Mrinalini Watsa
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Mrinalini Watsa
@surroundscience.bsky.social
Conservation geneticist @SanDiegoZoo|
Director @fieldprojects |
Maxwell Hanrahan Field Biology Fellow

Wildlife biologist | Venipuncture enthusiast | Twin mum | Immigrant | Science writer

Alumnus of WashU-STL & Grinnell College
Bangalorean ಕನ್ನಡ ಹುಡುಗಿ
@arynwilder.bsky.social presents on the incredible ways in which conservation genomics has impacted reintroductions of the Pacific Pocket Mouse (which is not a mouse!) at the 50th anniversary of the #FrozenZoo #consgen 🧪🧬
September 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Absolutely amazing moment: the #FrozenZoo turned 50 today, and so many amazing scientists were here in San Diego to celebrate 🧪@sandiegozoo.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Absolutely brilliant work at GOSH on targeted rapid metagenomics for same day results on respiratory infections at a hospital. 30 new centres across the UK to adopt this. #nextgen medicine. #Nanoporeconf
May 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Peptides are being detected directly, folks. PEPTIDES. #LakmalJayasinghe is delivering on his promise. Accurate and sensitive - peptides are grabbed by two DNA handles and run through the pore. #brush up on your #proteomics. This WILL happen. 🧪#nanoporeconf @nanoporetech.com
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ok. 🤯🤯🤯

It’s not here yet, but it will be. 🧪#consgen is never going to be the same - this doesn’t only belong in a doctor’s office. Sample to sequence in a single device @nanoporetech.com #nanoporeconf
May 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
⁦Boston Children’s Hospital‬⁩ showing DNA from samples in a fridge can be successfully assessed for methylation at #nanoporeconf 🧪
May 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My journey with @nanoporetech.com began in 2018 - really glad to have stuck it out till today, for faster and more reliable pores/enzymes. Here to see how the latest tech can impact #conservation #genomics.🧪🐾
May 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Does anyone know what snake this might be? Location #kenya, #nairobi. It’s been killed :/ I’m trying to advise on better approaches to the next snake sighting here🐾🧪
January 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is before one plant got us. Now, I’ll use a digital zoom :) #cacti #nature #wild
November 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Beautiful and prickly, these cholla cacti, or teddy bear cacti, actually launch at you unprovoked. This stand blooms where the Mojave transitions into the Colorado desert in #joshuatreenp and is stunning. What’s more, most are thought to be identical clones of parents with the same DNA 🧪🐾
November 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Setting up major Thanksgiving traditions with kids while secretly working on math skills #nerdymama #clevermama ?
November 28, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Welcome to bsky @nanoporetech.com here’s your moment of joy! #flongle #shortreads #forensics #wildlife
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Ok by this point it’s probably pretty clear I #nanopore a lot (no such thing as too much) but for the 3 people who care - broke my #flongle pore record. 94! #consgen 🧪
November 22, 2024 at 11:11 PM
I have a slight flongle problem :) so hard to let go! #consgen #recycle #nanopore #portablesequencing 🐾🧪
November 22, 2024 at 10:45 PM
A very small flowcell made to fit a Nanopore sequencer. It looks like this and can produce about 1 gigabase of data. Since its pores are temperature sensitive, it tends not to ever arrive with the full 120 pores it started with - and I usually take them to field labs, so 90 is rare! 🧪
November 22, 2024 at 4:52 AM
19mins and 25k, N50 325 bp (ok, so maybe not as short as you were thinking!), and is there a more beautiful feeling? All because of #kvsevolodova who isn’t on this app yet but whom I shall coax over shortly. #thankyou #consgen 🧪
November 22, 2024 at 4:30 AM
A rather exciting Thursday night,quickly becoming the norm. #nanopore #flongles #fieldgenomics #consgen The new MK1d just soaring on my first ever Flongle with 90 pores. Fresh out the factory, run within a week. Savouring this rare moment :)
November 22, 2024 at 4:25 AM
So excited to have backed this #consgen effort to get genetic data on the Indian #wolf in #Pakistan. They're #fullyfunded! The one year countdown begins. #experiment.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM
I’m leaving the world of basic bird sounds for some blue sky. It’s hard to start over, but I am ever hopeful that given the option, the world will be kinder.
November 17, 2024 at 3:22 PM