In all seriousness, I am submitting in September so if any PI is looking for a post doc in the microbiology/pathogen/evolution/environment fields who makes lovely R graphs and BioRender figures (and loves nanopore) please let me know! 🙏
My top top highlight was watching a talk by, and meeting
@AdamRutherford
- who inspired GCSE-age me to give science and research a try (who knew I’d end up in final year of my PhD studying microbial genomics 🤷🏼♀️)
This feels like I’m 100% going to jinx it, but last sequencing runs of the PhD ✅
No more lab, only writing 😟
(Don’t zoom in on the runs, we are having issues with the new chemistry)
When I tell you this library has really put me through it the past couple of days 😅
First library using 114 chemistry from
@nanopore
and so far impressed, big improvements from 112! 🟩🟩🟩
I’m here for
#MicroEvo22
in Manchester! I’m poster no. 19 talking about the evolution of microbes on plastics (using
@nanopore
of course)! 🧬
(On a side note- fellow attendees be warned, I’ve just been charged £7.76 for a pint in the conference hotel🍺💀)
Thank you for letting me do my first external conference talk
@MicrobioSoc
! 🥳
I was so nervous but it was such a lovely, friendly, collaborative session - will definitely do it again!
#microbio23
Myself and
@angelabeckett10
wrote a review with
@Sus_MDPI
! 🥳
We discuss the use of sequencing as a method for the discovery of novel plastic-degrading enzymes and how to ensure the focus stays industrially-relevant! 🧬
Read about it here 👇
I’m rarely in this good a mood at work but I finally booked the microbiological society conference in New Zealand for November (ahhh), I got to wear the purple lab coat and my RNA work didn’t completely fail! 🇳🇿 🧬 🥳
Arrived in Birmingham for day one of
#microbio23
🦠 🧫
(The speaker part of my badge makes me feel important - I’m the last speaker on Thursday in the Applied and Environmental Microbiology forum) 👩🔬
Today I embark on an adventure to Auckland to work with
@LearLabMicro
for a bit and then present my work at
@MicrobiologyNz
conference! Organising this placement has been one of the things I’m most proud of achieving this year - I’ll post updates of the journey! 🇳🇿 🧫 🦠 🧬 ✈️
Had a great time presenting my poster last night, it was really nice to see my research helping fellow microbiologists with their sequencing and DNA extraction!
It’s still up for a little longer if you want to look (A029)
#Microbio22
Super happy to be awarded a £750 travel grant to attend and present at the NZMS conference in Auckland by
@MicrobioSoc
🥳 🧬
(Full disclosure, this is after being rejected from a larger travel grant that I put a lot of work into - don’t be fooled by Twitter success 😵💫)
It was a lot of fun teaching
#futureexplorers
this week at the
@sciencemuseum
about work at
@CEI_UoP
! Especially lovely to hear the girls realise that they could become scientists one day too! 👩🏼🔬🧬🧫
Hello new people visiting my Twitter because of my contamination art!
Here’s some more lab art you can look forward to if you’ve followed me, along with research about plastic-degrading bacteria (my research!)
🧬🧫🦠
Excited to not only attend my first
@MicrobioSoc
conference in-person, but also present a poster of some of my work!
See you next week Belfast 🤩 🧬
#Microbio22
Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science! 🧬👩🔬🩷
Putting this collage together made me realise how many amazing women I have been lucky to work with and teach and mentor me in science - I hope I can go on to do the same for women and girls I meet in the future!
I’m very happy to say I’ve been offered a talk in the ‘Applied and Environmental Microbiology’ session at
#Microbio23
, along with
@clairelamb_
! What a great end to the week! 🤩🧫
Such a cool outreach event to speak to the public and hopefully inspire! Thank you
@SoapboxBN
! 🧬🧫🔬
The Enzyme Revolution: How the Environment can Help us Recycle Plastic
@MatildaBiology
😎
Very excited to share our work at
@CEI_UoP
with
@MatildaBiology
on Brighton seafront on the 1st June!
