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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 8d

Multiomic analysis of the only megaphage in culture. In press today.

Unlocking the genomic repertoire of a cultivated megaphage | npj Viruses share.google/HgU1cjRnaHWv...

#phage #bacteriophage

Unlocking the genomic repertoire of a cultivated megaphage - npj Viruses

npj Viruses - Unlocking the genomic repertoire of a cultivated megaphage

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 16d

Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach at Discovery Place today. We had 217 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about bats and immunology

At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab

Great job team!

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you!

raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 29d

Send me an email . I think we can help

raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Sep 6

Well, how can we help you?
My lab specializes in making code easy to use for all. Also, we love phages. Send me a message.

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The Probst Lab @probstlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

We’re happy to announce Dr. Lennard Stach!! 🥳🥳 Well done Lennard for a brilliant defense and thesis!! We will miss you!
Finally, thank you @leeselab.bsky.social for sitting in the thesis committee! 🫶

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 30

#phage #phagesky #bacteriophage

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 29

Congratulations to Andra and Stephanie, master’s students in the lab, whose manuscript has been accepted for publication in Nature NPJ Viruses.

Their study reports the multiomic characterization of the largest bacteriophage maintained in culture.

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 16

Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach. 591 visitors at our booths today.

This month we just crossed over 6,000 local Charlotte visitors to our booths since October 2024!

At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab

Great job team!

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 14

Tenure dossier submitted

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 14

The mcp and TerL protein still are so divergent. Especially mcp. We need to characterize them better. The unknown unknowns escape us still. Phage G still has 65% or 390 predicted proteins without known function.

raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks for the reference brother. Great looking advancement!

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 8

I would love to do a YouTube show with you on stromatolites/microbialites, origin of life on Earth, and the search for life beyond Earth. Let me know if you game for such a show?

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Aug 6

Well done video. Thanks for the shout out to microbialites/stromatolites. They are our favorites!! We work on the modern ones all over the world.

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Jul 24

Glad Science retracted the Arsenic life paper.

Brilliant work by Rosie Redfield and others showed this study had issues 15 years ago.

Rosie's paper in science
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication

A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.

www.livescience.com

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Jul 20

Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach at Discovery Place today. Around 584 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, and infectious diseases

At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab

Great job team!

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Jun 21

Missing TJ. I have to add him in later for the special edition directors cut

raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Jun 21

RAW Lab picture day! Summer 2025
Thank you @morgancarterphd.bsky.social for the photo.
Missing TJ but it is what is. #teamraw #rawlab

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Jun 21

Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) at Discovery Place today. Around 366 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, infectious diseases, and immune responses.

At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Lots of secondary metabolite clusters, a plasmid that appears to be lost or transferred, weird ANI boundaries, something for everyone!

We were also lucky that our neighbors in the @raw937.bsky.social lab looked for prophage in these endosymbionts. Did not think they would be there but they are!

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jun 17

New from the Carter Lab!

Led by @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social, we sequenced almost twice as many complete genomes as were available for the endofungal Mycetohabitans genus.

Unsurprisingly, they are a little weird, giving us insight into endosymbiotic genome changes 🧬 🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Jun 17

You're welcome! Great PI, great lab, and cool system 😎
We are super happy to find our lovely phage as another layer of complexity in this tripartite system. #carterlab #rawlab

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · May 17

Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) at Discovery place today. A busier day today with 375 visitors at our booths. We will continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, infectious diseases, and immune responses.

At Discovery place every 3rd Saturday of the month.

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · May 11

A little smashing pumpkins this morning #smashingpumpkins #bacteriophage #phage

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · Apr 23

Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) at Discovery place on Saturday. A slow day, only 232 visitors. We continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, infectious diseases, and immune response.

At Discovery place every 3rd Saturday of the month.