Amanda Alker
@ATP_Alker
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Marine microbiology | Genetics | Microbiome editing | Postdoc in @therubinlab & @Doudna_Lab @UCBerkeley & @igisci | Incoming Assistant Prof. @URI_Pharmacy
Berkeley, CA
Joined September 2020
🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨. If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out!
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RT @jcamthrash: Microbial interactions lead to ecosystem function
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Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Journal Club, Flora Vincent revisits a paper that summarized the ecological roles of microorganisms in the ocean ecosystem and that greatly impacted the field...
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RT @ASMicrobiology: We are excited to announce the winners of the 2024 #AgarArt Contest! Congratulations to Jeeyoung Lee, our overall winne….
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RT @MIZ_BIOS: There she goes! The @URIGSO vessel RV Endeavor came to @BIOSstation to cover the absence of our vessel (she is at shipyard).….
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RT @TheHessLab: My group ( is recruiting a new Junior Specialist to support our ongoing efforts in understanding a….
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RT @NikoMcCarty: Biotechnologists are increasingly working to engineer microbes and then release them into the "real-world" to clean up pol….
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RT @AMBonacolta: 🚨New @delCampoLab Preprint: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching….
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The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is disrupted by heat stress, leading to bleaching. Recurring bleaching events, driven by the climate crisis, are causing massive coral mortality...
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What can you expect in the lab? A supportive and invested mentor, opportunities to develop and optimize protocols, experience with cutting-edge genome editing tools like CRISPR, primarily bench work with computational and fieldwork. Check out for more info
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RT @yongyu_zhang: “Engineering microbiomes to enhance macroalgal health, biomass yield, and carbon sequestration” Please check our perspec….
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RT @juliar_mateu: Excited to share my PhD work!🎉.By characterizing and comparing the cells at the aboral end of the planula larva in 3 cnid….
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RT @therubinlab: The Rubin Lab had an amazing time at Inside @igisci Climate 2024 earlier this month! 🌎✨ Big shoutout to @Amanda_T_Alker, @….
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RT @abbywangg: shouting out an organization near and dear to my heart: @igematberkeley! . we're crowdfunding this month to help fulfill our….
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Help UC Berkeley raise $3,000 for the project: iGEM at Berkeley: A Synthetic Biology Hub. Your gift will make a difference!
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RT @PilhoferLab: Captain Aureispira - a bacterial pirate ship🦜🏴☠️🪝- boarded @ScienceMagazine. Check out the manuscript here: https://t.co….
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RT @JoePetersLab: Recent work from the lab from Laura Chacon @pomarros4 describing a family of Tn7-like transposons that evolved to target….
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Tn7 family transposons are mobile genetic elements known for precise target site selection, with some co-opting CRISPR-Cas systems for RNA-guided transposition. We identified a novel group of...
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Check out @bradyfcress great SynBYSS talk about microbiome editing and more! @thecresslab.
#SynBYSS talks with Prof. Lindsay Eltis at The University of British Columbia @UBC, Canada & Dr. Brady Cress @thecresslab at the Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley @UCBerkeley, USA. The video link is below:.
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RT @BruriaSamuel: Meet The Shielded Plasmid🛡️🧬. Our new @Nature paper reveals how plasmids outsmart bacterial defenses during conjugation.….
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RT @honglue1: 🚨 New preprint alert!.I am excited to present a collaboration between the @doudna_lab and Zev Bryant lab, with co-first autho….
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RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas enzymes initiate programmable genome editing by recognizing a 20-base-pair DNA sequence adjacent to a short protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM). To uncover the molecular determin...
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RT @ImmunoSketch: Scientists found a way to make editing bacterial DNA as easy as writing with a better pen. @LeoCTSong @Amanda_T_Alker @t….
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