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Type VI Sophia System

@wheezenfeld.bsky.social

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Former Vibrio, current System Biology PhD candidate in Michael Baym's Lab at Harvard Medical School. she/her "The agreement of the results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance" (James Maxwell 1865)

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Apr 1

Woolly mice is bioweapon.

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 7d

(The demo microbes are Photobacterium leiognathi, not quite Dinoflagellates but easy to culture and quite bright!!💡)

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 7d

Loved having a chance this weekend to showcase the science behind bioluminescence & talk about the bioluminescent bays of Puerto Rico at the Harvard Museum's Celebremos Puerto Rico 🕺🇵🇷!

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 11d

Really cool work on anthropomorphic driven change of plasmids :)!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · 27d

So cool! What species is this?😍

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Sep 5

we were losing our minds over this yesterday, it’s so wild

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very relatable stuff from President Garber, this is how I feel learning that the incoming freshmen were probably all born in 2007

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Sep 2

speaking of excellent lore I wonder who will be the first to find the easter egg #ImageForensics >:)

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is one of the findings that really motivates my research: yes, antibiotic resistance genes are ancient, but the age of antibiotics has likely contributed to a big change in their mobility and of the landscape of MGEs we see today! Very happy for Arya and to see this published.

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Aug 26

broke: the professor writing professor x grad student romance novels
woke: the PhD student writing about a student going to Hell to bring her PI back from the dead bc he hadn’t finished writing her rec letter

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Jana Huisman @jhuisman.bsky.social · Aug 25

Have you ever wondered what increasing environmental stress will do to microbial communities?

In our new preprint, @martinadalbello.bsky.social, Jeff Gore and I studied the impact of salinity on microbial community composition and function. 🧵 (1/5)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microbial communities demonstrate robustness in stressful environments due to predictable composition shifts

Environmental stress reduces species growth rates, but its impact on the function of microbial communities is less clear. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that increasing salinity stress shifts com...

www.biorxiv.org

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Aug 18

time to truly test the pet policy in my dream apartment's listing

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Aug 18

SUPER cool, I've never managed to take a phone picture of this much luminescence!! What species/strain is this?

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Aug 15

Spring 2nd half! Third times the charm :)

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Aug 15

Proud to announce I got this new piece of paper !!! (And also finished my Bok teaching certif)

For the past 3 years I’ve done coursework, teaching observations & made a portfolio to try to become a better TF. It’s been amazing so far and I’m excited to teach Integrated Science again this spring :)

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Aug 8

We will miss you Hue!!!

Everyone's least favorite lab mate @kepatitis-c.bsky.social · Aug 8

When I was told I’d have a summer undergrad I couldn’t have imagined how lucky I would be. Hue has no tolerance for the easy way out and takes on new challenges with an infectious positivity. One day (hopefully🤞) someone will be just as lucky to have her as a grad student. We will miss you!

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Aug 8

Last week with our summer undergrads 🥲💔 SPECTACULAR students and we will all miss them immensely. Summer research experiences are (for me) one of the most rewarding parts of being in academia so I am really praying that they will continue to be a learning opportunity for mentors and mentees alike

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Jul 1

Getting powerpoint alt text to summarize my PhD (colorful image of a long line)

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Jun 24

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Jun 21

I will also be giving the first conference talk of my PhD on my continuation of @fernpizza.bsky.social ’s plasmid MLS work, on determinants of plasmid competitive fitness :)

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Jun 21

the Baym lab 🔜 Molecular Mechanisms GRS! Come talk about the evolution and ecology of MGEs
@fernpizza.bsky.social Multilevel plasmid selection!
@arya (arya.casa) Creation of deletion-born fusion genes (frankenstein genes 🧟)
@theshreyaspai.bsky.social Why sex is so common even though it’s costly

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · Jun 19

Day 1 of PhD vs. Day 1000

Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · May 31

I just called my congress members (www.congress.gov/members/find...). 5calls and Chop Wood, Carry Water have good scripts if you are not sure what to say.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · May 29

I'll also add: all five federal grants that supported different parts this work were part of the mass termination of Harvard grants three weeks ago

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Siân Owen @sianowen.bsky.social · May 28

Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺

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Type VI Sophia System @wheezenfeld.bsky.social · May 29

Phage DisCo is out in mSystems!! Super useful (and beautiful) method for targeted phage discovery for your every need :)

Ellie Rand @ellie-rand.bsky.social · Nov 23

Phage DisCo can be further multiplexed with three bacterial strains in co-culture, and, when tested with characterized phages, the fluorescent signal shined! Maybe you can see where the disco ball comparison comes in here. 🪩 4/

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