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phagebeelicious.bsky.social
Graduate Student studying bees, phage, and microbial ecology. I like bioinformatics, food, and art. Vannette lab - UC Davis. Github: https://github.com/dsbard
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Dive into our lab’s first peer-reviewed publication—co-led with our friends @benadler.bsky.social and Muntathar Al-Shimary from the @doudna lab! If you’ve already read the preprint, don’t miss the new updates: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

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Is 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/...

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @sianowen.bsky.social, @baym.lol, @nquinoneso.bsky.social, and our two talented undergrads Kesther and Carmen!

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

I've been seeing lots of new faces on here so I am reposting one of my recent publications. Turns out commercially produced bumble bees have simplified phage communities compared to free foraging honey bees, and phage sampling method matters! doi.org/10.1186/s401... 🧪🦠🐝 #Phagesky #Microsky

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Working on phage research? Dr. Catherine Hernandez and I are co-convening the "Phage Ecology: From Prophage Decision Making to Ecosystem Modulation" in-depth symposium at ASM Microbe 2025 and we want YOU to be part of it! Abstract submission is now open! More info below 🧪🦠🔬 #Phagesky #Microsky

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Finally got around to processing my first cryo-EM image! This tailed phage was isolated from the gut of a honey bee and targets Bifidobacterium. Not 100% sure what the other circular structure is. If you have any ideas, let me know! 🐝🦠🧪 #phagesky

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

Check out this new preprint about the microbiome of honey wasps! Featuring lab mate Lexie Martin! doi.org/10.1101/2024...

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Do you like bees? How about phage? Check out our new paper published in Microbiome! In this research we compare how phage communities differ between bumble bees and honey bees and how sampling method influences recovered viral communities. 🧪 doi.org/10.1186/s401...

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

cryo-EM image of phage isolated from bee gut material! More images (and experiments!) coming soon 🐝🦠🧪

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Phage on a plate! 🐝🦠🧪

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Hey science friends! Ever wonder what the phage community of bumble bees look like? Or how to best sample host-associated phage communities? Check out our new preprint! Turns out that the bumble bees we sampled hosted extraordinarily low diversity phage communities, relative to honey bees. 🐝🦠🧪

submitted 379 days ago • 0 comments