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Microbiologist & Biochemist, Assistant Professor @ucsfmicrobiome @UCSF_EXP. I love it when microbes talk and I get to listen. Opinions my own. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cN8S9aIAAAAJ&hl=en
#newPI What do you do when references of applicants to your lab don’t respond to your multiple requests to meet to discuss the candidate? How often do you contact them? What do you do when they don’t respond? When do you give up? Trying to figure out a fair way to deal with this.
#newPI What do you do when references of applicants to your lab don’t respond to your multiple requests to meet to discuss the candidate? How often do you contact them? What do you do when they don’t respond? When do you give up? Trying to figure out a fair way to deal with this.
Anyone know how you can automatically follow back everyone that’s following you?
🚨The Zlitni is recruiting 2 Research Specialists! Join us to work on innovative projects focused on microbial communication in the human microbiome. If you're passionate about microbiome research and ready to contribute to a dynamic team, apply now! Please share widely (1/4)
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📢The Zlitni Lab at UCSF is recruiting postdocs (experimental and computational) to join our team. We study microbial communication & quorum sensing in the human microbiome, and how these processes influence health and disease. To apply shorturl.at/erriN Please share widely!
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📢The Zlitni Lab at UCSF is recruiting postdocs (experimental and computational) to join our team. We study microbial communication & quorum sensing in the human microbiome, and how these processes influence health and disease. To apply shorturl.at/erriN Please share widely!
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Our review - Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces - is now online Thanks to coauthors @jonathanparra.bsky.social @ainsleybeaton1 @ryanfseipke @barriewilksjic @matthutchings.bsky.social and editors Toni Gabaldón & Luiz Carvalho for the invitation
Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces
Throughout the golden age of antibiotic discovery, Streptomyces have been unsurpassed for their ability to produce bioactive metabolites. Yet, this su…
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Justin Nodwell “Our first chunk of work on the packaging of antimicrobial specialized metabolites into vesicles - stellar work by Kirstin Meyer.’ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Streptomyces extracellular vesicles are a broad and permissive antimicrobial packaging and delivery ...
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Incredible 🧵 on the effects of predatory publishing on the overall scientific publishing market. Worth reading all 33 posts and the article linked below
Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 3y agoThe strain on scientific publishing 📄: We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!? See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 A 🧵1/n #AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat
The goal of the mentor should be for their scientist-in-training to supersede them in achievements, by providing them with even more opportunities and support than they ever had.
“A caring supervisor not only nurtures their students’ development but also provides guidance and mentorship to help them effectively communicate their work with their intended audience. Publishing our work is not just a choice; it is our responsibility as scientists.”
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 3y agoI just published: People, not papers? A good mentor guides students to publish their work #AcademicSky link.medium.com/9a2WGeSsfDb
BIG NEWS! We are thrilled to share the news that Primordium Labs and plasmidsaurus have joined forces, forming a single company with a unified mission of accelerating scientific discovery through innovations in DNA sequencing!
Amazing work! Functional genomics of phages! Congratulations 🎊
Ben Adler@benadler.bsky.social · 3y agoI’m really excited to share our new pre-print “Genome-wide Characterization of Diverse Bacteriophages Enabled by RNA-Binding CRISPRi”, with co-first author Muntathar Al-Shimary from the Doudna and the newly-minted Cress labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I'm excited to share our most theoretical work yet, led by 3rd year PhD student Paul Torrillo. We revisit the old observation that dN/dS depends on the distance between compared sequences. We arrive at a radically different conclusion than current prevailing theory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our review on #microbiome engineering is out! We chart the history of bacterial genetics & the challenges when applying tools designed for E. coli to microbiomes (hint: not effective). Kudos to co-authors Christian Kirk (phd student) & Ruth Ley (uber boss) 🧪🧬 www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/...
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Have been home for a few days now, but my mind is still very much in Porto and the 6th International Conference on Enterococci (#ICE6). A great event for a wonderful community.
When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?
A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.
Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more Canada: there's a hockey stick in this beaver dam.
This is a game changer for having a more active feed.
Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com · 3y agoSomeone told me that this app may seem very empty because of this default setting that requires replies to have 2 likes or more before they show up. Indeed! I changed it so that all replies show up, and suddenly the place seems much more lively. I highly recommend changing it in your settings.
Evergreen 🌲 advice: “Have you done a growth curve?” In all of life, timing is everything
I made a feed for the papers I find. You can also use #jcampubs bsky.app/profile/did:...
Agree with @contaminatedsci.bsky.social here-- it's like #microbiome enterotypes got a much needed upgrade (more rooted in function)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Enterosignatures define common bacterial guilds in the human gut microbiome
The human gut microbiome composition is generally in a stable dynamic equilibrium, but it can deteriorate into dysbiotic states detrimental to host he…
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Tami Lieberman@contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 3y agoAdding some content here: A favorite paper from this summer introduced the concept of 'enterosignatures' in the gut microbiome. Perhaps expected, but very nice to see and more grounded than enterotypes. Non-negative matrix factorization for the win. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Thank you to all who followed.. please send me your recommendations for science friends to follow
