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Groningen, Netherlands
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It's finally peer-reviewed and out as a publication! Our review consists of bioinformatics analyses and an overview of current literature to understand the role of geranylgeranyl reductase paralogs in extremophilic #archaea. All #openaccess of course :)
link.springer.com/article/10…
Thank you 😊
BaSyC PhD thesis defense coming up: Alka Rao on 14 Nov 2.30pm in Groningen. Title of her thesis: "Exploring Complex Cellular Membranes: Lipid Modifications in Extremophilic Archaea and Filamentous Fungi" Good luck Alka! doi.org/10.33612/diss.812181…
It's been 4.5 years of hard work and it's finally out!
The digital copy of my PhD thesis can now be accessed at research.rug.nl/en/publicati…
#phdlife #archaea #AcademicTwitter
New preprint from my PhD thesis, which is a review + a lot of computational work (AlphaFold, AlphaFill) to understand the multiplicity of a class of enzymes which saturate archaeal membranes.
#archaea #extremophiles #PhDone #preprints
preprints.org/manuscript/202…
44k words, ~45 figures, various tables and revisions later..done with my PhD thesis. It's surreal to say it out loud.
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Thank you very much to all our fantastic speakers for sharing exciting science on #archaea.
Thank you also to all the attendees and #archaea supporters!!!
Enjoy your summer break and see you soon for more #archaeapower 💪@APH_Europa
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This beaver was orphaned and rescued as a newborn.
Watch the incredible instinct to build a dam, even though it’s never seen its parents build one..
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📢Do not miss Lucas´s talk @Bastian_Molitor lab!!!
#archaea #archaeapower @APH_AME @APH_Europa
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New Research: Single point mutations at the S129 residue of α-synuclein and their effect on structure, aggregation, and neurotoxicity: Parkinson’s disease is an age-related neurological disorder, and the pathology of the disease is linked to… #chemistry frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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📢Do not miss @alka1aug talk!!!
#archaea #archaeapower @APH_AME @APH_Europa
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I will be talking about one of my recently published PhD projects, sign up if you don't want to miss out :)
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📢Save the date. The next @APH_Europa meeting is scheduled on May 31st at 1 pm (Paris/Berlin). Do not miss these two exciting talks. To get the link register at aph-europa.org #archaea #archaeapower
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#4: Create simple, clear and compelling figures
📊 Journal editors often skip right to the figures to understand your results, so help them understand your findings and argument without having to read your Results section.
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Interested in sustainable food production via engineered gas-fermenting microbes? Our collaborative @EUeic project HYDROCOW is funded. We have an open Ph.D. and a 4y PD position. @ResearchGbb @univgroningen @Andy_FGen
PhD: tinyurl.com/5n8kx72m
PD: tinyurl.com/3uet537c
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Just published in @ACSSynBio! Our cloning toolkit for #Cglabrata including #CRISPRi 👉👉pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Happy to share our recent work and my 1st,1st author publication 'Membrane Adaptations and Cellular Responses of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius to the Allylamine Terbinafine' in @IJMS_MDPI
#academictwitter #archaea #lipids #sciencetwitter #PhDchat #sulfolobus
mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/8/7328
Peer review is academia's 'lip sync for your laaaaaifff'
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@IndinNederlands applied for the re issue of my passport (NT0074870077723) on 30th January from VFS, Amsterdam (who told me it would take 2-3 weeks). There hasn't been any update on my application since the 4th of February. I need the passport urgently for my opzoekjaar visa.
@IndinNederlands have already emailed and tweeted the @rpolucknow and @passportsevamea with no response. VFS helpline gives a generic advice to just wait. Please look into my file number, it has been 3 weeks since it was sent for police verification.
@rpolucknow @passportsevamea
Applied for re-issue of my Indian passport (NT0074870077723) from the Hague. Wrote an email to rpo already for changing Thana address for verification, no response.Could you please update it in the file? I need the passport urgently for visa ext.
Hello @rpolucknow @passportsevamea
could you please look into file NT0074870077723 and update the Thana address as requested by my email sent to RPO, Lucknow?
Hi @rpolucknow and @passportsevamea, it will be 3 weeks since my file for passport reissue was sent for police verification, no news so far. I need it to get my residence permit for the Netherlands. RPO hasn't responded to my email either.
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Color palettes accessible to those with color vision deficiency (CVD) are often insufficient for working with #microbiome data...but not anymore! In #MRAJournal, researchers present microshades, an R package for creating CVD-accessible microbiome figures. asm.social/UE
ALT A) The microshades universal CVD-friendly palette, microshades_cvd_palettes, with CVD emulations for deuteranope, protanope, and tritanope accessibility. The cvdemulator (http://hclwizard.org:3000/cvdemulator) was used. (B to D) Example of application to a stacked barplot representing microbiome data (7). In each plot, columns represent samples and the colors represent different bacteria within each sample. The blue circles in B and C highlight the visual improvement that results from using the microshades colors. (B) In the default plot, colors are determined by the default ggplot2 color scheme. (C) The microshades color plot contains the same data and in the same sample order, with the microshades_cvd_palettes applied. Colors are organized to represent the phylum-genus classification of bacteria found in the samples. (D) The microshades color plus organization plot uses the microshades_cvd_palettes, microshades organizational functions, and microshades custom legend.