Had a great time telling the story of #FannyHesse and the introduction of agar-agar to the microbial sciences. Thanks to #CorradoNai and #ASMicrobiology #CHOMA for the opportunity. #ASMicrobe

The CHOMA exhibit at #ASMicrobe showcases a selection of items with connections to some of the most important figures in microbiology's history—from Alice Evans, ASM's first woman president, to Joshua Lederberg. If you're on site, be sure to swing by and take a look for yourself!

Also also come find me or Jamal if you want to talk BV-BRC @bvbrc.bsky.social - we might hang out near the NIH table in the exhibit hall at #ASMicrobe at some point.

Attn ASM 2025 attendees interested in Mars, astrobiology, and sample return! I'll be speaking Fri June 20 (10:45am, AES Track Hub, Exhibit Hall) on the frontiers of microbial life detection in context of (potentially) returning samples from Mars. Hope to see you there! #ASMicrobe

The Ushijima Lab will be represented at #ASMicrobe by PhD student Liz Weatherup presenting her poster on the coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus during Friday's poster session! I'll be there running around part of the #AES planning committee as well as posting AES scientific program updates here!

The Drown Lab will be representing at #ASMicrobe with two posters and a Rapid Fire Talk. @uafairbanks.bsky.social students, Agi Lehr and Danielle Wren, will be sharing their ongoing graduate research on soil and host associated microbiomes using @nanoporetech.com sequencing.

Thrilled to present at #Nanoporeconf - London Calling 2025 with Yvonne Chen on making DNA sequencing an activity that students in every classroom can participate in. #biotechnology #STEM #Education

Come on down! The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host its annual Arctic Research Open House Thursday, May 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. on the West Ridge of the Troth Yeddha' Campus in Fairbanks.

www.uaf.edu/news/uaf...

Resister TODAY for Binning Singletons @ #ASMicrobe in LA! 🧪

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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

I talked to Lori Schoening at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and they have had some awesome Tribal partnerships to coproduce curricula. Check out all their projects here: www.gi.alaska.edu/services/edu...

Recent #birdflu cases highlight the need for proactive #pathogen monitoring. Read how researchers using nanopore sequencing in wastewater detected surges in #influenza A, showing its potential as an early warning system.

Read here: www.the-microbiologist.com/news/sewage-... #H5N1

First paper from UA Fairbanks undergraduate D Wrenn
now published at GigaByte gigabytejournal.com/articles/103 testing nanopore
Adaptive Sampling with #AMR

I am so proud of the unique opportunities that our fund provides to the University of Iowa community. Iowa faculty, staff, and postdocs, please apply for the upcoming award cycle on October 31. The application is simple and easy! And friends, please repost.
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Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...

Thrilled I'm a co-author with @concentricbygbw colleagues on a SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 preprint

We flag multiple bioinformatics tools failing to call 12bp spike ins21608 - many BA.2.86 sequences uploaded to GISAID have this region masked

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Starting my first academic sabbatical. Looking forward to a year of focused research and connecting with colleagues across the globe.