Nouri Ben Zakour, PhD 🇫🇷🇷🇪🇦🇺

Principal research scientist @WestmeadInst @Iredell_lab, interested in the m(ea|i)ning of life. Bioinformatics, Data science, Microbes, Phages. Cancer survivor.

[Alexander Harms @AHarms485]

🚨 🧬 Updated preprint on the completed BASEL collection - what's new? Some fun with bacterial immunity and a new P22 relative infecting E. coli K-12. A thread 🧵

[Stephanie Lynch, PhD @stephh_lynch]

Thrilled to share our latest paper, where we partnered with @CFAustralia to survey the Australian CF community on clinical needs & phage therapy!

Spoiler: 96% of 112 respondents are eager to join future phage trials!

📢 Read more: https://t.co/LCwM9H6os3 #PhageTherapy #CF

[Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure @PhageAustralia]

🎶 With weeks to live, musician Paul Laszlo found hope in cutting-edge #phagetherapy, @Iredell_Lab successfully treating a severe chest infection. Thanks to innovative research, he's now thriving and back on stage! 💪✨ Read his inspiring story: https://t.co/6yBhG4SgsO

[Ryan Wick @rrwick]

New year, new assemblies!
I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes!
It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention.
Check it out: https://t.co/NksiyESF7u
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[Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure @PhageAustralia]

🌍 It's World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2024! We're excited to unveil our revamped website, https://t.co/b2WL6j5nsN & showcasing our documentary on #PhageTherapy as a powerful tool against antimicrobial resistance. Together, let's raise awareness and drive change! 💪✨ #AMR

[Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure @PhageAustralia]

The leadership team @PhageAustralia submitted a written document to the UK Parliament Inquiry on "The #antimicrobial potential of #bacteriophages"

Our reflection is published here: https://t.co/Nn9kAAXYd9

@Iredell_Lab @stephen_stick @warnmorgs @AntonPeleg @syctong @stephh_lynch

[Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr]

Metagenomics-Toolkit: The Flexible and Efficient Cloud-Based Metagenomics Workflow featuring Machine Learning-Enabled Resource Allocation https://t.co/dRtKKriuCn 🧬🖥️🧪 #nextflow https://t.co/IDsLTm1MTu

[Artem Babaian @RNA_Life]

This is #bioinformatics science fiction but real.
Pan-SRA nucleotide search; for free; in minutes 🤯

[Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo]

Comparative evaluation of commercial DNA isolation approaches for nanopore-only bacterial genome assembly and plasmid recovery. #DNAextraction @nanopore #Sequencing #BacterialGenomes @SciReports
https://t.co/6o1yiKAMNa

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by @peixotors et al.
https://t.co/yYQZO4Gm6b

[Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure @PhageAustralia]

🚀 Exciting day! Stephanie and Clare inspired high school students with their talk on career pathways in science. They shared insights on phage therapy and the fight against antimicrobial resistance, sparking interest in future scientists! 🧬✨ #CareerAdvice #PhageTherapy #STEM

[Jessica Sacher, PhD @JessicaSacher]

🧠 My secret weapon for making research papers ENTER MY BRAIN:

A thread about what's working (+ new AI tools I'm testing!) 🧵

[Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure @PhageAustralia]

This weekend @stephh_lynch represented @PhageAustralia at #SanDiego International Film Festival discussing our #phagetherapy initiatives & showcasing @Emma_WattsTV @SBS documentary - "Last chance to save a live" in 🇦🇺

@Iredell_Lab treated his first patient with #phage in 2007.

[Aaron Pomerantz, PhD @AaronPomerantz]

“This important study shows how a combination of the latest generation of @nanopore long reads with state-of-the art variant callers enables bacterial variant discovery at an accuracy that matches or exceeds the current "gold standard" with short reads”
https://t.co/a6VBNoYFDw

[Matt Dancho (Business Science) @mdancho84]

This new R package is wild.

It's called ggalign. Here's what it can do:

[Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure @PhageAustralia]

Our #AdvancedTherapeutics Biobanking Coordinator Carina Lauter presented a talk & a poster at #ABNA2024, Adelaide, 16-18 Oct 2024 on our effort at @PhageAustralia towards accessible #phagetherapy & advanced therapeutics

Congratulations to Carina for winning the poster prize 🏆

[Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr]

https://t.co/LaYy0IxHeV: a registry for computational workflows https://t.co/gNnDKxKM1H (Nextflow, Snakemake, KNIME, Galaxy, CWL, others)

[Ruoshi Zhang @Rosy_Zh]

Spacedust: de novo discovery of conserved gene clusters. Combining sensitive Foldseek structure search and conserved neighborhood detection to discover functionally-associated gene clusters in prokaryotic & viral genomes.
🚀https://t.co/SkFl2Cn8GM
📄https://t.co/TnS4uAPc3a 1/6🧵

[Aleksandra PETROVIC FABIJAN @PetrovicFabijan]

Glad to share a brief look at my interview w/ @MedResearchNSW about developments in #phagetherapy at Westmead, highlighting our research & the ongoing efforts to improve phage therapy outcomes. Thank you, #OHMR, for your continued support! https://t.co/SmmLX3FJO4

[Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr]

Multiple Protein Structure Alignment at Scale with FoldMason https://t.co/UwukqANHKI https://t.co/p7qXpi4bnh