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We empower scientists throughout the world by providing equitable access to genomics technology and genomics-related training and education. http://getgenome.net | https://kamounlab.medium.com/introducing-getgenome-genomics-for-all-7011d9f5fa9b
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· Dec 18
GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward
2025 was a big year for GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify…
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I just published: GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward
2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.
medium.com/p/getgenome-...
2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.
medium.com/p/getgenome-...
Last newsletter of 2025 highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.
January 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Last newsletter of 2025 highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.
Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) provides fully funded scholarships forDPhil/PhD study at University of Oxford, where students directly aim to solve some of humanity’s most enduring challenges. Applications now open! www.eit.org/scholars/gra...
Graduate Scholarships | Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Discover the graduate funding and collaboration opportunities at EIT Oxford. There are currently two pathways for full funding to pursue a DPhil/PhD at the University of Oxford. Doctoral students play...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) provides fully funded scholarships forDPhil/PhD study at University of Oxford, where students directly aim to solve some of humanity’s most enduring challenges. Applications now open! www.eit.org/scholars/gra...
I just published: GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward
2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.
medium.com/p/getgenome-...
2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.
medium.com/p/getgenome-...
GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward
2025 was a big year for GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify…
medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I just published: GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward
2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.
medium.com/p/getgenome-...
2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.
medium.com/p/getgenome-...
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More unsolicited advice for early career researchers:
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
7 random unsolicited tips for students and early career researchers
You might not want to hear them, but here they are anyway.
kamounlab.medium.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
More unsolicited advice for early career researchers:
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
8. Just do it!
Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...
GetGenome is proud to partner with @johninnescentre.bsky.social , @cimmyt.bsky.social , @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and #DEWAS to advance a bottom-up, equitable approach to access genomics 🌾 🧬
“Battling crop diseases without borders” www.jic.ac.uk/blog/battlin...
“Battling crop diseases without borders” www.jic.ac.uk/blog/battlin...
Battling crop diseases without borders | John Innes Centre
DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.
www.jic.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
GetGenome is proud to partner with @johninnescentre.bsky.social , @cimmyt.bsky.social , @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and #DEWAS to advance a bottom-up, equitable approach to access genomics 🌾 🧬
“Battling crop diseases without borders” www.jic.ac.uk/blog/battlin...
“Battling crop diseases without borders” www.jic.ac.uk/blog/battlin...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Check our November 2025 newsletter.
Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
GetGenome October 2025 newsletter highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.
Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
GetGenome October 2025 newsletter highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.
Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
GetGenome Newsletter -- September 2025 getgenome.net/network
September 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
GetGenome Newsletter -- September 2025 getgenome.net/network
🌍 Early Career Researcher from an Arab or African country? Fellowships available for 3–12 months at Nanjing Agricultural University. Apply by Oct 15 — don’t miss out!
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🌍 Early Career Researcher from an Arab or African country? Fellowships available for 3–12 months at Nanjing Agricultural University. Apply by Oct 15 — don’t miss out!
Warmest congrats to Nourelhouda Abdelkafi and colleagues at University of Sfax 🇹🇳 for their paper "Comparative genomics of three rhizobacteria strains indicate functional complementarity for inoculum development" #GGTunisia2022 #GetGenome doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...
September 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Warmest congrats to Nourelhouda Abdelkafi and colleagues at University of Sfax 🇹🇳 for their paper "Comparative genomics of three rhizobacteria strains indicate functional complementarity for inoculum development" #GGTunisia2022 #GetGenome doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...
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Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA):
Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has triggered seven pandemics, with the seventh pandemic emerging in 1961. The success of seventh pandemic El Tor (7PET) V. cholerae as a human pathogen is linked to its acquisition of mobile genetic ...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA):
Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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For anyone who has used pling for comparing plasmids using rearrangement distances ("how many structural events apart are these plasmids"), here's how to tweak parameters, and integrate it with typing info, and the host phylogeny
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/iqbal-lab-or...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/iqbal-lab-or...
Clustering of plasmid genomes for genomic epidemiology by using rearrangement distances, with pling
Integration of plasmids into genomic epidemiology is challenging, because there are no clearly defined evolving-units (equivalent to species), and because plasmids appear to evolve as much by structur...
www.biorxiv.org
September 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For anyone who has used pling for comparing plasmids using rearrangement distances ("how many structural events apart are these plasmids"), here's how to tweak parameters, and integrate it with typing info, and the host phylogeny
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/iqbal-lab-or...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/iqbal-lab-or...
