Ole Andreas Økstad

Professor, Section for Pharmaceutical Biosciences (Microbiology), School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo.
Expressed views are strictly my own.

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation

@knutdrescher @sneakystaph @biozentrum

https://t.co/srnStUfhff

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

Extended abstract deadline (July 31) for Bacillus ACT 2024 (The International Conference on Bacillus anthracis, B. cereus & B. thuringiensis)

- 13th to 17th Oct 2024 in New Delhi, India

https://t.co/HHfZPc8T03

#BacillusACT2024

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

@chrfrohlich @NatureCatalysis Congrats Chris and the team! 👍👍👍

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

@EvolvedBiofilm Good luck Akos 👍 - circle closed in a way, I guess.

[Carl-Erik Torp @CalleTorp]

Skammelig. Sånn her blir det når man har en trener på benken som bare fyrer mobben opp og skaper feil narrativer. Skremmende.

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

New paper out, in JAC - congratulations first and foremost to Kaja Marienborg and Dagfinn Skaare who pulled most of the load here! 🎉👍 Also with Ole Herman Ambur 👍

https://t.co/57mhHBZyli

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

Absolutely awesome talk by Scott Hultgren on ‘Urinary tract infections: from fundamental bench science to translatable tverapeutics’, at ECCMID2023

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

New paper from the group (proofed version available soon) - core genome MLST scheme for Bacillus cereus group bacteria, implemented in PubMLST. Many thanks to Nicolas Tourasse (Univ Bordeaux) and Keith Jolley (Univ Oxford) for a great collaboration! 🙏👍
https://t.co/7TqiLbPWyZ

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

New paper out - nice collaboration with Hanne Hjorth Tønnesen @PharmaLuxLab and Hanne Winther-Larsen (MicroPath) groups - and big Congrats to Helene Liepelt Nystedt! Great work Helene! 🎉👍

[Biofilm Journal @BiofilmJournal]

New @BiofilmJournal publication from Hanne Hjorth Tønnesen/@PharmaLuxLab, Ole Andreas Økstad/@BadBugsLab and colleagues

Neutral natural deep eutectic solvents as anti-biofilm agents

https://t.co/Hysx5fjL80

[Edward Tian @edward_the6]

I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written

[Richard Sever @cshperspectives]

Massive news: eLife to abolish accept/reject decisions: papers will just be “peer reviewed”. Others can argue about this, but lots of interesting consequences. 1/9 https://t.co/FedRxI62iC

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Every academic knows that the BEST software for citation and reference management is Zotero.

BUT many folks don't know how to take notes and annotate PDFs in Zotero.

Here's how to get started 👇

Zotero Annotations 101: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵

[Ole Andreas Økstad @BadBugsLab]

https://t.co/rgB3YveamE

[Øyvind Solstad ☀ @osol]

Den VANLIGSTE dødsårsaken blant barn i USA, er nå at de blir skutt. Enten med vilje, med uhell eller selvmord.

Tenk over det noen sekunder.

https://t.co/Uq1WSkaQb5

[Khrono @AvisenKhrono]

Det er samfunnet som taper dersom vi svekker norsk forskning – og jeg ser ikke regjeringen Støres helhetlige forsknings- og kunnskapspolitikk, skriver @sveinstlen ved @UniOslo
@Regjeringen @Kunnskapsdep @HildeTonne @forskningsradet @AnneBorgNTNU @geirpo

https://t.co/mzgtHG9Iz3

[Edvard Ingjald Moser @EdvardMoser]

Most dramatic cuts in Research Council budget that I have experienced during my 30 years as a scientist.
We all recall how science rescued us from covid. It is not too late to reverse. @Regjeringen @jonasgahrstore @ERC_Research @KISNeuro @forskningsradet
https://t.co/mfmJEwV2uB

[Heidi Østbø Haugen @HeidiOHaugen]

OBM kaster styret i @Forskningsrådet. Dette et problem. Hvorfor? 🧵
@forskerforum @AvisenKhrono @aftenposten @Forsker

[Curt Rice @curtrice]

Hard to understand this as anything but a complete disaster for the people of Norway. https://t.co/XtBHE3UKI6