Isabel, PhD 🦠

📖🎓 PDRA @SheffieldUni // Keen on host ↔ pathogen interactions 🕵🧫 // Appreciator of 🎮 & 🥋 // Home is where Portugal is 🏡☀

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

Ever heard of the Pomodoro technique?

Then I'd like to introduce you to my personal favourite: the reverse Pomodoro, where I write for 5 minutes and take 25 minute breaks. 🙃

#PhDChat #PhDLife #HowDoYouStopProcrastinating

[Luke Green @Neisseriaspanin]

🚨New preprint available 🚨 Pleased to show our first paper from the Green lab. Thanks @paigewolverson, @isabel_bfp, Mark C and Jon S for the amazing work. Also, thanks to @ShefDentistry, @ShefUni_ClinMed & @humane_research for support https://t.co/zsbq4z7Eli

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

Science is not having a single artistic bone in your body but still spending the whole day getting creative, playing with weird glue and paintbrushes 😅

#Research #PostDocLife

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

Yesterday's Miles-Misra are today's incineration bag

#PostPhDLife #SeriousScienceInTheMaking

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@karolinairena You're simply the bestest friend 🥺❤️

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@OhHollieS A public display of affection, this truly is a special day 🥺

[Dental School Research Society (DSRS) @DSRSUoS]

CONGRATULATIONS ex-dsrs president and NOW DR PARREIRA!! 🎉🎉🥳🥳 @isabel_bfp

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

@NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins sits down with New York Times Best-Selling Author Andy Weir for the first-ever "Science and Society" keynote lecture at #ASMicrobe! @Astro_Kate7 @andyweirauthor

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

A successful first day in Houston.

Feet are aching. And at one point, we were nothing but sweat. Still, that was fun 😎

Now it's time to get conference ready! 👩‍🔬

#ASMicrobe

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

On the left is the paperback copy of "Project Hail Mary" that I first read and absolutely fell in love with!

On the right is the hardback copy I purposefully bought to take to Houston in the hopes I meet @andyweirauthor while attending #ASMicrobe 😅

Wish me luck 🤞🏻

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@OhHollieS YOU DID SAY IT!

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@OhHollieS 😂😂😂

It's a good friendship, just happens to be filled with chaos

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@FarrugiaCher @MicrobioSoc Thank you, Cher! ☺️ Picking the colours alone took way longer than I'd like to admit 😅

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

Talk about an early start 😅

Very much looking forward to this week at #Microbio23!

It's only been one morning and I've already been frantically taking notes of things to add to my thesis 👀

Feel free to come say hello, I'll be at P237 😊

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

I must say, seeing @DGlaucomflecken during a #microbio23 talk on using 16S RNA nanopore sequencing for clinical diagnostics was not on my conference bingo card 😅

Still a good surprise! Shame Jonathan couldn't make an appearance though.

#PhDChat

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

Explaining antifungal stress resistance using Pokémon.

This is my new favourite way of learning.

#microbio23 #PhDChat

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

"You have to go in the lab when [bacteria] are happy to work, not when you're happy to work"

- Exploring career options, #microbio23

Truer words have never been spoken.

#PhDChat #PhDLife @MicrobioSoc

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@conymmharrison @MicrobioSoc Thank you very much, Cony ☺️❤️

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@EvaHeinz7 As someone visiting Birmingham for the first time, this is how I was reassured I was on the right path to the conference 😅

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

@whatisitdoing @ATinyGreenCell Ah, don't we all feel a bit blue when it's cold outside? 😅

[Isabel, PhD 🦠 @isabel_bfp]

Well, seems that I get motion sickness looking down at a microscope.

With over 100 slides of IHC to look at, this is going to be interesting.

#PhDChat #PhDLife