Come discover how microbes can break down plastics and how we find them! 🔬 🧫 🧬
(Praying for good weather 🤞🌞)
Thank you for having me
@MicrobiologyNz
conference ‘24! It was a pleasure giving my first international talk here - the questions and convos after were great!! 🇳🇿 🧬🥳
Happy International Women’s Day!
I would like to say today that there are loads of amazing women in science atm (see below)! But we need to do more to elevate women, going up the academic ladder still looks particularly male with (often more) experienced women overlooked.
Me and
@clairelamb_
had fun speaking to the students of
@NLCSJeju_Bio
on Monday about our Discovery work in
@CEI_UoP
🧫♻️🪸
(Please ignore my standard academic many tabs open)
This is why I never understand the “leave the seat up or down” argument - it should always be down because the lid should also be down.
I will die on this hill.
Ever wondered what happens with all the germs when you flush your business down the toilet?
Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us.
#ScienceMatters
🚽💩🦠🧫🔬
What 👏 a 👏 conference 👏
#FOG2024
Highlights include but not limited to; a caricature artist, talks by amazing researchers (and
@louistheroux
), DNA socks and some nice comments about my poster 🥹
Anyone at
#Microbio22
, come along to posters A239 / A274 / A267 to chat to us about our science, ContamClub, or Noodlococcus! We also have a few ContamCalendars to give out 🦠🍜🎁
Tickets are going fast with the countdown on to the 2023 Festival of Doctoral Research. The highlight of our events calendar as we come together to celebrate our postgraduate research!
Thursday 13 July 2023
Get your ticket 👉
#UoPDocFest23
#PortsmouthUni
Delighted to be awarded first place in the 3MT presentation competition yesterday at the
#UoPDocFest21
🧬🧫🎉
Great opportunity to share my work with
@CEI_UoP
, brilliantly organised day! 🤓
And a shoutout to all the absolutely beautiful places I got to travel to in NZ! If you get the chance, I wholeheartedly recommend renting an old crap car and travelling around 👌🏻🇳🇿
P2 Solo update! It’s working! 🟩 It was a software issue (make sure you’re on the right one 😬).
Are the inactive pores 🟦 around the edge common for these runs?
Sad to miss out on attending
#Microbio21
in person, but enjoying the frequent tea and snack break opportunities! ☕️
Great morning talks in Marine Microbiology- excited for the afternoon Genetics and Genomics session! 🧬
Happy belated International Women and Girls in Science Day! 👩🔬
We are a proud majority-female lab group who have achieved so much over the past year, and I hope we have shown just what we are capable of! 💪
#InternationalWomenInScienceDay
Not me thinking I’m super friendly and approachable during outreach, and being exposed by the photographer 📸
(I promise I was really happy to be there and chat with everyone, just tell that to my resting expression) 🥴
I’m back in the UK - it was an amazing 5 weeks in NZ! Thank you so much to
@LearLabMicro
for having me and being such a welcoming and wonderful group! I hope to see more of you in the future! 🇳🇿💙
Interested in the diversity of microbiomes in temperate marine sponges? 🧽 The amazing
@clairelamb_
has written and published a paper on it!
Give it a read! 👇
Yesterday 3.2% pore efficiency for our first ever P2 Solo run and now this today with a fresh flow cell. Is our P2 Solo cursed? 🙁
(Library is working fine on the GridION) 🤔
I was lucky enough to produce some content for this course (given the opportunity by
@angelabeckett10
)
Join the course if you want to see what we made! 🦠👇
The group’s page is officially back up and running curated by myself and
@angelabeckett10
! Give us a follow for research updates and
@nanopore
fan-girling!
Thanks for having us
@NanoporeConf
#NanoporeConf
2022! We had a great time, super excited for the new kits and products, and inspired to try some new research with the Voltrax and adaptive sampling! Watch this space! 🧬🦠
So incredibly proud of
@clairelamb_
for successfully defending her PhD today! Thank you to examiners Prof Alan Dobson
@JPrestonDiggles
. Congratulations Dr Lamb! And yes that is a wonderful sponge hat!