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Slipa Kanungo
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PhD student working on “Quorum sensing signalling in the mammalian gut” 📍Portugal
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📢 PhD Position Alert! 🪲
Fully funded PhD position (65% TV-L E13) at @uni-goettingen.de to study the evolution of morphological novelties in a darkling beetle.
You will join the interdisciplinary "GönomiX" graduate school: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/home/6242...
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Do you like microbes and insects, and would like to get your favourites printed on articles or clothing? check out my art prints on Redbubble: www.redbubble.com/people/Chaii...
Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :)

#sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects
Chai_ntist Shop | Redbubble
Chai_ntist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
www.redbubble.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🏆 Fighting the Gender Award Gap: Microbiologist Prof Dr Lisa Maier from @unituebingen.bsky.social received the main award of the German Association for #Microbiology and Hygiene at the #DGHM meeting in Jena. Congratulations to @lisamaierlab.bsky.social we are proud of you! 💜
📸 Gabriele Pradel
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Looking forward to seeing you in our next Alumni Network seminar next week:
📅 Wednesday, August 27th
🕙 11am EST (Massachusetts) / 11am CLT (Chile) / 4pm WEST (Oeiras)
📍 over Zoom (PM for link)

@symbnet.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social @ECODIM
August 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Big thanks to scientific writer Libera Lo Presti for this great little piece on our recent work exploring how proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and pH affect human gut microbes.
Check it out here: go.nature.com/4lf6jNk
The pill that might be relieving your heartburn but killing your gut microbes
Why drugs commonly used against heartburn harm your gut microbiome
go.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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skani v0.3.0 is released. github.com/bluenote-157...

- 30-40% potential reduction in memory with approximately the same runtime.
- Breaking changes to indexing and searching databases

Calculate ANI for contigs, genomes -- even search > 140k genomes. Pre-indexed GTDB-R226 available for download.
GitHub - bluenote-1577/skani: Fast, robust ANI and aligned fraction for (metagenomic) genomes and contigs.
Fast, robust ANI and aligned fraction for (metagenomic) genomes and contigs. - bluenote-1577/skani
github.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Congratulations to Rayan Chiki, (Institut Pasteur) head of the “Sequence Bioinformatics” unit, for securing the ERC Proof of Concept 2025 for his project ENZYMINER! 👏

‪@rayan.chiki.bsky.social

#Bioinformatics
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wrapping up the coolest Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social Portugal! Over this course, I had 2min flash talks on my PhD work, presented 2 posters and designed group projects. Thank you @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social #Waldan Kwong and #Martin Blaser for the guidance.
July 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Call for our new PhD program is open. Come join one of our labs at Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - Lisbon-Oeiras, Portugal. Help us spread the word
Exciting opportunities are now available!
GIMM offers a distinctive PhD Program designed to attract & cultivate highly skilled researchers in biology & biomedicine.

Deadline: July 9
👉 Apply now! gimm.pt/education-and-training/phd-program/
June 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hello Blue Skyers! Urgent help needed!! I have a .html file of 1.14 GB Can anyone please suggest me how to open this huge file? To be more precise, this .html file has a plot, not a text file. Thank you in advance!!

#Bioinformatics #data
May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Summer 2025 at the SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses in Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal!

Hurry up and don’t give a second thought! Registration closes in a week (28/03/2025).

We’ll also have Pastel de Nata together 😉

gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...
PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025
Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...
gimm.idloom.events
March 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Logan: A new era of sequencing data
We finish the Workshop on Genomics with a great inspirational talk! BIG DATA, by @rayanchikhi.bsky.social! Not every day one has the priviledge to interact with someone that has assembled ALL the sequencing data ever produced!!!! 🤯 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
January 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
End of the workshop! With a heavy heart, until we meet again!

#evomics2025 #workshop #genomics #bioinformatics
January 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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We are almost at the end of the Workshop on Genomics! 🙆🏻‍♀️ and we have Dag Ahrén explaining Best Practices in Handling Genomic Data! So important to send participants back home knowing how to keep a good order in their projects 📑💻 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
January 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Finally after 1 and a half weeks, I was the happiest among all…

#GutMicrobiome #evomics2025 #workshop #genomics
Evening session on Microbiome/eDNA analyses, with David Barnett, creator of the R package MicroViz 🙌🏽🧫🧬📊 #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics
January 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Week-1 at 📍Český Krumlov

#evomics2025 #workshop #genomics #bioinformatics
January 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
What a fantastic way to wrap up Week-1 with an excellent presentation by @ChrisWWheat on Lies, damn lies, and ….. genomics! Chris, thank you for the spectacular weekend. Na zdraví🥂

#evomics2025 #Bioinformatics #workshop #genomics #Český Krumlov
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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On today's afternoon session, our participants will be assembling genomes, with reads generated from a variety of sequencing technologies 🧬💻 guided by @npmalfoy.bsky.social #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
January 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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This play could not have a better setting than the beautiful Town Theatre of Český Krumlov!! 🤩🧢🧬 #evomics2025
January 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
On the second session on Genome Annotation, we had a practical by @katharinahoff.bsky.social in which the students were able to annotate a genome themselves! 🧬📝💻 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics
January 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM