Carter Merenstein

PhD student, Genomics and Computational Biology, UPenn. Aspiring microbial ecologist. ייִדישיסט

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

adding "no worries if not, it's not a big deal" my email signature

[William P J Smith @willpjsmith]

🚨PhD Opportunity - please share!🚨

We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins?

Come join me, Mike Brockhurst, @caiyizhi and @RaveenTank as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES!

https://t.co/uTnHYRzLdn

[The Philadelphia Inquirer @PhillyInquirer]

Pennsylvania man is officially the world’s pumpkin king https://t.co/01SftXelMe

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Something about bacteria that form motile biofilms freaks me out a bit, especially when they're called "zorbs." https://t.co/wTwE2GHaYr

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Love to see people culturing archaea. Cool preprint from @Archaea_Vienna on ammonia oxidizers on the skin makes me wonder what other niches these guys occupy in our microbiome. https://t.co/ol0PkvjE0D

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

@jongewirtzman making a splash with his tree microbiome study. Apparently there's exactly 1 trillion microbes in every tree, if I understand correctly.
https://t.co/1PvUnO2Geg

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Cool preprint on a cell-free protein biosensor; could allow for faster point-of-care protein detection, the same way that RNA biosensors really sped up testing during the COVID pandemic. Lots of synthetic biology tricks I'd never heard of. @stygroupGT https://t.co/e3Q0opB9lY

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Rude of NIH progress report instructions to call me out like this...

[Jon Gewirtzman @jongewirtzman]

Really excited to share: our research on the hidden world inside living trees now available as a preprint! 🌳🔬🦠🧬Did you know trees, like humans, have their own microbiomes? We explore the unique bacteria, fungi, and archaea living inside trees. 🧵👇 https://t.co/hx64tyx10x

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Absolutely thrilled to finally get our union election! Voting YES will be one of the proudest moments of my time in grad school.

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

We're having an election! On April 16 & 17, graduate student workers have the opportunity to tell that Penn administration that we want a say in our working conditions. Pledge to vote YES today: https://t.co/6eGDJAlZ31 https://t.co/rXJqMLG4mm

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

The idea that you could charter a SEPTA train is pretty baller

[Caleb | fund SEPTA 🚰 🚎 🔔🗽 @IWantAnXcelsior]

It’s time

[Bushman Lab @bushmanlab]

Interested in being a lab technician? The Bushman Lab is hiring and we're a pretty cool bunch. (Link to job posting in the comments.)

[The Philadelphia Inquirer @PhillyInquirer]

"The I-95 proposal flies in the face of the modern transportation planning consensus," writes The Inquirer Editorial Board.

"Instead of looking to widen Philadelphia’s highways, adequately funding SEPTA would provide a much better return on investment." https://t.co/7ElnmOhuRB

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

@elife is doing far more harm to Jews here than @TheOnion is. This kind of overreaction only enforces harmful antisemetic conspiracy theories and feeds into false narratives about Jews

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Commute inequality is just another reason we need the @BlvdSubway

https://t.co/cZ5GpvaSCR

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Nothing gets me more than renderings of what a park will look like once they cap 95. Gotta cover Vine Street next! https://t.co/5GK5bajiQg

[Immunity @ImmunityCP]

One man's niche is another man's treasure 😀

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

Manic energy from these RNAseq artifacts

[Carter Merenstein @CMerenstein]

@BlvdSubway What's wrong with open air? The orange line in Boston operates this way for much of it's run and it never seemed like an issue