Tim Regan
@timreganlab.bsky.social
Researching invertebrate aquaculture 🌿🐚🦪🦐 immunology, IMTA and host-microbiome 🦠 interactions at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
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Tim Regan
@timreganlab.bsky.social
· Nov 29
EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!
Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊
💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!
Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊
💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🦪 UK ECRs in aquaculture, marine sci, env policy or sci comm — join the Shellfish Industry 2025 Workshop 🌊
📅 30 Sept–1 Oct | Oban
🎯 Skills for research comms & engagement + industry networking
Free | Apply by 22 Aug: forms.gle/2jzSzgeQxe6R...
Funded by ASSG & @roslininstitute.bsky.social
📅 30 Sept–1 Oct | Oban
🎯 Skills for research comms & engagement + industry networking
Free | Apply by 22 Aug: forms.gle/2jzSzgeQxe6R...
Funded by ASSG & @roslininstitute.bsky.social
Workshop Application Form 2025
Thank you for your interest in the second annual Challenges in the Shellfish Industry Workshop, taking place in Oban, Scotland, from 30 September to 1 October 2025.
This year’s theme, “Skills for Eff...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🦪 UK ECRs in aquaculture, marine sci, env policy or sci comm — join the Shellfish Industry 2025 Workshop 🌊
📅 30 Sept–1 Oct | Oban
🎯 Skills for research comms & engagement + industry networking
Free | Apply by 22 Aug: forms.gle/2jzSzgeQxe6R...
Funded by ASSG & @roslininstitute.bsky.social
📅 30 Sept–1 Oct | Oban
🎯 Skills for research comms & engagement + industry networking
Free | Apply by 22 Aug: forms.gle/2jzSzgeQxe6R...
Funded by ASSG & @roslininstitute.bsky.social
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Readvertising a PhD opportunity in my group investigating molecular mechanisms of biological patterning by studying mollusc shells. Based at St Andrews, Scotland, and co-supervised by
@vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Readvertising a PhD opportunity in my group investigating molecular mechanisms of biological patterning by studying mollusc shells. Based at St Andrews, Scotland, and co-supervised by
@vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Nice write up on the importance of supporting #sustainable #shellfish #aquaculture for delicious meals that help the planet
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Time to be shellfish: why the UK should go back to feasting on oysters and mussels
Popular in Victorian times, they are sustainable, a good source of protein and brilliant for biodiversity, say those championing the bivalves
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Nice write up on the importance of supporting #sustainable #shellfish #aquaculture for delicious meals that help the planet
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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For the first time, a humpback whale was spotted near the mouth of a river in Ireland.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:26 PM
For the first time, a humpback whale was spotted near the mouth of a river in Ireland.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.bsky.social
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.bsky.social
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If you happen to have this combination of TC needs and a Stuart mini orbital shaker, you can download and print one too: www.printables.com/model/108765...
125ml Erlenmeyer tissue culture flask holder by GC | Download free STL model | Printables.com
Flask holder for shaking platform in TC incubator. Fits disposable PETG plain bottom flasks (e.g. Thermo 4115-0125) | Download free 3D printable STL models
www.printables.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:56 PM
If you happen to have this combination of TC needs and a Stuart mini orbital shaker, you can download and print one too: www.printables.com/model/108765...
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Specific question:
Does anyone out there have any data on sex ratios for soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) they're willing to share?
Trying to compile a database for #metaanalysis. I've found all I could find in the literature but want to maximize data!
If so, please reach out!
🧪🦑 #MarineEcology
Does anyone out there have any data on sex ratios for soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) they're willing to share?
Trying to compile a database for #metaanalysis. I've found all I could find in the literature but want to maximize data!
If so, please reach out!
🧪🦑 #MarineEcology
December 4, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Specific question:
Does anyone out there have any data on sex ratios for soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) they're willing to share?
Trying to compile a database for #metaanalysis. I've found all I could find in the literature but want to maximize data!
If so, please reach out!
🧪🦑 #MarineEcology
Does anyone out there have any data on sex ratios for soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) they're willing to share?
Trying to compile a database for #metaanalysis. I've found all I could find in the literature but want to maximize data!
If so, please reach out!
