Emma Gagen

The MEMO gp is looking for a bioinformatics-loving postdoc/researcher for an up-and-running project working with ONT-MAGs as well as transcriptomes, proteomes and metabolomes from both gut microbiome and host tissue samples collected over time and across individuals. Please RT 🙏

This was a hard shell to crack: happy to share our preprint on the structure of microbial gas vesicles, giant gas-filled protein shells used by aquatic bacteria and archaea to regulate their buoyancy. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At the end of my career, I will not care at all what my h-index is or how many papers I published. However, I will care tremendously whether I was a good mentor and had a positive impact on the lives of others. I want to live those values every day from now until then.

Today's micrograph: A piece of #carbon fabric provided by Ulrike. Each fibre is approximately 10 um in diameter. It was my first time looking at this type of material under the #SEM. Could it pass for #art? I think it almost looks like a picture one could buy from IKEA. 😂

@StevenDAllison @RachelField13 @CemvitaFactory

I'm writing a book! 📙 It will explore how #microbes can help us solve the #ClimateCrisis - an optimistic take on solutions for a lay audience. Aiming for a spring 2024 release with @RachelField13 as my fantastic editor!

Applications now open for 3-yr postdoc position (salary $91-$103K) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/… Using microbial physiology and genetic engineering to improve performance of hydrogen- and methane-oxidising bacteria. Ideal for innovative leaders who can work in interdisciplinary teams.

Two new 3-yr postdocs (salary $91-$103K) available in our lab in Melbourne. Both centred on microbial gas oxidation (H2, CH4, CO): one culture-based (June start), one metagenome-based (late 2022 start). Keen to develop future leaders. Please send EOIs to chris.greening@monash.edu

Today's Micrograph: During fixation with glutaraldehyde, acidification can occur which could cause structural alterations. Therefore, the pH of a culture should match the pH of fixation. Here we see S. epidermidis. Fun #SEM times with @AnkitaChauhan00 in the @GeomicroTueb lab.

Can meteorites preserve microorganisms from the planet in which they land? Check my latest paper to find out! liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/as… #astrobiology #space #Mars #geology @MeteoritesAUS @MonashEAE @heab @Pozible

telling students in my class about the history of genomics

@JeremiahShuster @GeomicroTueb I propose a Netflix documentary @JeremiahShuster ! Kinda like the fascinating fungi one but a "reveal" of the microbial life of rocks

Today's Micrograph: The amount of cells can be quite low in comparison to minerals, especially from environmental samples. There is always a sense of triumph when small "biofilms" are found hidden within microenvironments around minerals. Fun #SEM times in @GeomicroTueb lab!

We are looking for a PhD student to apply multi-omics to help understand how plastic-eating bacteria and insects manage to convert insoluble and highly recalcitrant plastics to simple chemicals that can be catabolized. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…. Please RT 🙏

@PaulMainwood @jburnmurdoch And this is the ICU admission data from France. Very similar.

ICNARC have updated their analysis of COVID patients in critical care in England, Wales and NI. They now show boosted patients as well. They are shown in green. Yes, I've put them on the chart. You have to squint.

Are you looking for a job in #Bioinformatics and #MicrobialEcology? I am offering 5 positions in my team (3 postdocs, 1 PhD student and 1 technical assistant) Please help to RT so interested people will hear about it. @AcademicJobs

When you smack down a troglodyte climate denier in The West while waiting for a weather window to go ice coring.

There is a way the mining industry could drastically reduce tailings waste - make sand. A thread>>

“Please, as you write papers now, consider including a wide range of names that your organism has been called. That might help us at least keep track of the mess.”

"It's not because of the quality of our work, it's because of the gender bias in the peer review system that is allocating the funding." "Women .... received approximately $500,000 less than the men [at the junior laboratory head level in basic science]."