Lauren Speare, PhD
@laurenspeare
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Assist. Prof. @GeorgiaTech Microbial ecologist | Marine critter enthusiast 🦠🧫🧬🦑🌊🪸
Atlanta, GA
Joined May 2020
Do you research BALOs or other predatory bacteria? Are you a fan of microbial antagonism? Sign up for the virtual BALO Symposium 2024 this upcoming September! 🦠🧫
Registration for free online BALO Symposium 2024 (online, 10-11 Sept) on predatory bacteria is open now! Check out for details: #Bdellovibrio @Bdello_meeting
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Excited to have this work out in preprint! This project was the culmination of so much work by the @SepterLab in collaboration with @giffsm's Lab! 🦠🧫🦑🧬
Flagella are required to coordinately activate competition and host colonization factors in response to a mechanical signal #biorxiv_micrbio
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As of today, the Speare Microbial Ecology Lab at @GeorgiaTech is now open! #georgiatechbio #newPI 🦠🧬🪸
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RT @DrHeathHeckman: I am so excited to announce that @MSU_MMG (MGI soon!) is hiring one or more TT professors in an open-rank search focuse…
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RT @Xiang_lab: Excited to have joined the Bioengineering Department @UCRiverside. Our lab is looking for postdocs to join our #NSF funded p…
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Check out the latest from @vegathurberlab (Denise Silva, @hannah_eps & @VegaThurber) describing how to look at 16S in corals! 🦠🪸
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Study of faculty searches at R1 university finds committees consider women's—but not men's—relationship status in hiring. Women w/ high-status partners were considered not 'movable' & excluded from offers when there were male or single female alternatives.
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RT @reidbrennan: Postdoc position available in my group @GEOMAR_de. Flexible position with a focus on evolutionary genomics, temporal popul…
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RT @TrumanLab: @NicoleNuckolls All universities should have free on campus 9-5 daycare for grad students and postdocs
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Early results available from my postdoctoral work at @Northeastern with @oceangenome & @DanDistel exploring intracellular symbiont transmission in wood-boring shipworms #preprint ⛵️🪱🦠🧫
Cultivation and Fluorescent in situ hybridization suggest that some shipworm species acquire endosymbiotic bacteria through indirect horizontal transmission #bioRxiv
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RT @DrCarlsHorn: New postdoc fellowship opportunity in sustainability at USC! $75-80K/year for 2 yrs, up to $3K relocation expenses, benefi…
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If anyone is looking to for a talented microbiologist, microscopist, bioinformatician, geneticist, etc. check out @stephalopod1
Yesterday was my *last* day of field work before defending my PhD! PS please hire me to do fun things with bacteria, bioinformatics, and/or microscopes @UNC_EMES #AcademicTwitter @UNCResearch #symbiosis #MarineScience
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