🧪🦑 #MarineEcology
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OK, this is just a damn cool article 🤯 🦠 🔬 Infecting the cell nucleus, gaining nutrients, but preventing cell death!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An intranuclear bacterial parasite of deep-sea mussels expresses apoptosis inhibitors acquired from its host - Nature Microbiology
‘Candidatus Endonucleobacter’ is a pathogen of deep-sea mussels that can successfully reproduce in the nuclei of its host by expressing inhibitors of apoptosis, likely acquired through horizontal gene...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:15 PM
OK, this is just a damn cool article 🤯 🦠 🔬 Infecting the cell nucleus, gaining nutrients, but preventing cell death!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!
Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊
💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!
Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊
💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:22 PM
🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!
Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊
💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!
Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊
💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍 Edinburgh, UK
Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🦪 Out yesterday some genome-wide work on the native European flat oyster , Ostrea edulis. Once widespread along European coasts but is now functionally extinct due to overfishing and disease. Threads 1/n 🦪
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 13, 2024 at 12:37 PM
🦪 Out yesterday some genome-wide work on the native European flat oyster , Ostrea edulis. Once widespread along European coasts but is now functionally extinct due to overfishing and disease. Threads 1/n 🦪
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Please share!
Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊
Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊
Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
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November 23, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Please share!
Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊
Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊
Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
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And this afternoon Rob Stewart presented results from his PhD on TRIM25 in salmon in response to virus infections. He confirmed through multiple analysis that they are 2 copies of ssTRIM25 in A. salmon and only one on chr2 is up regulated upon infection with a putative role in suppressing ISAVirus
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
And this afternoon Rob Stewart presented results from his PhD on TRIM25 in salmon in response to virus infections. He confirmed through multiple analysis that they are 2 copies of ssTRIM25 in A. salmon and only one on chr2 is up regulated upon infection with a putative role in suppressing ISAVirus
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Kallen Sullivan, a PhD student from the Bean's lab at Roslin presented her awesome work on developing cell culture in oysters 🦪🧫🔬 to study oyster immune response to bonamia infection. I'm always amazed by the different organs you can find in a rock, an oyster sorry 😅
👩🏻🔬🧪
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November 21, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Kallen Sullivan, a PhD student from the Bean's lab at Roslin presented her awesome work on developing cell culture in oysters 🦪🧫🔬 to study oyster immune response to bonamia infection. I'm always amazed by the different organs you can find in a rock, an oyster sorry 😅
👩🏻🔬🧪
👩🏻🔬🧪
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Ambre is also doing some long read nanopore sequencing after managing to extract really long (too long even!) DNA from her mussels 🧬🧬💻, looking forward to hearing those results that she currently analysing in @timreganlab.bsky.social lab at Roslin
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November 21, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Ambre is also doing some long read nanopore sequencing after managing to extract really long (too long even!) DNA from her mussels 🧬🧬💻, looking forward to hearing those results that she currently analysing in @timreganlab.bsky.social lab at Roslin
🧪👩🏻🔬
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#EID is a network of 900 infectious disease researchers across different institutes in Edinburgh.
Give them a follow to connect with global experts and their cutting edge science.
Give them a follow to connect with global experts and their cutting edge science.
Welcome to our brand new Blue Sky page!
We are really excited to be here to engage with our network in friendly, informative and productive ways!
Join us 😊
We are really excited to be here to engage with our network in friendly, informative and productive ways!
Join us 😊
November 20, 2024 at 10:42 AM
#EID is a network of 900 infectious disease researchers across different institutes in Edinburgh.
Give them a follow to connect with global experts and their cutting edge science.
Give them a follow to connect with global experts and their cutting edge science.
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Heart clams have evolved optic fibres and windows to bathe their symbionts in sunlight 👽❤️🌞. Worth reading the whole story (which is beautifully written) by Dakota McCoy and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications
Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. Here, the authors show that heart cockles transmit light through their upper shell to internal photosynthetic symbionts, using mineral fiber optic ...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Heart clams have evolved optic fibres and windows to bathe their symbionts in sunlight 👽❤️🌞. Worth reading the whole story (which is beautifully written) by Dakota McCoy and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
🌊New paper!
A Scottish oyster farmer faced summer mortalities linked to Vibrio spp.
We provide sequences for V. splendidus + highly virulent V. aestuarianus isolates🦠🖥️🧬
Bonus content: Morts declined each year, with no unusual deaths this year!💪🦪
#Oysters #Vibrio
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A Scottish oyster farmer faced summer mortalities linked to Vibrio spp.
