Siân Owen

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Siân Owen

Siân Owen

@implosian

Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes. New PI at the Wadsworth Center. Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phages

Boston, MA เข้าร่วม Ekim 2009
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Siân Owen
Siân Owen@implosian·
My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you are interested in a postdoc exploring plasmid-dependent phage biology in beautiful (and super affordable!) upstate New York🍎healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Care… 1/3
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Kepler Mears@KeplerMears·
So we did a similar experiment with conjugative plasmids and found that IS605 provides offensive and defensive benefits to conjugative plasmids, acting like a primitive anti-self defense mechanism to spread plasmids between cells.
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Kepler Mears
Kepler Mears@KeplerMears·
What is the best strategy to win any contest? Eliminate your opponents of course. Recently, my colleague @fernpizza showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper just published in Science today!). Together with @baym, we now know how they can fight.
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Siân Owen@implosian·
In case you needed a reason to go do a PhD with @APHage_ (other than the awesome science!)
Alexander Hynes@APHage_

Dr. @rabiafatima_ has "tPASsed". Too many feels. Thank you @implosian - sorry you couldn't make it for the presentation of the warhammer. I do get asked if I fear the graduates will use them against me... no! Not in public, anyway - they're all far too smart to get caught.

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Ellie Rand
Ellie Rand@EllieRand3·
Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @implosian, @baym, @nquinoneso, Kesther and Carmen! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/
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Jeremy J Barr
Jeremy J Barr@JeremyJBarr·
Nature News piece on the hidden players of the gut microbiome (hint, they're phages, of course) “Our virome is hugely abundant and incredibly diverse, and we’ve looked at just a tiny percentage,” nature.com/articles/d4158…
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NIH Funding
NIH Funding@NIHFunding·
Centers for Accelerating Phage (Bacteriophage) Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP) (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) dlvr.it/TFfcWx
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Siân Owen@implosian·
My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you are interested in a postdoc exploring plasmid-dependent phage biology in beautiful (and super affordable!) upstate New York🍎healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Care… 1/3
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Derek (Del) Pickard
Derek (Del) Pickard@DelPickard·
@implosian @baym @HealthNYGov Enjoy the challenges and excitement in setting up your own lab Siân! My only tip to you would be to try to get someone else to handle the nitty gritty and fine-print of Health, Safety and Risk assessments, though I think the USA is more 'relaxed' about that then the UK?!
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Siân Owen@implosian·
It's true, cleaned up my bench today after a memorable 6.5 years in the @baym lab! Very excited to start my own lab next month at the @HealthNYGov Wadsworth Center doing public health adjacent basic research exploring "exotic" bacteriophages!! #newpi
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Michael Baym@baym

Today we celebrated @implosian’s last day in my lab before she starts her independent lab at the Wadsworth Center. I could not have dreamt up a better postdoc to start the experimental side of the lab!

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Siân Owen@implosian·
@PatrickKenney7 Haha, I've been there! Only a fellow phage enthusiast would understand the luxury of weekly WW deliveries 😆
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Siân Owen@implosian·
@THE_inteins Haha, indeed it's all relative. But coming from a postdoc in the greater Boston area, the NY capital region is luxuriously affordable
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THE_inteins@THE_inteins·
@implosian Congrats! However, this is the first time in my entire life I see someone calling upstate New York super affordable, but I guess everything is relative :)
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Kate Baker
Kate Baker@ksbakes·
@implosian @baym @HealthNYGov Can't believe I missed this - I have never been less surprised but more delighted to see someone start life as an independent scientist 😀 Well done Sian - looking forward to your work!
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Siân Owen@implosian·
Addendum: check out the glorious sunsets we get from our many-windowed lab space feat. views of the Catskill mountains in the day time
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Siân Owen@implosian·
We also have openings for technical staff and students! Contact me for more info, or if you are a undergraduate, consider applying to the UAlbany BMS program albany.edu/cihs/biomedica… 3/3
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Zamin Iqbal
Zamin Iqbal@ZaminIqbal·
@implosian @baym The whole idea is to trap the magic in the dome. A picture would steal the magic
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Michael Baym
Michael Baym@baym·
I’m unreasonably pleased with my new office decoration
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@baym It has a camera adapter right?
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@baym Pics?? 🕵️‍♀️
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