Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes.
New PI at the Wadsworth Center.
Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages
My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you are interested in a postdoc exploring plasmid-dependent phage biology in beautiful (and super affordable!) upstate New York🍎https://t.co/nYWsBgNih4 1/3
So we did a similar experiment with conjugative plasmids and found that IS605 provides offensive and defensive benefits to conjugative plasmids, acting like a primitive anti-self defense mechanism to spread plasmids between cells.
What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my colleague @fernpizza showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper just published in Science today!). Together with @baym, we now know how they can fight.
Dr. @rabiafatima_ has "tPASsed". Too many feels. Thank you @implosian - sorry you couldn't make it for the presentation of the warhammer. I do get asked if I fear the graduates will use them against me... no! Not in public, anyway - they're all far too smart to get caught.
Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @implosian, @baym, @nquinoneso, Kesther and Carmen! https://t.co/k04NdEUvss 1/
Nature News piece on the hidden players of the gut microbiome (hint, they're phages, of course)
“Our virome is hugely abundant and incredibly diverse, and we’ve looked at just a tiny percentage,”
https://t.co/34DeKqF2DZ
My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you are interested in a postdoc exploring plasmid-dependent phage biology in beautiful (and super affordable!) upstate New York🍎https://t.co/nYWsBgNih4 1/3
It's true, cleaned up my bench today after a memorable 6.5 years in the @baym lab! Very excited to start my own lab next month at the @HealthNYGov Wadsworth Center doing public health adjacent basic research exploring "exotic" bacteriophages!! #newpi
Today we celebrated @implosian’s last day in my lab before she starts her independent lab at the Wadsworth Center. I could not have dreamt up a better postdoc to start the experimental side of the lab!
🚨We're hiring a lab manager/research scientist!
Come work with us @MSU_MicroImmuno at Montana State in beautiful Bozeman, MT
We are a phage lab with diverse projects related to infectious disease, check us out here: https://t.co/kvoFsCZRh5
apply here: https://t.co/b6iqyTDRZd
We also have openings for technical staff and students! Contact me for more info, or if you are a undergraduate, consider applying to the UAlbany BMS program https://t.co/Ck9CPhWWbf 3/3