Alejandra Díaz

@alejandradiag.bsky.social

From 🇪🇸, PhD student at University of Glasgow🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 studying Streptomyces spp. interactions in soil🌱🦠. Bioinformatics & Biostatistics MSc University of Barcelona. https://www.linkedin.com/in/diag-alexandra

And with this last submission... All the hard work for my master's on Bioinformatics and Statistics is completed! All I have left is the viva! Working on my master's and PhD at the same time has been quite a challenge, but I can say I have survived the experience!

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We're looking up instead of down for April's Microbe of the Month. Niallia tiangongensis was isolated 400 km above Earth on the the surface hardware of the Chinese space station. Read about this discovery and other novel microbes in #IJSEM by clicking the link in our bio 🌍

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SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts

A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.

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Almost 8 years after starting this project finally happy to share the main research from my PhD! Couldn't have done it without the amazing help from @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social! We untangled a fascinating new redox sensor with the most extraordinary growth phenotype (I'm biased) in Streptomyces!

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Matt Hutchings@matthutchings.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to share this work led by @tommclean.bsky.social and @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social. The conserved Streptomyces sensor kinase CutS senses disulphide bond formation outside the cell. If it fails CutS activates CutR which switches on production of foldase HtrA3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The effect of combination of root exudates substances on stimulation of Bacillus spores' germination Microbiological Research from Zhihui Xu (Nanjing Agrticultural University) "L-valine, β-alanine, xylose, glucose, and asparagine as key germination-inducing" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The effect of combination of root exudates substances on stimulation of Bacillus spores' germination

Root exudates play a crucial role in the rhizosphere by influencing the growth and activity of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), such as Ba…

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