TFW one of your former students is the guest speaker in your department seminar series

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

Excited to share this work with you for two reasons: it's Divanthika's first paper (🥳) and it's pretty cool. Transformation of Gardnerella vaginalis with a Bifidobacterium-Escherichia coli shuttle vector plasmid #microsky | journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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A year ago, I was tasked with creating a timeline for @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social and we came across this amazing example of a way to keep track of a group with a long history. We now have a record of our history going back to 2011, and I hope that this can stay alive and continuously updated as well!

I think my university has a Department of Moving Snow Around. Every day piles of snow disappear in one place and appear in another

#ChemTogether. Forever. #RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

This was such a fun project and I love it when we can see an immediate application of our work 🐄🧬 #microsky #diagnostics #veterinarydiagnostics wcvmtoday.usask.ca/articles/202...

I've been an ASM member and supporter for >20 yrs and that is about to end. There are so many other choices internationally. I'll put my membership $ and publication fees, and donate my volunteer reviewer time to societies that prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion

My letter to ASM leaders that I sent is too long to be posted here, so I'm going to post highlights in case anyone else needs information for their letter. 🧵

Setting the tone for the office: 🧪Science is cool (especially microbiology) 🧑‍🎓Grad school is cool 🪶Birds are cool ❤️Everyone is welcome here

Our paper describing a new STH species Trichuris incognita which is resistant to albendazole-ivermectin combination therapy is out in Emerging Infectious Diseases wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... Great work Abhinaya Venkatesan & collaborators @jsoghigian.bsky.social , Jennifer Keiser and team.

Had to do some Canadian Common CV updates today and once again I am marvelling at the fact that I can satisfy the NSERC template and yet simultaneously anger the CIHR template. Apparently "student start date" is not a shared concept between the two 🤪

Final grades: submitted 🥳

Excited to see our latest development put into action in the diagnostic lab! Details in the Prairie Diagnostic Services November newsletter: www.pdsinc.ca/PDS/Assets/D... journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Targeted syndromic next-generation sequencing panel for simultaneous detection of pathogens associated with bovine reproductive failure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612295v1

It me! 🤓 I'm on the list but lab homepage has changed to research-groups.usask.ca/hilllab/

Excited to share this preprint - diagnostic solution for detection of pathogens associated with bovine reproductive failure 🐮🦠🧬 t.co/9Z0LafCsCI

Time for the annual update of my lab Gantt chart. If you haven't started one, I highly recommend. Students see themselves in the context of lab history and I get a very useful memory aid!

We have an early New Year present for you 🎁 the January #MVIF program with Jennifer Wargo Nikolay Oskolkov Sondra Turjeman Mireia Valles-Colomer Full program with abstracts: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu... Registration: hopin.com/events/micro... ✨Happy holidays ✨

She's back as a predatory publisher 🧛‍♀️

Excited to see a double-anonymous peer review option at Journal of Bacteriology. For now, it's an opt-in experiment: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Making an appearance at the September Microbiology International Virtual Forum. Join us! www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

Well, here I am. Where are the microbes? 🤓