Bhuwan Abbot

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Are there some good scholarly articles/books about RDR? I would like to read some!

Two women smiling. One is holding a framed gel electrophoresis image

The first Masters student defense in the lab! Congrats to Aylha Pferschy!!
#NewPI 🧪

Her lab art contribution is her gel picture of the mutants she worked so hard to make 🧫 We keep a signed-by-her copy for us and sign one for her to take!

Me, a white woman with fluffy curly hair and striped dress standing in front of a scientific poster with the figures from the linked preprint

Thanks to those who stopped by at #2025ISMPMI to learn about bacteria that live inside fungi.

It was great to hear your questions. So much to do in this area!!

For those not here, please check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Or mini-review: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social from the Carter Lab @morgancarterphd.bsky.social

Are the bacteria🦠in a fungus 🍄 evolving towards obligate endosymbiosis?

Mycetohabitans doesn't have all the hallmarks of other obligate endosymbionts

Read more in www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Evol2025

Look at this UNC Charlotte crowd!!!

#Evol2025 #Evol25

Yall better be reading my preprint right now (and giving me feedback)

Flyer showing the carter lab from UNC Charlotte at evolution 2025. Bhuwan Abbot is presenting a talk on endofungal bacterial comparative genomics on june 23rd in the coevolution I session and Ruth Wright is presenting a poster on bacterial secretion at poster C10 on June 22nd

Heading to #evol2025? Come see what the Carter Lab is up to!

@ruthwright.bsky.social and @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social will be there and would love to connect.

We are *this* 🤏 close to having the first lab preprint posted for work only done since I started at Charlotte and I'm just so jazzed about it.

Also the author list is 1 tech, 1 undergrad, 1 high schooler, 1 rotation student, 2 local collabs, & @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social which is lab goals to me 🏆.

That’s my undergrad mentee!!!

#phdsky

I had wrist issues because of typing and sleeping in a bad posture. In my experience, voice to text is TOO DUMB to interpret the many technical terms we use in my PhD work.

My we-listen-and-we-dont-judge(👀) moment today was when an undergrad honors student tried to show off being an honors student bc they spend hours in a lab doing a dissertation, while it was the default in my undergrad + a toxic work culture.

#phdsky

The only thing cooler than protein folding? Protein folding into a dinosaur. 🦕

Can confirm. Adding the F word to your google searches turns off AI summaries. E.g.:

"how do massively parallel reporter assays work?"
vs
"how do f*cking massively parallel reporter assays work?"

Dangerous Speech: A Practical Guide This guide provides an in-depth exploration of dangerous speech and how to identify it, and some promising efforts to reduce the harmful effects of speech.

Dangerous speech
- promotes fear
- is aimed at groups
- harms indirectly
- often false
Ring a bell?🔔
www.dangerousspeech.org/

Just so happens we’re out of eggs and I’m about to head to the store. I’m expecting massive price drops. Stay tuned.

If the early bird gets the worm, doesn't that mean that the population will shift towards late worms in a bi-stable distribution , leading perhaps to a partition of temporal niche?

Do you have a student who is a non-native English speaker #NNES ? A post-doc? A collaborator? Are you a reviewer?
It takes years to get to express yourself in a foreign language, if it ever happens

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Here is a great summary of genomic visualization tools: cmdcolin.github.io/awesome-geno...

Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group!
1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

9. I started my career as a digital right activist, working to protect net neutrality and privacy.

Got back my genomes before I was done running confirmatory gels on the DNA I sent in the first place

It’s safe to say that the #F1 WDC is essentially gone to Max with Lando now behind by 62 points, who won’t have any chances untill red bull are haunted by technical troubles. The WCC is however, shaping up to be enthralling with 6th place surprisingly taken up by Alpine. It’s gonna be very close!

Fuck.

Coffee mug illustrated in hand written DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND YOU'LL [then crossed out NEVER WORK A DAY IN YOUR LIFE ] (written in a different colour )-WORK SUPER HARD ALL THE TIME WITH NO SEPARATION OR ANY BOUNDARIES AND ALSO TAKE EVERYTHING EXTREMELY PERSONALLY

My friend gave me this mug…

Ok. I’ve invented #PeProMo - personal (PhD) progress month - inspired by the focus of @hoylerosemary.bsky.social in October. I am evoking #PeProMo to help me get my studies simmering gently between now and Christmas, after a period of compassionate leave….

Game-ification of conference goals is such a game changer. Not me in my winner era 😌

#phdsky

Presented my poster at #SACNAS #NDiSTEM the other day and got to meet so many people working on fungi in ways I never imagined!

How Life Works “Bold and intriguing.”—Wall Street Journal • “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “Offers plenty of food for thought.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)  “...

Curious to know more? Read @philipcball.bsky.social's excellent new book! And let's stop oversimplifying the "central dogma" (DNA>RNA>protein; not pointing fingers here; me too!).

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...