Kim Seed
@KimDSeed
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Associate Professor at UC Berkeley studying viruses that infect pathogenic bacteria
Joined June 2017
RT @hauryliuk: Please RT: @gem__atkinson is looking for a computational PhD student on a phage-bacteria interaction Data-Driven Life Scienc….
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We are looking for a full-time bioinformatics PhD student to be involved in the DDLS project “Finding the prophages of Escherichia coli genomes and annotating the function of their genes usin…
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RT @rtoshiro_: Really excited to share my first preprint as a postdoc! Here, we determined that the BREX-inhibitor, OrbA, encoded by the ly….
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Bacteria and phages are locked in a co-evolutionary arms race where each entity evolves mechanisms to restrict the proliferation of the other. Phage-encoded defense inhibitors have proven powerful...
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RT @implosian: Woohoo, our paper on the discovery of 65 new phages dependent on conjugative plasmids is published in it's final form today….
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Nature Communications - Some phages use plasmid-encoded conjugation proteins as receptors to infect their bacterial hosts, making their host range dependent on horizontal transfer of the plasmid....
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RT @ClareLou9: 🦠What are the early-life colonization & assembly dynamics of bacteriophages? Out today online in.@cellhostmicrobe, our paper….
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Attention phage/microbiology 🧫🦠enthusiasts- my lab @UCBerkeley is hiring a staff research associate, an ideal opportunity for folks looking to gain research experience before grad school/professional school please share!.
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Kim Seed is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and her lab studies the interactions between bacteria and their viral predators (bacteriophages), and how these interact...
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RT @NkrumahGrant: Story time: when I started my postdoc with @WatersLabMSU in August last year, we aimed to use V. cholerae to understand h….
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RT @reworkman0: @jwmodell lab and I are excited to celebrate #WorldPhageWeek this year with our new preprint, showing how CRISPR-Cas9 syste….
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CRISPR-Cas immune systems provide bacteria with adaptive immunity against bacteriophages, but they are often transcriptionally downregulated to mitigate autoimmunity. In some cases, CRISPR-Cas...
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Deadline extended! Come be our colleague at UC Berkeley! . Assistant Professor - Phylogenomics and Molecular Epidemiology of Pathogens with Pandemic Potential. Final application date: Nov 5, 2023 11:59pm (PST). Info on salary scale
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RT @Phage4Lyfe: Any #phage or #giantvirus postdocs interested in reviewing manuscripts can DM me your name and contact info. We can chat ab….
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RT @jrpenades: Latest from the lab! Here we report the discovery of widespread famly of PICIs that just hijacks tails from their helper pha….
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Alqurainy et al. discovered a widespread family of phage satellites encoding all the proteins required to produce small capsids, where satellite genomes are exclusively packaged. Therefore, to...
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The latest on the ongoing battle between a phage and its parasite check out summary by @MariaHTNguyen.
My first first-author paper is out for the world to read!!! 🥳 Quick summary below👇:.
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RT @DrDidychuk: We're recruiting a postdoc to join our lab to work on #herpesvirus molecular machines 🔬🧪🧬 please share with anyone who migh….
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RT @phagedirectory: The Dep. of Plant & Microbial Biology @ the @UCBerkeley is hiring a Postdoc in the area of #phage-host interactions. Th….
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RT @AudeBer: The field is going so fast, we are doing our best to keep up :). DefenseFinder now includes wonderful new systems including bu….
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Abstract. Reverse transcriptases (RTs) are enzymes capable of synthesizing DNA using RNA as a template. Within the last few years, a burst of research has
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Interested in phage-bacterial interactions (or more accurately. phage-MGE conflict)? Consider my lab @UCBerkeley for a postdoc! Information on the position contact me with any questions.
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RT @liyuping927: Our preprint @joeBondyDenomy on a newly discovered bacteria immune system against a group of nucleus-forming jumbophages i….
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