Jenifer Spence 🦠 @micro_spence
She/Her, Geomicrobiologist, MSc. 🧬 PhD Candidate in the Konhauser Lab at the University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Joined October 2011-
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It’s not too late to register to attend #Geobiology2025 🦠 Early bird pricing ends Feb 14th🏔️ Registration is now open at: cms.eas.ualberta.ca/geobiology2025… Students & PDFs: $300 CAD Professors & Professionals: $450 CAD
🦠GEOBIOLOGY 2025🦠 Struggling with visa requirements? Attending the conference alone? Do not hesitate to reach out to us! For the latest information check out our website: cms.eas.ualberta.ca/geobiology2025/
So excited to have our paper out on the Tonian Svanbergfjellet Formation in @GeolSoc‘s Lagerstätten Series! Here, we revisit the exceptionally preserved microfossils 30 years after its initial study, characterising their distribution, diversity, and taphonomy!
New paper out today led by @SMughal315! We revisit the famous 790-million-year-old Svanbergfjellet Formation for @GeolSoc's Lagerstätten Series. Open access at: lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11… @royalsociety | @UniofOxford | @morethanadodo | @OxUniEarthSci
These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored go.nature.com/3C6pFTR
🦠EARLY BIRD DEADLINE EXTENDED🦠 It’s not too late to register for Geobiology 2025 - we have extended our early bird deadline to 31st January 2025! #Geobiology2025
🏔️GEOBIOLOGY 2025🏔️ Registration is now open at: cms.eas.ualberta.ca/geobiology2025… Students & PDFs: $300 CAD Professors & Professionals: $450 CAD Early Bird Deadline: 31st December 2024
Friends, myself and @baptistecoutret are making it our mission as UofA EAS grad Field Trip reps to have our annual field trip to Newfoundland next summer! We can’t do it alone, and would love your help in funding our graduate students in getting there! (1/n)
Konhauser Geobio takes Banff this weekend! We’re super excited to be hosting #Geobiology2025 next May 20-24 for a week of scientific discussion in a beautiful and geologically rich corner of Canada 🏔️🧬🧪 Register here: cms.eas.ualberta.ca/geobiology2025/
🏔️GEOBIOLOGY 2025🏔️ Registration is now open at: cms.eas.ualberta.ca/geobiology2025… Students & PDFs: $300 CAD Professors & Professionals: $450 CAD Early Bird Deadline: 31st December 2024
GEOBIOLOGY 2025 We are now live at: cms.eas.ualberta.ca/geobiology2025/ 📯 Stay tuned for registration and abstract submission We can’t wait to see you in Banff ! 🦦⛰️
This is GAC Awards Announcement Week! The Geological Association of Canada is proud to announce that Dr. Kurt Konhauser (@UAlberta) is the 2021 Logan Medal recipient! Congratulations Kurt, and thank you for your dedication to Canadian Earth science! 🌎🏆
Very excited to share our latest paper nature.com/articles/s4146… - well done to former PhD students Kohen Bauer and André Friese @UBCMicroImmuno @UBCeoas @NatureComms @GFZ_Potsdam @lipiindonesia @BrownUniversity @CentreOeschger @UniCologne @UNIGEnews
One drill rig, several months in the field, 100's of meters of drill core, many many measurements and a great group of international collaborators, has resulted in our new paper! Check it out @UBCMicroImmuno @UBCeoas @lipiindonesia @GFZ_Potsdam @NatureComms #microbes
Check out our new paper on breast implant microbiomes in @PLOSONE @RachelSimister @jenifersiovahn @UBCMicroImmuno journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Excited to announce a new paper published from my time in the @crowe_lab, looking at microbial communities associated with breast implant failure. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Congratulations to Dr Kate Thompson on successful defence of her PhD thesis @UBCMicroImmuno @ubclifesciences #science #phd we wish her well on the next stage of her career as a post-doc the University of Tübingen
I'm incredibly excited to announce that I have accepted a PhD position with @KonhauserGeobio starting in September! A little bit of good news during these very unpredictable times. Look out Edmonton, here I come!
Farhang Ahadzadeh, a 4th-year undergrad student in the @crowe_lab shares his personal story of overcoming hardships, developing curiosity through research, and advice on how to make the best of this current time of isolation. Checkout his story! 👨🔬 bit.ly/2VvzJh9
Thank you everyone for your incredible messages of support and encouragement.♥️ Many of you asked what it was like in the ER right now. I want to share a bit with you. Please RT: A Day in the Life of an ER Doc - A Brief Dispatch from the #COVID19 Frontline:
Dipping our toes in the water... Thanks to authors and collaborators for getting us this far and for their support sharing this @biorxivpreprint! @andrewjsharon @crowe_lab @NeytsVirology STAT1-dependent tolerance of intestinal viral infection biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Check out our new paper, by PhD student Kohen Bauer, on "Chromium isotope fractionation in ferruginous sediments" sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @ubcscience
A new blog post from Jarrod Scott and I in which we try to take a look at what is going on in some MAGs by visualizing the contig membership changes across binning strategies that were applied to the same data: merenlab.org/2020/01/02/vis… Happy new year!
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