@implosian

Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes. New PI at the Wadsworth Center. Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages

 Boston, MA
wadsworth.org/research/laboratories/owen
Joined October 2009
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So we did a similar experiment with conjugative plasmids and found that IS605 provides offensive and defensive benefits to conjugative plasmids, acting like a primitive anti-self defense mechanism to spread plasmids between cells.
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What is the best strategy to win any contest? Eliminate your opponents of course. Recently, my colleague @fernpizza showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper just published in Science today!). Together with @baym, we now know how they can fight.
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Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏 albany.interviewexchange.com…
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Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏 albany.interviewexchange.com…
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In case you needed a reason to go do a PhD with @APHage_ (other than the awesome science!)
Alexander Hynes@APHage_14 Dec 2024
Dr. @rabiafatima_ has "tPASsed". Too many feels. Thank you @implosian - sorry you couldn't make it for the presentation of the warhammer. I do get asked if I fear the graduates will use them against me... no! Not in public, anyway - they're all far too smart to get caught.
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Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @implosian, @baym, @nquinoneso, Kesther and Carmen! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/

Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture

Phages interact with many components of bacterial physiology from the surface to the cytoplasm. Although there are methods to determine the receptors and intracellular systems a specified phage...

biorxiv.org
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Nature News piece on the hidden players of the gut microbiome (hint, they're phages, of course) “Our virome is hugely abundant and incredibly diverse, and we’ve looked at just a tiny percentage,” nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Hidden players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome

Nature - Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets.

nature.com
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Centers for Accelerating Phage (Bacteriophage) Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP) (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) dlvr.it/TFfcWx
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Replying to @SShabarinath
Thanks Shabi!
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Replying to @DelPickard @baym @HealthNYGov
Thanks Del!!
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Haha, I've been there! Only a fellow phage enthusiast would understand the luxury of weekly WW deliveries 😆
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Replying to @THE_inteins
Haha, indeed it's all relative. But coming from a postdoc in the greater Boston area, the NY capital region is luxuriously affordable
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Replying to @ksbakes @baym @HealthNYGov
🥲 Thanks Kate!!
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🚨We're hiring a lab manager/research scientist! Come work with us @MSU_MicroImmuno at Montana State in beautiful Bozeman, MT We are a phage lab with diverse projects related to infectious disease, check us out here: patsecor.wixsite.com/mysite-… apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43…
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Addendum: check out the glorious sunsets we get from our many-windowed lab space feat. views of the Catskill mountains in the day time
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Replying to @ZaminIqbal @baym
Awh so true 🥲
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Replying to @implosian @baym
It has a camera adapter right?
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Replying to @baym
Pics?? 🕵️‍♀️
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We also have openings for technical staff and students! Contact me for more info, or if you are a undergraduate, consider applying to the UAlbany BMS program albany.edu/cihs/biomedical-s… 3/3
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Do you enjoy isolating phages? Do you like the idea of discovering and dissecting brand new & exotic organisms that could one day fight AMR? Just imagine what bounty awaits you in weekly wastewater deliveries from >200 treatment plants across NY! 🤤health.ny.gov/press/releases… 2/3
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