Nora Pyenson

Postdocs: we want to start a NYC "Postdoc Night Science" forum where fellows meet monthly for a drink and fun practicing the creative process together with chalk talks and brainstorming. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1V4_c2… @KelseyRMonson is helping and we need more volunteers!

The final version of our paper on anti-CRISPRs "in disguise" as Cas proteins is out today in Nature! Congrats to Mark, Edith and the whole team! nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am absolutely delighted to be joining the University of British Columbia next year as an Assistant Professor @ZoologyUBC. We will study social evolution in viruses.

Version accepted for publication. We found that microbes change their allocation to different metabolic pathways with increasing temperatures affecting carbon use and community assembly journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

So fun to present at the Social Lives of Viruses Conference! Even if I cant fully explain this tongue microbiome image. 😛 Thanks @AsherLeeks and @sociovirology for organizing #socialviruses

Revealing the unexpected: can some bacteriophages transiently infect Human cells? "A New Inovirus from the Human Blood Encodes Proteins with Nuclear Subcellular Localization" mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/3…

Bacteria with more variable lifestyles have more fluid pangenomes. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @AnnaEDewar @Hao7Chunhui @lauriebelch @GhoulMelanie

Sharing the protocol we're using in the lab to rapidly & easily assemble combinatorial sets of microbial communities + script to adapt the protocol to different situations. Hope it's useful to others. @the100footpole @jdiazc9 @magdalenasrr @andrea_arrabal_ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Does your department do a yearly or semesterly bioethics or research ethics seminar? Has it gotten dry and stale? Maybe you’re interested in having a bio/research ethics seminar in your department as a new thing? 😊 book me! I’ve done workshops for groups as large as 100 ☺️