@Lexi13

Post doc in molecular biology and parasite interactions at Institut Pasteur. Interested in epigenetics, genomics and pop gen of insect vectors and parasites.

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Joined September 2008
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Humans apparently have stripes that are invisible to our eyes but your cat possibly can see them They are Blaschko’s lines, relics of growth as a foetus, swirls representing cell division and the trails cells took Some conditions make them visible 1/🧵 📸BC Medical Genetics
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Massive news: eLife to abolish accept/reject decisions: papers will just be “peer reviewed”. Others can argue about this, but lots of interesting consequences. 1/9 elifesciences.org/articles/8…

Scientific Publishing: Peer review without gatekeeping

eLife is changing its editorial process to emphasize public reviews and assessments of preprints by eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review.

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Do microbes have a memory? History-dependent behavior in the adaptation to variable environments frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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I did not realize that Wikipedia has such a kickass dataviz of the Great Vowel Shift: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_…
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Seeker@Seeker9 Sep 2022
Scientists have mapped the largest amount of the night sky ever — and you can explore it online.

This Is the Largest Map of Our Universe Ever Created

Scientists have mapped the largest amount of the night sky ever — and you can explore it online.

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Scientists find a novel form of reproduction in a fungal species closely related to the human pathogenic Cryptococcus species. elifesciences.org/articles/7…
Scanning electron microscopy image of streptococcus and a chain of spores

ALT Scanning electron microscopy image of streptococcus and a chain of spores

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Easlo
@heyeaslo7 Aug 2022
Internet is free university. Design: uxcel .com No-code: makerpad .co Language: duolingo .com Code: freecodecamp .org Academic: khanacademy .org Cooking: bingingwithbabish .com Marketing: marketingexamples .com You just need a laptop and internet connection.
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Huge collection of microscopy video tutorials by leading experts at: ibiology.org/online-biology-… A must-bookmark for researchers interested in bio imaging.
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3. Split View Work in two apps at the same time, side-by-side. Lock them in place: • Hover over the full-screen 🟢 button • Choose the L or R side • Content will fill that side • Fill the other side by clicking a window • Slide the vertical line to adjust the width
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Protein structure can be predicted from a single sequence alone with high accuracy. @HelixonBio team have developed OmegaFold, achieving performance similar to RF and AF2's MSA versions. Only a single sequence is given as input. 1/5
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@heyeaslo5 Jun 2022
Top Writing Tools for 2022: 1. Grammarly—Write mistake-free. 2. Typeshare—Write once, publish everywhere. 3. Hemingway—Make your writing bold and clear. 4. JasperAI—Generate content with artificial intelligence. Try them all for free.
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To succeed in the future, you MUST learn web3. These 7 world-changing concepts get you up to speed:
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The new weapon against malaria’s drug resistance pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…

The new weapon against malaria’s drug resistance

Malaria parasites have now developed resistance to seven drugs; but promising new drug targets have been identified in a new University of Melbourne-led study.

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The $100 genome is here! Thrilled to unveil the company, highlight some of our collaborators and their data, and disclose our funding! Read the full press release: ultimagenomics.com/blog/ulti…
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10 websites you didn't know you were missing (until now) :
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@juanbuis18 May 2022
it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain (via @christophepas)
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This study investigated how cell shape and the motility of individual cells influence how macrophages scan for signs of infection. elifesciences.org/articles/7…
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Our paper describing NEAT-seq, a method to simultaneously measure transcription factor protein abundance, ATAC-seq, and RNA-seq in single cells, is now out at Nature Methods! Congrats to Amy and Ben! nature.com/articles/s41592-0…

NEAT-seq: simultaneous profiling of intra-nuclear proteins, chromatin accessibility and gene...

Nature Methods - NEAT-seq offers a tri-omics tool for profiling nuclear protein abundance along with ATAC-seq and RNA-seq in single cells.

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.@LouridoLab developed a new method to probe gene function in the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and uncovered a previously unstudied kinase, SPARK, linked to the parasites' ability to enter and leave host cells: wi.mit.edu/news/novel-screen…
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Mathematics, logic, beauty. What a 7-way Venn Diagram looks like. Source: bit.ly/37xBbIM
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