Microbiologist | Nutritional commensalism | Worm microbiome

Houston, TX
Joined February 2013
For those of you who knew and loved @MaruskaLab there is a memorial fund in her honor @LSU to support students conducting research in neuroscience, sensory biology or behavioral biology. Dr. Karen P. Maruska Graduate Student Research Award/Scholarship e.givesmart.com/events/x0G/
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🚨Application are still open - one week left! 🚨 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓Are you a soon-to-be or recent college graduate considering a STEM career? Are you interest in evolutionary biology? 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓 Do not miss the opportunity to apply to the LAGNiAppE training program! lsu.edu/science/biosci/progr…
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Fan Zhang retweeted
Happy holidays! Introducing RTutor.ai, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8
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The marbled polecat can be found in parts of Europe & Asia and emits a strong odour when threatened. (Photo Ahmet Karatash)
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Do you want to know when allergy season will begin and end in your neighborhood or anywhere else in the world? An LSU biologist is developing a worldwide plant lifecycle timing database w/ help from @inaturalist @PBudBurst #citizenscientists and #AI. lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/202…
Today, we’re introducing a new model that eliminates accept/reject decisions. By publishing every paper with eLife reviews as a Reviewed Preprint, we plan to restore autonomy to authors, ensuring that they will be judged by what, not where, they publish. elifesciences.org/inside-eli…
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We updated our database and now list 385 postdoc fellowship opportunities (w/ description, deadline, amount, eligibility, etc). Getting one means a lot more freedom to do the work you want to do.
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Blue baby octopus!
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Come be our colleague! We are excited to announce a Diversity Equity and Inclusion cluster hire search, with candidates recruited from all areas of Biology. @PREAUX_FISH and I are co-chairs - please share widely and reach out to us with questions. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LS…
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Huge congrats to @m3thyl as well for rack up THREE awards on the night, including the Woodard Award for Leadership and Research, Noonan “Hot Paper” award (for CeMbio) and top poster prize! So well deserved!! ( Read more on CeMbio here: academic.oup.com/g3journal/a… )
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For a #Celegans #microbiome fix catch these Samuel Lab members today at #BeneficialMicrobesMtg: 1:30 talk - #Nutritional programming of host-microbiome interactions, Dana Blackburn (w/ @m3thyl) 3:30 poster - #Neuroendocrine reg of the microbiome, Ciara Hosea (w/ @Microbe_Fan)
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ggmsa: multiple sequence alignment with ggplot2! Paper: academic.oup.com/bib/advance… Src: github.com/YuLab-SMU/ggmsa #Rstats 📦 bioconductor.org/packages/re…
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#ASMMicrobe2022 graduate students looking for #postdocjobs — we have an opening for a #NASA-funded #microbiome project. Reach out with questions!
NASA FUNDED POSTDOC POSITION: Ideal candidate has experience in #microbiome / #genetics research, plus able to work collaboratively with a diverse group of researchers. #WomenInSTEM and #URMinSTEM esp encouraged to apply. cc: @BCM_Microbiome @bcmhouston jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-colle…
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Are you an undergraduate or beginning graduate student interested in applying 'omics' to ecological questions? Come join me and @MelissaDeBiasse at a free summer workshop at LSU, room and board included. Please RT and help spread the word--
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NASA FUNDED POSTDOC POSITION: Ideal candidate has experience in #microbiome / #genetics research, plus able to work collaboratively with a diverse group of researchers. #WomenInSTEM and #URMinSTEM esp encouraged to apply. cc: @BCM_Microbiome @bcmhouston jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-colle…
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#worm21 ==> Please tune in!! Samuel Lab #Celegans #microbiome talks on microbial #genomics and #genetics (from @m3thyl and Dana Blackburn), plus posters from the lab (428B #gutbrainaxis, 497B #wormbiome, 1086C #reproduction) and collaborations (990C #aging, 426C #parasites).
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Happy to share new lab paper in @CurrentBiology driven by postdoc @Microbe_Fan and student Jessica Weckhorst on identifying #insulin signaling as key regulator of the gut #microbiome in #Celegans. FIND IT HERE: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… cc: @bcm_microbiome @bcmhouston 1/n
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Check out the latest preprint out of @microbeMinded's lab, lead by @Microbe_Fan and Jessica Weckhorst. We explore the natural genetic variation of hosts that drives microbiome selection in the #Celegans gut. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Congrats again to Jess and @FanUMCES!! Thanks @LynnZechiedrich for the post and photo too! #proudPI
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@microbeMinded lab is thriving @bcmhouston! Fabulous graduate student, Jessica Weckhorst and fabulous postdoc Fan Zheng pose after "best talk" and "best poster" awards @houstonzoo Microbiology Departmental Retreat yesterday! Congrats!
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Whether you were able to make the #Celegans #microbiome workshop or not, we wanted make sure that everyone in the broader worm community knows about an exciting new resource— CeMbio. #worm19. 1/n
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