Allison Lopatkin, PhD
Assistant prof at University of Rochester engineering genetic communication in microbial populations. Mountain enthusiast, passionate teacher
- Big week: welcomed a new baby boy Harris Lopatkin, AND our PlasAnn paper is finally out: academic.oup.com/nar/article/... (obviously the first more important than the second 🥰). Currently on leave but if anyone has the need to annotate large plasmids, go check it out!
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- How sad. Losing public trust in mRNA vaccines should spark massive education efforts to rebuild understanding - not abandonment of genuinely good technology.
- If you ever find yourself needing evidence for ‘Plasmids are just as common in microbes without resistance genes,’ we’ve got you covered! Check our new paper, out today: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
- Why does ppt always refuse to let me draw a straight line at the times I need it most 😞
- First official Master from the lab 🥰 congrats Yuchang!!!!
- Reposted by Allison Lopatkin, PhD🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Very excited for my first microbial population biology GRC!!
- Looking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days! go.bsky.app/GGxRjzCat://did:plc:biu33qzl4taulu3ns5vkitw4/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lt3c5yncqg2l
- Reposted by Allison Lopatkin, PhDExperimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- New review out in @NatureRevMicro on the complex rltnshp btween metabolism & AMR! A true labor of love from previous postbac Mehrose, grad students Varun & Zirui, and collaborator @drrobsmith.bsky.social (plus figures I'll likely use for many talks to come 😊) rdcu.be/eaES2
- It’s official. Twitter is (mostly) a cesspool of bots.
- Favorite 3D printer cad software for the lab?
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- Reposted by Allison Lopatkin, PhDIncredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics. 14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Can someone please standardize graduate school recommendation letter submission portals so I don’t need to make 5 different accounts and give slightly different answers to very similar questions
- We should’ve moved here years ago
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