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Gab Astorga
@gabastorga.bsky.social
370 followers 35 following 9 posts
📍Norwich, UK
Studying E. coli diversity and phylogenomics within a One Health perspective
4th year bioinformatics PhD student
LGBTQ+ & EDI advocate
I like science communications, reading and nerdy things
https://linktr.ee/gabastorga
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Gab Astorga @gabastorga.bsky.social · Nov 19
Celebrated the international day of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM yesterday at the Royal Institution
yesterday with @prideinstem.bsky.social @drcarpineti.bsky.social

#LGBTQ #STEM
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🆕 LGBTQIA+ Leaders in Nature Conservation and STEM: A Panel 🌈

Our Project Manager @samfrowe.bsky.social‬ and PhD student @gabastorga.bsky.social‬ are taking part in the panel hosted by Norfolk Wildlife Trust

🗓️ 22 July
📍 Norwich Arts Centre

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June 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🐶 How strong is the bond with your dog? Register for #MNGPopUp to find out!

@gabastorga.bsky.social asks if humans & dogs share E. coli
🧬 217 genomes
💊 50% #AMR
💡 Cross-species insights
📅 July 3 | 📍Norwich + Online
🔗 lnkd.in/eYtyHSyi

#MicroSky #ECR @norwichmicro.bsky.social @getgenome.bsky.social
Promotional poster for the "Norwich Pop Up" event featuring Gabriel Astorga from the Quadram Institute as a speaker. The title of his talk is: "Are we barking up the wrong tree? Limited E. coli co-occurrence between humans and companion dogs." The poster includes a professional photo of Gabriel smiling in a black blazer. Logos for the Centre for Microbial Interactions, The Sainsbury Laboratory, and GetGenome are displayed at the top left. At the bottom, the event details are listed: 3 July at the Norwich Research Park, John Innes Conference Centre. The MicrobesNG logo is also included. A button says "Register here" with a link: linktr.ee/microbesng. The word "SPEAKER" is vertically aligned along the right side in large pink letters.
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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I am honoured to be given the future presenter awards at the Amplify x New Voice Awards!

This is the first step of many towards my dream of making science more fun and accessible in my own way!

Thank you @edinburghtvfest.bsky.social @thetvfoundation.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Congratulations to our PhD student @gabastorga.bsky.social on winning the Amplify x New Voice Future Presenter Award! 🏆

The awards recognise and foster talent, making the television industry more accessible to a wider range of people 📺
Gabriel Astorga holding the Amplify award
March 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We had a fantastic time at the Centre for Microbial Interactions Annual Conference last week which brough together microbiology research from across Norwich Research 🦠

@emmarholden.bsky.social @evelienadri.bsky.social @tweakyaustin.bsky.social @gabastorga.bsky.social

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A panel discussion during the Centre for Microbial Interactions featuring Dr Carmen Palop, Dr Jennifer Ahn Jarvis and Dave Baker Dr Evelien Adriaenssens giving a talk about bacteriophages Dr Emma Holden giving a talk about TRADIS Gabriel Astorga giving a talk about antimicrobial resistance and food
March 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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There have been some changes to the buzz wire leader board over lunch! #CMINorwich25 👀⚡

In 1st place, retaining an impressive winning streak is...

🥇 Gabriel Astorga @goodolgab1
🥈 Isabelle Storer
🥉 Leanne Sims

#CMINorwich25 #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky
February 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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What’s on our foods? @gabastorga.bsky.social from the lab of @alisonmather.bsky.social explains how to discover E. coli diversity using WGS, presented at #cminorwich25
February 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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This is absolutely mad!!

Thank you to Amplify x New Voice Awards for shortlisting me for the Future Presenter award!
I can’t wait to celebrate at the awards on March 12th!
@thetvfoundation.bsky.social
@edinburghtvfest.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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I’m so curious to see what others think of this book?
January 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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My vision board for 2025 💛
January 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Magazine launch!
November 25, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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It’s absolutely mad that I’m on the front cover of a men’s fashion magazine
November 21, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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I wish I could re-experience reading this paragraph for the first time
November 20, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Celebrated the international day of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM yesterday at the Royal Institution
yesterday with @prideinstem.bsky.social @drcarpineti.bsky.social

#LGBTQ #STEM
November 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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So @gabastorga.bsky.social showed up to stay over with a book and wine as a gift for us.

This has set the bar for all future guests!
Gabe on the sofa holding a bottle of wine and the book Orbital by Samantha Harvey
November 17, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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We were blessed by brilliant speakers and a phenomenal venue to mark the International Day of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM #QueerInSTEM

@gabastorga.bsky.social @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social
Gabriel Astorga presenting in the RI lecture theatre with a slide that says one health over him Khalil and Rachael presenting a slide with the work of science and sorcery with the upcoming GM for their February season Jonathan presenting a slide about the plan for CODE WITH PRIDE that says. • Workshops to introduce LGBTQ+ individuals to fundamentals in programming. • From non-programming backgrounds. • Open to those not in higher education. • Using computing facilities in EEECS. Emily presenting her project. Her slides says: Co-creation is the only response to an increasingly hostile reality - we must build communities and share knowledge as an intercospected neum on phonesins or knowerge exchange ces be liberation for all through radical community connection
November 18, 2024 at 11:10 PM