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cassiebakshani.bsky.social
Postdoc at UoB interested in mucins, glycans and CAZymes 🦠 EDI in research | social justice | weightlifting | cats 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 she/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Very pleased to present the next pre-print from our lab #glycotime We showcase PNGaseL from Flavobacterium akiainvivens that we hope will be a useful tool for the glyco community 🍬🧪👩‍🔬 Special shout out to @cassiebakshani.bsky.social and Paulina (Ludger) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

@sambenedict5.bsky.social and I loved hosting this!! Super fun and informative workshop with loads of practical insights for making better, more accessible, figures! Thanks so much Ali 💫

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

🍄The Last of Us - NIHR HPRU PhD opportunity🍄 Very exciting project on developing a genomic epidemiology toolkit for fungal outbreaks with @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social @drjorhodes.com @scalene.bsky.social and the Mycological Reference Lab Bristol www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

**NEW Doctoral Training Programme just launched!!** This exciting programme on Microbial Genomics for Health Protection is joint between @imibirmingham.bsky.social and UKHSA @ukhsa.bsky.social. 9 brilliant projects available!!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

How to keep mucus-loving gut bacteria happy, in my new article with @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/this-mucus-l...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

A happy Friday seeing this out! I lucked out and got to work with a couple of really great students on this, Shalini and Jacob, and I’m super proud to see their hard work rewarded #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

OUT NOW: Carbohydrate-active enzymes from Akkermansia muciniphila break down mucin O-glycans to completion @lucyicm.bsky.social @cassiebakshani.bsky.social #microsky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Our work on Akkermansia muciniphila utilisation of host glycans is out today. Huge thanks to our team and wonderful collaborators. Super proud of this one! 💫 @lucyicm.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 147 days ago • 2 comments

New paper out today from the lab on Akkermansia muciniphila 🦠and how it breaks down host glycans! Very proud of my group, especially @cassiebakshani.bsky.social who did an amazing job. @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 147 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 PhD Opportunity @halllab.bsky.social! 🔬 Decoding Early Life Microbiota & Host Interactions 🧬 Ideal for those with bioinformatics/microbiome experience 🌍 Open to international candidates (MSCA mobility rules apply). 📅 Deadline: 18th Dec 🌐 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 203 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New preprint 🚨 With two excellent students Shalini Choudhary and Jacob Smith, we started looking at how the metabolic microenvironment of the urinary tract might affect uropathogenic E. coli evolution and response to antibiotics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 212 days ago • 1 comment

I have three PhD studentships available currently through the MIBTP DTP warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... on different aspects of the respiratory microbiome, interaction with mucin with @lucyicm.bsky.social, the resistome with Dr Michelle Buckner and pathobionts with @bacterioskeptic.bsky.social

submitted 221 days ago • 1 comment

PhD studentship alert!! Two projects available with me fully funded by BBSRC This one is a collaboration with Dr Michelle Buckner warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... And this one a collaboration with @overtonlab.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Both will be lots of fun! Come & join us 😃

submitted 224 days ago • 2 comments

Cassie Bakshani giving a fantastic talk on her work on Akkermansia enzymes breaking down host glycans #cbm15 #glycotime

submitted 417 days ago • 1 comment