Xabier Vázquez-Campos

Nearly-dry wet-lab microbiologist 😅

Biologist, (env.) microbiologist, bioinformatician. #Firstgen.

Now in Bluesky: @XabiVC.bsky.social

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

Quite the journey @MIriam__KRO !!

"Evidence for a Putative Isoprene Reductase in Acetobacterium wieringae"
@parrotalker @MikeManefield

See thread for 3 key interesting points (1/4🧵)

https://t.co/H4V14z6UlV

[Belinda Ferrari @ferrari_belinda]

The first of many novel Antarctic fungi to be described by the #Ferrarilab in collab with Brett Summerell and @BotanicSydney @AlintaFurnell @XabiVC @jordan_vink marcwilkins Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarc fungus https://t.co/34Qr67fpOR

[Liam Revell @phytools_liam]

I was asked to contribute an entry on 'Ancestral Reconstruction: Theory & Practice" for the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2nd Edition. The encyclopedia doesn't come out until next year, but my contribution is already available online: https://t.co/nyNIfWukXn.

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

@ATinyGreenCell Cool thread! Have you tried added nanoparticles? e.g. Au-NP and MgO-NP have been shown to improve PCR results in general, including for high GC templates.
https://t.co/0g3IybxE6c

prob still too much into the "exotic" isle of PCR reagents...

[Moisès Bernabeu @moigilbernabeu]

If you are interested in collapsing nodes of a phylogeny, but you, as I did, struggle doing it with ggtree, I programmed a ggtree extension that allows you to easily collapse the nodes you want. 🧵️

https://t.co/mniUua4bnV

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

@CindyAGunawan @KevinYonathan14 @raymahbub @drritimann @AIMI_UTS @arc_gov_au @Science_Academy Congratulations @KevinYonathan14

[Elana Simon @ElanaPearl]

🧬What are protein language models (PLMs) actually learning about biology? Our paper introduces InterPLM - a framework that reveals interpretable features in PLMs using sparse autoencoders, giving us a window into how these models represent protein structure and function.
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[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

.@meltzer_julia

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

.@meltzer_julia @ferrari_belinda

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Nom nom viruses.

Coastal bacteria and protists assimilate viral carbon and nitrogen https://t.co/d4b6QNAjLg

[Claudia Coleine @ClaudiaColeine]

"Had an amazing day with the @ferrari_belinda group at @UNSWBABS! We talked about so many exciting things to do together in the future. Can’t wait to see what’s next! #antarctica #Networking #blackfungi #Collaboration #extremeenvironments

[Dr Angelique Ray @Ray_AngeliqueE]

The #FerrariLab had a great time attending and presenting at #JAMS13 last Friday. Thanks to the wonderful @jamsorgau for their hard work organising this #microbiology conference at the #GroundsofAlexandria

[Bacille Diderm Beaud @BasileBeaud]

Happy to share a chapter of my PhD thesis🐣! We review the diversity of the cell envelope in Terrabacteria which tell us a lot about outer membrane biogenesis and the diderm-to-monoderm transition. Thanks to my co-authors Najwa Taib @ChrisBel70 @SGribaldo
https://t.co/Drk8a90KKn

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

.@meltzer_julia

[Jake Elder @Jake_Elder52]

I really like this. I’m decent at Python but R is still the language I feel most comfortable with, so this made some concepts a little more crystallized for me via analogy to R. I think it’s a great resource for people who started with R
https://t.co/LIQiu8Jrt9

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

@ENASequence at least 2 independent users have flagged issues with "submittable" taxa according to the REST API, being "not submittable" by webin-cli when submitting genomes - with no response to support tickets
Could you provide any feedback on this?
https://t.co/SiDOxpXaxb

[Burns_Brendan @BurnsBrendan2]

latest group shot of @TheBurnsLab as 2024 hurtles along....lucky to have this amazing crew @UNSWBABS continuing to rock the cradle of life on all things #stromatolites #asgard #archaea ⚔️🧬🦠 @XabiVC @laurene_leclerc @meltzer_julia @marilysyrmalis

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

@ARB_SILVA is the next release still planned for Q12024?

[ARB & SILVA @ARB_SILVA]

We have posted a statement about the current situation of SILVA as well as the hardware issues we are currently facing: https://t.co/dA8NTc30NF

We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope to be back soon with the reliable service you are used from us! - The SILVA team

[elevyLab @ElevyLab]

⚛️Protein structures are key to elucidating molecular details of cellular processes. #AlphaFold2 & others unveiled millions of tertiary structures, but these proteins' quaternary structures remain mostly a mystery. Here's how to bridge the gap. Thread👇 https://t.co/pdXzNKdxxB

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

Final version now out

[Journal of Biological Chemistry @jbiolchem]

New in JBC press: "Scientists' findings demonstrate how protein methyltransferases can be highly selective towards a single residue on a single protein in the cell."
Learn more:
https://t.co/BAUB6PXeef

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

New year, new paper: "Methylation of elongation factor 1A by yeast Efm4 or human eEF1A-KMT2 involves a beta-hairpin recognition motif and crosstalks with phosphorylation" in @jbiolchem
https://t.co/Ji9BPjZPMj

[Xabier Vázquez-Campos @XabiVC]

@microbe_article .@CindyAGunawan