Nowshin Sharar

Huge thanks to my PhD supervisors and co-authors A/Prof Johanna Kenyon, Prof Ruth Hall, Dr Christopher Harmer, and our collaborators for their significant contributions!!

🚨 New paper alert Our study shows how Acinetobacter baumannii can alter its capsular polysaccharide structure during an outbreak via multiple prophage acquisition events. doi.org/10.1128/spectr…

Incredibly proud of this paper! - it’s been a long time coming and it wouldn’t have been possible without @shararNow, @cribilla68 and collaborators. Here we report genes for 8-epipseudaminic acid - It was truly like finding a needle in a haystack. Check it out - link in thread👇🏼

@OdedRechavi That’s so good 😂

Continuing a project that a former student left unfinished

@jojkenyon Thank you! It was an absolute pleasure 😊

Congratulations to all QLD Nancy Millis student finalists! Amazing microbiology research presented today. Also a super proud supervisor moment for me too with my PhD student @shararNow presenting as a finalist 🤩🎉

We want to congratulate our Nancy Millis Student Award Finalists for 2025. Join us at #MiM2025 or via Zoom on the 8th Feb for the annual ASMQ Branch Nancy Millis Student Awards. Please register for MiM2025 in person or Zoom link here: trybooking.com/CYJIO @AUSSOCMIC

It was an absolute pleasure sharing one of my favourite PhD stories at this year’s @AUSSOCMIC and was able to catch up with my incredibly talented supervisors aka capsular polysaccharide experts A/Prof @jojkenyon and Prof Ruth Hall ⭐️ Many thanks to @QUT for giving me the support to attend this major microbiology #ASM2024 conference! I received lots of positive feedback and learned so much 😊🙏🏻 #womeninSTEM #microbiology #Acinetobacter #capsule 🧫🦠🧬

@QUT_CIIC So excited to be a part of such a progressive team led by the incredibly talented @jojkenyon 👏🏻

🔦Spotlight 🔦 PhD student Nowshin Shyara Sharar @shararNow recently joined Dr Kenyon’s Bacterial Polysaccharide Research group @QUT_CIIC. She was due to start in 2020 her studies were delayed, due to Covid-19 outbreak . She finally started her project this year in April. 🎉🦠

@hologenomics @MonashUni hi Dr Marcelino, is this position open for international students? i'm interested to apply

Start date in mid 2022. The student will need to apply for a @MonashUni PhD scholarship. Email me your interests and CV and I will be happy to chat and provide more details. I'm currently on leave, so just be patient if I am slow to reply.

Looking for potential PhD student(s) interested in #microbiomes, evolution, bioinformatics, evolutionary medicine and/or microbiome engineering. 🧵 Please RT!

Please stop saying that we need to increase teacher salaries in order “recruit the best and brightest” as if the best and brightest are not currently teaching. We need to increase teacher salaries because those currently teaching deserve and earned it.

@fatfatpankocat can see the judgement in her eyes..

She disagrees with my costume choice

World-first COVID-19 antiviral therapy developed in Brisbane and US targets virus in the body abc.net.au/news/2021-05-1…

you are not a machine. you are more like a garden. you need different things on different days. a little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. you have fallow and fruitful seasons. it is not a design flaw. it is wiser than perpetual sameness. what does your garden need today?

Not sure who needs to hear this, but your choice to give up your normal life for the last 7 months may have saved someone's life and I don't want you to think - for one second - that it wasn't worth it.

@jonathanrferrer @SchittsCreek

What is your favorite show on #Netflix? #Streaming #Series #Movies #tvtime #TVShows

@MrAkashTrivedi @AcademicChatter asked me whether I was married or not. he was more interested in my personal life than academic qualifications. made me feel weird.

What's the weirdest interview experience you've had? @AcademicChatter #phdlife

@ruthmckie1 @AcademicChatter I do that too!

@dailystarnews He was a very good man and a dear friend of my father. May his soul rest in peace. Ameen

Another doctor, who tested #COVID19 positive, dies at a hospital in #Dhaka thedailystar.net/frontpage/news…