Xabier Vázquez-Campos

Quite the journey @MIriam__KRO !! "Evidence for a Putative Isoprene Reductase in Acetobacterium wieringae" @parrotalker @MikeManefield See thread for 3 key interesting points (1/4🧵) doi.org/10.1128/msyste…

The first of many novel Antarctic fungi to be described by the #Ferrarilab in collab with Brett Summerell and @BotanicSydney @AlintaFurnell @XabiVC @jordan_vink marcwilkins Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarc fungus tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I was asked to contribute an entry on 'Ancestral Reconstruction: Theory & Practice" for the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2nd Edition. The encyclopedia doesn't come out until next year, but my contribution is already available online: doi.org/10.1016/B978-0….

@ATinyGreenCell Cool thread! Have you tried added nanoparticles? e.g. Au-NP and MgO-NP have been shown to improve PCR results in general, including for high GC templates. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC97… prob still too much into the "exotic" isle of PCR reagents...

Come with me as I troubleshoot this very high GC PCR toward clonable homology arms in an actinobacteria. Testing DMSO, Betaine 1M, and Propylene Glycol to see if we get amplification. Arms are 1000bp. Full length with arms and gene is 2800bp. Let's go! 🧵 1/n

If you are interested in collapsing nodes of a phylogeny, but you, as I did, struggle doing it with ggtree, I programmed a ggtree extension that allows you to easily collapse the nodes you want. 🧵️ github.com/moibernabeu/gg…

@CindyAGunawan @KevinYonathan14 @raymahbub @drritimann @AIMI_UTS @arc_gov_au @Science_Academy Congratulations @KevinYonathan14

Congrats Dr @KevinYonathan14 for the PhD conferral! So proud of your courage & perseverance! Can't wait for your next contribution in the metagenomics study of nanoparticle! #AntimicrobialResistance Thank you @XabiVC @raymahbub @drritimann @AIMI_UTS @arc_gov_au @Science_Academy

🧬What are protein language models (PLMs) actually learning about biology? Our paper introduces InterPLM - a framework that reveals interpretable features in PLMs using sparse autoencoders, giving us a window into how these models represent protein structure and function. 🧵(1/9)

.@meltzer_julia

.@meltzer_julia @ferrari_belinda

"Had an amazing day with the @ferrari_belinda group at @UNSWBABS! We talked about so many exciting things to do together in the future. Can’t wait to see what’s next! #antarctica #Networking #blackfungi #Collaboration #extremeenvironments

The #FerrariLab had a great time attending and presenting at #JAMS13 last Friday. Thanks to the wonderful @jamsorgau for their hard work organising this #microbiology conference at the #GroundsofAlexandria

Happy to share a chapter of my PhD thesis🐣! We review the diversity of the cell envelope in Terrabacteria which tell us a lot about outer membrane biogenesis and the diderm-to-monoderm transition. Thanks to my co-authors Najwa Taib @ChrisBel70 @SGribaldo nature.com/articles/s4157…

.@meltzer_julia

I really like this. I’m decent at Python but R is still the language I feel most comfortable with, so this made some concepts a little more crystallized for me via analogy to R. I think it’s a great resource for people who started with R rebeccabarter.com/blog/2023-09-1…

@ENASequence at least 2 independent users have flagged issues with "submittable" taxa according to the REST API, being "not submittable" by webin-cli when submitting genomes - with no response to support tickets Could you provide any feedback on this? github.com/enasequence/we…

latest group shot of @TheBurnsLab as 2024 hurtles along....lucky to have this amazing crew @UNSWBABS continuing to rock the cradle of life on all things #stromatolites #asgard #archaea ⚔️🧬🦠 @XabiVC @laurene_leclerc @meltzer_julia @marilysyrmalis

@ARB_SILVA is the next release still planned for Q12024?

⚛️Protein structures are key to elucidating molecular details of cellular processes. #AlphaFold2 & others unveiled millions of tertiary structures, but these proteins' quaternary structures remain mostly a mystery. Here's how to bridge the gap. Thread👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Final version now out

New year, new paper: "Methylation of elongation factor 1A by yeast Efm4 or human eEF1A-KMT2 involves a beta-hairpin recognition motif and crosstalks with phosphorylation" in @jbiolchem jbc.org/article/S0021-…

@microbe_article .@CindyAGunawan

Plastic leachate exposure drives antibiotic resistance and virulence in marine bacterial communities. - Vlaanderen EJ et al. - dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envp… #microbiome