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The lab's FIRST research article, introducing temperate phage-antibiotic synergy (tPAS), where a low-dose inducer co-administered with a temperate phage eradicates the bacterial host. The paper is here: disq.us/t/3xejdvm. Sharing stories that don’t make it into papers below

To my microbiologist contacts, has anyone extracted bacterial DNA from a top agar (soft agar, 0.3%) layer? Does the agar cause problem for the extraction or is it just precipitated with other debris? #sciencetwitter #phagetwitter Phage Canada #molecularbiology #microbiology

It is with great pleasure that we annouce the return of the Phage Canada Virtual Symposia series. Occurring from August 17th-19th, the symposia will feature presentations from trainee phage researchers from all over Canada.

#CSM_SCM2022 opens up with an excellent talk by @acgerstein on reproducibility in science and data organization. Now let's see if I can convince Alexander Hynes to start using electronic lab notebooks and centralized file repos. 😅

Continuing the #CSM_SCM2022 with the absolute BEST session ... The phage session. A nice shout out to Phage Canada and it's upcoming symposia series in August, registration and abstract submission are still open.

Rarely have I seen corporate swag so on point. Finally I have someone to explain my code to, he might even understand it! #CSM_SCM2022 Thanks Thermo Fisher

Already the last day of #CSM_SCM2022 but Emily Červenka is doing a fantastic job of opening the AEM session with a fascinating talk on how bacteria can create bioplastics from CO2-derived formate. What a clever way to both capture CO2 and create "green" plastics!

#CSM_SCM2022 was such a blast and it's been a privilege to share these.momentd with amazing colleagues and friends.

To #SciTwitter, has anyone in my circles tried eLabFTW: The Free Lab Notebook 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🌍? Any recommendations or testimony about it worked for your labs? I'm looking into different electronic lab notebooks and any free option is interesting, even more so if it's open source.

Does anyone know of a tool to make those genome graphs where orfs are arrows of different colors to show similarity when doing genome comparison? I see them all the time in papers but can't find a tool that generates them. Example below. #SciTwitter #Genetics Phage Canada

Day 1 of CSM, so many fantastic posters at the first session. If you want to hear about the Hynes Lab (Alexander Hynes )'s newest PhD student, head to Christine Cerson's Poster (#271). Her work aims to answer the questions: "Why do bacteria live in chains?" And "What about phages?"!

An amazing poster by Tamina Angel Jose from the Hynes lab (Alexander Hynes) on probiotics, prophages and how they might interact! For the full story go see poster #42 and ask about her amazing work on Lacticaseibacillus! CSM-SCM_2023 Dalhousie (Halifax) #CSM_SCM2023 #CSM2023

It was an amazing opportunity to speak to the #CSM2023 conference sharing my science while showcasing my hobby of making fun science illustrations! #SciCom #Phage #microbiology

Et de deux! Félix Croteau presenting the spoils of his PhD - Warhammer, Phage-Planters, and DNA. Oh, and a Thesis, I suppose. A masterful defence, a wonderful external Joshua Modell... and there goes the last of the lab's starting cohort. *sniff*.

A picture is worth 1536 plaque assays. While we used a robot, we also tried a dirt-cheap 3D-printed alternative which works wonders at 384-density. I really believe this pre-print has the potentially to be the largest impact I will make on my field. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…