Pia Sen 🧫 pia-sen.bsky.social 🌌
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GWU Biology PhD candidate in the Saw Lab interested in antiviral defense systems & extremophiles • 7x NASA intern • ASMFL fellow • Texas Ex🤘🏽 (UT 2020)
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They said to make your first tattoo meaningful, so
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Excited for my first Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC!.
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RT @the_fathomer: grad school is so silly bc all of my friends my age have 9-5s or are languishing in the unemployment mines and I'm just i….
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RT @ASMicrobiology: How did life begin & why does it matter today? A new ASM report, supported by the @MooreFound, explores the origins of….
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RT @KeplerMears: Last summer I was lucky to attend the Woods Hole Microbial Diversity course and the most important thing I got out of it w….
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Incredible work from one of the coolest phage researchers I know!.
(1/7) Very excited to share my first PhD preprint on the interactions of two of my favorite mobile genetic elements: phages and group II introns!.
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RT @KeplerMears: “I think that reason is a pretense. I think that this is an attack on Harvard as a symbol of academia in the United States….
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RT @JeremyJBarr: The T-series bacteriophages have impacted my career and are microbes our lab's research continues to use as model organism….
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RT @paulnovosad: Her “mistake” was bringing lab materials without proper declaration— requested by her Harvard PI. Arbitrary detention lik….
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President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
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RT @pacyc1841: Microbial warfare brought us CRISPR. What big breakthroughs could be next?
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Nature - Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But scientists have only begun to unlock the secrets of this ancient arms...
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This is why a lab group can be so helpful - it’s amazing having people of all ages and levels in a learning environment :).
Mixed-age classrooms are *rocket fuel* for learning and development. Montessori discovered this by accident, and then made it core to her approach. Here's why a mixed-age environment is so powerful—for the youngest, the oldest, and every child in between:.
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RT @pacyc1841: Microbial community structure is affected by phage-resistance associated increases in host density | FEMS Microbiology Ecolo….
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Microbial community structure is affected by phage resistance evolution in Variovorax, which increases host density. Created in BioRender. Castledine, M. (
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RT @pacyc1841: Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communi….
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Abstract. Bacteria have evolved various antiviral defense systems (DSs) to protect themselves, but how DSs respond to the variation of bacteriophages in co
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This is the best feeling and one of my favorite parts of science.
You know you have found your science buddy when you are both saying ‘I like the way you think’
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RT @jcamthrash: A review of quorum-sensing and its role in mediating interkingdom interactions in the ocean
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Communications Biology - A review examines how quorum sensing, a bacterial communication system, shapes marine eukaryote interactions, influencing processes such as development, disease...
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RT @pacyc1841: Genetic Transfer in Action: Uncovering DNA Flow in an Extremophilic Microbial Community - Van Etten - 2025 - Environmental M….
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Different taxa from all domains of life sharing the same environment are connected by DNA transfers that have occurred between them. Whereas most studies appraising horizontal genetic transfer (HGT)...
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As an ASM Future Leaders fellow, this is very disheartening and it’s hard to feel supported by an organization that seems to be shying away from the core mission of the fellowship.
ASM has received questions about content on our site being under review. Please note "under review" never meant removal, despite understandable concerns to the contrary. Most modified pages have been or are in the process of being restored. Read more:
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RT @imarajones: Of all the things so far, the shutting down of PREP worldwide today (PEPFAR) could be the most catastrophic. It ends acces….
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RT @Volcanoes_NPS: Phase 6 of the Kīlauea eruption resumed 1/24/25 @ 11:28 p.m. HST. Planning to visit? Check the eruption page for where….
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