Maria-Isabel Rojas

Microbiologist 🦠 PhD candidate at SDSU/UCSD, Viral Information Institute representative, climber, swimmer, diver, mountaineer, yogi 👾

[Maria-Isabel Rojas @marisabelroj]

Listen to TWiV https://t.co/Bj1zXwnXyA, we shared how @RohwerLabSDSU used #CitizenScience in an unprecedented effort to #swab4corona in the city. We rarely found #SARSCoV2 on surfaces and predict this transmission route to be equally rare. Our work & team: https://t.co/KixVrGqUqZ

[Twist Bioscience @TwistBioscience]

Met Gala as things seen around the lab…

First up: Liu Wen as mold colonies

[Maria-Isabel Rojas @marisabelroj]

@sahargar Congrats dear Sahar, so well deserved!

[ElinavLab @Elinav_Lab]

Proud of highly encouraging phase 1-2A results by our spin-off company @BiomX_Inc, reporting safety & efficacy of a first-in-human phage cocktail treatment targeting a life-threatening lung bacterium in CF patients @Elinav_Lab @SorekLab @WeizmannScience

https://t.co/q9fRrS6sIz

[Host-Microbe Interactions @HostMicrobeLit]

Bacterial droplet-based single-cell RNA-seq reveals antibiotic-associated heterogeneous cellular states @CellCellPress

"BacDrop thus can capture cellular states that cannot be detected by bulk RNA-seq" #microbiology #microbiome #genomics #research

https://t.co/tyzdfLoRYn

[Bushman Lab @bushmanlab]

Congrats to Maayan Levy, Tal Korem and coworkers on their fascinating paper in Nature Microbiology. Preterm birth is associated with xenobiotics and the vaginal microbiome.
PMID: 36635575

[Rob Edwards @linsalrob]

RT @[email protected]
The phrase "bacterial innate immune system" is just so cool.

"our results reveal the molecular mechanism by which a bacterial immune system directly senses a conserved, essential component of phages, suggesting a PAMP-like sensing model for (1/2)

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

Since it's #InternationalMensDay, here's a thread of every part of the gynaecological anatomy that is named after a man, with a bit of trivia about each man. Some of the bits are very specific. Before you ask, there are no parts of the gynaecological anatomy named after women...

[Paul Turner Lab @PaulTurnerLab]

Check out gcplyr, a newly released #RStats package built by @yale_eeb student @mikeblazanin to import, organize, and analyze microbial growth curve data

[Sahar Zargar @sahargar]

Thank you Dr. Attaie and PRH for conveying what I've been trying to communicate to my friends and colleagues for the past few weeks. The Iranian women are fighting and dying for their essential rights.

[UBC Life Sciences Institute @ubclifesciences]

TOMORROW! Don't miss our bake sale to support women's and civil rights in Iran 🇮🇷!

West atrium colonnade in the LSC, 8 am - 5 pm. Stop by early for best selection!

Sponsored by the @CTropini lab, LSI staff and colleagues. All proceeds will go to NGOs.

[Nick Shikuma @ShikumaLab]

https://t.co/H90pGoOKpC

[Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️ @chngin_the_wrld]

Are you a #phage phanatic looking for a #postdoc opp? @IPATH @UCSDHealthSci is hiring! #AMR #superbugs #phagetherapy

https://t.co/gC1sfAX00P

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

How to ace your cardiology interview

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Here we go, before the new variants kick in

[Eligo Bioscience @EligoBio]

🚀 Very excited to share this work from our amazing scientists at @EligoBio.
🧬 We show that targeted mutations can be introduced with high efficiency directly in the gut microbiome - even without the need for selection!
Thread below... https://t.co/ynQoAsNJFC

[Rob Edwards @linsalrob]

Complete genome assemblies from a fecal metagenome

Assemble w flye
Polish w medeka
Bin w metabat2
QC w checkm, quast, gtdb
Publish!

@kirk3gaard #GenomesMicrobiome22

[Science Visuals @ScienceVisuals]

Tiny Brazilian frogs’ inner ear canals are too small to help them balance well, finds a recent study in @ScienceAdvances, explaining why they are clumsy jumpers. https://t.co/OmZgxceDe1

[Segata Lab @cibiocm]

MetaPhlAn version 4 is out! Big improvements with the possibility to profile uSGBs (i.e. MAG-defined species), better markers, ~27k tot SGBs (species), estimation of the unknowns, and more. DB based on >1M genomes+MAGs! Preprint, code, tutorials available! https://t.co/OFunixGFkY

[Paul Bollyky @bollyky]

even viruses fall in love

[Pieter Dorrestein @Pdorrestein1]

This is one of those papers that will transform how metabolomics data patterns at the spectral level within one project or repository can be analyzed. I anticipate this will become one of the most important tools we have to mine mass spec data. So proud of the team. So excited!