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Tim Regan

@timreganlab.bsky.social
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Researching invertebrate aquaculture 🌿🐚🦪🦐 immunology, IMTA and host-microbiome 🦠 interactions at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🦪 UK ECRs in aquaculture, marine sci, env policy or sci comm — join the Shellfish Industry 2025 Workshop 🌊 📅 30 Sept–1 Oct | Oban 🎯 Skills for research comms & engagement + industry networking Free | Apply by 22 Aug: forms.gle/2jzSzgeQxe6R... Funded by ASSG & @roslininstitute.bsky.social
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Workshop Application Form 2025
Thank you for your interest in the second annual Challenges in the Shellfish Industry Workshop, taking place in Oban, Scotland, from 30 September to 1 October 2025. This year’s theme, “Skills for Eff...
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Carmel McDougall @drcarmelmc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Readvertising a PhD opportunity in my group investigating molecular mechanisms of biological patterning by studying mollusc shells. Based at St Andrews, Scotland, and co-supervised by @vs-marine.bsky.social! Deadline 17/01/25. More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Nice write up on the importance of supporting #sustainable #shellfish #aquaculture for delicious meals that help the planet www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Time to be shellfish: why the UK should go back to feasting on oysters and mussels
Popular in Victorian times, they are sustainable, a good source of protein and brilliant for biodiversity, say those championing the bivalves
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
For the first time, a humpback whale was spotted near the mouth of a river in Ireland. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... via @miamiherald.bsky.social
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Graeme Cowan 🧬👨🏻‍💻 @graemecowan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you happen to have this combination of TC needs and a Stuart mini orbital shaker, you can download and print one too: www.printables.com/model/108765...
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125ml Erlenmeyer tissue culture flask holder by GC | Download free STL model | Printables.com
Flask holder for shaking platform in TC incubator. Fits disposable PETG plain bottom flasks (e.g. Thermo 4115-0125) | Download free 3D printable STL models
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Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Specific question: Does anyone out there have any data on sex ratios for soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) they're willing to share? Trying to compile a database for #metaanalysis. I've found all I could find in the literature but want to maximize data! If so, please reach out! 🧪🦑 #MarineEcology
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Sean D. Stacey, Ph.D. @seandstacey.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
OK, this is just a damn cool article 🤯 🦠 🔬 Infecting the cell nucleus, gaining nutrients, but preventing cell death! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An intranuclear bacterial parasite of deep-sea mussels expresses apoptosis inhibitors acquired from its host - Nature Microbiology
‘Candidatus Endonucleobacter’ is a pathogen of deep-sea mussels that can successfully reproduce in the nuclei of its host by expressing inhibitors of apoptosis, likely acquired through horizontal gene...
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪 Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute! Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊 💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas 📍 Edinburgh, UK Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Homère J. Alves Monteiro @homerej.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🦪 Out yesterday some genome-wide work on the native European flat oyster , <i>Ostrea edulis</i>. Once widespread along European coasts but is now functionally extinct due to overfishing and disease. Threads 1/n 🦪 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Frank Melzner @frankmelzner.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Compiling some videos for our upcoming #bioc102 class with MSc Biological Oceanography students at Kiel University and #Geomar. Critter of the week: blue mussels with forests of small creatures living on their shells. We‘ll zoom into these forests in the next weeks… 🦑
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Please share! Fantastic PhD opportunity to advance #seaweed #aquaculture in the face of climate breakdown 🌊🌡️🔬🧬🌊 Based at SAMS on the Scottish west coast with stunning kelp farm fieldwork locations & placement in our lab at the Roslin Institute. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
And this afternoon Rob Stewart presented results from his PhD on TRIM25 in salmon in response to virus infections. He confirmed through multiple analysis that they are 2 copies of ssTRIM25 in A. salmon and only one on chr2 is up regulated upon infection with a putative role in suppressing ISAVirus
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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Kallen Sullivan, a PhD student from the Bean's lab at Roslin presented her awesome work on developing cell culture in oysters 🦪🧫🔬 to study oyster immune response to bonamia infection. I'm always amazed by the different organs you can find in a rock, an oyster sorry 😅 👩🏻‍🔬🧪
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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ambre is also doing some long read nanopore sequencing after managing to extract really long (too long even!) DNA from her mussels 🧬🧬💻, looking forward to hearing those results that she currently analysing in @timreganlab.bsky.social lab at Roslin 🧪👩🏻‍🔬
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#EID is a network of 900 infectious disease researchers across different institutes in Edinburgh. Give them a follow to connect with global experts and their cutting edge science.
