Alexis Villani
@VillaniAlexis
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👩🏽🔬Scientist in the @joeBondyDenomy lab. Mother to a high energy tot! UCSF PhD Student (she/her/hers) Insta: themolecularist
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2019
Join us in Paris on April 8th-10th for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria 🥖🍷🦠🧬. Excited to welcome these amazing speakers at @institutpasteur . Registration will open beginning of November. Abstract deadline February 28. Stay tuned.
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Did you know that bacteria remember their past for many generations? In this new preprint from us (@VillaniAlexis and Senen Mendoza) and Banin lab (@ShmidovE ), we reveal the "how?" and "why?" underlying a long-standing mystery in bacterial memory.
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Restriction-modification (R-M) systems, present in most bacterial genomes, protect against phage infection by detecting and degrading invading foreign DNA. However, like many prokaryotic anti-phage...
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To my friends who will be evaluating grad school applicants for your programs: a less than perfect but still very good GPA achieved while working full time during college may in fact be more impressive than most perfect GPAs from folks who didn’t have to.
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This is your reminder that Gavin Newsom is still silent about the UAW UC academic worker strike, the largest strike in the country this year. @GavinNewsom where do you stand?
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Felt this in my soul today when my kid had a nosebleed, a tantrum, and hit himself in the eye with the phone…all while we were at the doctor’s office. 🙃
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@jallepap My (naive) take (which some folks share) on this is I’d much rather give the tuition money to augment my student salary than to pay the university for the privilege of mentoring that same student in my own lab.
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Katie Porter said #FairUCNow everybody better listen or we’ll bring out the whiteboards
We are now entering week two of unfair labor practice strikes by UAW-represented academic workers at the University of California. Their talent is what enables UC’s world-class research. I’m leading colleagues to call on UC to reach a resolution and bargain in good faith.
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Tell me why UC refuses to bargain when we are the ones recruiting students! When the top students in the country interview here and ask us about this, what shall we say? “No, don’t come here, go to a Private School they pay you better?” @UofCalifornia
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Phase separation in viral infections https://t.co/KoE0Dss9HQ
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I stand in strong solidarity with the 48,000 academic workers at the University of California who are on strike for higher wages, better child care benefits, and expanded paid leave.
Today, everyone knows who's got the power. Now it's time for @UofCalifornia to settle fair contracts with all 48,000 workers who make this University run. @UAWonStrike #FairUCnow
https://t.co/CTXz6G0st5
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ANYONE USING THE LANTERN FLY SPECIMENS THAT SHE COLLECTS & CONTRIBUTES TO YALE ENTOMOLOGY WILL HAVE TO CREDIT HER! COME ON BLACK GIRL MAGIC! (6/)
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@UofCalifornia can PIs stop having tuition taken out of our lab budget and sent to an amorphous pot of money? Let's give it straight to students? Most faculty here have no idea why this happens.
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Check out the phenomenal work led by my colleague Matt Johnson (@mtcjh)! 👏🏻👏🏻 He performs an elegant bioinformatic network analysis to identify new anti-phage defense hotspots 🔥 governed by the presence of core host genes. Check out his thread + paper to learn more!
Excited to share an exciting discovery which I think will help us understand the anti-phage arsenal of bacteria! https://t.co/zuXz5XhY7d 1/
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This is horrifying. The Iranian parliament votes overwhelmingly (227-63) to execute the 15,000 protesters they already arrested. These were peaceful protestors simply seeking the right to basic justice and autonomy. Unacceptable and barbaric. https://t.co/7mMd2hIwTb
newsweek.com
Nearly 15,000 Iranians have been arrested in connection with the protests, which were spurred by the death of Mahsa Amini in September.
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Parliament of Iran has moved to execute all the tens of thousands of protesters arrested over the last two months. A mass execution of mostly children and the media is silent. They did this before. 1500 protesters were murdered by the regime in 2019. The world must act.#OpIran
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"My beautiful girls, I am really proud of you." After "80 years," an Iranian woman removed her hijab in solidarity with the youth of Iran protesting for their rights in the streets.
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Providing trainees with higher wages and more benefits/support for childcare IS critical for making academic training possible for individuals who come for historically excluded backgrounds. And we need political and taxpayer support to accomplish this goal.
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Come join us! Learn from and celebrate an incredible lineup of women faculty and trainees as they present their latest immunology research 🧫🦠🔬 Zoom and **in-person** options available. All people, institutes, and communities welcome!
RSVP for the IgE symposium next week! A great line up of speakers including @HanaScientist @PelkaLab @SaraSuliman13 @DrEmilyGoldberg & @danne_phd. Don't miss this great day of science, networking & free food! Please RT!! https://t.co/F3Ccds6HP8
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