Congrats to Rachel Whitaker's lab on their recent publication in Frontiers - Microbiology. The paper examines high-frequency gene transfer in S. islandicus. For a link to this & other featured publications by MSI researchers, check out our most recent newsletter: emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/70/…

Would be nice to ALSO feature the student who did the work! 😂 Just a thought!

The is from the same microbe! Left: Illumina Short Reads Right: PacBio Hifi reads! But I am told this is unnecessary for Microbes. Some people like to do things the hard way I suppose! :P

Take care of your Microbes and they will take care of You!

Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses | Nature. Two realms of viruses come together. Digging RNA polymerase phylogeny provides us with a big surprise. Enjoy. nature.com/articles/s4158…

VERY cool! Great to see thermophiles finally getting the respect they deserve!

Are #probiotics the future of cholesterol management? #MedTwitter #microbiome nature.com/articles/d4158…

They go so good together!! 😭

Chronic stress disrupts microbiota-gut-brain axis function. New findings from APC Microbiome Ireland, John F. Cryan et al. found that the gastrointestinal response to acute stress is dependent on the time of day and the microbiome mediated by tryptophan metabolism: cell.com/cell-reports/f…

If you work from home or on a computer, do manual labor as a hobby. The lawn is a good place to let out all that energy, great exercise, and you have something to show for it at the end.

100%

Professors when you need their signature

#real

If you don't feel like exercising today. Just think of Biden for motivation. Look how weak he is. Look how fragile. He is old and meek. Anything small can kill him.

If I hadn’t had family, I’d be like that Bar stool guy except he’s a dork who can’t fight or lift. Fornicating aimlessly. A slave to base desires. Flaunting money vulgarly to impress loser 20 year old incels and sugar babies because my life would have no meaning. Bleak stuff.

They make the students do it 🤭

Sadly, many expect you to put your life on hold after 5+ years of putting your life on hold. No serious person would kill themselves for a high level degree to make $40k. Go to industry if you can, your quality of life will be MUCH better.

Controversial take: Americans should be allowed to fully own their own property. Once Paid off, it cannot be taken from you. It should be yours fully, and you no longer owe/pay property taxes. You are already taxed many other ways (income, etc) No push for this?

Would you outsource high quality microbial genome assembly?