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Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Heart clams have evolved optic fibres and windows to bathe their symbionts in sunlight 👽❤️🌞. Worth reading the whole story (which is beautifully written) by Dakota McCoy and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications
Some bivalves have evolved photosynthetic symbioses. Here, the authors show that heart cockles transmit light through their upper shell to internal photosynthetic symbionts, using mineral fiber optic ...
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
🌊New paper! A Scottish oyster farmer faced summer mortalities linked to Vibrio spp. We provide sequences for V. splendidus + highly virulent V. aestuarianus isolates🦠🖥️🧬 Bonus content: Morts declined each year, with no unusual deaths this year!💪🦪 #Oysters #Vibrio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Scottish oyster mortality event and association with Vibrio aestuarianus
Pacific oysters, Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas, are the most commonly cultured invertebrate species globally. Recent years have seen outbreaks of summ…
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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Best practices to extract ancient DNA from mollusc shells #MusselsAreCool dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Advancing responsible genomic analyses of ancient mollusc shells
The analysis of the DNA entrapped in ancient shells of molluscs has the potential to shed light on the evolution and ecology of this very diverse phylum. Ancient genomics could help reconstruct the re...
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Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky
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Opportunités de carrière : PhD position in gut microbiota ecology and evolution (21945)
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Surfin' NuRD @surfinnurd.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Fully funded #PhD Studentship with myself and JJ Phillips at the Living Systems Institute, @uniofexeter.bsky.social "Control of chromatin remodeller activity to direct cell fate decisions" #Chromatin #Transcription #StemCells #StructuralBiology Please re-skeet! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
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LSI PhD programme | Living Systems Institute | University of Exeter
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Clémence Fraslin @clemencefraslin.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
For #IWD, the UN's theme for the day is "Invest in women: accelerate progress", an empowering theme for us all 👩‍🔬 I'm very happy and deeply touched to have been awarded "Academic Champion of the year" from #WiSA 💜 I am very proud to be part of an 🐟 Aquaculture community that is very supportive 🧬💻
A screenshot of a blue slide from the WiSA Awards with me (woman) smiling and holding a wooden award for the Academic champion winner. My name role and position in my in research institute are written on the side
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Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Don't miss this opportunity! Few days left to apply to the Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Department at the University of Lausanne and with the NCCR Microbiomes. Topics: microbial interactions, microbiome research, microbial symbiosis (...) Deadline: Jan 31! tinyurl.com/4k2mevax
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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
"BATH matches the accuracy of HMMER3 for annotation of sequences containing no errors, and produces superior accuracy to all tested tools for annotation of sequences containing nucleotide indels."
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Frank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
#HiSciSky Happy to migrate over here. I'm a postdoc in Edinburgh, interested in #trypanosomes, #coinfection, and #drugresistance. I post mostly about science, but occasionally comment on politics that impact researchers (esp. from the Global South). T. brucei image: Sue Vaughan/ Welcome Collection
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
Have a good one everyone! Good thing some bivalves have feet, otherwise how could they ice skate?!
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
WATCH: Rare video captured off the coast of San Diego showed an #orca teaching a baby #whale how to hunt a #dolphin after subduing it youtu.be/oChZ9fYf_GM?... via @YouTube @nbcnewspolitics.bsky.social
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
More diverse microbiome communities provide protection against infection, but how? New paper in Science shows this is achieved by nutrient blocking -- diverse communities will consume all the nutrients an incoming pathogen needs to colonize www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
World's 1st 'conversation' between humans and #whales could help us talk to aliens someday, scientists claim www.livescience.com/space/extrat...
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World's 1st 'conversation' between humans and whales could help us talk to aliens someday, scientist...
Researchers are studying humpback whale communication systems to learn how to detect and interpret extraterrestrial signals from outer space.
