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Kate Dowdell, PhD, PE

@katedowdell.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, drinking water quality and pathogens, environmental engineer, water microbio, she/her, views are my own

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New York City Council @council.nyc.gov · 08/08/2025
“If you have flu-like symptoms… this is the time to seek medical attention.” At a news conference, @cmyusefsalaam.bsky.social spoke about the Legionnaires’ disease cluster in Central Harlem.
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Kate Dowdell, PhD, PE @katedowdell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Check out our new open access review paper in ES&T on ways to unify drinking water opportunistic pathogen and disinfection byproduct research. Excited for this to be my first paper as a corresponding. Shout out to our amazing co-authors! @lutraskin.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Moving Beyond the Silos of Opportunistic Pathogen and Disinfection Byproduct Research to Improve Drinking Water System Management
Drinking water opportunistic pathogens (OPs) and disinfection byproducts (DBPs) both pose risks to public health, and their variable occurrence from source to tap complicates efforts to control them s...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 08/04/2025
I'm delighted to share a useful FREE web-based app portal of powerful bioinformatics tools for microbial genomes and shotgun microbiome sequences! It's called Micromics and is built by Middle Author Bioinformatics, led by co-founder @ironark.bsky.social omix.midauthorbio.com
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Microbial Omics
A suite of bioinformatics tools for microbial genome and metagenome analysis.
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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
On hidden protist diversity (unfortunately the data is not available yet) #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Global Metagenomics Reveals Hidden Protist Diversity
Protists, defined as unicellular eukaryotes distinct from animals, plants, and fungi, are a polyphyletic group that predominates the eukaryotic tree of life, exhibiting significant phylogenetic divers...
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IWA MEWE 2025 @mewe2025.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The deadline for abstract submissions to #mewe11 is two weeks from now (Dec 15). Click on "Call for papers". Early registration is also live. Click on "Registration". Register early and save $$. Visa letter needed? Complete registration & submit your abstract first. mewe11.ce.gatech.edu
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IWA MEWE-11 CONFERENCE – Managing Microbiomes: From Ecology to Engineering
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Taymee Brandon @taymee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Let me know if you would like to be added to the Environmental Engineers (Water) starter pack! go.bsky.app/RxwzD7c
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Engineers add tremendous value in all areas of global health and medical care. They are unsung heroes of global health www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
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Engineers Are Unsung Heroes Of Global Health
Engineers add tremendous value in all areas of global health and medical care. They are unsung heroes of global health
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Kate Dowdell, PhD, PE @katedowdell.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
Check out our new pre-print on NTM in drinking water systems! @lutraskin.bsky.social
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Kate Dowdell, PhD, PE @katedowdell.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Interested in drinking water flow cytometry? Check out our new studying evaluating near real-time FCM for disinfection system monitoring! @lutraskin.bsky.social 🧪 #MicroSky
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Katrina Velle @katrinavelle.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
I am actively recruiting students for my lab at UMass Dartmouth! Are you interested in a project on actin, amoebae, cell migration, and/or pathogenesis? Send me an email & apply to the Integrative Biology PhD program by Jan 15! Please RT More info: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science
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Home | Katrina B Velle, PhD
I'm Katrina Velle, a cell biologist interested in actin-driven phenotypes and microbial pathogenesis. As a postdoc, I am investigating the contributions of the actin cytoskeleton to phenotypes in Naeg...
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Ameet Pinto @watermicrobe.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Looking to recruit 3 grad researchers. (1) Drinking water micro-ecology, (2) Nitrogen micro (specifically comammox), and (3) Algal micro + imaging. as Spring 2024 & late as Fall 2024. if you know someone creative + motivated + interested in these topics - would appreciate u sharing this with them.
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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Dear researchers interested in the fascinating world of protists (microbial eukaryotes). I have created a feed for us to interact here. Please tag posts with #ProtistsOnSky and follow the feed. No sign-up needed!
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Kate Dowdell, PhD, PE @katedowdell.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
My dreams have come true 🧬 🧫
A QIACube Connect automated DNA/RNA extraction system
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Lut Raskin @lutraskin.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
We are recruiting two postdocs at the University of Michigan with expertise in anaerobic biotechnology research, sociotechnical education, and community-led circular economy social structures and infrastructure facilities. Job posting at
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RESEARCH FELLOW | U-M Careers
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Kate Dowdell, PhD, PE @katedowdell.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Hi Bluesky! I’m a postdoc and NSF PRFB fellow at UT studying drinking water microbial communities and opportunistic pathogens. And I’ll be on the job market this year! Looking forward to connecting 🧫🧬
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