One for the Integrative & Conjugative Element aficionados. Mobilome of Genus Mesorhizobium is dominated by ICEs and IME including the largest known mobile tripartite ICE (853kb). Large pangenome and extensive MGE recombination Microbiology Society Elena Colombi doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

My meticulousness creeping into tech-ing 🧫🔬 #microart #bacto

It was a pleasure to hear from Curtin PhD student Tahlia Bastholm at the SBMS seminar series at UWA on her work on quorum sensing, great work Tahlia!! 👏🏻👏🏻 Marshall Centre @CHIRI_curtin Josh Ramsay

Tuesday write-night Amy Davis Callum Verdonk

Craving a dose of #micro merriment? 🎄Come to our Annual ASM Christmas Oration!🎄 Featuring guest speakers Dr Andrew Currie and Prof Elizabeth Watkin, #student presentations, #awards, #prizes and topped off with a sundowner 🥂 See you this Friday! 🎅

What started as a side project to help finish off those 'last few experiments' really took off, and turned into a whole part of my PhD. So excited to see it out!! Academic Chatter™ #microbiology #micro #Genetics #PhD

Amazing what the ECR/PhD students of @CHIRI_curtin came up with in this friendly office decorating competition! Curtin University #phdlife #christmas #holidays fb.watch/9WQh7_sCdw/

Hoping my niece will grow up to be a nerd like me 😅🤓🧬🔭 #science #baby #Christmas #PhdLife

Shout out to all the other final year #PhD students attempting to finish in 2022. Here’s to finishing experiments, writing papers, writing thesis, finding a job, presenting at more virtual conferences, surviving #Omicron #pandemic and staying sane.#PhDLife #phdchat #2022NewYear

Yep, exactly how I would respond. #scomo #aus

6th year grad students trying to recruit prospective students into their program

Great night at The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Gala dinner with a refreshing presentation from the 2022 medalist Fiona Wood! #ScienceTwitter

It was such good fun talking proteins to a very receptive ASM crowd! ASM WA

Join us to help continue my PhD work! #phd #phdchat #quorumsensing #ncRNA #micro

Some final student #agarart for the teaching year! Thanks again Tahlia Bastholm for all the hard work setting things up!

Introduced nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria horizontally transfer symbiosis genes. Turns out Australian soils contain incredibly diverse non-sym mesorhizobia populations capable of symbiosis following such gene transfer. Well done Elena Colombi microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

A highly diverse population of nonsymbiotic mesorhizobia🦠lives in Australian soils🥀 but these nonsyms evolve nitrogen-fixing symbiosis🌹 via horizontal gene transfer🧬 📢First 2023 paper in Microbial Genomics Microbiology Society with Josh Ramsay & Co microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Did anyone else have a mid-PhD crisis, similar to a mid-life crisis, where you suddenly question every life decision you’ve ever made & second guess what career path you want to do post-PhD … no? Just me? Cool 😅

Up next in the #molmicro1 session at #ASM2023 is Tahlia Bastholm from Curtin University talking about her #PhD work on a novel quorum sensing system in Mesorhizobium spp 🦠⚗️🧫 ASM WA ASM