Courtney Mattson

UC Davis microbiology PhD student || UMBC biology/environmental science alum || she/her

[Courtney Mattson @CMattson_]

Got around to making an academic twitter account!
I am a PhD student in the microbiology graduate group at UC Davis.
Wanted to pin my 1st publication - the product of undergrad research at UMBC on sexual selection in darters published earlier this year 🤓🐠

[Dr. Alonna Wright @lonna_wright]

Question for #phage twitter - what #prophage identifying tools are currently the best/standard for #metagenomics? I'm not seeing a clear answer when sifting through the literature. Any advice? cc: @phylogenomics

[Courtney Mattson @CMattson_]

@lonna_wright @shrutip129 @pollenmicrobes @phylogenomics sure! Good luck!

[Courtney Mattson @CMattson_]

@shrutip129 @lonna_wright @pollenmicrobes @phylogenomics Hah so this was one of my rotation projects. unfortunately I didn’t specify prophages but I can comment that of VirSorter vs DeepVirFinder vs VIBRANT, VIBRANT was best at identifying viruses (true positives) and VirSorter was best at excluding plasmid sequences (true negatives)

[Omar Jimenez @OmarJimenez]

BREAKING: Derek Chauvin has been convicted on ALL charges in the killing of George Floyd. #DerekChauvin #GeorgeFloyd

[Courtney Mattson @CMattson_]

@UMBCBiology @UMBCPhageHunter @UABBarcelona @ErillLab @StevenMCaruso 🤓🥳 whoo! let’s go UMBC phage hunters!

[UMBC Biology @UMBCBiology]

Featuring two @UMBCPhageHunter students (@CMattson_), Júlia López-Pérez (@UABBarcelona), @ErillLab, and @StevenMCaruso.

[UMBC Phage Hunters @UMBCPhageHunter]

Congratulations to former @UMBC #PhageHunters @CMattson_ and Matt Koert of @UMBCBiology on their co-authorship: Evidence for shared ancestry between Actinobacteria and Firmicutes bacteriophages. recommended by @PCIgenomics. #SEAPHAGES See https://t.co/YldeJGgogH

[Courtney Mattson @CMattson_]

@TheWanKasia Thank you! I haven’t joined a dissertation lab yet, but I’m really interested in phages!