Kostas Giannakis

[Kostas Giannakis @kostas21]

After ~4 years working with the best research group🔴, another chapter just begins for me in FHI (Norwegian institute of public health🟡). I’d need pages to write about all the great stuff learnt and accomplished working with Iain @mitomaths and the rest of the brilliant 1/

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

‼️Two new PhD positions open! One experimental, one modelling, exploring these beautiful collective dynamics in mitochondria across species. 🇳🇴, good pay, full staff benefits. [Shares much appreciated]
Lab: https://t.co/uolwFCXoBr
Modelling: https://t.co/6CKU5lRwY7

[Kostas Giannakis @kostas21]

@EU_Eurostat 153,000

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

RTs much appreciated! Here's a PhD opportunity with us, revealing and exploring the social behaviour of mitochondria across different eukaryotes. A chance to connect lab+modelling in beautiful Bergen, $55.7k (£41.6k) with full staff rights https://t.co/VZ4ztSgJZZ . Happy to chat!

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

News! (and RTs much appreciated). Norway has funding opportunities for excellent researchers outside Europe to join projects like this one. If you're interested in (a) biomathematics, bioinf, or mitochondria and (b) Norway (it's awesome), drop me a DM!
https://t.co/8AvtxlADNn

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

RTs much appreciated... would love to reach both AMR and biomath folks!
"Evolutionary accumulation modelling in AMR: machine learning to infer and predict evolutionary dynamics of multi-drug resistance"
https://t.co/fApwBgAWfW
We think EvAM methods have some potential in AMR. 🧵

[Simon Duerr @simonduerr]

This is great! @NIAIDNews have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) https://t.co/qYzIsbr0TH

[Kostas Giannakis @kostas21]

@BelenGPascual @mitomaths @UiB Many congrats Belén! It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with you!

[Leonardo Jo @leonardojo]

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

RTs much appreciated! Looking for a female Europe-based faculty-level mathematical biologist (with whom I or Jan Nordbotten haven't published in last 3yr) as an external PhD examiner in Bergen some time ideally late August / early Sept. DM or email me to discuss a trip to Bergen!

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

Exciting times! If you're interested in math/stat/comp approaches to bio (including but not limited to mitochondria, chloroplasts, plants, and AMR), and Norwegian society/work-life/nature/beauty/salary, I'd be delighted to discuss hosting and mentorship opportunities!

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

Come one, come all, to a new review preprint! We attempt a broad view of mtDNA gene content across eukaryotes and the weird and wonderful ways it is maintained. Refs from Aanen to Zwonitzer... https://t.co/V23wveoEWL
RTs v appreciated, but also open anon feedback (see next) 1/ 🧵

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

Last chance for this opportunity (and thanks for all applications so far)! Interesting and useful science, plus the host of advantages of Norwegian life (pay, life balance, welfare state, clean city, sea and mountains, liberal ethos, focus on equality...)

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

Really happy to announce HyperTraPS-CT, a big expansion and generalisation of HyperTraPS to include the features below. It learns pathways of accumulation/loss processes from observed data, in cancer/disease progression, evolution, and more... 🧵 (RT pls!)
https://t.co/gkwzdG9zU7

[Kostas Giannakis @kostas21]

Another joyful coincidence: new job opening in the group! Check it out and apply if you love working with great people, top science, and living in a fab city! Reach out for testimonials about how it is to work as PDR with Iain and the folks! https://t.co/PMkMbyksoF 4/4

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

RTs much appreciated... postdoc opp with our group! 🇳🇴💻🧬
We've had some success exploring (and predicting) disease progression with our "hypercubic inference" approaches. Join us looking at diabetes progression with multiomics data... good pay+great env! https://t.co/6XoGEXOjAP

[Kostas Giannakis @kostas21]

After ~4 years working with the best research group🔴, another chapter just begins for me in FHI (Norwegian institute of public health🟡). I’d need pages to write about all the great stuff learnt and accomplished working with Iain @mitomaths and the rest of the brilliant 1/

[Kostas Giannakis @kostas21]

It’s an exciting coincidence that this paper just got accepted, as it was the very first project I undertook when I joined the group! Happy to see how it was shaped and how it was embraced by the editor+reviewers (check Iain’s thread for more). https://t.co/OMz9mzi9Nd 3/

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

It's well known that parasites often have reduced mtDNA and cpDNA. But are there other ecological features that are linked with organelle gene retention? Delighted that this is now out (unproofed) https://t.co/oXDl6YosfE
and thanks to @systbiol for a v positive review process! 1/

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

Our latest preprint shares a birthday with its first author @BelenGPascual ! A (we think useful) way of comparing transition graphs for Markov models and HMMs, applied to accumulation models for anti-microbial resistance evolution. https://t.co/4fg2vZ1lMX 1/

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

A while back we found that the same features predict gene loss from mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA across eukaryotes https://t.co/I7bccDmACx . But that left an open Q -- is mtDNA and cpDNA loss linked at the level of individual species? New preprint: https://t.co/umnNMnb24d 1/

[Kostas Giannakis @kostas21]

A triumph for people with good food taste! My training in brooming in the greek army finally paid off

[Iain Johnston @mitomaths]

Group curling competition! Team Brown Cheese Is Good couldn't sustain their early lead and ended up losing a hard-fought competition to arch-rivals Team Brown Cheese Is Bad.

PS Brown Cheese Is Good