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Wade Abbott @sweetmicrobe

Microbe-carbohydrate interactions๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿฌ

Joined March 2018
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Here's an excellent press article summarizing our first paper out now on seaweed eating cattle๐Ÿฎ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒŠ: bovinevetonline.com/news/vetโ€ฆ And a link to the paper: nature.com/articles/s41467-0โ€ฆ

Distribution of microbial carrageenan foraging pathways reveals a widespread latent trait within...

Nature Communications - Although seaweed is a sustainable feed option for cattle, itโ€™s not known if its cell wall polysaccharides are digested. Here authors show the seaweed Mazzaella...

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Highlight by @CanLightSource on our new seaweed study #sushicows lightsource.ca/public/news/2โ€ฆ
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Great story published by Nora from the Hashilthsa News on the Meares Island cattle project (muusmuus). Been a wonderful collaboration with the Tla-o-qui-aht Nation. ๐Ÿ„ ๐ŸŒฑ ๐ŸŒณ ๐ŸŒŠ โš•๏ธ hashilthsa.com/news/2026-05-โ€ฆ
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Our first paper is out on how the gut microbes of cattle and other animals adapt and digest a red seaweed! Congrats to @tingley_jeff and all our awesome collaborators. ๐Ÿ„ ๐ŸŒŠ ๐ŸŒฑ Source: Nature share.google/Smb96H3G1niCiG0โ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“ข Interested in a PDF in ๐Ÿ glycomics? Position available immediately at the University of Lethbridge! DM for details. #glycomics #apiculture
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What a research team! ๐Ÿฌ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ #WomenInScience
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Abbott Lab 2024 Christmas Party: "Christmas in Middle Earth!" Can you find your favorite character? #LOTR ๐ŸŽ„ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿซ…๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Here we go at the IHC17.
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Abbott Lab representing at @gia_glyco 2024! #proudboss ๐Ÿฌ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿฎ
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And Anna doing double duty! ๐Ÿ’ช
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@tingley_jeff 's turn. #Seaweed for #agriculture! ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ˜Ž
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Dr. Bree Urbanowicz@BreeannaUrbano1
16 Oct 2024
Check out our new collaborative review. supported by @doescience Enzymatic Routes to Designer Hemicelluloses for Use in Biobased Materials | JACS Au #glycotime pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102โ€ฆ

Enzymatic Routes to Designer Hemicelluloses for Use in Biobased Materials

Various enzymes can be used to modify the structure of hemicelluloses directly in vivo or following extraction from biomass sources, such as wood and agricultural residues. Generally, these enzymes...

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Curious about differences in brown seaweed cell wall polysaccharides? Check out our new paper! ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿฌ@CascadiaSeaweed @AAFC_Canada #seaweed mdpi.com/1660-3397/22/10/464

Characterization of Unfractionated Polysaccharides in Brown Seaweed by Methylation-GC-MS-Based...

This study introduces a novel approach to analyze glycosidic linkages in unfractionated polysaccharides from alcohol-insoluble residues (AIRs) of five brown seaweed species. GC-MS analysis of...

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Back to the Island for more ๐Ÿ’ฉ and ๐ŸŒฟ. Got some new recruits this trip!
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Missing @tingley_jeff this time๐Ÿ™
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SACCHARIS v2 is out! ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿ’ปMore user friendly features and applications for predicting carbohydrate enzyme function! Wonderful collaboration with @BrumerLab! Part of the new Protein Bioinformatics MIMB book. link.springer.com/protocol/1โ€ฆ @kristin_low @tingley_jeff @GretaReintjes

SACCHARIS v2: Streamlining Prediction of Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme Sp

Carbohydrates are chemically and structurally diverse, composed of a wide array of monosaccharides, stereochemical linkages, substituent groups, and intermolecular associations with other biological...

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๐Ÿ“ขCheck out our new paper on elucidating polysaccharide structures! Insightful new theory on discerning more structural information from NMR data. Great effort by @MikeXing3 and team! #polyad ๐Ÿฌโš—๏ธ sciencedirect.com/science/arโ€ฆ
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If you're in Lethbridge July 18th!
AAFC Canada
@AAFC_Canada
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Attention Southern #AB! All are invited to the #Lethbridge Research and Development Centre Open House! Meet our scientists and learn about the world-class #CdnAg research happening in your backyard: ow.ly/lvTP50SxSsh
July 18th, 2024. The Lethbridge Research and Development Centre Open House. Agriculture in Action: From the land to the lab. July 18th, 2024. Drop-in between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. MT. Events throughout the day! 5403 1st Avenue South, Lethbridge, Alberta. Fun family activities: tours, demonstrations, join a science experiment, food trucks.

ALT July 18th, 2024. The Lethbridge Research and Development Centre Open House. Agriculture in Action: From the land to the lab. July 18th, 2024. Drop-in between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. MT. Events throughout the day! 5403 1st Avenue South, Lethbridge, Alberta. Fun family activities: tours, demonstrations, join a science experiment, food trucks.

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If you are looking for an experimental wet-lab tenure-track faculty position, join us at the amazing Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, @UofLArtsci @uLethbridge Here are more details - uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postingโ€ฆ Please help spread this posting widely.

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New paper out on comparative analysis of red seaweed polysaccharides. We have become very interested in methods to characterize algal oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. More to come! #seaweed #glycotime #glycomics mdpi.com/1660-3397/22/5/192

Methylation-GC-MS/FID-Based Glycosidic Linkage Analysis of Unfractionated Polysaccharides in Red...

Glycosidic linkage analysis was conducted on the unfractionated polysaccharides in alcohol-insoluble residues (AIRs) prepared from six red seaweeds (Gracilariopsis sp., Prionitis sp., Mastocarpus...

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