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Dawn Bignell’s research lab at Memorial University. Microbiology, Streptomyces, specialized metabolism, plant-microbe interactions, plant disease. @MemorialU
St. John's
Joined July 2019
A new study from our group published in Scientific Reports examines the relationship between gut microbiota composition and behaviour in pet dogs. This study was done in collaboration with @saritapellowe, @CRU_MUN and L. Pena-Castillo.
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Scientific Reports - Gut microbiota composition is related to anxiety and aggression scores in companion dogs
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RT @JohnInnesCentre: 📢 VACANCY - Calling outstanding researchers! . Apply TODAY for our Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured….
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A big thanks to Jeff Green and the Gazette for this story on our recently funded project! #Streptomyces #Commonscab #Plantpathogen . @humans_MUNBIOL @MemorialUSci . Save our spuds
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Memorial University researchers want to get to the root cause of a devastating agricultural problem.
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Congrats to Corrie on winning 1st place in the CPS lab photo contest for her beautiful picture of a Streptomyces scabiei colony! 👏🏆 @humans_MUNBIOL @MemorialUSci @MemorialU #Streptomyces.
Congratulations to our photo contest winners! First place in the Lab Category is Corrie Vincent (@Bignell_Lab) and second place is Christina Rossi (@ChristinaRossi_)! #PlantCanada2024 #PlantPathology
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Huge congrats to our own Corrie Vincent for winning 1st place in the CPS student oral presentation competition at Plant Canada 2024!! @humans_MUNBIOL @MemorialUSci @MemorialU #PlantCanada2024 #ProudPI.
Congratulations to our student presentation award winners! Anirup Sengupta (3rd) from @umanitoba, Emilee Storfie (2nd) from @uofg, Corrie Vincent (1st) from @MemorialU at #PlantCanada2024 🌱🇨🇦🍄
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Plant Pathology in the Lab: Colony of the Common Scab pathogen Streptomyces scabiei. Photo credit: C. Vincent. #CPSphotos2024
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Plant Pathology in the Lab: Radish root colonized by the common scab pathogen Streptomyces scabiei. Photo credit C. Vincent. #CPSphotos2024
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RT @scottvharding: Congrats to Drs. Mayengbam, Tahlan, and Zhai on securing the funding for this awesome mass spec! And more importantly, f….
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The provincial government is helping a group of MUN researchers purchase a unique piece of medical equipment t...
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Our recent review on virulence gene regulation in plant pathogenic Streptomyces is the Editor’s Choice for the June issue of Can J Micro!.
📣 #EditorsChoice for the June issue of @CanJMicrobio.Regulation of virulence mechanisms in plant-pathogenic Streptomyces | Vincent and Bignell. 🔗 @CSM_SCM @Bignell_Lab @MemorialUSci @humans_MUNBIOL @karidunfield.#Streptomyces #phytotoxins #thaxtomin.
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Proud PI moment watching this guy walk across the stage yesterday. Congratulations Dr. @gdiazcruz ! . @humans_MUNBIOL @MemorialUSci @MemorialU @munbgsa
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Congrats to PhD student Corrie Vincent for publishing an excellent review! @CSM_SCM @ActinoBase @humans_MUNBIOL @MemorialUSci . Regulation of virulence mechanisms in plant-pathogenic Streptomyces
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Streptomyces have a uniquely complex developmental life cycle that involves the coordination of morphological differentiation with the production of numerous bioactive specialized metabolites. The...
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RT @gdiazcruz: I'm extremely happy to share our work looking into the specialized metabolome of Streptomyces 11-1-2, a plant pathogenic str….
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Scientific Reports - Exploring the specialized metabolome of the plant pathogen Streptomyces sp. 11-1-2
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RT @gdiazcruz: We also saw, for the first time, that Elaiophylin has some phytotoxic activity, and that nigericin is capable of affecting l….
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RT @TahlanLab: Thank you Dean Navani and Professor Pathania for hosting me @iitroorkee. Was a pleasure to meet with the Director and others….
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RT @PeterCBC: NL has made the biggest cuts to post secondary funding of any province over the last 5 years according to this data.
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RT @TahlanLab: Please share @CSM_SCM @CSMB_SCBM @ASMicrobiology @MicrobioSoc @Strep_papers. Applicable to folks with molecular and genomics….
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Just love these cookies my student made for today’s Biology seminar on potato common scab! @humans_MUNBIOL @MemorialUSci
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Congratulations to @gdiazcruz!! Excellent thesis and PhD defence. We are proud of your accomplishments!.
Yesterday I defended and passed my PhD thesis. Thanks @Bignell_Lab for being an amazing supervisor; my committee members @TahlanLab and Dr. Mulligan for their advice; examiners Dr. Rosemary Loria, Dr. Suzanne Dufour & Dr. Linda Jewell for the revisions and questions
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RT @TahlanLab: Our department @humans_MUNBIOL is looking to hire a systems biologist, please share: ..
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