Cape to Carthage - An African AI Journey | Full award-winning documentary
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September 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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August 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Cool: for free. And here is story that is related becasue you might not want vector surprises of the less positive kind. This is free with registration...and here is a quasi open-access link. rdcu.be/eAfnP
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vector choices, vector surprises - Nature Methods
Vectors can be the ultimate vehicle for transporting material into cells. Except when they’re not so ultimate.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Cool: for free. And here is story that is related becasue you might not want vector surprises of the less positive kind. This is free with registration...and here is a quasi open-access link. rdcu.be/eAfnP
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is a genuinely great thing. Please boost it.
We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)
Through @GetGenome scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.
medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
Through @GetGenome scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.
medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)
Through GetGenome, scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing — removing barriers, improving quality control…
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August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is a genuinely great thing. Please boost it.
We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)
Through @getgenome.bsky.social scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.
medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
Through @getgenome.bsky.social scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.
medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)
Through GetGenome, scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing — removing barriers, improving quality control…
medium.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)
Through @getgenome.bsky.social scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.
medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
Through @getgenome.bsky.social scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.
medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
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I just published: Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy
This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇
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This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇
medium.com/p/data-vs-hy...
Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy
This post is adapted from a talk I gave at the Plantae Presents webinar More Money, More Data: Data-Driven versus Hypothesis-Driven…
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August 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I just published: Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy
This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇
medium.com/p/data-vs-hy...
This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇
medium.com/p/data-vs-hy...
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Yesterday we presented our work on the impact of 🌳🌲 conversion to 🥑 orchards on soil microbial communities at #ISMELat2025.
If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.
If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Yesterday we presented our work on the impact of 🌳🌲 conversion to 🥑 orchards on soil microbial communities at #ISMELat2025.
If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.
If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.
July 2025 newsletter getgenome.net/network
July 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
July 2025 newsletter getgenome.net/network
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📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on July 18 at 11:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp
#plantscience
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp
#plantscience
July 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on July 18 at 11:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp
#plantscience
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp
#plantscience
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Join us in ~2 hours 4PM BST / 11AM EST for a discussion of Data-driven Versus Hypothesis-driven Research... #AcademicChatter #phdchat
📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on July 18 at 11:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp
#plantscience
👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp
#plantscience
July 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Join us in ~2 hours 4PM BST / 11AM EST for a discussion of Data-driven Versus Hypothesis-driven Research... #AcademicChatter #phdchat
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I just published: When war and famine hit home: A PhD student who stepped up
What would you do if war and famine broke out in your homeland — while you were ten thousand kilometers away, working on your PhD? This is how Hagos @hagos98.bsky.social chose to act.
medium.com/p/when-war-a...
What would you do if war and famine broke out in your homeland — while you were ten thousand kilometers away, working on your PhD? This is how Hagos @hagos98.bsky.social chose to act.
medium.com/p/when-war-a...
When war and famine hit home: A PhD student who stepped up
What would you do if war and famine broke out in your homeland — while you were ten thousand kilometers away, working on your PhD? This is…
medium.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I just published: When war and famine hit home: A PhD student who stepped up
What would you do if war and famine broke out in your homeland — while you were ten thousand kilometers away, working on your PhD? This is how Hagos @hagos98.bsky.social chose to act.
medium.com/p/when-war-a...
What would you do if war and famine broke out in your homeland — while you were ten thousand kilometers away, working on your PhD? This is how Hagos @hagos98.bsky.social chose to act.
medium.com/p/when-war-a...
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It's great to be here! The morning session has been fantastic, session 2 is kicking off now with a talk from Manel Chaouachi from the Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cédria Tunisia, about how bacteria living inside plants boost their immune systems 🦠🌱
#ECR #MicrobialGenomics #PlantImmunity
#ECR #MicrobialGenomics #PlantImmunity
We’re thrilled to host the ECR Symposium with @microbesNG @micronorwich #MNGPopUp
July 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's great to be here! The morning session has been fantastic, session 2 is kicking off now with a talk from Manel Chaouachi from the Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cédria Tunisia, about how bacteria living inside plants boost their immune systems 🦠🌱
#ECR #MicrobialGenomics #PlantImmunity
#ECR #MicrobialGenomics #PlantImmunity