Really excited to be co-chairing this brand new special interest group with the incredible Josh Ramsay

Apologies to anyone who was spammed by the ASM MGE SIG this morning. Some fun teething issues with our mailing list and new Gmail account!

Time to register to be an audience member for the Nancy Millis Awards! trybooking.com/CPAQQ

I am very happy to report that the years of work we put into studying the ecology and evolution of a single cryptic human gut plasmid is now nicely summarized in a paper that just appeared in Cell: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Here is a 🧵 to cover some take home messages.

Huge congratulations to Georgie Gilmore who won 1st place for the ASM Vic Branch Award last night for her Masters work supervised by Sarah Revitt-Mills, PhD, Yogi Srikhanta, Dr Sheena McGowan and Prof Dena Lyras! ASM Vic Branch

Please join us for our next ASM Hour, for three fascinating talks from our Mobile Genetic Elements Special Interest Group: Date: 12pm AEST, Tuesday April 9th theasm.org.au/asm-hour Hope to see you there!

I love techbro hubris. They 'solved' protein folding literally by relying on millions of hours of PhD level experiments to train their model. The only way to understand the universe at the Plank scale is also by experiments, not by the hallucinations of some AI #coolaid

ASM Bioinformatic SIG Thur May 2nd ASM

This is actually democratising cryoEM! Brilliant work by Hari Venugopal Ramaciotti Centre for Cryo EM Georg Ramm Sub 3 angstrom on a 120 kV technai with a LaB6 source! Read it! It's a masterpiece biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really looking forward to presenting this evening on my phage Matilda. Come by poster board 42 if you’re at VoM

If you are interested in this work... I am looking for a PhD student to join me at Monash Uni to discover more about atmospheric microbial ecology! If this sounds amazing to you, write me a letter: findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Here is our updated bioRxiv article, in which we find an explanation for why the Hunter group found different results from those previously published by my lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Imagine if we cared about science?

Really happy to be involved in this story and glad to see it out today

So proud of Desirel Ng who won one of the top three prizes at the Monash University-wide Visualise Your Thesis final for her audio/visual animation of her PhD project. It was a pleasure seeing such creative science communication from all the talented finalists! doi.org/10.26180/25981…

So excited to be in Japan for my very first plasmid meeting #ISPB2024

An Aussie(ish) dinner in Hamamatsu with some familiar faces! Galain Williams Rob Moran JRood_Plasmid_EIC International Society for Plasmid Biology and MGEs #ISPB2024

So thankful to the organisers for the opportunity to share our work on capsules and recipients at #ISPB2024 Such an amazing week of plasmid biology! International Society for Plasmid Biology and MGEs