I much prefer the sharpest of criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses - Johannes Kepler
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Antibiotics and phage go brr
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
We're excited to share our latest work on how prophages influence the evolution of resistance against DNA-damaging antibiotics! This has been a fun project to work on with @implosian, @baym, @TheShreyasPai, @KeplerMears, & @fernpizza
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Look out science twitter, @baym is starting his rotation in the lab and is already breaking things!
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🎉 New year, NEW PREPRINT!
Bacteria exhibit astonishing genetic diversity, but where do new genes come from?
My best friend Arya Kau (/labmate in the @baym lab) investigates how advantageous deletions can spawn new genes - "deletion-born fusions." 🧵:
Novel genes arise from genomic deletions across the bacterial tree of life biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_evobio
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Manuscript Code: github.com/baymlab/deletion-…
Prefix-Suffix Approach: github.com/aryakaul/prefixsu…
Many thanks to co-authors @fernpizza, @KarelBrinda & @baym + GenScale/Baym lab! Funded by NIH, Packard, Pew, Sloan & @ChateaubriandUS
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Arya (my best friend) does not have social media, he asked me to tweet this for him. But if you want to chat about science (or offer him a job) you can contact him at arya.casa/contact. He’ll (probably) be defending soon!
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Kepler Mears retweeted
Happy to share that I’m opening my lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science!
We’ll study systems-level regulation of bacterial defense, driven by RNA-protein interactions shaping cell fate.
Now recruiting PhD students & postdocs
tinyurl.com/4yfa55vd
Please reach out and share!
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RT @sapinker: A new study on "Where Discovery Happens" found that with basic research in the life sciences, Harvard contributes more than…
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