Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️

(He/him)🌈 Eco-micro-bio adventurer. PhD candidate @UCDavis. Union thug. Trans. #BLM. #Microbe interactions in #nectar🌻w/ #pollen & #pollinators.

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

Im now mostly on bluesky @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social so find me there for continued rants and hot takes and bees and pollen and microbes thankyou. 🌠

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@iris_Y_juanico Thank you for your genius meme insights, really shaped the trajectory haha

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

So jazzed to share some highlights, pitfalls, gratitude, and super surprising hot-off-the-microscope images at my exit seminar!🐝🦠🌺
Join to learn about pollen hacking, sleeping beauty bees, and of course antifreeze yeasts.
May 24th at 3pm Pacific. Dm for Zoom if interested.

[UC Davis Entomology and Nematology @UCDavisEntomolo]

#ucdavis doctoral candidate Danielle Rutkowski of Rachel Vannette lab to give exit seminar on "Identity and Functions of Symbiotic Fungi Associated with Social Bees" at 4:10 p.m., Monday, May 20, in 122 Briggs and on Zoom. Amazing scientist! Don't miss! https://t.co/hkNyRS9GYs

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@thrasherxy I read Babel a couple years ago and cannot unsee the parallels

[UAW Region 6 @uawregion6]

The 6000 Academic Student Employees of @UAW4121 are ON STRIKE four a fair contract at the University of Washington ✊ #UnionStrong

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@sdfahrenthold Shoot Im so sorry I missed this!

[UC Davis Entomology and Nematology @UCDavisEntomolo]

Congrats to #ucdavis doctoral candidate Shawn Christensen, microbiologist in Rachel Vannette lab: He is recipient of the highly competitive Merton Love Ecology and Dissertation Award. Seminar is May 24 at 3 p.m., 1230 Walker Hall. https://t.co/SGJBlJIT19

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@shah_ps Congrats!

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@BeesOnEarth new paper hot off the press!
Nontarget impacts of neonicotinoids on nectar‐inhabiting microbes - Environmental Microbiology https://t.co/CwMwcsNtZF

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

Im now mostly on bluesky @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social so find me there for continued rants and hot takes and bees and pollen and microbes thankyou. 🌠

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@MicrobiomDigest Some use slides instead of animations,Ive seen 50 slides as a ten minute talk in this scenario

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@agalanis97 Thank you! ☺️

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

@FumbleBeeFae Im sorry:/

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

So excited to present this work tomorrow and chat with everyone about this incredible bee! Turns out we really have to look deeper (underground!) if we want to find some solitary bee symbionts! 6/

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

Hey #EntSoc23 bee/ symbiont/ microbe friends, our preprint on the symbiotic Actinobacteria and yeast in brood cells of solitary bee Anthophora bomboides is out on BioRxiv!! and its what I'll be presenting in my talk tomorrow @ 10:40am in rm Maryland-B. 🐝 https://t.co/LnvaxutNH2

[Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️ @pollenmicrobes]

The core yeast (2 ASVs) found at two sites, two years of sampling- is Moniliella spathulata, a known producer of some sugar and sugar alcohols (SSA) that act as antifreeze. Its abundance correlated with stage specific shifts of SSA! 5/