Woman smiling in front of research poster
Me and my poster had a busy week last week! I presented at the Penn State Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo and the university’s Graduate Exhibition. I had so much fun talking about my science and learning about others! 🧬
Also, meeting my friend’s students was such a highlight of this conference 💖 @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social wish you all the best in the remainder of your PhD! with @morgancarterphd.bsky.social being an amazing mentor as always.
Jack Gregory explores the diversity of endohyphal 🍄 bacteria 🦠 of clinical samples of Mucorales
He searched 🔎 in WGS data for Mycetohabitans DNA 🧬
Then took that approach to clinical 🏥 samples
#fungal26
✅ Thanks to those who visited, took interest, and had amazing conversations. I met so many new people I had only heard of in papers. had a blast! #fungal26
Caroline West finds viruses 🛑 inside a bacteria 🦠 inside a fungus 🍄🟫 that can be found in plants and people 🚶♂️
This is work from the @lablabella.bsky.social & @morgancarterphd.bsky.social & the RAW labs.
#fungal26
Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social discusses bacterial-fungal interactions
What can machine learning methods tell us about what genes are lost and gained during the transition from free living to obligate endosymbiosis
#fungal26
#fungAI
@lablabella.bsky.social shares how we can utilize machine learning to understand patterns of codon usage bias across phenotypes in Saccharomycotina. #fungal26
I will be presenting my poster on endohyphal bacteria and key genes in their symbiosis, today’s session (7:00-10:30pm) at #fungal26 !
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
Are there some good scholarly articles/books about RDR? I would like to read some!
Me, a white woman with fluffy curly hair and striped dress standing in front of a scientific poster with the figures from the linked preprint
Thanks to those who stopped by at #2025ISMPMI to learn about bacteria that live inside fungi.
It was great to hear your questions. So much to do in this area!!
For those not here, please check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Or mini-review: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social from the Carter Lab @morgancarterphd.bsky.social
Are the bacteria🦠in a fungus 🍄 evolving towards obligate endosymbiosis?
Mycetohabitans doesn't have all the hallmarks of other obligate endosymbionts
Read more in www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Evol2025
Yall better be reading my preprint right now (and giving me feedback)
Flyer showing the carter lab from UNC Charlotte at evolution 2025. Bhuwan Abbot is presenting a talk on endofungal bacterial comparative genomics on june 23rd in the coevolution I session and Ruth Wright is presenting a poster on bacterial secretion at poster C10 on June 22nd
Heading to #evol2025? Come see what the Carter Lab is up to!
@ruthwright.bsky.social and @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social will be there and would love to connect.
We are *this* 🤏 close to having the first lab preprint posted for work only done since I started at Charlotte and I'm just so jazzed about it.
Also the author list is 1 tech, 1 undergrad, 1 high schooler, 1 rotation student, 2 local collabs, & @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social which is lab goals to me 🏆.
That’s my undergrad mentee!!!
#phdsky
I had wrist issues because of typing and sleeping in a bad posture. In my experience, voice to text is TOO DUMB to interpret the many technical terms we use in my PhD work.
The only thing cooler than protein folding? Protein folding into a dinosaur. 🦕
Can confirm. Adding the F word to your google searches turns off AI summaries. E.g.:
"how do massively parallel reporter assays work?"
vs
"how do f*cking massively parallel reporter assays work?"
Dangerous speech
- promotes fear
- is aimed at groups
- harms indirectly
- often false
Ring a bell?🔔
www.dangerousspeech.org/
Just so happens we’re out of eggs and I’m about to head to the store. I’m expecting massive price drops. Stay tuned.
If the early bird gets the worm, doesn't that mean that the population will shift towards late worms in a bi-stable distribution , leading perhaps to a partition of temporal niche?
Do you have a student who is a non-native English speaker #NNES ? A post-doc? A collaborator? Are you a reviewer?
It takes years to get to express yourself in a foreign language, if it ever happens
The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group!
1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
9. I started my career as a digital right activist, working to protect net neutrality and privacy.
Got back my genomes before I was done running confirmatory gels on the DNA I sent in the first place
Fuck.
