Dr Geertje van Keulen
@drgvank.bsky.social
Swimming🏊♀️ sewciophilic🧵microbial 🧫biochemist🧪🧬/biomaterials ⚒️ scientist;
(bio)chemistry, materials and ecobiology of actinos/natural products;
microbiology/chemistry in hot tubs;
Biofilm Alliance;
Advisory Council member Microbiology Society;
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(bio)chemistry, materials and ecobiology of actinos/natural products;
microbiology/chemistry in hot tubs;
Biofilm Alliance;
Advisory Council member Microbiology Society;
She/her
Yay for actinos and #natprod! See you in Belfast?!
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Work with actinomycetes or mycobacteria? Dedicated symposia shine the spotlight on these remarkable bacteria at #Microbio26 in Belfast. Explore the full variety of sessions and submit your work today.
Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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👇👇👇
😜And got to meet the keynote olympic🏊🏻♀️🥇🥇🥉🥉speaker too👇👇👇
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
📣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👇👇👇
😜And got to meet the keynote olympic🏊🏻♀️🥇🥇🥉🥉speaker too👇👇👇
Soooo, this is happening tomorrow!
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#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...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Soooo, this is happening tomorrow!
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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?
#microsky 🧪🧬🔬
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?
#microsky 🧪🧬🔬
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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?
#microsky 🧪🧬🔬
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?
#microsky 🧪🧬🔬
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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
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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
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
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
September 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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
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
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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...
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.
www.the-microbiologist.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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...
Predatory conference check Q:
Is the Global Food & Agri Summit 2026 in the Netherlands a predatory conference or is it legit?
#science #conference #predatory?
Is the Global Food & Agri Summit 2026 in the Netherlands a predatory conference or is it legit?
#science #conference #predatory?
September 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Predatory conference check Q:
Is the Global Food & Agri Summit 2026 in the Netherlands a predatory conference or is it legit?
#science #conference #predatory?
Is the Global Food & Agri Summit 2026 in the Netherlands a predatory conference or is it legit?
#science #conference #predatory?
Professional Request:if you work with/research or experience #biofilms in your work/company/client environments, can you please complete our Biofilm Alliance survey?
The survey will close soon, so last chance to submit your experiences and influence the next steps!
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The survey will close soon, so last chance to submit your experiences and influence the next steps!
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Microsoft Forms
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September 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Professional Request:if you work with/research or experience #biofilms in your work/company/client environments, can you please complete our Biofilm Alliance survey?
The survey will close soon, so last chance to submit your experiences and influence the next steps!
forms.office.com/e/7rYEETJT74
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The survey will close soon, so last chance to submit your experiences and influence the next steps!
forms.office.com/e/7rYEETJT74
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Reposted by Dr Geertje van Keulen
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.
August 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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Latest storm names announced❗
Here are the #StormNames for 2025/26, announced with Met Eireann and KNMI, the Dutch National Weather Service. Has your name made the list?
Here are the #StormNames for 2025/26, announced with Met Eireann and KNMI, the Dutch National Weather Service. Has your name made the list?
September 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
@tadhgocroinin.bsky.social you must be chuffed! Started counting off the names yet?!🤣
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@matthutchings.bsky.social happy birthday, wishing you a lovely day!
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 !
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August 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
@matthutchings.bsky.social happy birthday, wishing you a lovely day!
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“Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before…Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think. Turning in completed assignments can help you learn how to think, but only if you're the one who completed them.”
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before…Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think. Turning in completed assignments can help you learn how to think, but only if you're the one who completed them.”
In ‘other news’ today 🤪:
‘Danish zoo asks for unwanted pets to feed its predators’
‘Danish zoo asks for unwanted pets to feed its predators’
August 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
In ‘other news’ today 🤪:
‘Danish zoo asks for unwanted pets to feed its predators’
‘Danish zoo asks for unwanted pets to feed its predators’
@paulhoskisson.bsky.social happy birthday fellow emergencer! 🥳
August 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
@paulhoskisson.bsky.social happy birthday fellow emergencer! 🥳
Interesting read on Streptomyces #natprod rapamycin's potential role as treatment for long Covid and ME
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NEW: A cancer drug with a fascinating history is being explored in a phase III clinical trial for Long COVID & an observational trial for ME. Past research suggests it could target a biological pathway seen in people with ME. @frogsandstars.bsky.social reports!
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Clinical trials are testing cancer drug rapamycin for Long COVID and ME - The Sick Times
Two clinical trials are currently underway in the U.S. to evaluate the effect of rapamycin on Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) — one at Mount Sinai’s Cohen Center for Recovery from Comple...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Interesting read on Streptomyces #natprod rapamycin's potential role as treatment for long Covid and ME
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Interesting read indeed
I think there are some good points in the article. Great to hear someone admit to the effect of hands-off approach US took during early 2000's and its absolutely devastating aftermath.
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Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
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July 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Interesting read indeed
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I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.
#Microsky #phagesky #Science
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#Microsky #phagesky #Science
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Research Fellow (eDNA in Biofilms)
The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is a unique interdisciplinary Research Centre of Excellence (RCE), funded by National Research Foundation, Ministry of Educati...
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December 2, 2024 at 6:49 AM
I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.
#Microsky #phagesky #Science
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#Microsky #phagesky #Science
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En route to London for the first ever meeting of the new style Advisory Council of @microbiologysociety.org 🧫🦠. It is gonna be scorching🥵🥵🥵☀️☀️☀️.
On days like this you really get to appreciate the cool building I work in!
On days like this you really get to appreciate the cool building I work in!
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
En route to London for the first ever meeting of the new style Advisory Council of @microbiologysociety.org 🧫🦠. It is gonna be scorching🥵🥵🥵☀️☀️☀️.
On days like this you really get to appreciate the cool building I work in!
On days like this you really get to appreciate the cool building I work in!
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Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch.
The resulting enzymes catalyze a chemical reaction that no known natural protein can execute, achieving a reaction rate and efficiency similar to naturally occurring enzymes.
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The resulting enzymes catalyze a chemical reaction that no known natural protein can execute, achieving a reaction rate and efficiency similar to naturally occurring enzymes.
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‘Remarkable’ new enzymes built by algorithm with physics know-how
Computer approach creates synthetic enzymes 100 times more efficient than those designed by AI.
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June 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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En route to #ISBA2025 from Leiden Central. Excited!!
Lots of protesters at the railway station heading in the opposite direction to The Hague!
Lots of protesters at the railway station heading in the opposite direction to The Hague!
June 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
En route to #ISBA2025 from Leiden Central. Excited!!
Lots of protesters at the railway station heading in the opposite direction to The Hague!
Lots of protesters at the railway station heading in the opposite direction to The Hague!
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Oh my goodness, this game looks like a riot... 😆
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicChatter
https://publishorperish.games/
Welcome to the chaotic life of academic publishing. In this game, you are a clueless researcher trying to do the one and only thing that matters in your academic life: churning out publications, fast....
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June 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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