find me @lhug on bsky. Environmental microbiologist and compulsive frisbee chaser, tangent-prone story teller. she/her

laura.hug[at]uwaterloo.ca
Joined July 2013
🤖 looking for a post-doc in bioinformatics🤖 If you are interested and want to work with a great group that includes trainees, MDs, PhDs, and all sorts of other kind and smart people please reach out!!! @kieranrcampbell cube-ontario.github.io/
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We promise to only use drones and the sleep paralysis demon that lives in your walls to spy on you.
Students at the University of Waterloo discovered that their candy machines were covertly collecting facial recognition data when 'Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe' crashed.
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We’re nearing the finishing line for our survey!! If you work on #metagenomics or other #omics please fill our 5min survey and then pass it on to colleagues & colaborators!! Here is our survey: shorturl.at/NOUW2 Please fill it until the 31st January!
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🧫New pre-print from CUBE🧫led by Aaron Hinz (lab wizard!). We show that floor swabs can be used to identify COVID-19 cases on a university campus. Floor swabs had stronger correlation than wastewater, req less setup costs, and are less gross 💩 1/3 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Please contribute to our survey on metagenomics data reuse! Survey at: shorturl.at/NOUW2 We’re (@AlexJProbst, @FolkerMeyer, @LAHug_, @CristinaMorar20, @environmicrobio) looking forward to know what the scientific community thinks of this topic! Please RT widely!! 🔥🔥
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Four different people on Twitter in the past week: I saved a kid from drowning at a BBQ, here’s what to look for. Me today: oh that kid is drowning. Got him out, all fine.
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Thanks @jgi for the excellent NELLi symposium this week and for collaborations from 2009 to 2023!
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Today the team is out at the landfill, and finding methane!
Working on fun interdisciplinary project this week testing ⁦@telops⁩ hyperspectral camera for #methane measurements in #wetlands #landfills. Testing today on north campus ⁦@WaterlooENG⁩ ⁦@WaterlooSci⁩ ⁦@envwaterloo⁩ ⁦@TonyaDelSontro⁩ ⁦@LAHug_⁩
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OH: Stylist: enjoy your birthday Client: thanks you too! Client: [embarrassed] Stylist: actually it’s coming up! Client: [relieved, left] other stylist: I thought your birthday was in October? So smooth, doing the real work
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The University of Toronto, Department of Biochemistry is searching for an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. FYI, these positions are analogous to research "tenure-stream" in that following a successful 6 yr review promotion is to Associate Prof (continuing status).
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Me: I should spend less time on Twitter. Elon: say no more!
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Ontario parents! This fine Canada Day morning, take a moment to check your kids’ backpacks for forgotten food. Happy summer!
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Interested in Lab Management?! My lab, @BanfieldLab, and @Jeffinerca are looking to hire a joint lab manager to work with us @igisci. Position Details: careerspub.universityofcalif…
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I am beyond thrilled to announce I will be joining @CUBoulder as an Assistant Professor in August 2024! My lab will focus on understanding the microbiome's impact on health using strain-resolved computational methods. Accepting students to start in Fall 2024- tell your friends!
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Ok, after unexpectedly rigorous debate on this: is carrying the mace at convocation an honour, a chore, or something else?
26%honour
26%chore
5%something else (comment)
44%see results
39 votes • Final results
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Hey #CSM2023! Come check out more exciting research from #HugLab! Posters 94, 134, 136, and 156 today! 1/5
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Poster 136: Molly Chen highlights her work on microbial communities in deep, arsenic contaminated aquifers, and the cycles dominating the communities. #CSM2023 4/5
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Poster 156: Zjardyn Liera-Hood showcases his efforts to identify and isolate bacteria degrading plastics and plastic monomers. #CSM2023 5/5
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