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Professor at the University of South Florida. Marine microbiology and virology, with a smattering of eukaryotes here and there because focus is for losers. Characterizing the global virome, one virus at a time. Owned by a very cute dog and cat. She/her
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Anyone in the Boston area looking for a lab tech? I've got a ✨stellar✨ undergrad who graduated & is looking for a lab position (industry or academia). Strong background in microbio, molecular & cell bio. Was in my lab for 3yrs, including 2 summers, and did an REU and an internship. 1/2
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Everywhere you go without wearing an n95 is a place you’ve decided disabled people don’t belong. Masks don’t mean giving up your life. Failing to mask means forcing that on disabled folks. “But in a mask it’s hard to—“ Yup. So join the fight for disability justice, better tools, a better world.
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Getting the wet lab on the R/V Pisces set up for two weeks of sampling in the Gulf of Mexico #fieldwork 🧪🦑🧫
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Elmo was cracking me up on set when we shot this video. Me: mucous can seem kinda gross Elmo: no no. Mucous doesn’t SEEM gross, it IS gross I had so much fun sharing Jersey shore wildlife with these kids! Check it out! youtu.be/NNItHwcj2no?si…
Sesame Street: Elmo and Kids Meet a Marine Biologist featuring @hihokidsyoutu.be Let's take a dive into the wonderful world of the ocean! Elmo and his friends from HiHo Kids meet a Marine Biologist who studies animals that live in the sea...
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Grim #DailyPaper shows how much the geosciences have failed to attract first gen students. HT @cychen.bsky.social on the other side The figure on first gen representation in geo vs other physical sciences is particularly rough...
Extreme underrepresentation of first-generation college students in the geosciences: An intersectional issue: Journal of Geoscience Education: Vol 72, No 1www.tandfonline.com We’re here to help
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We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!
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Going from PhD to independent postdoc has been hard, and switching bacteria didn't make it easier. Especially when I found out that my A. baumannii (5075) has/had no available phage. But, that meant I had a gap to fill! And that's resulted in this work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Environmental differences impact Acinetobacter baumannii phage isolation and infectivitywww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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Apply for a Radcliffe Fellowship! Deadline for humanities, social sciences, & creative arts is Sept 12 2024 & for science, engineering, & math is Oct 3, 2024. They welcome all areas, but are particularly interested in projects on climate change. #philsci #histsci 🧪⚒️ #BlackInSTEM #IndigenousInSTEM 👩🏻‍🔬🗃
Become a Radcliffe Fellow | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Universitywww.radcliffe.harvard.edu Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world.
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VirID: Beyond Virus Discovery - An Integrated Platform for Comprehensive RNA Virus Characterization http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.07.05.602175v1
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PhD position at Wageningen University supervised by me and Hilje Doekes. You will combine bioinformatics and modelling to untangle the drivers of phage diversity across space and time - www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #PhDposition #phage #bioinformatics #modelling
PhD position in spatiotemporal diversity of phageswww.wur.nl
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Side of viruses with that? artologica.etsy.com/listing/1729... 🧪🐡🦠
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Looking to hire a post-doc interested in disease ecology/evolution, population genetics, and biodiversity. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining the King Lab! zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/
Home | King Labzoology.ubc.ca Welcome to the King Lab! We investigate the evolution and ecology of host-pathogen interactions in the lab and the wild.
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Large-scale single-virus genomics uncovers hidden diversity of river water viruses and diversified gene profiles academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs
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Space, the final frontier: The spatial component of phytoplankton–bacterial interactions #MolMicrobiol Review by Clara Martínez-Pérez et al with Roman Stocker Lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It was a privilege to work with @markabelan.bsky.social on an infographic that summarizes the role of microbes in methane cycling, both cells that make or break methane. We have English, German and Spanish versions! Use widely and freely :)
NEW PIECE: The Microbial Role of Climate Change Check out this infographic I made with @environmicrobio.bsky.social that introduces this unique intersection between methane, microbes, and climate change!
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What additional tweaks can NSF make to the GRFP program to improve equity and access? How can we improve it without entirely tearing it down and rebuilding it from scratch? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
How to further improve the NSF graduate fellowship program?open.substack.com Small tweaks have targeted equity and access, but what bigger changes might work?
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Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476
Assistant Professor - Global Change Biology- Department of Integrative Biologyaprecruit.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states. here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:
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Are you interested in mutualisms? Have you always wondered how these cooperative interactions emerge and coevolve? If the answer to these questions is YES, then please consider joining my vibrant group as a PhD student. Please RT. More details👇 shorturl.at/5ZP7R
142 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) - Universität Osnabrückshorturl.at
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journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... "Interestingly, several antihistamine drugs, including clemastine, astemizole, azelastine, brompheniramine, and ebastine, which have been approved for treating allergy symptoms without side effects for decades, have been found to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection..."
The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2 | mBiojournals.asm.org In addition to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can utilize alternative cofactors to facilitate viral entry. In this study, we discov...
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Please share: competitively funded PhD open to international students. Working on multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens, microbiomes, and infection models 🦠 at Queen’s University Belfast with myself, Miguel Valvano & Rebecca Ingram: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How do multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens successfully spread? at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.comwww.findaphd.com PhD Project - How do multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens successfully spread? at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com
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