Lauren Hart
@laurenhart.bsky.social
PhD student @UMich Chem Bio | Texas Ex | Multi-Omics of Harmful Algal blooms 🦠 (Sherman/Dick labs) |
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What happens when an energetic postdoc (@zepernickbn.bsky.social) takes a class to a local quarry to learn to limnology? Science!! (and pets are protected). Nice work by Britt, team and colleagues from the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters & Human Health.
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The ornithine-arginine cycle supported a toxic, metalimnic Planktothrix rubescens bloom
Planktothrix rubescens is distinct from other cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (cHAB) genera: the crimson-red cHAB thrives in the cold, low-light, n…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What happens when an energetic postdoc (@zepernickbn.bsky.social) takes a class to a local quarry to learn to limnology? Science!! (and pets are protected). Nice work by Britt, team and colleagues from the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters & Human Health.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Water is essential, but 1 in 3 people still lack access to safe drinking water. ASLO recently supported @agu.org and @asm.org in producing a report on how climate change fuels waterborne infections and how science can help. Check it out now: asm.org/reports/wate...
June 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Water is essential, but 1 in 3 people still lack access to safe drinking water. ASLO recently supported @agu.org and @asm.org in producing a report on how climate change fuels waterborne infections and how science can help. Check it out now: asm.org/reports/wate...
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A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...
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April 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
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NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
February 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
Thanks to @theconversation.com for highlighting our work studying harmful algal blooms in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria! theconversation.com/lake-victori...
Lake Victoria is turning green – the deadly bacteria behind it
The organisms that cause greening are highly concentrated in Kenya’s shallow Winam Gulf.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thanks to @theconversation.com for highlighting our work studying harmful algal blooms in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria! theconversation.com/lake-victori...
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Metagenomics reveals spatial variation in cyanobacterial composition, function, and biosynthetic potential in the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
January 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Metagenomics reveals spatial variation in cyanobacterial composition, function, and biosynthetic potential in the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
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Nice to see this important work make the news cycle when there is a lot of news in the world. Kudos to @laurenhart.bsky.social, @zepernickbn.bsky.social and others.
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And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
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journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...
Worrying signs for Lake Erie uncovered 7,500 miles away in Africa
New research from Africa's Lake Victoria has revealed critical clues about toxic algal blooms and their potential impact on Lake Erie and beyond.
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January 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nice to see this important work make the news cycle when there is a lot of news in the world. Kudos to @laurenhart.bsky.social, @zepernickbn.bsky.social and others.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
And very nice of Newsweek to pick it up!
www.newsweek.com/lake-erie-la...
MIBiG is huge! This was such a great opportunity to work with world-class scientists on updating this repository, in particular @pmdagostino.bsky.social in the cyanobacterial biosynthesis world. Check out the 🧵 below...
Are you working on natural products? We’ve just released version 4.0 of the MIBiG data standard and repository! It now includes 3059 biosynthetic gene clusters, thanks to the combined efforts of 288 expert contributors. A thread: (1/8) academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration
Abstract. Specialized or secondary metabolites are small molecules of biological origin, often showing potent biological activities with applications in ag
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December 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
MIBiG is huge! This was such a great opportunity to work with world-class scientists on updating this repository, in particular @pmdagostino.bsky.social in the cyanobacterial biosynthesis world. Check out the 🧵 below...
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Bioinformaticist: Can't read the cup until I convert it to gff and open as a table in pandas
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Bioinformaticist: Can't read the cup until I convert it to gff and open as a table in pandas
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Chemist: Why are we using Imperial measurements instead of metric?
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Chemist: Why are we using Imperial measurements instead of metric?
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Law professor: No cups in the park
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Law professor: No cups in the park
November 24, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Bioinformaticist: Can't read the cup until I convert it to gff and open as a table in pandas
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Bioinformaticist: Can't read the cup until I convert it to gff and open as a table in pandas