Abish Stephen
@astephen.bsky.social
Microbiologist at Queen Mary University of London.
I work on anaerobes, biofilms, host-microbial models, bacterial volatile metabolites and oral microbiota-systemic axis.
Passionate about guitars, motorsport and cricket. #bikerlife
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I work on anaerobes, biofilms, host-microbial models, bacterial volatile metabolites and oral microbiota-systemic axis.
Passionate about guitars, motorsport and cricket. #bikerlife
Views my own.
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🦠 In a totally not petrifying story, a team in USA 'resurrected' and grew some 40k year old bacteria encased in Alaskan permafrost. Hey, its gonna melt soon anyway, best find out what will happen doi.org/10.1029/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🦠 In a totally not petrifying story, a team in USA 'resurrected' and grew some 40k year old bacteria encased in Alaskan permafrost. Hey, its gonna melt soon anyway, best find out what will happen doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.
October 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.
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Couldn’t agree more guys, some of the conclusions drawn in papers off the back of a database match or a blast search is deeply worrying, without full understanding of what genes are required for resistance (like the glycopeptide operon example from Willem!
August 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Couldn’t agree more guys, some of the conclusions drawn in papers off the back of a database match or a blast search is deeply worrying, without full understanding of what genes are required for resistance (like the glycopeptide operon example from Willem!