Greta Zaborskytė, PhD

Molecular and evolutionary microbiologist ☣️ postdoc @IneosOxford antibiotic discovery and development team 🇱🇹🇩🇰🇸🇪🇬🇧 #biofilms #evolution #drugdiscovery

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

This has now been published in its final form in Nature Communications!

https://t.co/dT4WxDLVXk

[Klebsiella Papers @KlebsPapers]

Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro delineates adaptive changes selected during infection https://t.co/MBkN9aISe8

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

This has now been published in its final form in Nature Communications 🌟

We have extensively revised it since the preprint version, so check it out if you are into adaptive pathogen evolution!

https://t.co/hF3rtw5WTk

#Klebsiella

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Happy to share one of our #Klebsiella stories on how it adapts in humans. Super strong positive selection for combined changes in CPS, LPS, Fe scavenging (and more) in infection sites translates into diverse phenotypes e.g. lost acute virulence @KlebClub https://t.co/GppBZrbFkW

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Showed some of the crazy evolved #biofilm mutants back in 2019 at #ASMicrobe and @Eurobiofilms19. Now we share a full story on how catheter-like surfaces rapidly diversify #Klebsiella and explain adaptations selected within-host. @KlebClub

[Klebsiella Papers @KlebsPapers]

Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro delineates adaptive changes selected during infection https://t.co/MBkN9aISe8

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Happy to share one of our #Klebsiella stories on how it adapts in humans. Super strong positive selection for combined changes in CPS, LPS, Fe scavenging (and more) in infection sites translates into diverse phenotypes e.g. lost acute virulence @KlebClub https://t.co/GppBZrbFkW

[Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings @lindaunobel]

#LINO23 Alumna Greta Zaborskyte (@UU_University) studies how the bacterial pathogen K. pneumoniae evolves inside human hosts during colonisation and infection. Learn more about @gretazabo in her @Women_Research interview: https://t.co/6FY7NMVpkY

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Thank you @Ulrike_Boehm for featuring me as one of #womeninscience on your inspiring blog 🌟

[Women in Research @Women_Research]

10 Questions with Greta Zaborskyte - @gretazabo from Lithuania is a postdoc at @UU_University, Sweden & #LINO23 participant. Enjoy @Ulrike_Boehm's interview with her & get inspired @lindaunobel #womeninscience 🥳👉 https://t.co/mkMUemJwaV

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Due to unfortunate flight cancellations I’ll miss my talk on within-host #evolution of #Klebsiella scheduled tomorrow 🥺 But get in touch if you’re interested in #virulence, #siderophores, #capsule , #colonization, #biofilms and would like to meet from Tuesday onwards #FEMS2023

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Only in #LINO23: Nobel laureates randomly photobombing pictures during Bavarian evening! So glad it was William G. Kaelin Jr. whose Open Exchange session today was fantastic 🌟@lindaunobel

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

My personal highlight of #LINO23 so far was really inspirational and fun lunch with a 2018 Nobel Laureate @francesarnold 🌟and we even got a little gift of “Wolfird” representing a non-natural world of proteins with new functions created by directed evolution! @lindaunobel

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

This week I have a once-in-a-lifetime experience of #LINO23 in gorgeous Lindau with 40 Nobel laureates and selected young scientists from all over the world 🤯 grateful to @lindaunobel @stiftelse @ScienceAcad_swe to be able to represent #Sweden #Lithuania #WomenInSTEM @uppsalauni

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Beyond excited to learn that I have been selected by the @lindaunobel council to attend #LINO23 in June! A week with Nobel laureates, young researchers, and science! Thank you @ScienceAcad_swe for the nomination and @stiftelse for funding.

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

@vscooper @keimel @SellinLab Thank you! 🌟

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

So, last week I became “not that kind of doctor”. I’m full of gratitude for such a positive feedback from my opponent @vscooper, committee members @keimel, @SellinLab, Ann-Beth Jonsson, and my supervisor Linus Sandegren 🥂summary -> https://t.co/zhplRlMGmM
#PhDone #Klebsiella

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

How about a possibility to choose your own material for #biofilm growth, to up- or down-scale your experiment, and handle each individual biofilm with ease? We’ve got you covered with our FlexiPeg: a low-cost 3D-printed (and re-usable!) device. #bacteria #Klebsiella #EColi

[Frontiers - Infectious Disease @FrontInfectDis]

New Research: Modular 3D-Printed Peg Biofilm Device for Flexible Setup of Surface-Related Biofilm Studies https://t.co/BPX9zNfikk #cellinfect

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

When you’re proud the big experiment is finished, but now you have no excuse not to write that manuscript.
This is brought to you by Klebsie, my cat.
#phdchat #AcademicChatter #phd #CatsOfTwitter #cats

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

This “crime scene” picture marks the end of my gianormous virulence screening with 3000+ injections of 111 #Klebsiella pneumoniae clonal outbreak isolates and endless late hours monitoring death. Turns out it was possible 👊🐛 #phdlife @_BioSystems #AcademicTwitter #microbiology

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Now that’s a spirit: you’re discarded from experiment as a “non-perfect” larva, develop into a (super fit) moth while left on a shelf and escape into #microbiology lab. So I was chasing this rebel moth flying for life this morning 🙈
#phdlife #AcademicChatter @_BioSystems #phd

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

Yes, I am pursuing a PhD in microbiology. And yes, I had a fashion photo shoot. Because you can be both a princess and a scientist.

#whereismytiara #womenpower #fashionphotoshoot #empower #thisiswhatascientistlookslike #womeninstem #phdchat #phd

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

When you’re 14 hours into infection experiment, getting really hungry and stumble upon some mouth-watering descriptions of your infection model.. should I repurpose my experiment? 🤤

[Greta Zaborskytė, PhD @gretazabo]

I’d call this a fluffy volcano contaminant...or maybe a doughnut? 😏 @ContamClub