Omid Shenavar

Every time I open X, I get frightened and close it. It’s all people attacking each other, protests, someone killed, someone attacked… But here it’s all science and education. I don’t know whether this place is less informative, or if X is just trying to convince us that the world is ending!

Pseudomonas aeruginosa lasR is a keystone gene in polymicrobial cultures The airways of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) are often co-infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a variety of other co-habiting microbes; the infections are polymicrobial. P. aeruginosa isolates fr...

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#microsky

Wow! Cool! I have never thought about it that what did microbiologists use before discovering agar for culturing?maybe gelatin, but it is really hard to keep it solid!

Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update removes all remaining methods to bypass Microsoft Account requirements during setup, enforcing online sign-in and blocking any possibility of creating local-only a...

Microsoft Blocks Windows 11 Workarounds for Local Accounts, Forces Internet Connection During Setup. I think it is time to switch to macOS or Linux or BSD 🤓 alternativeto.net/news/2025/10...

Congrats!🎉

In my view, symbiosis is one of the ways of evolution; ‘cause Darwin’s law is not “competition only.” It’s about survival too, whoever survives and reproduces more wins.
If cooperation helps organisms survive or reproduce better, then natural selection will favor cooperation. That’s still Darwinian!

An old 2005 PC, only a CD drive, left for dead. With #antiX core, it’s alive again; now a kid will have a system for school. This is why #open-source matters. It gives life, and it gives chances. #linux

I can learn a lot from you Nikolas; I really hope to see you soon.

We have a lot of that trash data in ncbi, I suppose ncbi should have an option to flag a sequence as obsolete; something like we do in Linux arch repos, so maybe others know what they are dealing with. Bacteria is better in this regard, fungal taxonomy is like hell…actually many of them are useless.

Good luck Professor!

If I were you, I would compare my results with those of Dia et al. and the Morinière database; they have done extensive work on Xanthomonas classification, which you can find in the WGS repository of NCBI. And if your focus is Enterobacteriaceae, there is no research better than that of Pro. Brady.

you cannot compare your data to findings that have not been confirmed. recA works better in Enterobacteriaceae, but not in Xanthomonas. Even in Enterobacteriaceae, I would recommend using rpoB alongside gyrB.

Sorry for the late comment, Nikolas. I was working on some articles and had been away from social media. If I understand correctly, you are working on Xanthomonas. From my experience, recA is not a very reliable gene for intra-taxa definition. Also, please ignore all non-reported BLAST results.

You were on the team that interviewed me for the predoc. I was so nervous, I forgot everything, and honestly was not at my best. But you really calmed me and I kept looking at you because it made me feel at ease.
I believe you’ll be a wonderful professor, and I wish you the best in your new lab! 🙏🏼

Thanks; I haven’t stopped trying, even if it means starting again from the lowest level. One day, like the ugly duckling, I’ll grow into a swan. Maybe right now I’m just another Middle Easterner people don’t look at kindly, but a good day will come eventually. Hope so. Thank you for reading me 🙏🏼

CRISPR as a microbial immune system In 2003, Mojica wrote the first paper suggesting that CRISPR was an innate microbial immune system. The paper was rejected by a series of high-profile journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nucleic Acids Research, before finally being accepted by Journal of Molecular Evolution in February, 2005.[3][4]

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

Funny how many institutions that self-refer as “leading” have a wait-and-see approach to decision making…

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Wow! Incredible! 😍

I’d honestly love to; sounds like a dream. I just don’t know whom I should contact or where to start. And Brazil? Who doesn’t love Brazil! Thank you so much for mentioning it. I’ll bother you in private if that’s okay 🙏

Thank you for reading me. I’ve tried, waited, and held on as much as I could… and I still do. Funny enough, my name — Omid — actually means hope. Maybe that’s what keeps me going. Truly appreciate your kind words 🙏

Things are getting worse between #Iran and #Israel, and honestly, I don’t know what’s ahead. Maybe this is where my dreams end. But through it all, one thing never changed: I’ve always loved #plantpathology. I just wish I had the chance to become the scientist I dreamt of. 🧪🌱 #plantscience

Born in the wrong time. Living in the wrong world…

For a year, I’ve tried to apply and continue my studies. Over 90% rejected me—mostly because of my nationality. Now I’m stuck between the Iran–Israel war, and it feels like I have no dream left. Because it seems the world has chosen not to see me…as it always did.🧪🌱 #Israel_Strike #AcademicSky #Iran

Congrats! Once I had the same problem and it got resolved when I manually made the fresh buffer (TBE) myself.

Seems like bacterial blight to me, so I go with Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis (Constantin et al. 2016) -formerly X. axonopodis pv. manihotis

Graphical abstract of "Leaf Spot and Stem Canker of Pistachio Trees Incited by Xanthomonas Strains" article

Just published! Our study on a new pistachio disease in Iran caused by Xanthomonas—including the report of Xanthomonas hortorum on pistachio. Grateful to work with great colleagues on this. doi.org/10.1111/jph....
#PlantScience 🧪🌱 #Xanthomonas

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I hope something similar happens to me one day soon. I'm on the verge of giving up, as I've been rejected many times—just because I hold an Iranian passport...

a Plasma widget (plasmoid) for Persian poetry lovers. Displays verses from ganjoor.net with a refresh button. Simple, elegant, functional. #Ganjine #PersianPoetry #PlasmaWidget #KDE #OpenSource #Linux

I wrote a personal widget for my KDE as I love to read poems—Ganjine, a port of a Cinnamon desklet. It displays Persian verses from ganjoor.net. Check it out if you love reading poems like me. Not perfect, but do what I want. #Ganjine #PersianPoetry #KDE #OpenSource #Linux
github.com/omidshenavar...