Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!

See Results

*** First scientific paper now out in eLife! https://bit.ly/3LyA60U. Click 'Results' then 'About' ***

The Team

BashTheBug

BashTheBug is the name of the project and isn't a person but it does have its own Twitter account and blog - please check them out.

CRyPTIC team

Philip Fowler is a computational biophysicist and is the lead CRyPTIC researcher working on BashTheBug. He developed, wrote and tested the code that processes the photographs of the plates. Twitter


Derrick Crook is the principal investigator of the CRyPTIC project and leads the Modernising Medical Microbiology group based at the University of Oxford.


Sarah Hoosdally is the CRyPTIC project manager.


Carla Wright is the Bash The Bug project coordinator


Ana Gibertoni Cruz is the CRyPTIC clinical research fellow.

For a complete list of all the laboratories participating in the CRyPTIC project, please follow this link.

Zooniverse team


Helen Spiers is the Zooniverse medical research postdoctoral researcher.


Roger Hutchings builds the front end interfaces for the Zooniverse.

A complete list of the Zooniverse team can be found here