Yesterday was #belateforsomethingday. An occasion that could have deserved more attention in academic circles, where <what you should have been doing> is not done because the side research and making nice plots is just too much fun #AcademicChatter

A Great 2022! I wish it to be banana-dependent, no cov19, climate tragedies, just whether a banana was in the vicinity, what a fantastic year that would be

Hoping to provide a forum for those who have optimised their Oxford Nanopore for full 16S/18S amp sequencing; developed a custom PacBio pipeline to process bacterial metagenomics; validated their Illumina output with mocks or #flowcytometry, … ⬇️

According to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency, Prof. Ahmadreza Djalali will be executed on or before May 21. His execution would be cruel and utterly unacceptable. Plans to do so should therefore be halted immediately. Please retweet. #SaveAhmadreza #FreeDjalali

Kicking of the Restoreseas research by isolating golden kelp bacteria on agar made from UnitedH2020 Jessica Knoop sugar kelp

We continue to tweak our Oxford Nanopore full length 16S amplicon work flow. Automated for multiple barcodes, originally based on NANOclust. The new version is 3 x faster with increased sensitivity. More soon!

A great and very interesting week so far here at #issholobiont2022. Presenting my work on bacterial transmission in the green alga Bryopsis on tonights poster session nr. 60

Just another day in the 'office' - fantastic field campaign to seaweed paradise (Normandy) with Willem Stock and Emma Gouwy sampling #Laminaria ochroleuca for the Restoreseas project. The early mornings were compensated for by beautiful sunrises and perfect conditions!

Meet Emma (Emma Gouwy), a master student in our project, working with kelp forests UGent: restoreseas.net/blog/2022/11/s… #kelp #marineforests #seaweeds #marineforestrestoration

Our biosafety cabinet indicated that it noticed a disturbance in the flow. As a star wars fan, this worries me greatly

Thank you to all the great people from CCMAR - Centro de Ciências do Mar, especially Aschwin Engelen, Joao Neiva, Neusa Martins & Ester Serrao for the very warm welcome and the many fruitful discussions in the framework of Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) Restoreseas and others.

Some sad news for us holobiont (Holobiont/Hologenome) fans: no bacterial rescue in a thermally stressed brown seaweed doi.org/10.1016/j.scit… Nonetheless very excited to have these (negative) results out in STOTEN

A lot of white smoke coming out of one of the Geology UGent lab chimneys earlier today. Was a new head of department elected?

My new favourite microbiologist quote: ‘Don’t ask me questions on things I can see’

Two exciting PhD positions in the Phycology Lab – UGent (O. De Clerck Olivier De Clerck ) to work on Ulva genomics and seaweed population resources. Interested? phycology.ugent.be/opportunity/