Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Siân Owen Profile picture
Siân Owen
@implosian
Microbiologist. Phage phanatic. Mushroom hunter. Enthusiastic explorer of bacterial genomes. Postdoc in the @baym lab, @harvardmed. Previously @jay_salsa lab.
Jul 14, 2020 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
I'm very excited to finally share the preprint for a project I've been working on for >4 years! Here's a thread with some of the highlights: In a previous study we identified genes that were highly-expressed in Salmonella prophages, and were probably modulating cell biology (more on that here ). One of the genes was the mysterious bstA
Feb 6, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Online today in #MGen : How we can use transcriptomic data to reveal new temperate phage biology microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… This started with a simple idea and became a nice proof of concept. And one of the last papers from my PhD in @jay_salsa lab !
( a thread ⤵️ ) @MicrobioSoc Image Phages can be broadly classified into two groups: temperate and virulent (or lyosogenic and lytic if you prefer). Temperate phages are by far the most interesting of the two! (Sorry phage therapists). This is because: