Rob Edwards
@linsalrob
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Matthew Flinders Fellow in Bioinformatics. 'The David Attenborough of Phages' mastadon: @[email protected]
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined June 2008
🔬 Meet Prof. @linsalrob: A creator of RAST and MG-RAST 🌟 🌐 From coral reefs to remote islands, he's pushed the limits of sequencing and bioinformatics. 🔬 Catch his talk at #ICBRAR2023: "PhageCraft: From Sewage to Synthesis." Get ready for a journey that goes beyond the lab!
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Prophages are phages hidden in bacterial genomes, and they affect our health! We explored where they hang out in the human microbiome https://t.co/iW9QZRw1eC
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Phages integrated into a bacterial genome–called prophages–continuously monitor the health of the host bacteria to determine when to escape the genome, protect their host from other phage infections,...
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bacterianos, los fagos templados brindan ventajas de crecimiento únicas a sus anfitriones a través de la conversión lisogénica." https://t.co/NvShPM40Iy (2/2)
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RT @cientounero@mstdn.science Artículo que guardo por interesante, para leer para cuando la vida de tiempo.. 😉 The Promise and Pitfalls of Prophages | bioRxiv https://t.co/ZpQckod1Bu "Mientras que los fagos virulentos esculpen el microbioma al matar a sus anfitriones (1/2)
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Phages dominate every ecosystem on the planet. While virulent phages sculpt the microbiome by killing their bacterial hosts, temperate phages provide unique growth advantages to their hosts through...
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RT @foaylward@genomic.social Scientists discover why sea urchins are dying off from US to the Caribbean Nice quotes from virome_girl on the recent study! https://t.co/wZNFa5w4Sj And the Sci Adv paper: https://t.co/BQgOrYzMFp
#marine #ecology
https://t.co/stbtidUZrW
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Scientists discover why sea urchins are dying off from US to the Caribbean Nice quotes from @[email protected] on the recent study! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/24/scien...
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RT @Redrockcity@mstdn.science 🔬🔬Microbiology PIs looking for a great way to show your students you care? Nominate them for the TOP prize in prokaryotic molecular biology, the Nat L. Sternberg Award! Nominations due May 1, 2023 https://t.co/mLBhDSb8jP
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RT @wvschaik@mstdn.science Our manuscript 'Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data' has now been published in Microbiome. You can read it here https://t.co/98fX0xfITb.
https://t.co/4t2AMXXgob
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Our manuscript 'Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data' has now been published in Microbiome. You can read it here https://microbiomejou...
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RT @ARC_Tracker@aus.social #ARCschedule Apr23 v2: Updated with projected opening, closing & outcome dates for schemes through to end of next year (2024). (It's very possible there's errors here. Let me know if so!) https://t.co/aVWhAPtGYe
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What would it take to add a #mastadon toot box to the #biorxiv website where the bird site one is? can you add that to metrics? @richardsever@mas.to @biorxivpreprint@qoto.org
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Not all proteins arise from consecutive codons. We developed a new tool - PRFect - to identify programmed ribosomal frameshifts. Designed, built, trained, and tested with #phage genomes, it also works on #bacteria and #eukaryotes too. https://t.co/AImzF8asQz
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One of the stranger phenomena that can occur during gene translation is where, as a ribosome reads along the mRNA, various cellular and molecular properties contribute to stalling the ribosome on a...
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@linsalrob (I have no expertise but) maybe one that relies on plasmid encoded genes to get in? Eg https://t.co/0HQx3xEcnm From @baym and Natalia QO , whose twitter is I can't find oddly
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Viruses exert profound evolutionary pressure on bacteria by interacting with receptors on the cell surface to initiate infection. While the majority of bacterial viruses, phages, use chromosomally-...
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@linsalrob One idea: you may have a look at the tremendous EOP assays (S1 data) performed for the BASEL E.coli phage collection by @AHarms485 & colleagues @PLOSBiology
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This study presents the BASEL collection of phages that infect the model bacterium Escherichia coli; this resource for the community is representative of natural E. coli phage diversity and has been...
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@linsalrob That depends a bit on your definition of host range. Just recognition / lysis or also plaque formation? Phages targeting the highly conserved NGR glycan of enterobacteria are quite broad or those targeting conjugative pili of broad host-range plasmids (even cross-genus for PRD1).
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