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Formerly @Dirigible

I am a PhD student in the field of Genomics.

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metagenomics
DNA sequencing methods and technologies

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molecular evolution
host-microbe interactions
cool mechanisms of prokaryotic transcriptional control
- prophage excision -- Rabinovich et al. Cell. 2012 Aug 17;150(4):792-802.
- invertible promoters -- Jiang et al. Science. 2019 Jan 11;363(6423):181-187.
- liquid-liquid phase separation (not just for eukaryotes!) -- Ladouceur et al. bioRxiv 2020.03.16.994491

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