Joss Etty

A research assistant interested in all thing microbial and molecular!

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

Some Buddleia growing out of a wall or a giant bacterium caught in public? You decide.

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

@A_Lonely_Diatom This little fella only eats decomposing things but chytrids are indeed the diatom killers. I'm not, but in their free-swimming state they are known to employ chemotaxis and phototaxis

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

A different kind of movement ecology! This #chytrid #fungus has only grown towards a food source. What determines its growth and exploration? We haven't foggiest.
#mycology #movement #ecology #microbiology #MResMBIO

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An #aspergillus #fungus had taken over one of my lab cultures, so I photographed it and false-colourised it:
#MResMBIO #Sciart #microscopy #microbiology

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

Spotted this extra large #chytrid #fungus in one of my cultures. How is it so big? Like tall trees competing for light, the fungus on the left may have had to have grown past the rest to get its nutrients.
#MResMBIO #Mycology #Microbiology

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

Go fungi, go! These #chytrid #fungi have attached to a food source and now they're on it, they'll digest it from the inside out using the nutrients to make more fungi.
#mycology #microbiology #MResMBio

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

A picture from under the microscope of the fungus I'm growing for my Master's: a stunning example of how these fungi explore their environment!

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

My latest composition, inspired by a recent visit to Dartmoor, do give it a listen!
https://t.co/tJv0Oj4d41

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

Agar behaving badly! My lab cultures didn't turn out how I wanted, but at least they did so prettily: #agarart #microbiology #MResMBIO

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

In this video we see the baby form of the fungus I'm studying for my Masters. You can't see it here but these aquatic fungi swim using a special tail 4-10x longer than their body and can survive up to around 8 hours in their watery ecosystems.

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

Played an awesome gig at the Barbican Theatre with @OllyParkerMusic and Fergus Tanner for @jamieyostmusic's new E.P. launch. Talented musicians all of them, check out their music! https://t.co/7WATfrkk7C

[MPM Management @MPMmgmt]

Sound checking @OllyParkerMusic for @jamieyostmusic #eplaunch #jy #aurora @BBCIntroDevon #bbcintro #music #gig #soldout @nickyhiggins18

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

The view from the Pit Band playing in a production of Beauty and the Beast by @MTGUPSU at @PlymUni . Great show so far, Only three more left! #MResMbio #musicaltheatre #performingarts

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

I've talked about microbes, but that's only half my username. Here's a piece of music I recently finished writing:
https://t.co/hZmZrYzYPR

[ForestFloorNarrative @ForestNarrative]

A #parasitic edition of #FungiFriday; A #chytrid #fungus causing #worldwide #amphibian #declines https://t.co/x70onrNlRT

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

Had an engaging evening attending the Antibiotics Resistance Seminar hosted at @PlymUni and supported by the @MicrobioSoc. I didn't know bacteria can be transported on microplastics! #PlymResFest #MResMBio

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

In my spare time I run a microbiology blog and write and about research that's really caught my attention. Follow the link to my latest one about self-replicating, self-propagating DNA in an Antarcticic lake. https://t.co/gX7q4yupVu

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

There's a group of Archaea (single celled organisms that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes) called Asgard. The species in the Asgard group are called Loki, Odin, Thor and Heimdall

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I see these are people of culture. https://t.co/TRm9HD5OHk

[Petri Dish Picasso @PetriPicasso]

The 'sorting' plate: culturing cells on various types of growth media allow #researchers to select for and differentiate #microbes of the same/related species.
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#sciart #HarryPotter #pseudomonas #scicomm

[Joss Etty @musicalmicrobe]

There's a protein that cyanobacteria make which forms a ring around where they photosynthesise, protecting the rest of the bacteria from being damaged by harsh light. In other words, these bacteria can make their own shade.