Carolina Tropini, PhD
@CTropini
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Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia studying the gut microbiota and abiotic environment in health and disease.
Vancouver, BC
Joined June 2018
Dear microbiology twitter, what are tricks, assumptions and inside knowledge microbiologists have when culturing bacteria that aren't obvious to non-microbiologists? E.g. motion of air being a source of contamination, not touching the rim of threaded tubes etc.
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@AnnaBlakney So cool!! Thanks for sharing. Have you seen Ron’s book (and website) with Rob Phillips, Cell Biology By the Numbers? It’s more of this, and really great.
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RT @AVogelCiernia: Excited for our new work to be officially published This study in collaboration with @CTropini…
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Very excited to share a new paper in collaboration with @AVogelCiernia! We show that early-life inflammation alters sex hormones and mating behavior in mice, alongside shifts in hormone-modifying microbiota members! Great work by Olivia, Claire and others!
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RT @maria_tokuyama: We have a job opening for an immunologist in our dept @UBCMicroImmuno! Broad immunology position at the Assistant Prof…
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And thank you to the thesis committee (Osborne, Ziels and Vallance) for years of support!!
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Very excited to share our latest preprint! Led by a great student @caclayton99, we show how bowel prep increases vulnerability to Salmonella as well as IBD pathobiont infection. We delve into mechanisms and the many facets of this common gut perturbation.
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RT @SBME_UBC: SBME and @DMCBrainHealth are hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Neuro Bioengineering to lead a collaborative and…
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@nanditagarud @UCLAEEB Fantastic news Nandita!! Huge congratulations and really well deserved 🎊🍾
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Really excited to share our latest publication! We introduce a pipeline to design taxon and group specific primers in mixed microbial communities. Kudos to Hans Ghezzi for the great work leading this project! @GhezziHans
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RT @UBCMicroImmuno: Join us Thursday, June 13 in MSL 102 for the Effective Science Illustrations workshop with Martin Krzywinski. Learn how…
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RT @AVogelCiernia: Super excited about this new work from a collaboration between my lab and @CTropini 's lab. Early life intestinal inflam…
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@MarkCembrowski @laKrausl @BriannaBristow @NeuroSully @CatieFuthey @CIHR_IRSC @NSERC_CRSNG @UBC @UBCcps @SBME_UBC Wow!! Congratulations to you all!
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RT @dufourlab: Excited to be back in Vancouver at @ubclifesciences at the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) to give a seminar @OverallLabNews…
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