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H2O Radio @h2oradio.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
How seaweed can help heal wounds> bit.ly/3CzL6tn
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
JOIN US! We are searching for an Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Indigenous Food Sovereignty! Learn more: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...
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Assistant Professor in Fisheries and Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Assistant Professor in Fisheries and Indigenous Food Sovereignty Department Academic Leadership | Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Faculty of...
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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
trout/charr/whitefish people. What's the highest altitude population of salmonid you know? Which species, where and is it self sustaining? Please repost for maximum exposure! Cheers
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Eric Ignatz @eignatz.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
I am very excited to be a part of the Triploid Mussel Program announced through Genome Canada funding today! This project is being led by my co-supervisors Dr. Tiago Hori of Atlantic Aqua Farms and Dr. Ramón Filgueira of Dalhousie University. genomeatlantic.ca/atlantic-aqu...
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Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Our Department at University of Lausanne is recruiting a tenure-track Assist. Prof. on microbial interactions linked to the nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31! 🧪
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Brian Timmer @scuba-timmer.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
My RA Ray made me this amaaaazing crocheted bull kelp. I had a hunch some of you on hear would like to see it.
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Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
This is me trying out Blusky! I am interested in #viruses #genomes #Drosophila #evolution and #popgen. Here is a pretty picture of some flies from the UK, as an attention-grabber (visit obbard.bio.ed.ac.uk/photos.html for more!)
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Great work here by Porter et al. Glad to see bivalves are showing relatively low levels of microplastic accumulation (we all have our favourites) 🧪 🐟 🦪
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a list of 200 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18/07/2023
Worried about biodiversity loss? Focus on food (production and consumption). Worried about freshwater supply & quality? Focus on food. Worried about deforestation? Focus on food. Worried about overfishing? Focus on food. Worried about climate change? Focus on energy, and food.
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Amanda Warr @amandatron89.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
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A cat coronavirus is now spreading across Europe. Should we be worried?
The variant, which is believed to have killed 8,000 cats, has now been found in the UK. Are our pets at risk and is the new strain a threat to humans?
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Fantastic opportunity, awesome team and super cool applied research right here 🐟 🧪
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Alison Low @alow.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
New pre-print: study from our group addressing one of the hurdles of phage therapy - rapidly selecting the right phage cocktail to treat an infection - using bacterial genome sequence to predict effective phage cocktail design biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Mark van der Giezen @mitorem.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Explain this to the taxpayers and convince politicians about the obscenity that is the open access publishing business model: "The scientific community of the US, China, UK, France, Netherlands, and Norway pays over $2 billion each year to a dozen publishers to publish their work with open access"
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Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with ...
A study reveals that academic megajournals ‘Scientific Reports’ and ‘Nature Communications’ have cornered the market
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Very strong aurora over Musselburgh this evening
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Philip Leftwich @philipleftwich.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Please share! Two lectureships in Ecology are available in my department at the University of East Anglia in beautiful Norfolk. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/52...
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Laura Glendinning @microbes4ever.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
PLEASE SHARE: An exciting Roslin Foundation PhD opportunity in my lab, studying the chicken gut microbiota (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...). Unlike many other schemes, equally open to international and national candidates.
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Gregor Gorjanc @gregorgorjanc.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
New pre-print: "Short communication: Accounting for nuclear and mito genome in dairy cattle breeding - a simulation study" led by Gabriela Mafra Fortuna. This was her MSc project, now turned into a short communication! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ute Hentschel @utehentschel.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Research Scientist Position Opening “Genomic Basis of Marine Sponge Symbioses” For details, see www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Come join us at GEOMAR in Kiel!
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Why do Atlantic salmon suffer from sea lice so badly while Coho salmon don't? 🐟 At Edinburgh university Blue Health Symposium, @salisburyfish.bsky.social explained how scRNAseq🧬🖥️ revealed that while both species have the same types of cells, these cells respond differently to lice!
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Sarah Salisbury @salisburyfish.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Why care about mussels? Though they might not seem that interesting on the surface, @timreganlab.bsky.social shows us at the Blue Health symposium at the University of Edinburgh why it's worth cracking open their shells, revealing some really cool mussel immunology and phylogenetics! 🦪😎🧬🧪
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