We provide sequences for V. splendidus + highly virulent V. aestuarianus isolates🦠🖥️🧬
Bonus content: Morts declined each year, with no unusual deaths this year!💪🦪
#Oysters #Vibrio
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Scottish oyster mortality event and association with Vibrio aestuarianus
Pacific oysters, Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas, are the most commonly cultured invertebrate species globally. Recent years have seen outbreaks of summ…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 7, 2024 at 11:51 AM
🌊New paper!
A Scottish oyster farmer faced summer mortalities linked to Vibrio spp.
We provide sequences for V. splendidus + highly virulent V. aestuarianus isolates🦠🖥️🧬
Bonus content: Morts declined each year, with no unusual deaths this year!💪🦪
#Oysters #Vibrio
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A Scottish oyster farmer faced summer mortalities linked to Vibrio spp.
We provide sequences for V. splendidus + highly virulent V. aestuarianus isolates🦠🖥️🧬
Bonus content: Morts declined each year, with no unusual deaths this year!💪🦪
#Oysters #Vibrio
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Best practices to extract ancient DNA from mollusc shells #MusselsAreCool
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Advancing responsible genomic analyses of ancient mollusc shells
The analysis of the DNA entrapped in ancient shells of molluscs has the potential to shed light on the evolution and ecology of this very diverse phylum. Ancient genomics could help reconstruct the re...
dx.plos.org
June 4, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Best practices to extract ancient DNA from mollusc shells #MusselsAreCool
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky
Opportunités de carrière : PhD position in gut microbiota ecology and evolution (21945)
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November 6, 2024 at 7:20 PM
PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky
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Fully funded #PhD Studentship with myself and JJ Phillips at the Living Systems Institute, @uniofexeter.bsky.social
"Control of chromatin remodeller activity to direct cell fate decisions"
#Chromatin #Transcription #StemCells #StructuralBiology
Please re-skeet!
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
"Control of chromatin remodeller activity to direct cell fate decisions"
#Chromatin #Transcription #StemCells #StructuralBiology
Please re-skeet!
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 7, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Fully funded #PhD Studentship with myself and JJ Phillips at the Living Systems Institute, @uniofexeter.bsky.social
"Control of chromatin remodeller activity to direct cell fate decisions"
#Chromatin #Transcription #StemCells #StructuralBiology
Please re-skeet!
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
"Control of chromatin remodeller activity to direct cell fate decisions"
#Chromatin #Transcription #StemCells #StructuralBiology
Please re-skeet!
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
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For #IWD, the UN's theme for the day is "Invest in women: accelerate progress", an empowering theme for us all 👩🔬
I'm very happy and deeply touched to have been awarded "Academic Champion of the year" from #WiSA 💜
I am very proud to be part of an 🐟 Aquaculture community that is very supportive 🧬💻
I'm very happy and deeply touched to have been awarded "Academic Champion of the year" from #WiSA 💜
I am very proud to be part of an 🐟 Aquaculture community that is very supportive 🧬💻
March 8, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax
Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪
January 26, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax
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"BATH matches the accuracy of HMMER3 for annotation of sequences containing no errors, and produces superior accuracy to all tested tools for annotation of sequences containing nucleotide indels."
Sensitive and error-tolerant annotation of protein-coding DNA with BATH https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.31.573773v1
Sensitive and error-tolerant annotation of protein-coding DNA with BATH https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.31.573773v1
We present BATH, a tool for highly sensitive annotation of protein-coding DNA based on direct alignm
www.biorxiv.org
January 2, 2024 at 8:51 AM
"BATH matches the accuracy of HMMER3 for annotation of sequences containing no errors, and produces superior accuracy to all tested tools for annotation of sequences containing nucleotide indels."
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#HiSciSky Happy to migrate over here. I'm a postdoc in Edinburgh, interested in #trypanosomes, #coinfection, and #drugresistance.
I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South).
T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection
I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South).
T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection
December 26, 2023 at 10:32 PM
#HiSciSky Happy to migrate over here. I'm a postdoc in Edinburgh, interested in #trypanosomes, #coinfection, and #drugresistance.
I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South).
T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection
I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South).
T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection
Have a good one everyone!
Good thing some bivalves have feet, otherwise how could they ice skate?!
Good thing some bivalves have feet, otherwise how could they ice skate?!
December 25, 2023 at 5:31 PM
Have a good one everyone!
Good thing some bivalves have feet, otherwise how could they ice skate?!
Good thing some bivalves have feet, otherwise how could they ice skate?!