spillover of the Leptospira agent in urban informal settlements, 2024, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Developing home cleaning intervention through community engagement to reduce infections and antimicrobial resistance in Ghanaian homes, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Conducting and Applying Design Research beyond Global North to the Global South, 2020, Proceedings of DRS
  • Effect of the Inoculum-to-Substrate Ratio on Putative Pathogens and Microbial Kinetics during the Batch Anaerobic Digestion of Simulated Food Waste, 2024, Microorganisms

Best Publications

  • Microbial Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology: A Decade of Ribosomal RNA Analysis of Uncultivated Microorganisms

    I.M. Head;J.R. Saunders;Roger W. Pickup

  • Isolation and identification of methanogen-specific DNA from blanket bog peat by PCR amplification and sequence analysis.

    B A Hales;C Edwards;D A Ritchie;G Hall

  • Distribution of Oxytetracycline Resistance Plasmids between Aeromonads in Hospital and Aquaculture Environments: Implication of Tn1721 in Dissemination of the Tetracycline Resistance Determinant Tet A

    Glenn Rhodes;Geert Huys;Jean Swings;Patrick Mcgann

  • Detection and Verification of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Fresh Ileocolonic Mucosal Biopsy Specimens from Individuals with and without Crohn's Disease

    Tim J. Bull;Elizabeth J. McMinn;Karim Sidi-Boumedine;Angela Skull

  • Inter-disciplinary perspectives on processes in the hyporheic zone

    Stefan Krause;David M. Hannah;Jan Fleckenstein;C. H. Heppell

  • Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the Catchment Area and Water of the River Taff in South Wales, United Kingdom, and Its Potential Relationship to Clustering of Crohn's Disease Cases in the City of Cardiff

    R. W. Pickup;G. Rhodes;S. Arnott;K. Sidi-Boumedine

  • Amplification of 16S ribosomal RNA genes of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria demonstrates the ubiquity of nitrosospiras in the environment.

    William D. Hiorns;Richard C. Hastings;Ian M. Head;Alan J. McCarthy

  • The British river of the future: How climate change and human activity might affect two contrasting river ecosystems in England

    Andrew C. Johnson;Mike C. Acreman;Michael J. Dunbar;Stephen W. Feist

  • Development of molecular methods for the detection of specific bacteria in the environment

    R. W. Pickup

  • Mosaic plasmids and mosaic replicons: evolutionary lessons from the analysis of genetic diversity in IncFII-related replicons.

    A. Mark Osborn;Fernanda M. da Silva Tatley;Fernanda M. da Silva Tatley;Lafras M. Steyn;Roger W. Pickup

  • Honeybee nutrition is linked to landscape composition

    Philip Donkersley;Glenn Rhodes;Roger W. Pickup;Kevin C. Jones

  • Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU) differentiate Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis from other species of the Mycobacterium avium complex

    T.J Bull;K Sidi-Boumedine;E.J McMinn;K Stevenson

  • Fluorescent probes and flow cytometry: new insights into environmental bacteriology.

    Jonathan Porter;Daniel Deere;Roger Pickup;Clive Edwards

  • Go with the flow – use of flow cytometry in environmental microbiology

    Jonathan Porter;Daniel Deere;Melanie Hardman;Clive Edwards

  • Rapid assessment of physiological status in Escherichia coli using fluorescent probes

    J. Porter;C. Edwards;R.W. Pickup

  • Rapid, automated separation of specific bacteria from lake water and sewage by flow cytometry and cell sorting.

    J. Porter;C. Edwards;J. A. W. Morgan;R. W. Pickup

  • Survival of nonculturable Aeromonas salmonicida in lake water.

    J. A. W. Morgan;G. Rhodes;R. W. Pickup

  • Methane oxidation potential and preliminary analysis of methanotrophs in blanket bog peat using molecular ecology techniques

    Ian R. McDonald;Graham H. Hall;Roger W. Pickup;J. Colin Murrell

  • Antibiotic resistant bacteria in Windermere and two remote upland tarns in the English Lake District

    J. G. Jones;S. Gardener;B. M. Simon;R. W. Pickup

  • Nutritional composition of honey bee food stores vary with floral composition

    Philip Donkersley;Glenn Rhodes;Roger W. Pickup;Kevin C. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon R. Saunders
Jon R. Saunders University of Liverpool
Craig Winstanley
Craig Winstanley University of Liverpool
Ian M. Head
Ian M. Head Newcastle University
Jonathan M. Wastling
Jonathan M. Wastling Keele University
Robert M. Christley
Robert M. Christley University of Liverpool
Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
Kenneth Wilson
Kenneth Wilson Lancaster University
Jean Swings
Jean Swings Ghent University
Geert Huys
Geert Huys KU Leuven
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University

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