Dr. Candace Williams

Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Nanopore sequencing of intact aminoacylated tRNAs - Nature Communications Accurate protein synthesis depends on aminoacylated tRNAs, but their identities have been hard to measure. Here, authors present aa-tRNA-seq, a nanopore-based method that reveals the amino acid, seque...

Our paper is out in its final form! Back in April 2023, my coauthor Aleks Radakovic, then a PhD student, approached me after a talk in Chicago to ask what I thought an aminoacylated tRNA would look like if we pulled it through a @nanopore.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We’re bringing #ASMMicrobe 2025 to you, virtually.

Join Robert James, Angela Hickey, and Jose Alexander as they share how real-time, Oxford Nanopore sequencing is transforming microbiology—from single bacterial isolates to the complexities of the microbiome.

nanoporetech.com/about/events...

Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social).

myloasm-docs.github.io

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria In diverse environments, microbes drive a myriad of processes, from geochemical and nutrient cycling to interspecies interactions, including in association with plants and animals. Their physiological...

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

What the Floc: Educational Wastewater Video Game Educational video game where players operate a wastewater treatment plant to protect the city and environment from pollution!

Please support my students kickstarter to finish an educational wastewater video game we started building!

I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...

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Resister TODAY for Binning Singletons @ #ASMicrobe in LA! 🧪

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

We are looking for a great colleague @mcgill.ca

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Global and Public Health

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It's been a good month for Nanopore assembly preprints! This time metagenomic assembly with nanoMDBG: hundreds of high-quality MAGs from high-complexity communities

AI-generated (ChatGPT) cartoon of different gut bacteria munching on different types of sachets containing "fake sugar" as a reference to non-nutritive sweeteners

Do non-nutritive sweeteners alter the human microbiome? And why is this question important?

Check out our new review in Immunometabolism, spearheaded by @kcrakes.bsky.social, Lauren Questell & @subah.bsky.social and quick 🧵👇:

journals.lww.com/immunometabo...

Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, (C2-240724) Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.

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Just announced!

#MVIF 39 featuring groundbreaking research on the role of the Nagoya Protocol in protecting microbial diversity through fair use!

Don't miss this special event!

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Efficient near telomere-to-telomere assembly of Nanopore Simplex reads Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly is the ultimate goal for de novo genome assembly. Existing algorithms capable of near T2T assembly all require Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) ultra-long reads w...

Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Help your fellow researchers decide what nvidia GPU to buy for their @nanoporetech.com basecalling needs.
github.com/Kirk3gaard/2...

Release v0.9.5 · nanoporetech/dorado [0.9.5] (31 March 2025) This release of Dorado delivers significant performance improvements and broader hardware support: Major speed increase of the v5 SUP basecalling models on Volta (7.0) and ...

Dorado v0.9.5 adds support for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Alongside the latest generation, we’ve given Volta & Orin a boost, v5 transformer sup >2X, LSTM hac on Hopper is boosted 20%, dorado correct and polish both receive performance updates, plus a whole bunch more; see..

github.com/nanoporetech...

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

And so it begins. I have been working in genomics / sequencing for more than 30 years but today is a particularly exciting day as I begin training on using the @nanopore MK1D sequencer which we will be using soon for student projects (and other things) at @ucdavis.bsky.social

Flier for a seminar entitled “evolutionary innovations in mammalian germline regulatory biology” for Kira Marshall

Want to learn about opossum spermatogenesis? Join us today for the future Dr. Marshall’s thesis seminar! (zoom link in flier)

Dog surrounded by fire saying “I published a paper”

Inclusion and diversity through a geographical lens Promoting inclusion and diversity is fundamental to the advancement of science. It results in the incorporation of diverse perspectives and increases engagement from a wider community of researchers. ...

Trends in Microbiology is starting a series of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) articles that exclusively spotlights underrepresented geographies/ voices.

Read our latest editorial here: www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Introducing "Metagenomic Estimation of Dietary Intake", or "MEDI": a data-driven approach to estimating dietary and nutritional intake from stool DNA 💩 - 🍌🥦🐟🥩📈

See @cdiener.com's excellent thread below.

We are really proud of this work, and we hope it is useful to the scientific community.

Screenshot of the Website of the University of Vienna with a description of the new master program "Microbiome Science"

Check-out our brand-new Master program "Microbiome Science" at the @univie.ac.at. If you are interested in environmental or medical microbiomes, this is a great opportunity. Come join us in beautiful Vienna"
@cemess.bsky.social @microbesplanet.bsky.social

studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

I wrote a short letter to the editor of The Missoulian, my hometown newspaper in Montana, about the importance of science funding. I'm posting here in a thread, in case others want a template for writing home to their red state papers.

Disclaimer: these are my own personal opinions/views.

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Corgi looking out a window

Timeline cleanse…
Introducing (my friend’s dog) Cannoli ♥️

Featuring quotes from @jeremymberg.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and the research of @chelsamicro.bsky.social

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

There’s some really exciting work happening in #AI and #conservation. Do you use data from cameras, acoustics, drones or satellites to understand biodiversity? The Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack might be for you! Point me to your research to be added 🧪🌏

go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article) The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Parallelization in purrr — parallelization purrr's map functions have a .parallel argument to parallelize a map using the mirai package. This allows you to run computations in parallel using more cores on your machine, or distributed over the ...

Parallelization just landed in the dev version of purrr: purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/referenc...

Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible.

Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social !

#rstats #tidyverse