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Machine learning for microbiologists nature.com/articles/s4157… In this Review, Segata, Waldron and co discuss key concepts of machine learning that are relevant to microbiologists and provide them with a set of tools to apply machine learning in microbiology research.

So excited to have defended my dissertation this Tuesday. It was a beautiful day filled with so much love and support. Thank you to my amazing PI Sashi Ramani, my TAC members, and community for a wonderful graduate school experience!

!! Release update !! If you uses iPHoP for phage host prediction: we just released a new version (1.3.3), alongside an updated host database now based on GTDB r214. Updated code and database available via conda / Docker. Please report any issues to bitbucket.org/srouxjgi/iphop…

Sheffield #BioFest, was fab! Great to talk with so many folk about phages and hear their insights.Thanks to the Sheffield microbiologists for the company and delicious curry after. Snaps are of Luke Jerram's giant E coli and glass T4, so beautiful, do go and see them if you can!

In people with cystic fibrosis, P. aeruginosa isolates from the same sputum sample have diverse antibiotic resistance profiles, which may explain the discrepancy between in vitro & in vivo antibiotic efficacy when treating infections. Microbiology Spectrum: asm.social/1Ba

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Live footage of me writing this paper x.com/buitengebieden…

Alternative therapeutic strategies to treat antibiotic-resistant pathogens go.nature.com/46UFwOz In this Review, MacNair, Rutherford & Tan explore the potential of non-conventional therapeutic strategies in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Complete this sentence: Having a PhD doesn't necessarily mean that you are smart. But it does mean that you are ______________

I'm in my 4th year of #PhD, worked in different labs around the world, heard from several postdocs, PhDs and UG's... Dear supervisors, here are my suggestions to make your research lab a better place & attract talent! PhD Voice - Independently Run PhD_Genie Academic Chatter™ Academic Dilemmas 🧭

In this bioRxiv preprint, we (Kevin Corbett ) present the architecture and activation mechanism of the PARIS antiviral defense system. Thanks to our co-authors, Lisa Liang, Eray Enustun, Ph.D., and Joe Pogliano, for their support in shedding light on this Anti-anti-defense system.🧵

Bacteria can be pirates too... 🏴‍☠️ Let us introduce you to Captain Aureispira ⛵️ A bacterial pirate ship loaded with canons 💉 and grappling hooks 🪝🌴predating on other bacteria 🦠 Check the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #predation #T6SS #T9SS #cryoEM #cryoET #teamtomo 🧵1/6

I SAID YES!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 😭 😭 🥺LinkedIn asked me if I’m still a postdoc 😢

Never name a manuscript draft "_FINAL"

Just out! COBRA COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes nature.com/articles/s4156…

My first, first author paper is now on bioRxiv! 🤩 Linker histone H1 is a liquid-like "glue" condensing chromatin, which revises textbooks! 📖✨ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Huge thanks to my PI, Kazuhiro Maeshima, for supervision. Amazing collab with Rosana Collepardo’s group!" (1/n)