Whelan lab cake for the win at the Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics and MCF Winter Celebration 🥳 #bakeoff #whelanlab

🎓 Huge congrats to our two @bist.eu Master’s students, Igor Trujnara and @rebeccawallis.bsky.social who successfully defended their theses this week! 🧬💻Igor explored Large Language Models for genome annotation, while Rebecca investigated microbial biodiversity in Pyrenean lakes🏔️. @crg.eu @upf.edu

Had a great time at the Computational Symposium- such a valuable opportunity to connect with colleagues, hear about exciting projects, and share progress on my master’s research! Presenting my work on the Pyrenean Lake microbiome has been invaluable for gathering feedback and ideas for my analysis 🙂

Excited to be at #aquaecomics this week! Looking forward to networking and hearing insights relevant to my master project within PyriSentinel (pyrisentinel.eu), under @hannahbenisty.bsky.social 🧬⛰️

🚨 The Whelan lab is currently recruiting for a 6-week summer undergraduate student as part of the Lister Institute's Summer Studentship scheme. 🚨 The student will work along side a Postdoc to study interactions between pathogens from the cystic fibrosis microbiome. More info & to apply please see:

As part of the BIST master, I have collaborated with some fellow students to produce a podcast exploring scientific careers. From venture capital to baking, find out the possibilities and how people transferred out of academia: beyondthebenchpodcast.wordpress.com/guests/

I have received the Accreditation Top Project Award from the Royal Society of Biology! This is for my BSC Hons dissertation at the University of Nottingham, where I investigated the role of RNA-Binding proteins in Arabidopsis Thaliana. A big thank you to my supervisor Rupert Fray and the lab!

I keep recommending this website for multivariate analyses for microbial ecology: sites.google.com/site/mb3gust...

My poster (85) is up for today and tomorrow! Happy to chat about plasmids and transposons! 🧬🧫🧬🧫 #Microbio24

I had lots of fun presenting a poster at #microbio24 of my Harry Smith Studentship work, investigating ASM for culturing the Cystic Fibrosis lung microbiome. Thank you to everyone who came by! And a big thank you to my amazing supervisor @whelanfj.bsky.social for the continuous support! 🧬🧫

Can’t wait for #microbio24 to kickoff!! We’ll soon be hiring in PDRA and tech roles in my group at U of Manchester on projects investigating microbial interactions in the CF lung. Please come say hi if you want to learn more!

MicroSoc Harry Smith student @rebeccawallis.bsky.social will present her work on using ASM to culture the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome this afternoon at poster 207 #microbio24