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Ojas Natarajan
@microbusta.bsky.social
Explorer of gut microbes, runner, biker, cooking afficianado
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Need travel funds for an upcoming conference? There’s still time to apply for the 2025 Monarch Scholarship! @neb.com

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Introducing the 2025 Monarch® Nucleic Acid Purification Scholarship | NEB
Monarch nucleic acid purification kits from New England Biolabs have been meticulously designed to deliver exceptional performance and value, all with industry-leading sustainability. It is our missio...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
She's an excellent colleague and an enthusiastic scientist .
Please help her, as someone in a similar boat, I can attest how overwhelming this situation is.
One of our graduate students, a fellow microbiologist and all around great person, lost everything in Hurricane Helene. If you are able, please consider donating or sharing. ffnd.co/R5R57x
Susanne Needs Our Help
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October 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Cleaning up my house after flood damage turned into a PSA about mold

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Debris from Helene piled up along roadways in south St. Pete's Coquina Key
Many residents got several feet of water inside their home.
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October 4, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Happy to be at ASM again. The first one since covid. Say hi to me if you're around
June 14, 2024 at 1:58 PM
This project is an exciting opportunity to work on sea squirts and it's microbiome with a wonderful PI.
Interested students please apply. The position is based in Italy.
May 24, 2024 at 1:54 PM
The history of mictopipettes

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Making the Micropipette
The innovation and litigation behind biology’s most ubiquitous tool.
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January 2, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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#R Package Update:

There are ~2x as many colorblind-friendly color palettes🎨 in ggpubfigs, which can help make your #figures📊 accessible to as many people as possible

Link to GitHub: github.com/JLSteenwyk/g...
Link to Publication: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
November 2, 2023 at 4:39 PM
I've been using this buffer for thr past 4 years and its muxh better than TAE or TBE
@atinygreencell.bsky.social
Just in case you are unaware - nice publication from BioTechniques on different electrophoresis buffers that was life changing for me: www.future-science.com/doi/10.2144/...

Been a decade or more since I was at the bench, but speeding up my elecrophoresis was so nice.
November 3, 2023 at 12:19 AM
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New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.
Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work
Post-doctoral scientists are effective mentors for graduate students. This Perspective discusses how failures to properly credit them for this role has negative consequence for everyone and suggests p...
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November 2, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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Excited for @microbusta.bsky.social ‘s talk today - “Gut instincts: filter-feeding marine invertebrates reveal complex interactions w microbes and its host”
October 27, 2023 at 1:00 PM
Made it past the hurricane. Came close to flooding inside the house. Guess we were just lucky enough. Yay climate change
August 31, 2023 at 2:51 AM
Water is creeping up. Roads are flooded. Another storm surge expected later this evening.
August 30, 2023 at 12:34 PM
Hoping to ride through the night #HurricaneIdalia
August 30, 2023 at 3:44 AM