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The Microbial Awesomeness Project. Scientists explaining why microbes, and the role of microbes on Earth, are so AWESOME!

Galway & Glasgow
Joined May 2013
#anaerobicDigestion a much better fate for waste than landfill. But @HughsWaronWaste is correct: it'd be better in a human belly! #wastenot
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Obama wants to pour $1.2B into antibiotic R&D fiercebiotech.com/story/obamโ€ฆ
#FF @sgmgalway2015 Cc: @RyanInstitute @nuigalway @SocGenMicro Talk about us: #sgmgalway2015 Get info: conference.ie Abstracts: 27 Feb โ€“ at Linkรถping, Sverige
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@awesome_microbe Reimagining wastewater treatment plant as the liver of the city bit.ly/1faIxtG #MicrobialEcology #ResilientCities
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@geoscientistmag Have you heard of Dougal Jarram's talk at Pint of Science festival in Glasgow on the 19th of May? bit.ly/1lPN62M
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We've a new Twitter profile backgrnd! And, we test-launched our movie 'Resistance' this week, @EPSRC #ruralH2O wrkshp #microbialawesomeness
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@TriploidTree @newstalkscience Giant test tubes culturing massive microbial communities. Chasing DNA, new species. โ€“ at Madrid, Spain
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@cgl_119 @awesome_microbe fantastic can't wait to see it
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โ€œ@cgl_119: Coming soon "Resistance" a short movie by @awesome_microbe featuring the knitted microbes @cityofscience xitter.gq/cgl_119/status/4408350โ€ฆโ€
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'Chilled'-out microbes (Sorry!) MT โ€œ@NatureRevMicro: Antarctic Haloarchaea take 'relaxed approach' to gene exchange pnas.org/content/early/2013/โ€ฆ โ€ โ€“ at Madrid, Spain
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New tools for #CSI: time of death determined by the postmortem #microbiome, a study from Rob Knight in @eLife ow.ly/pej2d
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New cousin of #cyanobacteria without #photosynthesis discovered in the human #gut and groundwater elife.elifesciences.org/contโ€ฆ #microbiome
Microscopic witnesses. #Bacteria could help with murder investigations. npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09โ€ฆ @nprscience #science #microbialawesomeness โ€“ at Highland, Scotland
Beautiful: amoeba that 'farm' bacteria as 'crops' and have bacterial weaponry to take out looters. Cool, or what? microbeworld.org/component/jโ€ฆ
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How quickly can a bacterium grow? Close to the limits of what's theoretically possible, it seems! mitne.ws/17efp5A (via @MITnews)
Still trending - take a read. 'Immortalโ€™ Irish animal: hope for research into ageing irishtimes.com/news/science/โ€ฆ via @IrishTimes