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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 9d

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

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Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · 22d

Prabhakar Raghavan realized in 2019 if you make search less efficient, then you can serve customers more ads.

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Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · Jun 24

That's a gorgeous frog!

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Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · Apr 23

The first paper from PhD student Niladri Bhowmik is out today as a PLOS Pathogens Pearl: Achromobacter spp.: Emerging pathogens in the cystic fibrosis lung. Congrats Niladri!

journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Achromobacter spp.: Emerging pathogens in the cystic fibrosis lung

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · Apr 18

Recorded #MattersMicrobial Episode 88 with Dr. Reed Stubbendieck from Oklahoma State today. Great conversation about how microbes converse with one another during sickness and health. Fascinating! @bactereedia.bsky.social

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Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · Apr 15

We built this in my laboratory: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Frontiers | Inexpensive Apparatus for High-Quality Imaging of Microbial Growth on Agar Plates

The ability to capture images of results or processes is an important tool in the biologist’s tool kit. In microbiology, capturing high-quality images of mic...

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Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · Mar 29

Ooof. No thank you!

Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · Mar 29

Yeah. Standard LB. This is looking possible likely based on some preliminary tests we've done.

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Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thanks! Yeah. Agreed. Both are worth testing. Might be time to dump the competent cells.

Reed Stubbendieck @bactereedia.bsky.social · Mar 26

We have been dealing with high background using erythromycin selection for multiple E. coli strains in my lab. We've tried multiple vendors and lots, but the problem persists. Has anyone else had this problem before? Any ideas?

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Mar 21

#NewPI life

A slack message from me saying "... is anyone waiting on something from me? I think I'm caught up again"

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · Mar 16

In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained

Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 16

People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress.

The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.

Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · Mar 14

The damage will be far worse than just a 4-yr gap. Both I and the individual who has managed this site for most of the past 50 yrs are retiring within the next 2 years. With this closure, we will not be able to plan a transition.

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Kevin Forsberg @kvnforsberg.bsky.social · Mar 3

My lab’s first preprint!

We used functional metagenomics to identify phage defenses in human and soil microbiomes. We scaled these selections while maintaining accuracy, enabling us to examine 9 habitats for defense elements against 7 phages.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Functional Metagenomic Selections for Phage Defense

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Julia Willett @jlewillett.bsky.social · Mar 1

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

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Alex Chase 🧬🌋🌊 @microbomics.bsky.social · Feb 28

Some of my first year grad students in my class are asking for books to read that will get them thinking about what questions to ask and how to know what they should ask. I have a couple of recs but wondering if anyone can help. What inspired you??

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Marc Chevrette @wildtypemc.bsky.social · Feb 28

GATOR-GC preprint is live! If you haven't already, check out our new tool for targeted gene cluster mining. @jcedielbecerra.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Rauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our minireview on BGC evolution being shaped by genomic & ecological context is now live on mSystems:

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

#secmet #MEvoSky

Context matters: assessing the impacts of genomic background and ecology on microbial biosynthetic gene cluster evolution | mSystems

Microbial secondary metabolites are compounds produced by bacteria and fungi that are not required for their replication and unconditional survival (1, 2). While they are thus not expected to be unive...

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · Feb 22

We are crowd sourcing reductions in graduate admissions and hiring freezes across biomedical research and higher ed in response to pauses in NIH funding and EO’s. If you have information if you could add to this spreadsheet, it would be greatly appreciated!: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Feb 14

Just sitting here, trying to write a grant, crying for so many thousands who dedicated their lives to making the world better and safer, just thrown out like trash today.

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Jo Handelsman, PhD @johandelsman.bsky.social · Feb 13

"Make America Great Again. Make America Healthy Again. These were promises made by candidate Trump in his campaign to be president of the United States of America. What in this campaign platform should have prepared us for a war on discovery?"

Guest column: “The war on discovery” is antithesis of campaign pledge to make America great again - Wisconsin Technology Council

By Jo Handelsman MADISON, Wis. – Make America Great Again. Make America Healthy Again. These were promises made by candidate Trump in his campaign to be president of the United States of America. What...

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jan 29

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Marc Chevrette @wildtypemc.bsky.social · Jan 12

~5y ago, Barbara, Serina, @marnixmedema.bsky.social & I teamed up to make a better NRPS A-domain specificity predictor. The Challis group & others joined along the way to add some very cool insights.

Very proud of this work. Check it out now on biorxiv!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

PARAS: high-accuracy machine-learning of substrate specificities in nonribosomal peptide synthetases

Nonribosomal peptides are chemically and functionally diverse natural products with important applications in medicine and agriculture. Bacterial and fungal genomes contain thousands of nonribosomal p...

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Dan Udwary @danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com · Jan 13

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#secmet 🧪🖥️🧬

PARAS: high-accuracy machine-learning of substrate specificities in nonribosomal peptide synthetases

Nonribosomal peptides are chemically and functionally diverse natural products with important applications in medicine and agriculture. Bacterial and fungal genomes contain thousands of nonribosomal p...

www.biorxiv.org

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