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Kat Steinke
@microbiologikat.bsky.social
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They/them. Microbiologist/bioinformatician (MSc) working at Odense University Hospital, quadball player, all-around nerd. Opinions, terrible puns etc. all my own
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Star Trek had plenty of them too. I got a box of Star Trek novels from the Soup Era from a friend of the family’s and they really have some questionable gems.
„Only Kirk continued eating - out of the conviction that he needed strength to face the coming events. The reader should do the same - and enjoy a strengthening snack in the meantime. He [sic] only needs to interrupt the exciting reading briefly. For in just five minutes, a hearty warm meal can be prepared. For that, one only needs a spoon, hot water and…“ „Self-sufficiency is the principle of the soldiers at the river bank. A keyword that should make the reader pay attention - because with this method, he [sic] is independent as well. Of course, he doesn’t need to plant his food himself in our world. For him, it’s enough to prepare a cup and heat water. Everything he then needs is…“ „When the sensors register a dramatic change in overall status geometry, you can only look at the instruments helplessly. We down here on Earth fortunately always have the option to take a break from reading and consume something nourishing to be better prepared for further excitement on the Enterprise. After all, for a little nourishment in between all one needs is a cup, hot water and…“
May 17, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Starting the last day of #ESCMIDGlobal with some wonderful illustrations by @torstenseemann.bsky.social - I am absolutely borrowing the concept next time I need to explain phylogeny (though I might need to localize it by adding licorice…)
A phylogenetic tree of chocolate bars with a banana as an outgroup
April 30, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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And last year’s dicloxacillin sleuthing getting a follow-up at #ESCMIDGlobal this year: Astrid Rasmussen from SSI on investigating the spread of the resistance plasmids
Title slide of a talk entitled “Plasmid spread from ST79 NDM-5/OXA-48 producing Enterobacter hormaechei from contaminated dicloxacillin capsules to other Enterobacterales in patients” by Astrid Rasmussen
April 28, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Catch me at #ESCMIDGlobal today with some results from one year of sequencing at Odense University Hospital’s department of clinical microbiology: how does our WGS-based Salmonella serovar ID hold up to the reference lab’s?
A poster titled “Evaluation of decentralized Salmonella serovar prediction by whole genome sequencing”: poster 28 in row 19 in sector A
April 27, 2024 at 9:47 AM