Kirk Bergstrom
@k_bergstrom_19
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Assistant Prof. @ UBC-Okanagan studying how glycan-rich mucus meddles with gut microbes to influence colitis & cancer. Aspiring Jesus-follower. Views = my own.
Joined December 2019
A must-read for all future microbiota studies.... https://t.co/k3NZtSsnTG
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The microbiota in individual habitats differ in both relative composition and absolute abundance. While sequencing approaches determine the relative abundances of taxa and genes, they do not provide...
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🧬Evo, the first foundation model trained at scale on DNA, is a Rosetta Stone for biology. DNA, RNA, and proteins are the fundamental molecules of life—and cracking the code of their complex language is an ongoing grand challenge. 🔬Today in @ScienceMagazine, the labs of Arc
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The distribution of ~ 2 trillion immune cells in the human body.
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#ThrowbackThursdayScience - a place were we can revisit the past great research, how it impacted where we are today, and how it still influences where we are headed. (Not limited to Thursdays :)
Throwback_Thursday: 2005. This beautiful study came out that demonstrated the flexibility of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron to switch between utilizing dietary and mucin glycans depending on the dietary fiber load. Fascinating to think about what is going on inside B. theta as it
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Okay, this is pretty cool….may help provide new insights into multi-organ function and disease diagnosis
Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! https://t.co/fqVivyH0kI
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Unbelievable….
Well. It REALLY happened. The plagiarized paper got published. my paper from 2021 - https://t.co/F3740qBLpH new one from 2024 - https://t.co/bmMXP4efvO We'll look at figures in the 🧵 below.
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This is so heartbreaking, Jasper and Jasper National Park are one of Canada’s treasures. Can’t imagine what the residents and business owners are going through. The wildlife also.
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For thousands of Canadians and mountain-lovers around the world, cherished memory went up in smoke as wildfire destroyed historic properties in Jasper National Park.
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A wonderful birthday present🎁🥳 (and "academic anniversary" gift🌹🌹) from @CIHR_IRSC with the news of my first PG being awarded🎇🎆! I'm thrilled to be able to study how to harness endogenous glycosylated mucins therapeutically to protect from chronic inflammatory diseases of
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Another innovative study from the talented Allbritton Lab @UWBioE – this time using a novel in-vitro model of fecal-coated mucus to stimulate MUC2 and cytokine secretion from colonic epithelium! #mucin#UWBioE
https://t.co/Ha9a0sozdC
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The relationship between the mechanical forces associated with bowel movement and colonic mucosal physiology is understudied. This is partly due to the limited availability of physiologically...
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Welcome to Inspiration 2.0 The prompt: “a sad indie song about the death of creativity as we know it.” The app: https://t.co/NWy7r4bbn7 The irony: I kind of dig it. The question: Should effortless creativity be rewarded?
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Awesome!
📢 walk on music, rockin' group of post-gala morning champions, and at last, the launch of the Canadian National Organoid Network led by @Hirota_Lab @BruceVallance @Labo_FBoudreau 🙌 ✅access, standardization, training, characterization @WestonFamilyFdn
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A cancer cell with three nuclei (cyan) videoed through a microscope. Mitochondria (yellow) and the actin cytoskeleton (red) are also shown. #CellBiology
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🚨🚨Ever wondered what human MUC2 is doing at baseline and under pathologic conditions? Some big mucus news to share from the MucinGlycoLab _UBC! #mucusmatters #mucus #IBD 1/11 https://t.co/DzhtUL95LB
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One stop shopping for virtually every new AI tool from Microsoft’s Co-pilot. The end of academia as we know it. Head is spinning….
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Copilot Pro is here and it’s mind-blowing. Forget ChatGPT, this is the ultimate AI assistant. Here're 7 new Copilot features, you need to know about 🧵:
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Turns out AI will likely always need humans to function optimally in the long run…feeling reassured….
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Remember how we told you what “globalize the intifada” meant? Now NYC is starting to experience it. Hamas supporters in NYC have surrounded Grand Central Station and are attempting to breach the outer doors to reach police officers sheltering inside...because “Palestine.”
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A huge thank you to @HlthResearchBC for the honor of the MSHRBC Scholar Award! This award has already enabled new opportunities to push research, network with colleagues, mentor trainees, and work toward new insights and treatments for IBD! @getgutsycanada@WestonFamilyFdn
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After a brief hiatus, I’m happy to return to X. Still hope to be a positive force with everything going on in our world now.
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Incredible 3-hour timelapse of the McDougall Creek Fire in West Kelowna, BC, spreading at an extreme rate on August 17, 2023. The fire is now estimated to be 11,000 acres in size. Credit: Michael Holzhey/MGH Photography
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