Video, 3 mins
How Urban Flooding Can Spread Harmful Bacteria and Viruses
Former visitor Dr Sophie Scutt talks about how Illumina sequencing of eDNA in water samples can monitor the unseen disease risk of flooding and how the NEOF Visitor Facility team supported her work.
10 Aug 2026 10:00
Sophie was trained in lab techniques by the NEOF team during her PhD research.
Here she describes how this training enabled her to study the impact of urban flooding on the risk of harmful microorganisms (bacteria and viruses) spreading in the environment.
Credits
- Interviewee: Dr Sophie Scutt (Asset Integrity Coordinator at Geoquip Marine)
- Filming and Production: Laure Divisia-Astill (Photographer)
- Director: Dr Deborah Dawson (Research Associate at the University of Sheffield)