Following NASA's recent announcement of a potential biosignature on Mars, I want to replug my colleague @fletcher42.bsky.social's work on exogeoconservation! As they state - "There is a need to balance the greatest scientific returns with limiting the impact of taking samples." 🧪🔭👩‍🚀

Back with another post about how I stay grounded whilst writing up my thesis! This morning's sunrise was insane 🌄

PhD exit seminar ✅ So happy I could share the bulk of my PhD where I optimised the expression, purification and (so far unsuccessful) polymerisation of novel eukaryotic-like proteins in Nelly (aka Loki-ASV2).

Listening to Stephanie Nobbs (@snobsi.bsky.social) telling us about the fascinating Asgard archaea isolated from Shark Bay's microbial mats. They isolated a new archaea and assembled its genome and in silico proteome. Found lots of eukaryote-like tubulins + new protein folds @unswbabs.bsky.social

New review out in Annual Review of Marine Science! 🌊🧫 We explore how ammonia-oxidising microbes form symbioses with marine hosts - fueling the nitrogen cycle, fixing carbon, and possibly feeding their hosts. #Metagenomics 🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky 🔗 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Spatial evidence of cryptic methane cycling and methylotrophic metabolisms along a land–ocean transect in salt marsh sediment #microbiology #methane www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you to the #archaea community for making my first #GRC a great one! I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to present and meet lovely new people! ❤️🦠 Coming from an island country, it was also great to put faces (and personalities) to names I otherwise only see on papers. 👩‍🔬🔬👩‍💻

#GRS and #GRC #Archaea in the Swiss Alps: great meetings and location! Many familiar and even more new faces. Going home with exciting ideas and collaboration initiatives on exploring #archaeal #viruses in #soil! Thanks to everyone 😉

How do I celebrate my first preprint coming out in the middle of the GRC? A swim in an Alpine like followed by a glass of Prosecco. 🥂

🚨 FIRST PAPER ALERT 🚨 My first research paper I've been involved with is out now as a preprint 🦠🥳🦠 #archaea #microsky #PhD

Half-way through my first GRC and I've; 🦠 Presented a well-received talk 🦠 Walked on a glacier 🦠 Not once had to explain what Asgard Archaea are

Bonjour La Suisse Romande 🇨🇭One day between FEMS2025 and GRS: Archaea! What did I do? Visit the Montreux Jazz Festival of course 🎺 🎶 🎷

Archaea and Shark Bay featured in the South Australian Museum. Very on theme after my week at ASM!

The final day of #FEMS2025 is done! Great opening session on extremophiles, an interesting discussion of using microbes as forensic tools and I've left with plenty of microbe nerds to bother the next time I'm in Europe 🦠🤓 Ciao Milano!

Day 2 of #FEMS2025 done! Loved meeting other microbe nerds and listening to some great talks. Im 100% biased today's session on extremophiles has been my favourite so far 🦠 🥶 🥵🧂 🦠

Loved my first full day at #FEMS2025 🦠 Thank you to everyone who came to chat with me at my poster. Can't wait to see more great speakers and talk more microbes tomorrow 👩‍🔬

Bongiorno Milano! Made it to #FEMS2025 after exploring the city. Catch me tomorrow (Tuesday) at poster 241.15P, Section D to talk Asgard archaea, protein folding and microbial dark matter. 🦠🔬 🦠

Swapped out the underwater macro setting of my camera to take some terrestrial macro photos on Klewenalp. 🌼🪷🪻

Warming up for 2 weeks of back-to-back conferences by 'networking' with grandma. Not a bad way to get over the jetlag. 🌞🥂🇨🇭

Half-way there for my euro summer to round out my PhD! 🌞🦠👩‍🎓 After tearing my ACL early last year, I'm excited to finally get around to 2 international conferences! Catch me at #FEMS2025, GRC: Archaea (and Montreux Jazz in between 🎺). #microsky #archaeasky

It has been charged under the light of a full moon 🌝 Sometimes you just need a little superstition to get you through the experiment 🔬

Manuscript/resource alert #microsky 🦠 My lab offers the community a collection of 30 E. coli (CloneFISH) cultures, each carrying a plasmid for the heterologous expression of a (near) full-length 16S rRNA gene from one of 30 lineages of archaea, including 19 yet uncultured ones.

JAMS June Monthly is next week🥳 📅 Tuesday 24th June, 2024 📍 The Rose, Chippendale (LOCATION CHANGE!) Can't wait to see you all at this new location! Come for the microbes, stay for the mates 🍻 #microbiolgy #JAMSmicro #science #seminar #networking #biology #research @doylemt1.bsky.social

What a missed opportunity... 🤔 We should have declared an official "Archaeal Week" at Nature Communications! 😆 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠

The best way to get myself out of the lab and my mind out of the PhD is to get into the ocean. 🤿🪸🐠 A few of my fav photos and edits so far! #PhDlife #marinelife #underwaterphotography #australianwildlife

Introducing my side gig to keep me sane during my PhD (and forcing friends to come with me) 🤿🪸🐠🪼

🚨New #astrobiology Paper Alert🚨 Great work by my colleague Clare Fletcher on publishing another chapter of their thesis which, in a nutshell, aims to stop _certain people_ from putting flags on Mars and trampling the planet. 🧪🪐 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

🚨 bogus paper alert 🚨 Guess what's wrong with this preprint!? Level: easy But at least it gave me a good chuckle 🤭 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #archaeasky

When supervisors vanish, where do you turn? Dr Yvonne Couch offers guidance on surviving and thriving in the absence of academic support. @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social #phdlife https://buff.ly/4fI92fT

An interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to Archaea!!! 🦠🔬🦠 I'm very excited to see the things that will come out of it! 🧪 👩‍🔬 #archaeasky #microsky

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 MinD is famously known for positioning FtsZ at mid-cell in bacteria In our study, myself and @iduggin.bsky.social found that MinD homologues in Haloferax volcanii influence the localisation of CetZ1, a homologue of FtsZ and tubulin #Archaeasky #Microsky

Have you ever heard about sheaths? Happy to share our last paper with @sgribaldo.bsky.social and Guillaume Borrel @pasteur.fr where we investigated their distribution and evolution! doi.org/10.1093/isme... Below a thread of our major findings:

Bacteria, archaea and phages, oh my! 🦠 It's work like this that shows how important it is to study all the domains of life 🧬 #microsky #archaeasky

Hello #microsky! Now that I've made it here, let me introduce myself: 3rd yr PhD uncovering the world of archaeal tubulins 🧬 🦠-iologist by training but dabbling in proteins thanks to @kmichie.bsky.social Also your friendly neighbourhood @jamsorgsyd.bsky.social secretary ✍️

JAMS Sydney has made its way to Bluesky! ✨ Help us connect JAMSters as they make their way over so let us know if you'd like to be added! 🦠 go.bsky.app/B1uUprK

Anymore archaea peeps out there keen to be part of the ‘kingdom’? #archaeasky go.bsky.app/PEx7P9v

There have been a lot of new additions to the starter pack. If you are into any aspects of microbial cell biology or cell biology in general, now’s a great time to follow and engage with the new arrivals 🦋 go.bsky.app/L3L2iFz

Hello Blueskis. Here is a starter pack of General Microbiology. It's a small list currently. Please feel free to self-nominate and I will add you. go.bsky.app/QgSQHJ9