Siân Owen

Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes.
New PI at the Wadsworth Center.
Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages

[Siân Owen @implosian]

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

[Kepler Mears @KeplerMears]

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.

[Kepler Mears @KeplerMears]

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.

[Siân Owen @implosian]

Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏
https://t.co/fhaYWKJfX8

[Siân Owen @implosian]

Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏
https://t.co/fhaYWKJNMG

[Siân Owen @implosian]

In case you needed a reason to go do a PhD with @APHage_ (other than the awesome science!)

[Alexander Hynes @APHage_]

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.

[Ellie Rand @EllieRand3]

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/

[Jeremy J Barr @JeremyJBarr]

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

[NIH Funding @NIHFunding]

Centers for Accelerating Phage (Bacteriophage) Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP) (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) https://t.co/zZ7YsM9uil

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@SShabarinath Thanks Shabi!

[Siân Owen @implosian]

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

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@DelPickard @baym @HealthNYGov Thanks Del!!

[Siân Owen @implosian]

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

[Michael Baym @baym]

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!

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@PatrickKenney7 Haha, I've been there! Only a fellow phage enthusiast would understand the luxury of weekly WW deliveries 😆

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@THE_inteins Haha, indeed it's all relative. But coming from a postdoc in the greater Boston area, the NY capital region is luxuriously affordable

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@ksbakes @baym @HealthNYGov 🥲 Thanks Kate!!

[Patrick R. Secor @PRSecor]

🚨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

[Siân Owen @implosian]

Addendum: check out the glorious sunsets we get from our many-windowed lab space feat. views of the Catskill mountains in the day time

[Siân Owen @implosian]

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

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@ZaminIqbal @baym Awh so true 🥲

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@baym It has a camera adapter right?

[Siân Owen @implosian]

@baym Pics?? 🕵️‍♀️