Andi Wilson, PhD
NNF-funded postdoc at UCPH 🍄🦗🌿🇩🇰
I post about Science🔬 & Chronic Migraine 💊
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- Thrilled to be hosting this session with @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social 🥳 Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩
- Organisers - Henrik H. de Fine Licht | University of Copenhagen - @drandiwilson.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen - @agesiorska.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen Invited Speaker - @danielcroll.bsky.social | University of Neuchatel
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- Excited to share our newest article, out in BMC Genomics! We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥 R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥
- Attending the annual #PlantBiologicalsNetworkMeeting in Copenhagen today ✨️
- The most elegant diagram to explain what the scientific process and the average research project looks like ✨️ So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process. From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech
- 56 RNAseq samples done and ready to be shipped! 🥳🧬🧫🧪🔬
- Seeing Jennifer Doudna speak this afternoon at the Black Diamond in Copenhagen 🧬🧫🔬 Appropriately dressed in my #CRISPREngineer shirt from @thermofishersci.bsky.social 🧬💁♀️
- 10 years ago, I published my first, first-author paper 🤩 In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹 In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵 Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️
- Blood. Sweat. Tears. Locust & root media. 🧪🔬🧫 🦗🌾
- Super excited to share our newest paper, out in Current protocols! A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄 With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬
- It's taken a while, but I'm finally trying a #MigraineHat.. 😅 I've been an icepack girlie for a very long time, but this 360° cooling effect is 👌 Not to mention the sound and light dulling effect too 😎 #Migraine #ChronicMigraine
- And with that, another 4000-odd seeds have been sowed again 🌱💪
- This little plate and its tiny bacteria left me heartbroken on Wednesday evening 💔 After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳 If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬
- And I can finally say that my pilot experiment starts tomorrow 💪🌱🦗 If everything goes according to plan, the full experiment starts week after next! Let's go! 🤩 #MycoSky #FungiSky #RNASeq
- The hardest ~35g I've ever worked for 😅🌱 Harvesting roots for this experiment has been a challenge 💪 Turns out that 360g of wet weight barley root = 36g dry weight 😂 But we've got the goods and the pilot experiment is underway!
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- Hard relate. Decided not to go for good reasons, but the fomo is still real- especially when I know so many of my favourites fungi people are there! 🍄
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- Never gonna get bored of : 1) "Dear Dr Wilson" 2) "... accept your manuscript" 🥳🥳 Happy Monday! 😅
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- Interesting Nature News Feature on Migraine and treatments 🧠 Happy that researchers have recognized that the CGRP meds aren't the be all end all, and that they'll be looking into other pathways too ✨️ Just hope I don't need to wait until I'm 70! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Living our best lives near Tromsø 🌌
- Living my best life in Tromsø ❄️🩵
- Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhD☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!
- 🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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- Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhD🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project! 🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/] 📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/] Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject
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- Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 👩🔬 May your experiments work, may your research be impactful, and may those papers be accepted with minor revision 🧬
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- And even better when the pilot experiment works exactly as you'd hoped 🥰 New student starting next week has an awesome project to get going on! 🤩🍄 #MycoSky #AcademiaSky #PassionProject
- Surely one of the best parts of academia is getting to work on side projects that bring you joy 🍄 🧬 #AcademicSky #MycoSky
- Another 1650 barley seeds sown over the weekend 🤩💪🌱 Hopefully the last (maybe second last...) batch 🤞
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- Little barley seeds have germinated and are doing well 🌱 Almost ready to harvest and for another 1600 seeds to be sown over the weekend 🤩 Will soon have enough root material to get going on my RNAseq experiment! 🤞 #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #BarleySeeds
- 1540 barley seeds, individually sown into their hand sewn germination pouches 🌱🥰 #WednesdayWIP #SciSky
- For the last 2 months, we've had an incredible bachelors student in the lab 🤩 Last week, Victoria presented research on growth and germination rates in entomopathogenic fungi grown in different media types🍄🦗 So proud of her and everything she achieved 👩🔬 #AcademicSky #MycoSky
- 1540 barley seeds, individually sown into their hand sewn germination pouches 🌱🥰 #WednesdayWIP #SciSky
- Surely one of the best parts of academia is getting to work on side projects that bring you joy 🍄 🧬 #AcademicSky #MycoSky
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- One thing I don't see discussed much about #ChronicIllness is the boredom and tediousness of it all. The last 2 weeks have been ROUGH migraine wise and I am SO. DAMN. BORED. OF. IT. So over it.
- So tell me, how is your Friday going? 🙈🙈 I feel betrayed by my beloved tea 🥲
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- Yesterday, I gave an intro lecture on #SlimeMoulds and #Fungi to a group of mechanical & design engineer students from DTU 🍄 They're doing a course on Biologically Inspired Design & have projects that aim to solve real world problems using inspiration from nature 🌱
