Post doc in molecular biology and parasite interactions at Institut Pasteur. Interested in epigenetics, genomics and pop gen of insect vectors and parasites.
Joined September 2008
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Lexi D retweeted
24 Oct 2022
Humans apparently have stripes that are invisible to our eyes but your cat possibly can see them
They are Blaschko’s lines, relics of growth as a foetus, swirls representing cell division and the trails cells took
Some conditions make them visible 1/🧵
📸BC Medical Genetics
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Lexi D retweeted
20 Oct 2022
Massive news: eLife to abolish accept/reject decisions: papers will just be “peer reviewed”. Others can argue about this, but lots of interesting consequences. 1/9 elifesciences.org/articles/8…
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10 Oct 2022
Do microbes have a memory? History-dependent behavior in the adaptation to variable environments frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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26 Sep 2022
I did not realize that Wikipedia has such a kickass dataviz of the Great Vowel Shift: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_…
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27 Aug 2022
Scientists find a novel form of reproduction in a fungal species closely related to the human pathogenic Cryptococcus species. elifesciences.org/articles/7…
ALT Scanning electron microscopy image of streptococcus and a chain of spores
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Lexi D retweeted
2 Aug 2022
Huge collection of microscopy video tutorials by leading experts at:
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A must-bookmark for researchers interested in bio imaging.
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Lexi D retweeted
21 Jul 2022
3. Split View
Work in two apps at the same time, side-by-side.
Lock them in place:
• Hover over the full-screen 🟢 button
• Choose the L or R side
• Content will fill that side
• Fill the other side by clicking a window
• Slide the vertical line to adjust the width
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Lexi D retweeted
19 Jun 2022
Protein structure can be predicted from a single sequence alone with high accuracy.
@HelixonBio team have developed OmegaFold, achieving performance similar to RF and AF2's MSA versions. Only a single sequence is given as input. 1/5
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Lexi D retweeted
5 Jun 2022
To succeed in the future, you MUST learn web3.
These 7 world-changing concepts get you up to speed:
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Lexi D retweeted
2 Jun 2022
The new weapon against malaria’s drug resistance pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…
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31 May 2022
The $100 genome is here! Thrilled to unveil the company, highlight some of our collaborators and their data, and disclose our funding! Read the full press release:
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28 May 2022
10 websites you didn't know you were missing (until now) :
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Lexi D retweeted
15 May 2022
This study investigated how cell shape and the motility of individual cells influence how macrophages scan for signs of infection. elifesciences.org/articles/7…
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3 May 2022
Our paper describing NEAT-seq, a method to simultaneously measure transcription factor protein abundance, ATAC-seq, and RNA-seq in single cells, is now out at Nature Methods! Congrats to Amy and Ben! nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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Lexi D retweeted
28 Apr 2022
.@LouridoLab developed a new method to probe gene function in the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and uncovered a previously unstudied kinase, SPARK, linked to the parasites' ability to enter and leave host cells: wi.mit.edu/news/novel-screen…
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Lexi D retweeted
23 Apr 2022
Mathematics, logic, beauty.
What a 7-way Venn Diagram looks like. Source: bit.ly/37xBbIM
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