Elle Barnes
Salamander Lady. #Amphibian conservation + microbial ecology + disease + #genomics + #bioinformatics + community assembly | Asst Prof at RIT & JGI affiliate | 🐸🐕🧫🧬 🍕| BlackLivesMatter | she/her
https://megalabrit.weebly.com
- Last call for abstracts! Join us at the Global Amphibian & Reptile Disease conference 🐸🐍🦎🐢🌎🦠🧬🧪
- Reposted by Elle BarnesIf you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
- Just a little over a week left to submit your abstract for #GARD26! 🧪🌎🧬🦠 🐸 Don’t miss out on networking with other herpetologists around the #salamander capital of the world!
- Registration is open! 🧪🌎
- Calling all herpers, ecologists, & #conservation researchers! 🧪🌏 🌟Join us in Knoxville! #GARD26 #microbiology #disease #herpetology #ecology
- ✨APPLY NOW! ✨ 🗓️ Less than a month left to submit your abstract for #GARD26 🧪🌏 🦎 Present your research as a talk or poster! 🐍 Learn the latest re: #amphibian and #reptile #disease! 🦠 Network with academics & #conservation professionals!
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- Reposted by Elle BarnesGood morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, co‑designed eDNA protocols with Indigenous land guardians show snow, dust and invertebrates enable reliable terrestrial wildlife detection, expanding accessible monitoring options and providing robust cross‑substrate comparisons 🌎
- We want to hear about your research! Spread the word and apply by Feb 1, 2026 🌎🐸🦠
- Come be my colleague! Our college at RIT 🐅 has recently secured funding for four new professorships including one in #ecology & #evolution thanks to @simonsfoundation.org! ✨🧬🎉🧪🌎 www.rit.edu/news/simons-...
- Are you a researcher studying amphibian & reptile disease? We want to hear about your research! Come join us at #GARD26 in Knoxville 🌎 Please share! #conservation #herpetology
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- Reposted by Elle BarnesPlease share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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- My amazing @ritscience.bsky.social student, Emma, attended Princeton EEB scholars program last week. So proud of her! She is looking for #PhD programs this cycle so if you are looking for a student that can bridge field, lab, and computational biology… she is the PERFECT person for your lab! 👩🏼🔬🧬✨
- Come join us as we plan for the Global Amphibian & Reptile Disease Conference 2026! 🐸🐍🐢🦎🦠🌎
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- 30+ dead turtles alongside NY Highway 90 killed by cars as they try to cross from @deptfishwildlife.bsky.social Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge 🤬😭 @governor.ny.gov we need wildlife crossings! @dec.ny.gov
- Another project from my time @jgi.doe.gov published @phytobiomesjournal.bsky.social ! Using a greenhouse soil transplant experiment we uncover the core microbiome of Camelina & show how past cropping regimes/precipitation can exert a legacy effect on microbiome assembly 🌾🦠🧬🧪 doi.org/10.1094/PBIO...
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- In happier news: the MEGA Lab @rittigers.bsky.social celebrated the successful defense of our first MS student! ✨ @trminahan.bsky.social did an amazing job summarizing the last two years of research on salamander microbiomes. It is a MASSIVE dataset! Stay tuned for our preprint this summer 🐸🧬🧫🦠🌎
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- Our lab had a great time at our first #ImagineRIT event this weekend. Students talked to 500+ members of the public about their research in microbial ecology & genomics, and gave away lots of salamander swag! 🐸🧬👩🏼🔬👨🏻🔬🧪🌎🔬 @rittigers.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elle BarnesOur commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out. It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Happy salamander season to all who celebrate ✨🌈
- Amazing postdoc opportunity! Fletcher is a great mentor and wonderful human! Plus, Oregon is pretty darn beautiful.
- Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes! More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...
- Reposted by Elle BarnesOur framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters! A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Elle BarnesHey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
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- Reposted by Elle BarnesIs it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Elle BarnesThe strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
- Just gave a lecture in my enviro micro class about microbial predation—a topic that blew student’s minds. And then I see this paper that blew my mind! So cool! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Elle BarnesEvolutionary biologists teaching intro courses: "Hardy-Weinberg is the null model of evolution." Evolutionary biologists studying bacteria/archaea/asexual eukaryotes: #evolution
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- Reposted by Elle BarnesHere is a list of labs in #ecology and #evolution who are recruiting graduate students for next year: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... PIs looking to recruit can enter information here: t.co/Fn1LRAA5Ip I believe this list is thanks to @drcarl.bsky.social #evosky #ecoevo #evolbio #AcademicJobs
- Reposted by Elle BarnesTogether with @aaronliston.bsky.social we are recruiting a full-time lab technician to support our research labs at Oregon State University. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/161... Closing date is 11/22, but we will continue to recruit until the position is filled.
- Reposted by Elle BarnesAnnual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪
- Reintroducing myself! I’m an ecologist passionate about microbiomes, omics, and wildlife conservation. My lab studies the Microbial Ecology & Genomics of Amphibians (lovingly called the MEGA Lab). Aside from science my 🩷’s are my doggo, NY pizza, coffee, hiking, & nature photography.
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- Reposted by Elle BarnesWelcome refugees from X! Follow microbiologists and more in the @binningsingletons.com and Friends Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/H5k2p2gat://did:plc:naslmd6tim2paa4nyc5zxcia/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l4w4zadmwr2e
