Eva Heinz

Come work with us, we're a friendly bunch 😊 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky #IDSky #Fungi #evobio 💻🧬

The crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia right now. Instead of taking part in the sham local elections, Georgians are filling the streets in large numbers for Day 311 of uninterrupted, nationwide #GeorgiaProtests.

#PhD alerts! @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
What do #amoebae and #biofilms mean for environmental and hospital survival of different Klebs? @liam-rooney.bsky.social & @fionahenriquez.bsky.social 🦠 🔬 🧬 💻
#MicroSky #IDSky #Klebsiella
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Midges are extremely prevalent virus vectors but we know very little! Join Emilie Pondeville @uofglasgow.bsky.social Marion England @pirbrightinst.bsky.social & myself @unistrathclyde.bsky.social on a really cool discovery journey 😊🪰🦠🧬💻 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky
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What is in #mosquito saliva, how does this impact #arbovirus transmission, is anyone else living there (yes bacteria, looking at you!), & can we use this to combat the increasing arbovirus risk? With Daniella Lefteri & Steven Sinkins 🦟 🦠 🧬 💻 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... 2/3

#PhD alerts! @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
What do #amoebae and #biofilms mean for environmental and hospital survival of different Klebs? @liam-rooney.bsky.social & @fionahenriquez.bsky.social 🦠 🔬 🧬 💻
#MicroSky #IDSky #Klebsiella
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Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes AbstractMotivation. Long-read sequencing enables complete bacterial genome assemblies, but individual assemblers are imperfect and often produce sequence-l

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up:
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Ciprofloxacin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: phenotype prediction from genotype and global distribution of resistance determinants BACKGROUND Ciprofloxacin resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is common or emerging in many geographies, and knowledge of local resistance rates is important for empirical therapy. Whilst there are known K...

Come for the Klebs resistance data, stay for the DataViz! Massive congratulations to @karatsang.bsky.social on juggling such a huge meta-analysis; Ciprofloxacin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: phenotype, genotype, global resistance patterns #MicroSky 💻🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The summarised schedule of Black in Micro Week 2025, October 14-16. All times are in Eastern Standard Time. Mon 14: Pathways for Change. Welcome and Keynote Address 12pm. Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD. Panel Discussion: Finding Black Spaces in STEM, 1:15-2:15 PM. Weds 15, Careers & Research: ECR Symposium 9-12 PM. Panel discussion: Navigating Careers in Microbiology 2-3 PM. Thurs 16, Community: Panel Discussion - Empowering Your Science 12-1:15 PM. Workshop: Science in Action

Today is a great day to register for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (or see link in bio)

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

our paper on the population genomics of An. funestus, one of the major (yet less studied) human malaria vectors in Africa, is now out in @science.org 🦟

read @mariloumercedes.bsky.social's original preprint thread to find out more!

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Strathclyde named Scottish University of the Year and Runner-Up UK University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...

Nation Grateful to GOP for Protecting It From TV

Report: You to Be Fired for Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Trump Spends Entire UK Trip Trying to Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.

https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Really exciting talks, and keep in mind our collection at MGen; www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr... @microbiologysociety.org ; all your wonderful and weird tiny, mid-large to absolutely ginormous (!!) (pan)genomes (transcriptomes, proteomes,...) welcome 😊 (4/4)

Frederik De Boever, Alberto Rock SAMS; Chenxue Lin @bristoluni.bsky.social; Jolanda van Munster @srucnews.bsky.social; Catarina Marques, Kyrie Dickson, Marija Krasilnikova @uofglasgow.bsky.social; Emma Briggs @newcastleuni.bsky.social; Harry Chown @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (3/4)

Incredibly inspiring day, with talks from indeed the whole spectrum of #parasites, #protists, #fungi - friendly and not so friendly, #bioinformatics methods, phenotyping; (pan)genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics,... thanks so much all who participated! Maria Rosa Domingo Sananes NTU... (2/4)

Apologies for not posting along #Eukaryotes25 from the @microbiologysociety.org yesterday, my phone was serving as a hot spot to smooth some IT issues and is of an age where it can't handle two things at once 😂 (1/4)

Laura Chatterley presenting her poster on the novel Wolbachia we found in Anopheles demeillioni and moucheti!

Excited to see some of our #Wolbachia work presented by Laura Chatterley at the #Ento25 from the @royentsoc.bsky.social; great conference and congrats to the society for an inspiring program beyond science! And shout-out to www.rovinghouse.com art selling lovely pins, perfect early Xmas presents..😊

The ASM, IDSA and many other organisations stepping up to defend science and public health. Thank you.

Characterization of the OMP biogenesis machinery in Fusobacterium nucleatum BamA is essential for mediating the biogenesis of outer membrane proteins in Gram-negative bacteria. Cottom et al. describe the cryo-EM structure and evolution of BamA from the human pathogen Fusobact...

Ah, proteins 🥰 !! Invited back into the wonderful world of the BAM/TAM complex by Nick Noinaj; protein structures are the best 😊 Anyone working on #Fusobacteria interested to do more on surface protein evolution please get in touch, such a cool system! #MicroSky 💻🧬
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This one's for the eukaryotic microbes, and their researchers 🤓! Collection launch in Microbial Genomics @microbiologysociety.org giving all your wonderful weirdness a place to shine 🌟 #MicroSky #protistsonsky #protists #fungi #parasites #Microbiology 💻🧬
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5/ Computers don’t care about truth. They’ll return output even if it’s nonsense. Your job is to sanity-check. Does it fit biology?

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

Vacation going towards the last week… sadly no beach for me, but found some time for seeing my lifelong fellow weirdos and being weird together; and in the end, that's the only thing that matters anyways. 🥳 🥃 🎉
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Closing soon. Great opportunity to do spatial transcriptomics on pre-antibiotic TB

Thousands object to Tesla bid to supply energy to UK homes The company applied for a licence from the energy regulator last month

More. More. More.

"A total of 8,462 individuals have used [BfB's] digital platform to register complaints with Ofgem. The public has until Friday to voice their opinions on the application, after which Ofgem will decide whether to grant Tesla a licence." ~AA

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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

Strike 2 from the incredibly important #Klebsiella transmission work from MLW, identifying maternal hands, cots and ward surfaces as major players. tl;dr Esp in low-income settings, investment in IPC is hugely important against AMR.
#MicroSky #IDSky #GlobalHealth 💻🧬
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Protein structure alignment significance is often exaggerated Machine learning has generated millions of high-quality predicted protein structures, creating a need for computationally efficient structure search algorithms and robust estimates of statistical sign...

"We show that unrelated proteins have a universal tendency towards convergent evolution of secondary and tertiary motifs, causing an excess of high-scoring FP alignment... previous methods routinely overestimate significance by up to six orders of magnitude."
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