Aleksandra Kushnareva

PhD at @Saar_Uni | Member of @gurevichlab group at @Helmholtz_HIPS | Microbial genome mining, (phylo/meta)genomics #bioinformatics #naturalproductdiscovery

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

And today was the final day of the conference. Overall, that was a very cool experience!

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

I'm off to Würzburg for the "5th European Conference on Natural Products" today. That's a great opportunity to dive into topics like synthetic biology, #naturalproducts discovery, and chemical biology. Stay tuned 🦠🌿🧫

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

Day 2 was packed with fascinating lectures! We learned about BGCs from ancient microbiomes, the role of symbiotic systems in novel metabolite discovery, the CluSeek tool for finding new gene clusters in GenBank, and how unused metabolomics data can be repurposed!

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

Today was the first day of #FYORD_Summerschool organised by @GEOMAR_de/@kielunimarine postdoctoral researchers from marine science. That's an amazing opportunity to learn more about the research projects in the area of marine biology and beyond, as well as to explore Kiel 🌊

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

Khalimat Murtazalieva (@emblebi) and colleagues have discovered 145 #phage anti-defence systems (ADSs) that counteract 27 of the 152 known bacterial defence families. They discuss high-throughput approaches which are indispensable for discovering new ADSs
https://t.co/4W8TYs0jiQ

[BeemelmannsLab @CBeemelmanns]

Talk of our citizens science project @microbelix_de at @Helmholtz_HIPS .. about the taxonomic, genomic, and metabolic treasure troove of Mycobacteria.

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

This work means a lot because that's my first time as a co-author! Enjoyed contributing to this research :)

[Human-Microbe Systems Bioinformatics @gurevichlab]

Our first project featuring the whole team is now available as a preprint on @biorxivpreprint!
Introducing the ABC-HuMi database, a collection of BGCs encoding specialized metabolites in the human microbiome.
Check it out here: https://t.co/jtWkOSPFjQ

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

Greateful for this opportunity and looking forward to contributing to our research projects! 🦠

[Human-Microbe Systems Bioinformatics @gurevichlab]

✨Today is a special day as @AlexKushnareva officially joins the HMSB group as a PhD student. Congratulations and best wishes for this exciting new chapter in the research journey ahead! 🧬💻

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

Don't miss the poster of my colleague @ilianolhin!

[Human-Microbe Systems Bioinformatics @gurevichlab]

Great news for #NaturalProducts researchers! 🌿💻 @ilianolhin is working on Nerpa-MS for mining your data. The tool combines genomics and MS/MS data with chemical structures of known compounds to discover rare NRP variants. Check #ISMBECCB2023 Poster 29 on Wed or DM for details

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

I am very excited to present my work at #ISMBECCB2023!

[Human-Microbe Systems Bioinformatics @gurevichlab]

Are you curious about the diversity of #NRPS A-domains? @AlexKushnareva will soon release ADD, a database of experimentally verified A-domains and a utility for benchmarking A-domain specificity predictors. Check out #ISMBECCB2023 Poster 197 on Wed or get in touch right here!

[Human-Microbe Systems Bioinformatics @gurevichlab]

This month our group celebrates its first anniversary!
The event program:
✅ Start a group Twitter account
✅ Attend the world's largest bioinformatics conference @iscb #ISMBECCB2023

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Computational biologists that run a wet lab

[Jill Banfield @BanfieldJill]

I repeat- I haven’t been this excited about a discovery since CRISPR. We found something enigmatic that, like CRISPR, is associated with microbial genomes. We have named these unique entities #BORGs

[Joint Genome Institute @jgi]

Read "Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA #viruses from the human gut #microbiome" in @NatureMicrobiol from team incl. Stephen Nayfach @kyrpides @DaviPaez @LBNLBioSci @BerkeleyLab, @PhilHugenholtz @HSberro
@mfgrp: https://t.co/dTbzt0d0UL

[Akos T. Kovacs @EvolvedBiofilm]

Behind the paper: Fungal-bacterial biofilm assembly

https://t.co/MaRrxswNpm

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

@randomdan1el Bioinformatics and functional genomics by Jonathan Pevsner.
It's pretty big and maybe a little bit old, but contains a lot of information for newbies + little tasks. Probably you could find it useful.

[Aleksandra Kushnareva @AlexKushnareva]

@MaureenBug A cute nudibranch just for you :)

[Microbiology Society @MicrobioSoc]

In this #MGen Method @saund_katie and @SnitkinLabWGS introduces hogwash, an open source R package that uses three methods for bacterial genome-wide association studies https://t.co/nuaVTNF3Z5