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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD

@MotherOfPhage

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#Phage scientist at @KU_Leuven 🇧🇪 | #Science communicator | Advocate for phage therapy for patients

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@MotherOfPhage
Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
I was feeling really tired and moody lately. I googled my symptoms and it turns out I’m a postdoc.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
They moved a shelf from my lab and behind it was a really old door. No one has the key 😟 😧
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
I don’t know why I always think about this when filling out forms.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
A biosafety cabinet!!!
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
How do people with kids do stuff and things.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 months
I’ll work during the weekend. Me during the weekend.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
He’s a 10 but this is his poster
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 months
When you can’t find that reference
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
12 days
What all women want starts with a p and ends with an s.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 month
When you need to get ready for another day in the lab extracting polonium.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
9 months
I’ll get work done during the weekend. Me during the weekend
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 month
Postdocs chatting with their PhD friends
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 months
This creature is ready for a postdoc
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
6 months
For Halloween I am going as a postdoc in her 30s with an uncertain future in academia. Be afraid be very afraid.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
Me everytime I start a new protocol
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
My friends: Doing great science, publishing high impact papers and getting all the grants. Me: So there’s this old door in my lab.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
I dabble in bioinformatics
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
When your plate reader is not sure about your data either.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
The great thing about PhD training is that pretty much anything that you want me to do just give me a month and I can figure it out.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
Hot take: I don’t like when people compare writing a PhD thesis to having a baby. I did both. One was very painful and the other one they gave me an epidural.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Is this going to turn into that tiktok where that lady found another apartment through her bathroom mirror.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
Saw this on Instagram. Does anyone do continuous or radiant?
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
6 months
Me neither publishing or perishing
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
If you don’t see a post tomorrow the beast got me.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 years
PhDONE!!
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
People in industry giving advice to people in academia.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
My toxic trait is working all day on a figure that will go in supplementary.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
I’m going to try to open the door tomorrow 😬
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
My daughter’s doll in her dollhouse has a laptop with the screen showing a tab open for a clothing and shoe shopping website. I changed it so it looks like she’s been working on a scientific presentation instead.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
8 months
It’s more of a comment than a
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Please don't call me a micro-influencer. I am a microbe-influencer. Very different.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
“You don’t look like a scientist” is never a compliment.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 years
Can you explain your research in 1 GIF?! Done.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Shower thoughts: Could you make enough bacteria to actually eat it like a meal. Like a bacteria cake?
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board?! Me: Yes, but not that kind of.. Flight attendant: We need someone to move this table in a Word document without messing up the entire document. Me: Yeah I still can’t help you there.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
7 months
I wonder how many fathers in conferences get asked who is taking care of their kids while they are gone.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 months
I SAID YES!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 😭 😭 🥺LinkedIn asked me if I’m still a postdoc 😢
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
The last paper from my thesis work has been accepted.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
I don’t want a Nobel because I don’t want a weird yellow drawing of me.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Sunday puzzle time #phage
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
5 years
Love this cover. Who hasn't thought about living inside of a phage?!
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
@HKalodimos How does one become a high up biologist?
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
MILP: Manuscript I’d like to publish
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
I knocked on the door to see if anyone knocked back. There’s two plate readers in the background by the way. B&W for spooky effect.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Despite all my rage, I’m still just a nerd with a #phage .
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
My daughter missed her teachers so much she called me Miss Mommy today. I told her it’s actually Doctor Mommy.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
I am a cartoon scientist 🙃
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
I will talk to some more people Monday about opening this door without damaging it 😃
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 years
Is this really happening?!! I can send a link via DM if anyone is interested in seeing/hearing my #phage talk.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Welcome to the continuation of door saga. There’s an old door that was behind a bookshelf in my lab. It’s locked and the building maintenance people working on my office said they couldn’t find a key to open it.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Has anyone ever told you about the secret second paper you have to write after you get reviews for your paper?
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
So what are you like a postdoc? Or some kind of coordinator or lab manager or what?
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
5 years
Ladies, if he: - Never responds to your texts - Doesn't care about your insta-story - Has a thing for Escherichia coli - When times get tough integrates into your genome He's not your man. He's a temperate phage!
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 months
New Year new bench view
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Google has titled this series of photos “bottoms up!” I think they think I’m drinking the #phage .
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 years
My #phages are violating social distancing rules. One phage/bacterium please!
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Guess the OD600
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
My door is my reminder now that I am finished with grad school. 😌
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
OMG Lego I need this but also some Lego phages.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Poster judging
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Big #phage energy here
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
5 months
Just read the phrase postdoctoral student.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Klebsiella pneumoniae making a biofilm around my flask after 2 hour subculture. Can you imagine this in a patient? No need to imagine unfortunately. #bacteria #infectiousdisease #phage
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
10 months
“Phages are one of the most important and yet underappreciated life forms on this planet. The totality of what these viruses do and could do for us is immense.”
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Going to save these papers so I can read them during the weekend.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Nanopore! Having fun learning to sequence phages!!
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
On my last week in this office
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
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When your PI wants you to stay after your PhD
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Drinking buddy
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 years
I have become THAT person that now wears her #science . #phage icosahedron
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
10 months
Made it to Tbilisi for @vom2023 . They have so many phages here they just leave them on the roads.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
P=0.056
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
7 months
Everyone speaking gets one but I feel like I won the academy award of #phage . #ICBRAR2023
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Me still alive totally not thinking about the door.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
It's tough to get papers out through a pandemic. I salute all those who trying to do this. One of my biggest accomplishments was finally getting this #phage paper out below! Check it out in @mbiojournal .
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 years
When ppl ask me what bacteria is growing on their agar plate.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
This plaque is so clear 🤩
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Found a few of these on a cart. I assume they’re worth millions now.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 months
I feel you Dr. Pepper
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
Sex is great but have you tried precipitating 1 liter of #phage in 10 minutes?
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
I guess I count as staff #VoM2022 professional tweeter
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 month
Really happy and grateful to still be in #Belgium . Still a postdoc too 😊
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
1 year
Born to slay, stuck in lab.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
I always have my phriend here
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
I love a good halo
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Her: Mommy, is this what you do?! Me: Sure.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
These look like bacterial culture plates with contamination.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Reading my CV. Oh man I’m such a bad ass.
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
4 years
Wow, it's finally out! It took so long but here is my work on gut #phages . Inspired by @implosian I'm going to try this paper thread thing below. Please read it all!!
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Targeting of Mammalian Glycans Enhances Phage Predation in the Gastrointestinal Tract #bioRxiv
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Excited to go back to doing one of my fav things. Talking to young scientists around the world about #phage . #sciencetwitter #SciComm #Pakistan
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Something I may not be able to take with me but will gift it to a lucky lab member. Check out @Ellie__Jameson for more #phage art!
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
I say old because all the doors kind of look like this. The building I’m in is a historic landmark and the oldest building in the medical center 😎
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
2 years
Attempting different #phage purification methods ;)
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
3 years
My plaque looks like a virus
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Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD
8 months
Here it is the best #phage therapy I ever read! A monumental achievement by @PaulPirnay et al. 100 PT cases w/clinical improvement in 77% difficult-to-treat infections. The big conclusion "phages make antibiotics great again!" Happy to contribute!💯
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