Just published an interactive article about a magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, which powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa: sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt

It's also notoriously unintuitive so I'm hoping this article helps you build that intuition.

PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

If you’re looking for a PhD studentship in some really exciting areas of plant science 🌿 take a look at this year’s Sainsbury PhD studentships - you could come and study orchid mycorrhizas 🌸🍄 with me & @garethphoenix.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

First PhD sampling completed!

I went to sample the blackout experiment with 20-year old bare fallow plots at the Henfaes Research Farm (Bangor University)

Here, we want to study SOM/SOC and the cycling of “old persistent” carbon in the absence of new fresh plant input.

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

🧪🦠🧬
#Fieldwork #microbiome #soil #omics #SOM #PhD

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First PhD sampling completed!

I went to sample the blackout experiment with 20-year old bare fallow plots at the Henfaes Research Farm (Bangor University)

Here, we want to study SOM/SOC and the cycling of “old persistent” carbon in the absence of new fresh plant input.

🚨 PhD alert.
PhD opportunity studying how nutrient availability impacts the ability of ecosystems to absorb more CO2 as CO2 levels rise.

With Catriona MacDonald and Ben Smith at Western Sydney University and myself here @sheffieldpps.bsky.social Sheffield

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

NEW preprint!🥳

Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries

Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig)

OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life

🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6

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Abstract submission for the International Mountain Conference in Innsbruck #IMC25 is open! Come join us for a great session on mountain soil biodiversity: imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...
@msteinwandter.bsky.social @nadinepraeg.bsky.social @euracalpenv.bsky.social

I am really happy that I was able to present my first PhD results and I am grateful to the jury for this prize 🦠🧬

One of the biggest questions we get is when will our journals be here. We thank you for your patience.

You can now follow our journals with this starter pack!

We are recruiting for #PhD opportunity funded by NERC RedAlert CDT investigating novel ways to identify #salmonid diseases in #freshwater ecosystems using #eDNA - closing date 7th Jan, full details here: findaphd.com?pj=176410
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🚨 We are recruiting a #PhD student for a #NERC RedAlert CDT funded project using microbiological and genomic approaches to track #AMR 🦠 in riverine ecosystems in #NorthWales 🌈 - closing date 7th Jan, full details here: tinyurl.com/5wstuwxu
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