Morgan Alford

Clinical Microbiology Fellow at @UManitoba - PhD from @thehancocklab @ubcmicroimmuno (she/her/hers)

[DORA @DORAssessment]

📢DORA is hiring! We're seeking candidates with a passion for reforming research culture and knowledge about the research assessment landscape. Join our team as Program Director!
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[Joshua Davis @Josh_S_Davis]

Here again are my #Top10 Infectious Diseases papers of 2022. Not in order (alphabetical by first author). Non-COVID (because >120,000 COVID papers in 2022). Have to be at least one of: Paradigm Shifting, Practice Changing or Dogma Challenging #IDtwitter 🧵

[Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @JuliaDHankins]

A Pseudomonas putida from a CF patient had increased growth with increasing TMP-SMX. We subcultured the bacteria around the E-test strip and found a subpopulation of TMP-SMX dependent colonies! 🤯😵

I found one article describing this (PMC7879151). But have you ever seen this?

[CACMID @CACMID]

1/3 We are pleased to announce the inaugural Michael R. Mulvey @CACMID Studentship Award, which will recognize a Canadian trainee that has made a noteworthy contribution to antimicrobial resistance in the form of a recently published article…

@superbugfighter @GovCanHealth

[CACMID @CACMID]

Today is the day ‼️ DEADLINE 11:59 PST

Seize the opportunity to present at our annual meeting with our partner @AMMICanada this March in Toronto

#IDtwitter

[Morgan Alford @micbmoe]

So interesting!

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

Thinking about doing a postdoc? Wondering what the heck we do all day?? @chris_zie and I tracked every minute of our workdays for several weeks - check out the data and our blog post! https://t.co/5mCdDF8faB @AcademicChatter #phdchat

[CACMID @CACMID]

Our friends at @biomerieux have organized a FREE symposium (hybrid format) to occur on Nov 22 & 23: "Forward thinking on antimicrobial resistance" at the Park Hyatt in Toronto, ON

@UofTEPIC #WAAW2022

[Tami Lieberman @conTaminatedsci]

MIT has a wonderful new postdoc fellowship program aimed at increasing ethnic and gender diversity at the postdoc stage. $75k/yr stipend and lots of support.

We have several great projects queued up around mutations within microbiomes -- get in touch!

https://t.co/WBIwh4dAyb

[Morgan Alford @micbmoe]

@thehancocklab so festive!

[Morgan Alford @micbmoe]

@pletzerlab

[Björn Schumacher @schumacherbj]

When you team up with the right Postdoc for your PhD

[Morgan Alford @micbmoe]

Sometimes I get sad about being an adult in a society that tells me it’s inappropriate for adults to trick-or-treat on Halloween

But then I remember I’m an adult that can trade blood for snacks every 3 mo @CanadasLifeline ❤️ and that’s pretty neat

[Hancock Lab UBC @[email protected] @thehancocklab]

Hot off the press from our talented student Melanie Dostert who discovered a novel #biofilm-specific regulator in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa called bosR! https://t.co/23x8QukgPu

[Hancock Lab UBC @[email protected] @thehancocklab]

bosR, and other regulators found through this screening approach, can be potential new targets for biofilm specific therapies. Congratulations Melanie and co-authors @micbmoe @bkdhillon @Cara_Haney @minisciencegirl 🎉🎉🎉

[Morgan Alford @micbmoe]

I will be concluding all future studies with this sentence

[Morgan Alford @micbmoe]

@netflix why is this guy working with anthrax in a fumehood and why are there six P200s in the rack?

@Eppendorf_USA get this man a P1000! no wonder he is so unproductive

[ScienceInsider @ScienceInsider]

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.

[Paul Sax @PaulSaxMD]

It wasn't easy writing this. Thanks to @PreetiNMalani for allowing me to share it.
Rosa https://t.co/D7Vo9EmTXX via @JAMA_current part of @JAMANetwork

[Sean Booth @ImDrBooth]

Want to learn microbiology by playing a game? Want to teach microbiology using a game?
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#ISME18

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

#MicrobeoftheMonth! Can you guess who I am?

1) I have a sweet, grape-like aroma.
2) Most of the time, I don't cause problems—but I can infect everything from the blood to the lungs.
3) I'm known for my sticky biofilms.

Leave a guess below & stay tuned for the big reveal!