Martin Vickers

Senior Scientist at the @JohnInnesCentre. Physics PhD, Remote Sensing MSc, CompSci BSc. #genomics #drones #phenotyping. In a past life I was a #sysadmin.

[James Walker @James_Walker303]

Grateful to have worked with a brilliant team!

Jingyi Zhang – Associate Professor, SCAU
Yalin Liu – Professor, SCAU
Shujuan, Yiming & Weizhi – Postdocs with @XiaoqiFeng_m , ISTA
@MartinjVickers – Senior Scientist, Informatics Platform, JIC
@talasjudit – Bioinformatician, QIB

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

@BioQliu @RoliRoberts @XiaoqiFeng_m This tweet has been living rent free in my head for almost a year!

[Rachel Wells @OilseedRachel]

Come join Team Brassica! Our awesome RA is going on maternity leave so we have a temporary vacancy.

https://t.co/S3IQb40Zsb

[Philip Carella @Phil_Carella]

Happy to share our study on the critical role of the lipopeptide syringomycin in promoting Pseudomonas syringae virulence across land plants. Project led by Kris Grenz and @Khongsam_Chia, @JohnInnesCentre and collaborators @AlexaTyszka & @evojfwalker https://t.co/TCbEVkvzD0

[CenGen @CenGenZA]

Excitement on Day 3 of The Veldkos|Field food DNA project at @CenGenZA using Quast and Busco on their plant genome assembly under the guidance of @steuernb @MartinjVickers

[CenGen @CenGenZA]

Grade 11 learners from the Cape Winelands Education district were the first learners ever to sequence a plant genome in South Africa. The JIC Informatics team are now teaching them how to assemble this ONT generated sequence data here at CenGen.

[Michael Bevan @michaelbevan565]

Modulation of WUSCHEL protein levels by DA1 peptidase activity influences shoot apical meristem size
@JohnInnesCentre @CepamsGenius

https://t.co/bCY6eSpQrS

[Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social @RolandDunbrack]

Demis -- I think AlphaFold3 is really exciting. As Reviewer #3, I got great results from the server. I tried hard to get @Nature to urge you to release the code but was unsuccessful. I did not get it for re-review so I don't know if you responded. So why no code? @GoogleDeepMind

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

@rsmck Oh and I do agree with your central point, stability. Mine has been rock solid!

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

@rsmck Wow 104 days! I've got servers running for that kind of number but never a laptop. I have an M2 Air for work, but it's managed by out IT dept, so it forces updates which often restart my machine. Do you not update as often?

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

@dgonzales1990 I had this issue as a student at UCL. I kept getting emails like “gone home and left the XYZ machine on, can you turn it off when it’s finished b4 you leave for the weekend”. It freaked me out that if I didn’t forward the emails on, the building would catch fire or something!

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

@lauriewired I remember in ~2013 being forwarded an email advertising a "supercomputer" - going free to a good home ... it was an SGI Altix 3700 that had something like 80cores 40GB RAM across three racks. While at the time we easily had 2U servers with 32cores and 256GB RAM.

[Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social @samtmugford]

TWO post doc positions available in @SaskiaHogenhout 's lab @JohnInnesCentre - come and join the greatest team
https://t.co/xZPmoO1Gjg
https://t.co/sEk5leALxZ

[KhongSam Chia @Khongsam_Chia]

1. We're thrilled to announce our paper on the evolution of plant NLR immune receptors has found a home at @ThePlantCell ! https://t.co/Ese3qkEiQR🎉 This work builds on our original preprint, which you can check out here:

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

Happy #Friday everyone! If you’re working as a #devops, #sysadmin a #coder, @ResearchSoftEng or the person everyone comes to see to solve their IT issues. There is still time to apply for our team @JohnInnesCentre. Applications close this Sunday https://t.co/ZVoIehO57E

[Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social @samtmugford]

Well this is amazing. Very honoured. Huge thanks to @BiochemSoc and all at @JohnInnesCentre who put me forward for this, esp @SaskiaHogenhout

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

@powerfulweak @sortedfood An American friend of mine introduced me to Peanut butter on toast, topped with cucumber. I have zero idea why it works, but I love it, and it makes me love cucumber more! :-)

[Martin Vickers @MartinjVickers]

#Norwich is great for #Bioinformatics. There are four world class institutions (@JohnInnesCentre @TheQuadram @EarlhamInst @TheSainsburyLab) and a University (@uniofeastanglia) all situated around the @NorwichResearch. Come join our team! https://t.co/VGDE1K4Asl

[John Innes Centre @JohnInnesCentre]

VACANCY - We're seeking a Senior Bioinformatician to provide excellent support in both bioinformatics and scientific computing

https://t.co/cf9ZBkGVr6

Closing date - 22 February 2024
Salary - £43,550 - £54,900
Contract - Indefinite, full-time

[Tung Le @Tung_BK_Le]

Come and join us in Norwich, the California of the UK (not kidding 😀)!!!