Christopher Stubenrauch

Really proud that I have been awarded a #DECRA #DE23! I want to thank my mentor @TrevorLithgow @CentreImpactAMR and so many others that helped me with the application, especially @TravenLab, @greeninglab, Davina Dadley-Moore @MonashBDI, @bluesocks81, @Rhys__G, and many others!🥳

@NikoMcCarty In Australia, this is one of the few bacteria we can make GMOs in (eg add a plasmid, make a KO) where it is exempt from writing a dealing to do the work. Unfortunately, it is mislabelled as K12 in legislation, which is a capsule type… see Part 2: legislation.gov.au/F2001B00162/la…

TIL that E. coli K12 — the most widely used strain of bacterium for biological research — is named "K-12" because it was first isolated from a diphtheria patient staying in room K-12 of a Stanford University hospital in 1922. Naming conventions in biology are weird!

@Paul_Karp Looks like woolworths are helping coles out with selling them for $6

Has anyone ever seen TimTams for $6, the purported price before this 50% "special"?

@AMAZlNGNATURE ? but it’s a tortoise not a turtle?

We never knew how social and playful turtles were until we have them a skateboard.

@ATinyGreenCell yes, but max 10% pcr reaction

Do y'all do this too when you wanna save tubes but still run a small sample of your PCR reactions on a gel before purifying? 2.5uL Purple Loading Dye 10uL PCR Sample Pipette up and down in puddle and load immediately.

@USEmbAustralia @Apple I feel like a certain football team will like that and use that emoji a lot… 🤔

@etowah0 Where do I start? Forgot: 1) To check amplicon oresent 2) PCR clean up 3) restriction digestion, 4) ligation, SLiCE, or gibson assembly steps 5) much better to do chemical transformation instead of electroporation when cloning. Otherwise, forgot to dialyse before electroporation

Molecular cloning: a ubiquitous and essential molecular biology technique. It's also the reason many scientists become superstitious, some equating cloning to witchcraft. But why, and does it have to be this way?

Upvoting Shannel #AllStars9 #DragRace

@PopSci closest living descendent? cf crocodiles as closest living relative…

The flightless southern cassowary, the avian said to be the closest living creature to a dinosaur, is endangered. trib.al/Q1B6UqP

#PhD Scholarship available to join the @LithgowLab @MACSYS to work on bacterial cell envelopes. The funding requires being local (Aus or NZ) students. If you know bacterial cell biology and love a bit of biochemistry with your microbiology, contact trevor.lithgow@monash.edu

@MicrobiomDigest I would think corresponding authors conceived the study and wrote the paper is not that unusual, although more normal if it was your own lab doing the experiments for you to write the paper

Also, the contributions of each author are ... unusual. The first author did the experiments and the senior authors wrote the manuscript.

Always handy to have a negative strip of Western blot that you can use four times in the same figure! One of the corresponding authors is a Nobel Prize winner @Stanford, the other one works @scrippsresearch. #ImageForensics pubpeer.com/publications/2…

@NobelPrize Not to be confused with Randy Schekman

On this day in 1982 Nobel Prize laureate Dan Shechtman (pictured left) discovered a crystal with 5-fold symmetry - a form that was thought to be impossible. His new crystals, called quasicrystals, caused uproar, and eventually textbooks had to be rewritten across the globe.

@TrevorLithgow Congratulations again!

@ChipCBrooks @timgill924 In that case, who’s the Michael Jordan of Sociology?

@TheShovel This is demonstrably untrue, but I would like to know what a full mcg is. The stands full = 100,024 but what does it mean for the grass to also be full (ie no stage)

@abcnews Now when Warner gets a duck he’ll only have himself to blame

With the series lost and little to play for other than World Test Championship points, Pakistan opted to leave out their inspirational leader of the attack in Afridi. ab.co/3H3BU2l

@UniMelb @UniMelbMDHS or as a multiple 🤷‍♂️

@insultsrare When someone thinks you study 6 years in university for a PhD 🤣

JUST IN: The England v Australia World Cup cricket match will be replayed after Johnny Bairstow complained that you can't get out first ball #SpiritOfCricket