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Samantha Wellington Miranda

@drsamwellie.bsky.social
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Here for the science. Postdoc researching bacterial communication @UW. Chemical biology, microbiology, infectious diseases. Health & housing equity.

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Ajai Dandekar @ajaidandekar.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
theatlantic.com
The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything
The disease once guaranteed an early death—but a new treatment has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Adaptive Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Human Airways Shows Phenotypic Convergence Despite Diverse Patterns of Genomic Changes academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #MicroSky
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Adaptive Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Human Airways Shows Phenotypic Convergence Despite Diverse Patterns of Genomic Changes
Abstract. Selective forces in the environment drive bacterial adaptation to novel niches, choosing the fitter variants in the population. However, in dynamic an
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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
“Curiosity-driven, basic science has yielded a deeper understanding of how life forms develop and function in their environment and has had wide implications for health and our planet. Investing in this is vital for scientific progress and is worth protecting in a democracy.” —Ruth Lehmann
nature.com
Basic science is not just a foundation - Nature Cell Biology
Intellectual freedom for scientists, unconstrained by commercial interests and direct application, fuels unexpected discoveries. Curiosity-driven, basic science has yielded a deeper understanding of h...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 13/01/2024
Are you an early-stage researcher seeking support to attend ASM Microbe? 🧪🧬 The ASM Peggy Cotter Travel Award Program provides funds for outstanding early career Branch members to attend ASM Microbe. asm.org/Travel-Award...
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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Our new tool 'SOCfinder' to find social genes in bacteria is out now, in Microbial Genomics 🦠 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
microbiologyresearch.org
SOCfinder: a genomic tool for identifying social genes in bacteria
Bacteria cooperate by working collaboratively to defend their colonies, share nutrients, and resist antibiotics. Nevertheless, our understanding of these remarkable behaviours primarily comes from stu...
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Eric Déziel @dezieleric.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
New biosurfactant alert! We report that some Burkholderia species can produce methylated rhamnolipids, which are thus nonionic. Lack of charge of these methyl esters might have major implications for their biological functions, and future applications www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Samantha Wellington Miranda @drsamwellie.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
I'm thrilled to share our latest paper out in the Journal of Bacteriology! We asked the question: Which evolutionary pressures tune sensitivity in cell signaling? doi.org/10.1128/jb.0...
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A balancing act: investigations on the impact of altered signal sensitivity in bacterial quorum sens...
Quorum sensing (QS) is a widespread form of cell-cell signaling that regulates group behaviors important for competition and cooperation within bacterial communities. The QS systems from different bac...
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Ajai Dandekar @ajaidandekar.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Excited to share this manuscript by @hsiehyp.bsky.social, describing how Candida albicans sequesters magnesium from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, reducing bacterial fitness. But this competition has the effect of conferring colistin resistance on P. aeruginosa! /1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Widespread fungal-bacterial competition for magnesium enhances antibiotic resistance
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections by Roberto A quarter of the world's population – that's two billion people – is estimated to be latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This staggering number is often presented in scientific pub... Read more > tinyurl.com/2rarexkr #MicroSky 🦠🧫
Mycobacterium tuberculosis colonies [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis]
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Funded PhD position in my group: Evolution of resistance to novel antibiotics. Academic/industrial project in collaboration with Bactobio. Excellent opportunity to do interesting fundamental science and learn from academic and commercial settings. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Tracking down why what’s supposed to be the same bacterial growth medium can give such different results: an unexpected impurity!
science.org
Science | AAAS
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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Starting now-ish in the IDWeek poster hall!
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