Claire Savage

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

Research looking into significant factors in bacterial horizontal gene transfer may not seem to have clear practical applications, but it’s being used to not only teach us about ecology and evolution, but also to understand pathogens and treat diseases! #CSUBmicrobiome

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

In 2018, mosquitoes were released in Indonesia in an attempt to reduce mosquito borne illnesses like Dengue. That might sound crazy, but these mosquitos have bacterial hitchhikers that may make it impossible for the disease causing microbes to survive inside them #CSUBmicrobiome

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

Bacteria often exchange DNA with one another. But did you know that (very occasionally) bacterial DNA is incorporated into animal genomes? Usually it doesn’t do anything as far as we know. But sometimes it provides the animal with unique adaptations. #CSUBmicrobiome

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

Bacteria that live in special insect organs have lost genes they don’t need anymore. But they are also too isolated to exchange DNA with other bacteria, so they never have the opportunity to bulk their genome back up. #CSUBmicrobiome dedicated to @Riderofrohan410

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

You might wonder what species of bacteria make a healthy microbiome, and you wouldn’t be alone! But some research suggests that what’s really important in a microbiome is not a few specific species, but the proteins the microbes produce. #CSUBmicrobiome

[Christie Wilcox @NerdyChristie]

Q for science twitter: What’s the most exciting hypothesis in your field right now? What are the ideas or questions that keep you up at night, and that you can’t wait to see new research on?

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

In the past few years, researchers have begun to think about humans and their microbiome as a whole ecosystem. Our bodies are full of different species interacting in cool and complex ways, both with us and with each other. #CSUBmicrobiome

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

Today I cried listening to a birdsong from the last of a species, and it was like 8 in the morning. This podcast makes me laugh and changes me a little bit with every episode, you should probably listen to it

[The Anthropocene Reviewed @anthroreviewed]

John Green reviews the QWERTY keyboard layout and a bird species called the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō in the new episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed. https://t.co/gaZ695Pi2T

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

Researchers can grow mice that are absolutely microbe-less to study the influence of the microbiome and what happens when an animal develops without it. Some of these mice will live their whole lives without ever meeting a bacterium. #CSUBmicrobiome

[Claire Savage @fancytunna]

Bacteria in and around other organisms influence the ways many animals use their genes and are known to help the development of the digestive and immune systems! #CSUBmicrobiome