Mark Silby

@JoezMcfLy @grok Hey, @grok, who was mine?

Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was

@TaylorLabGroup Congrats, Tiff!

Very proud to have won the Faculty of Science Excellence in Doctoral Supervision Prize. Biggest thanks goes to my nominator and the awesome letters of support from current and past group members that brought a tear to my eye. It's shared with every member Taylor lab member.

@PabloINik @ASMicrobiology Congrats, a much deserved and well-earned honor!!

Honored to be elected as Fellow of the #American Academy of #Microbiology! This recognition reflects the incredible work of my past and present collaborators, students, and mentors. Deep gratitude to my nominators and the microbiology community for their support! @ASMicrobiology

@HelenClarkNZ Merry Christmas, PM Clark. Wishing you and your family a peaceful holiday season.

Season’s Greetings to all at the end of this tumultuous year at home and abroad. Let us keep those who are ill, lonely, homeless, hungry, and/or in war torn environments in our thoughts today.

Microbe of the Month featuring Pseudomonas fluorescens By Tiffany B. Taylor (@TaylorLabGroup), Mark W. Silby (@MarkSilby) & Robert W. Jackson (@RobWJackson) dlvr.it/TGVgb4

@wc_ratcliff Congrats!!

Hey, I've been promoted to Full Professor. Guess I need to sew elbow patches onto my flannel shirt? Looking back at my ~20 years in science, I've been fortunate to work with incredibly kind, creative, collaborative folks. Looking forward to continuing the fun in the next 20!

@flanagella No acknowledgement needed, all good. Happy to chat anytime, always interested to see what's going on with the project.

@MarkSilby Thanks @MarkSilby! Apologies, I should have acknowledged you for providing all the strains that made this work possible! Would be cool to get your input on these results sometime 😊

If anyone wants to talk about convergent regulatory evolution in Pseudomonas, come talk to me at my poster this afternoon at #microbio24 at B101! (Or try zooming in on this slightly blurry photo and read it now!) @m

@baym Congrats, cherish every moment.

Some personal news

@baym Congrats, Michael! Fantastic news.

Thrilled to announce an important T->C transition

@drlornayoung @KatrinaVelle We are definitely lucky to have her!

@KatrinaVelle They're lucky to have you! You'll be awesome! Good luck!

Excited and grateful to be back at UMass Dartmouth!

@TLowePower @tfortunato @ATinyGreenCell Hopefully using safe relatives of the ESKAPE pathogens!

Hey to all the bio-nerds on my timeline! My daughter sent me pics of a purple bacteria (?) she isolated in her soils lab class. Picked it off a plate of mostly bacillus mycoides they grew from soil samples they took. Instructor hadn't seen one like this before. Any ideas?

@markowenmartin So sorry to see this, Mark. Kia kaha.

Honoring my big brother, Jack Sevard Martin, Jr. 05/01/1952 - 02/11/2024. Rest in peace, beloved brother, son, uncle, father, and grandfather.

@markowenmartin @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology Never tried to do anything like that. I would imagine a disc impregnated in some kind of ferrous solution might make them shutdown siderophore production. But I don't know how long the siderophores already secreted would hang around for.

@MarkSilby @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology Mark, is there a quick way to see if these microbes are iron dependent? Like a drop of something on the plate and see if the fluorescence goes way? They are usually Pseudomonas...

Serious question: when I get UV fluorescent colonies in a water bottle, is it truly due to siderophores? I would like to think that the water bottle is iron deficient... @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology

@HelenClarkNZ Merry Christmas, PM Clark. Thank you for all you continue to do for our world. I hope the new year brings you happiness and success.

Best wishes to all who celebrate Xmas. We live in turbulent times: many are in very difficult circumstances, whether that be because of illness, poverty, loneliness, war and conflict, or any of a myriad of challenges. Let us think of them all at this time helenclarknz.com/my-diary/chris…

@markowenmartin @swirlgirl31415 How was the Hákarl and Brennivín?

Day 1 of #IcelandTrip2023. @swirlgirl31415 and yours truly recovered from jet lag and went on a food tour. It was very interesting.

@markowenmartin Come tinker in my lab if you are spending time in the Northeast!

This is really hard to talk about. Please forgive me for not replying for a while. But I have signed the paperwork. It's time to create room for other faces and voices. I still want to have a role, though. Hopefully, I will find one; I love microbiology. 1/2

Hey @peacock, why aren't you showing the Capetown rugby sevens live today? And why are there no replays of the pool matches available??

@L_M_Smith @royalsocietynz @MarsdenFund @otago @microtago @AzeredoLab That's fantastic, congrats Leah!

Stoked to have been awarded a @royalsocietynz @MarsdenFund Fast Start grant to kick start my own research @otago @microtago investigating phage infection of dormant bacteria and the implications for #phage / #biofilm interactions 🧬 🧫 👩🏻‍🔬 🙏 w/@AzeredoLab #WomenInSTEM #ECR