Amelia Barber
@AmeliaBarberPhD
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Junior group leader at @UniJena. Fungal pathoecology, antifungal resistance, and genome stuff. Always up for an adventure or bike ride. Same handle on 🟦.
Jena, Germany
Joined November 2018
I will no longer be posting on or regularly visiting this site. Please find me on 🦋 under the same username (@AmeliaBarberPhD)!
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➕ Artem Babaian (@RNA_Life), Amelia Barber (@AmeliaBarberPhD) and Vayu Hill-Maini (@NOFOKitchen) will join the Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities program. https://t.co/tOaySmaFKK
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Briefly interrupting my ongoing Twitter hiatus to say how honoured and excited I am to be selected as an Azrieli Global Scholar! Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration!
Meet the 2025–2027 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars! 🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome 12 exceptional early-career researchers to the CIFAR community. https://t.co/tOaySmaFKK
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If you don't have time to read our Candida parapsilosis outbreak manuscript in full, catch the key points in the @UniJena press release.
In a study, a research team @microverse_exc @UniJena highlights the growing threat posed by the multi-resistant yeast Candida parapsilosis. Especially at risk are hospitalised patients with pre-existing conditions, the team writes in @LancetMicrobe. ➡️ https://t.co/MOBYM6vISE
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🦠 Candida parapsilosis poses a rising threat in hospitals. @AmeliaBarberPhD|s team developed a fast, cost-effective method to identify drug-resistant strains—key for better control. Study in @LancetMicrobe. #FungalInfections #Healthcare @LeibnizHKI
In a study, a research team @microverse_exc @UniJena highlights the growing threat posed by the multi-resistant yeast Candida parapsilosis. Especially at risk are hospitalised patients with pre-existing conditions, the team writes in @LancetMicrobe. ➡️ https://t.co/MOBYM6vISE
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Emerging resistant Candida: Molecular analysis of a major multi-hospital outbreak of FluR C. parapsilosis in D published in @LancetMicrobe
https://t.co/rok9RSkP1n - see also thread by lead author @AmeliaBarberPhD! #NRZMyk
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This study underscores the emergence of drug-resistant C parapsilosis that can spread patient to patient within a health-care system, but also, possibly, internationally. Our findings highlight the...
Delighted that the final version of our Candida parapsilosis outbreak + MLST creation manuscript is out now in @LancetMicrobe! https://t.co/tpZsGZ7aJI
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Leading contributions by #BarberLab PhD student Phillip and in great collaboration with the NRZMyk (including @OKurzai) and a team of dedicated physicians and clinical lab scientists (not on platform). Funding by @BMBF_Bund, @rki_de @dfg_public @microverse_exc.
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Our study underscores the global challenge of azole-resistant Candida parapsilosis and its importance as the causative agent of nosocomial outbreaks. Clinicians should be aware of the evolving epidemiology of this pathogen, including rising prevalence of drug-resistant strains!
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All the conclusions from the preprint thread are unchanged AND during the revision we discovered that the German outbreak clone is very closely related to drug-resistant strains responsible for an outbreak in Canada and to strains from Kuwait, Türkiye, and South Korea.
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Delighted that the final version of our Candida parapsilosis outbreak + MLST creation manuscript is out now in @LancetMicrobe! https://t.co/tpZsGZ7aJI
Candida parapsilosis lives on the skin and causes an increasing number of nosocomial outbreaks. How does this pathogen move within and between hospitals? How can we quickly detect their spread? A 🧵from our recent preprint.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow post available to work as part of MRC funded consortium Fungi-CARE (Combinations Against Resistance Emergence)!!
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Minnesota can be cold, but we protect the rights of all people. My lab is hiring at all levels for folks interested in Polyploidy, Aneuploidy, and Drug Resistance. We welcome computational and experimental researchers from diverse backgrounds. Please email me and retweet!
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It was my pleasure to host @BingZhai for a seminar and hear about her work on the mycobiome as a source of infection!
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🚨 The abstract submission deadline is tomorrow 25th October!⏰Submit today to take part in this exciting conference🔬 https://t.co/VF5eDq13Kx We are accepting abstracts on a wide range of topics, share your insights and research with us. #ECFG17
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Huge scale fitness profiling AND a machine learning classifier able to predict fungal genes important for infection fitness. What an exciting tour de force!
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Nice hypothesis paper in mBio by @AmeliaBarberPhD @mgblango and Holger Bierhoff on RNA:DNA triplexes as a possible molecular mechanism for epigenetic communication interkingdome interactions -- very thought-provoking
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The manipulation of host organisms by microbial pathogens and symbionts is well-documented. The parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii inhibits the fear response of infected rodents towards feline...
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Super excited to share my first (shared) first author paper from @UofMMFIG and @imed_tweets. We compared the brightness of 18 fluorescent proteins in Aspergillus fumigatus when expressed in germlings and spores
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Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprotrophic fungus found in a wide range of ecological niches, which can cause allergic, invasive, and chronic diseases in humans that are difficult to diagnose and treat...
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📢 New Guide for #Teachers: In collaboration with U. Hoßfeld (@UniJena), we’ve released a practical guide for #biology teachers (DE) with info on #microorganisms, and experiments. 📥 Free download: https://t.co/lm6driheEH
#Biologie #MINT #ThüringenEdu #THILM #Twitterlehrerzimmer
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Jena is a picturesque university city with a high quality of life; surrounded by beautiful nature, but centrally located for trips to major cities like Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt, etc. Want to see for yourself? Explore the city using this interactive tool.
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The group is based at @UniJena and tightly connected to other groups in @microverse_exc, @LeibnizHKI, and other research institutes in Jena.
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