Patricia Geesink
Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University | Microbiologist | Dogmom | (super slow) Runner | she/her
- anvi-update-NOW
- We just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org
- Over the last two weeks the Dudin Lab expanded two-fold and it’s been a blast! We are hosting a group of amazing visitors that stopped by with their own species and samples to get started with expansion microscopy. It was a ton of fun, very much looking forward to pictures to come ❤️ #ExpandThemAll
- Reposted by Patricia GeesinkOpen up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.
- Reposted by Patricia GeesinkSome of the longest-lived organisms on Earth aren’t whales, trees or corals, but microbes buried deep in the earth. This eye-opening essay examines the slowest lives on Earth, asking what such lives mean for how we define life itself @karenlloyd.bsky.social
- Reposted by Patricia GeesinkCome join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
- Reposted by Patricia Geesink🚨 New Perspectives article where, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research. 🦠🧮 #MicroSky @gibbological.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Today we @mib-wur.bsky.social are on strike against the budget cuts in higher education. #StopTheCuts
- First Keynote talk at #KNVM2025 by Martin Kaltenpoth @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social (from @mpi-ce.bsky.social in Jena) on insect-microbe symbiosis
- Reposted by Patricia GeesinkThis year the GRS will have a keynote from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and a mentorship panel with Simon Rittmann, @geosantiagom.bsky.social, Susanne Erdmann, and Yan Liao! www.grc.org/archaea-ecol...
- Reposted by Patricia GeesinkIn case you missed it the GRC and GRS for Archaea 2025 are both open for applications! Join us in Switzerland for the latest iteration of this awesome conference! #archaeasky
- Reposted by Patricia GeesinkThe history of Earth’s sulfur cycle www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs 🌊
- Reposted by Patricia GeesinkNot new here but will become more active at @bsky.app (I am no longer active on X) Follow me to hear more about the wonderful world of microbes (evolution, archaea, symbiosis, new microbes, ...). Expect occasional rants about academia, 🇳🇱 politics, life, etc. My research group: go.bsky.app/MzZPftE
