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Bhuwan Abbot

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Bacterial-fungal endosymbiosis | I do omics and mol bio in The Carter Lab, UNC Charlotte

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Sophia Aredas @sophiaaredas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Incredibly blessed to have participated in the @mblscience.bsky.social Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis course this year 🦠 Grateful to work alongside the most incredible scientists and mentors as well as the microbes and their hosts 🌱🪱🦟🧫 #SymbioSky
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
New preprint from the lab led by grad student Dallas Moses! Our first adventure into watermelon found a bacterium that affects fungal virulence. 🍉 #NewPI #MicroSky #PlantPathology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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An endosymbiotic Paenibacillus sp. modulates disease severity caused by the common watermelon pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f sp. niveum
Fungal plant pathogens can be affected by the bacteria they interact with in their environment, yet the characterization of these interactions beyond direct antagonism is lacking, especially in the ca...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Now published from our lab with new and improved data collected from a 30 day freeze - the answer to "how the heck can I cryopreserve this frustrating endosymbiont"? Congrats to @ruthwright.bsky.social and special thanks to #NewPI Slack for the crowdsourced ideas. journals.asm.org/eprint/J8WFT...
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Identifying effective cryoprotection agents for non-model bacterial species | Microbiology Spectrum
The ability to cryopreserve bacteria is important for optimizing laboratory procedures, preserving strains that have been genetically manipulated, and growing fresh cultures of microorganisms without ...
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Lauren Carneal @laurencarn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Me and my poster had a busy week last week! I presented at the Penn State Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo and the university’s Graduate Exhibition. I had so much fun talking about my science and learning about others! 🧬
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Juliana Gonzalez-Tobon, Ph.D. @epiplantpath.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Also, meeting my friend’s students was such a highlight of this conference 💖 @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social wish you all the best in the remainder of your PhD! with @morgancarterphd.bsky.social being an amazing mentor as always.
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Jack Gregory explores the diversity of endohyphal 🍄 bacteria 🦠 of clinical samples of Mucorales He searched 🔎 in WGS data for Mycetohabitans DNA 🧬 Then took that approach to clinical 🏥 samples #fungal26
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Caroline West finds viruses 🛑 inside a bacteria 🦠 inside a fungus 🍄‍🟫 that can be found in plants and people 🚶‍♂️ This is work from the @lablabella.bsky.social & @morgancarterphd.bsky.social & the RAW labs. #fungal26
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social discusses bacterial-fungal interactions What can machine learning methods tell us about what genes are lost and gained during the transition from free living to obligate endosymbiosis #fungal26 #fungAI
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Audrey K Ward @audreykward.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@lablabella.bsky.social shares how we can utilize machine learning to understand patterns of codon usage bias across phenotypes in Saccharomycotina. #fungal26
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I will be presenting my poster on endohyphal bacteria and key genes in their symbiosis, today’s session (7:00-10:30pm) at #fungal26 !
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thanks to those who stopped by at #2025ISMPMI to learn about bacteria that live inside fungi. It was great to hear your questions. So much to do in this area!! For those not here, please check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Or mini-review: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
Me, a white woman with fluffy curly hair and  striped dress standing in front of a scientific poster with the figures from the linked preprint
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social from the Carter Lab @morgancarterphd.bsky.social Are the bacteria🦠in a fungus 🍄 evolving towards obligate endosymbiosis? Mycetohabitans doesn't have all the hallmarks of other obligate endosymbionts Read more in www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Evol2025
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Look at this UNC Charlotte crowd!!! #Evol2025 #Evol25
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Yall better be reading my preprint right now (and giving me feedback)
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Heading to #evol2025? Come see what the Carter Lab is up to! @ruthwright.bsky.social and @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social will be there and would love to connect.
Flyer showing the carter lab from UNC Charlotte at evolution 2025. Bhuwan Abbot is presenting a talk on endofungal bacterial comparative genomics on june 23rd in the coevolution I session and Ruth Wright is presenting a poster on bacterial secretion at poster C10 on June 22nd
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We are *this* 🤏 close to having the first lab preprint posted for work only done since I started at Charlotte and I'm just so jazzed about it. Also the author list is 1 tech, 1 undergrad, 1 high schooler, 1 rotation student, 2 local collabs, & @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social which is lab goals to me 🏆.
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
That’s my undergrad mentee!!! #phdsky
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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Bhuwan Abbott presenting at EVOLVE this week.
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plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The only thing cooler than protein folding? Protein folding into a dinosaur. 🦕
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 01/02/2025
Can confirm. Adding the F word to your google searches turns off AI summaries. E.g.: "how do massively parallel reporter assays work?" vs "how do f*cking massively parallel reporter assays work?"
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Dangerous speech - promotes fear - is aimed at groups - harms indirectly - often false Ring a bell?🔔 www.dangerousspeech.org/
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Dangerous Speech: A Practical Guide
This guide provides an in-depth exploration of dangerous speech and how to identify it, and some promising efforts to reduce the harmful effects of speech.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Just so happens we’re out of eggs and I’m about to head to the store. I’m expecting massive price drops. Stay tuned.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
If the early bird gets the worm, doesn't that mean that the population will shift towards late worms in a bi-stable distribution , leading perhaps to a partition of temporal niche?
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Do you have a student who is a non-native English speaker #NNES ? A post-doc? A collaborator? Are you a reviewer? It takes years to get to express yourself in a foreign language, if it ever happens The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Jan Gawor @gaworjan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Here is a great summary of genomic visualization tools: cmdcolin.github.io/awesome-geno...
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awesome-genome-visualization
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Gemma C. Atkinson @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group! 1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
9. I started my career as a digital right activist, working to protect net neutrality and privacy.
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Got back my genomes before I was done running confirmatory gels on the DNA I sent in the first place
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Fuck.
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
My friend gave me this mug…
Coffee mug illustrated in hand written

DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND YOU'LL [then crossed out NEVER WORK A DAY IN YOUR LIFE ] (written in a different colour )-WORK SUPER HARD ALL THE TIME WITH NO SEPARATION OR ANY BOUNDARIES AND ALSO TAKE EVERYTHING EXTREMELY PERSONALLY
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Helen Simmons (She/Her) @littlehen.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Ok. I’ve invented #PeProMo - personal (PhD) progress month - inspired by the focus of @hoylerosemary.bsky.social in October. I am evoking #PeProMo to help me get my studies simmering gently between now and Christmas, after a period of compassionate leave….
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Presented my poster at #SACNAS #NDiSTEM the other day and got to meet so many people working on fungi in ways I never imagined!
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Curious to know more? Read @philipcball.bsky.social's excellent new book! And let's stop oversimplifying the "central dogma" (DNA>RNA>protein; not pointing fingers here; me too!). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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How Life Works
“Bold and intriguing.”—Wall Street Journal • “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “Offers plenty of food for thought.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)  “...
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Science may not be the best career for people named Rosalind. #phdsky #academicsky
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Fall 2024 now: should’ve been careful what I wished for #phdsky
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Get ready to see some yellow wax cap #fungifriends
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Good morning! It's the 2nd day of the semester and I've already said yes to too many things 😬🤦‍♀️
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Spring 2024 has been too easy on me🫢
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Delivering a guest lecture to GenZs at 8:30am right before an exam can't be that bad
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
...so who else can do taxes but doesn't know dealing with roach in the bathroom situations
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Dr. Kimberly Ayers @kdayers.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
An unfortunate truth I am discovering about myself is that I’m incredibly productive in the wrong context. In a seminar talk? I get lots done editing that preprint! In a research meeting? Time to write my slides for a talk on a different project! Why in the adhd am I like this.
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
The way my evolutionary biology class went from competition to altruism over the midterm???
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Daylight has been saved But at what cost
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Coming back to this post that i reposted like a month back: never thought I would have to make a poster??? And communicate my science in a way that people understand???
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
It is so fundamentally important to show data and studies backing the claims one makes about diversity and inclusion, especially if they are someone delivering a seminar at an external institution.
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
The elders in Araucanía Region in Chilé protecting indigenous mycorrhizal networks and consequently traditional fungal knowledge. An interesting highlight I came across on Indigenous Peoples' day:
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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) on Instagram: "On this Indigenous Peoples�...
171 likes, 1 comments - spununderground on October 9, 2023: "On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day we would like to share with you the voice of one of the Elders ..."
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Not me in my log phase on Bluesky (it will last 4 hours)
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Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
I'm one of the chosen ones y'all (my two followers)
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