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Brett Babec
@iambrettb.bsky.social
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PhD student in viral bioinformatics and phylogenetics
Pepsi Max enthusiast
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“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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A fantastic turnout for our Careers Beyond Academia event, co-hosted by JAMS Brisbane and Australian Society of Microbiology Qld Branch 🙌🔬 Thank you to everyone who joined us — and to our incredible speakers for sharing their stories! 🙏

#JAMSBrisbane #ASMQLD #ScienceCareers #Networking
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…
subulatepalpomere.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Thank you everyone for attending last night's BrisJAMS session and our three wonderful speakers for sharing valuable insights into their research.
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#MicrobiologyForAll #BacterialInfections #ViralPhylogeny #AntibioticDevelopment #Biofilms #Microbiology2025 #jamsbrisbane
September 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Check out our team's latest paper, published in
@ISMEJournal, introducing GenomeFISH—an innovative, genome-based FISH technique enabling strain-level visualisation of microbial communities

@pam-engelberts.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/isme...
GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities
Abstract. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditio
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Congrats to CMR PhD student @iambrettb.bsky.social for taking home the best student speaker prize at this year's MGE Aus meeting 🥳

And another congrats to Ms Lara Carrington on securing the Australian Society for Microbiology Queensland Branch Mobile Genetic Elements Award.

Excellent work both 👏👏
Wrapt for @iambrettb.bsky.social winning the student prize at @mgeaus.bsky.social - "Estimation of phage species trees using gene/species tree reconciliation". Hoping we can have an impact on viral phylogeny with these new methods, carefully applied.
February 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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The Centre for Microbiome Research (CMR) is now engaging with our community on Bluesky! We look forward to using this platform to have meaningful conversations and build stronger connections with researchers and community members around the world.

CMR: Asking questions no one has asked 🦠🔬
February 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM