Dr Geertje van Keulen

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@joeeweaver.bsky.social heya, what is the best email address to reconnect with you? Have an old Newcastle address that bounced earlier

For those interested in metrics-based quality assessment of scienctific publication, good read here👇.
And yes, I am fully aware of DORA and CoARA

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Yay for actinos and #natprod! See you in Belfast?!
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📣Had a great day at the #STAconference25 today, lots of interesting 🏊‍♀️pool plant engagement relevant for our 🧫Biofilm Alliance network!
😜And got to meet the keynote olympic🏊🏻‍♀️🥇🥇🥉🥉speaker too👇👇👇

#biofilms #risks #health #management #prevention #standards #regulatoryguidance #staconference25 | Biofilm Alliance 📣Biofilm Alliance at STA (Swimming Teachers Association) Conference 2025 We are pleased to share that Biofilm Alliance 's Water💧🏊‍♀️ Lead Geertje van Keulen from Swansea University / Prifysgol Aberta...

Soooo, this is happening tomorrow!
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Ta!
5 ul spores at which density?

Hey #streptomyces #natprod fans:
1. What is your favourite agar for growing really thick and dense aerial mycelial lawns?
2. How many spores would you inoculate on one 🧫 for thick and dense lawns?
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A colleague received proofs of an accepted manuscript, and the "proofing process" clearly involved running the text through ChatGPT. Their voice has been erased, and errors introduced. This is from a supposedly reputable publisher. Anyone else been put through this particular form of hell? #MicroSky

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope - Nature Communications Loretan and colleagues present a low-cost smartphone-based microscope capable of detecting single-molecule fluorescence. This approach opens doors to personalised and widely distributed applications in diagnostics, biosensing, and science education.

Wow😲🤩
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Glorious start of the day in Amsterdam!
Looking forward to meeting the scientists in EU COST Action 🧫🦠#Biofilm Regulatory Toolbox today and start discussions on how to progress #standards #methods aiming to ultimately develop #regulatory guidance

Not open access alas...

The Dutch word for constant is also starting with a k!

Safety and nutritional claims for raw milk Robert F Kennedy Jr. famously advocates drinking raw milk and promotes its benefits. But how safe is unpasteurised milk? Nicola Holden and Gil Domingue, who sit on Applied Microbiology International's Food Security Scientific Advisory Group, take a deep dive into the science.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. famously advocates drinking raw milk and promotes its benefits. But how safe is unpasteurised milk? Nicola Holden and Gil Domingue, who sit on AMI’s Food Security Scientific Advisory Group, take a deep dive into the science. www.the-microbiologist.com/opinion/safe...

Lots of integrative plasmids are linear. Streptomyces Ecoli shuttle plasmids (circular, often low cooy) allow cloning in Ecoli before moving into Streptomyces

The Sequence of a 1.8-Mb Bacterial Linear Plasmid Reveals a Rich Evolutionary Reservoir of Secondary Metabolic Pathways Abstract. Plasmids are mobile genetic elements that play a key role in the evolution of bacteria by mediating genome plasticity and lateral transfer of use

Some Streptomyces plasmids can be huge eg pSCL4 is 1.8Mb!

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Streptomyces is not suitable for chemical or electro-transformation methods

Yeah, integrating plasmids can be quite big indeed. If they contain a Tra element than they can be conjugated. This sometimes needs Ecoli strain changeover if host has a methylated DNA restriction system. Plasmids without conjugative element can be moved into Streptomyces via protoplasting

Predatory conference check Q:
Is the Global Food & Agri Summit 2026 in the Netherlands a predatory conference or is it legit?
#science #conference #predatory?

Could be integrating plasmids? Streptomyces uses this a lot

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A new bench at JIC in memory of Helen Kieser. She moved to Norwich with David Hopwood in the 1960s and was instrumental in establishing the Streptomyces group and Molecular Microbiology @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Hard to overstate her importance to the #streptomyces field and community.

@tadhgocroinin.bsky.social you must be chuffed! Started counting off the names yet?!🤣
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a little boy is playing drums in front of an orchestra and says happy birthday to you ! ALT: a little boy is playing drums in front of an orchestra and says happy birthday to you !

@matthutchings.bsky.social happy birthday, wishing you a lovely day!

Is that a Pioreactor?

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