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15 Oct 2024
My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you are interested in a postdoc exploring plasmid-dependent phage biology in beautiful (and super affordable!) upstate New York🍎healthresearch.wd1.myworkday… 1/3
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Siân Owen retweeted
20 Nov 2025
So we did a similar experiment with conjugative plasmids and found that IS605 provides offensive and defensive benefits to conjugative plasmids, acting like a primitive anti-self defense mechanism to spread plasmids between cells.
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Siân Owen retweeted
20 Nov 2025
What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my colleague @fernpizza showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper just published in Science today!). Together with @baym, we now know how they can fight.
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19 Nov 2025
Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏
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19 Nov 2025
Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏
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16 Dec 2024
In case you needed a reason to go do a PhD with @APHage_ (other than the awesome science!)
14 Dec 2024
Dr. @rabiafatima_ has "tPASsed". Too many feels. Thank you @implosian - sorry you couldn't make it for the presentation of the warhammer. I do get asked if I fear the graduates will use them against me... no! Not in public, anyway - they're all far too smart to get caught.
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Siân Owen retweeted
23 Nov 2024
Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @implosian, @baym, @nquinoneso, Kesther and Carmen! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/
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Siân Owen retweeted
4 Nov 2024
Nature News piece on the hidden players of the gut microbiome (hint, they're phages, of course)
“Our virome is hugely abundant and incredibly diverse, and we’ve looked at just a tiny percentage,”
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Siân Owen retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Centers for Accelerating Phage (Bacteriophage) Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP) (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) dlvr.it/TFfcWx
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Siân Owen retweeted
15 Oct 2024
🚨We're hiring a lab manager/research scientist!
Come work with us @MSU_MicroImmuno at Montana State in beautiful Bozeman, MT
We are a phage lab with diverse projects related to infectious disease, check us out here: patsecor.wixsite.com/mysite-…
apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43…
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15 Oct 2024
My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you are interested in a postdoc exploring plasmid-dependent phage biology in beautiful (and super affordable!) upstate New York🍎healthresearch.wd1.myworkday… 1/3
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15 Oct 2024
We also have openings for technical staff and students! Contact me for more info, or if you are a undergraduate, consider applying to the UAlbany BMS program albany.edu/cihs/biomedical-s… 3/3
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15 Oct 2024
Addendum: check out the glorious sunsets we get from our many-windowed lab space feat. views of the Catskill mountains in the day time
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Siân Owen retweeted
10 Oct 2024
doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2024.1…
@vivek_mutalik and @simroux_virus, this is your new graphical abstract:
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11 Oct 2024
Another step forward towards the post-plaque era! Great work helping to drag the phage field into the 21st Century. Many core methodologies we use to study phages haven't changed since they were invented almost 100 years ago
10 Oct 2024
Finally, the preprint on my postdoc work from the past 3 years! With mentorship from @PaulTurnerLab and @EmonetLab, I developed a microscopic technique to measure attachment of viruses #phages to bacterial cells @YalePhage @QbioYale .
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11 Oct 2024
A great summary here of the challenges (and promises!) of studying non-canonical bacteriophages sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
10 Oct 2024
Some partnerships are always fun!! Excited to share one such 🎉 product w @simroux_virus perspectives on our favorite “atypical” phages, for special issue to celebrate my former mentor Carol Gross @UCSF
Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Siân Owen retweeted
10 Oct 2024
Some partnerships are always fun!! Excited to share one such 🎉 product w @simroux_virus perspectives on our favorite “atypical” phages, for special issue to celebrate my former mentor Carol Gross @UCSF
Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Siân Owen retweeted
10 Oct 2024
Come see Amy at poster 174 & learn about how active prophages may change the trajectory & evolution of resistance to DNA damaging antibiotics 💊 ⚡️ #EMBOEvoEco
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Siân Owen retweeted
9 Oct 2024
Fellow microbial immunity, mobile elements, and plasmid enthusiasts: the paper of our wonderful @BruriaSamuel on anti-defense genes in plasmids is now published in @Nature!!!
Check out her thread below for highlights of our new results.
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9 Oct 2024
Meet The Shielded Plasmid🛡️🧬
Our new @Nature paper reveals how plasmids outsmart bacterial defenses during conjugation.
It's all about being in the right place at the right time! The positioning of anti-defense genes boosts transfer efficiency🧵(1/7) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
ALT Illustrated by @Irisburstein
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Siân Owen retweeted
9 Oct 2024
The Bartlett Lab is open for business at the Wadsworth Center! We study pathogens with "unusual" shapes (balls & corkscrews) to find vulnerabilities in their growth plans, and learn how bacterial shape impacts infection. We are hiring... join us!
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