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Siân Owen
@sianowen.bsky.social
Microbiologist & phage phanatic! Enthusiastic explorer of microbial genomes
PI at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Assist Prof @albany.edu
Currently obsessed with plasmid-dependent phage
www.wadsworth.org/research/laboratories/owen
The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases!
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/
This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!)
Reposts appreciated 🙏
June 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺
May 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We made a small modification to the classic plaque assay, by integrating multiple fluorescent strains into the lawn. This allows immediate read-out of phage phenotypes, skipping the laborious downstream screening
(and a well deserved glow-up for the work horse of virology for almost 100 years!) 8/
December 4, 2024 at 11:29 PM