@lavishaparab.bsky.social
Phages, microbiome, bacteria, antibiotic resistance
Postdoc@LMU Munich, prev. Max Planck Inst. Evolbio @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social & IITKGP
Love experimenting, science & politics
she/her 💜 🏳️🌈
Neurodiv
https://lavishaparab.github.io/
medium.com/voyagertoujours
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialBut maybe I should do it anyway
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialThanks! I considered idos method, yes but I didn't want to make standard curves for all my phages if I could help it 😛 Especially since they're temperate
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialI only realised how tiny I am when I went to the German phage conference and also more when I won that poster prize, look 😛 🤏
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialhello #phage pholks, any of you already have a protocol for high-through put one-step growth curves? Making any step faster/more convenient is welcome. Thanks!!!
Spotting on a big agar plate doesn't save as much time as we lose by reducing the precision/least count and then having to repeat it 😅
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialDefinitely motivation to write this paper up, right
@ccwendling.bsky.social ? X)
Was a very fun #phage conference, plus visiting the Harnack-Haus again added to the fun. It's the best place in Germany for a conference in my opinion! Thanks SPP organisers <3
@spp2330.bsky.socialReposted by @lavishaparab.bsky.socialLavisha Parab receiving the FEMS microLife poster award for her outstanding poster presentation on “Need for speed: early lysogen formation following rapid lysis drives temperate phages persistence”. Congratulations! @lavishaparab.bsky.social @femsjournals.bsky.social
@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialReposted by @lavishaparab.bsky.socialHappy to share that @averynoonan.bsky.social paper “Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage–host interactions from genomes using machine learning”
is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🎉🎊
@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialReposted by @lavishaparab.bsky.socialIn our brand new 🥳 review, @hemaa-selvakumar.bsky.social & team pull a scattered literature in phage biology into a coherent framework for scaling up to engineering complex communities. We poured our hearts into this to share challenges & future opportunities for the nextGen!
@lucasmoriniere.bsky.socialReposted by @lavishaparab.bsky.socialAvery built an ML framework which can predict strain-level phage-host interactions from genome data alone, trained on public phage susceptibility datasets. Model performance matches existing species-specific models, can generalize to unseen phages and hosts, and guide phage-cocktail design.
@theresa-ff.bsky.socialReposted by @lavishaparab.bsky.socialJob ad: my supervisor is looking for a PhD student (biophysics/systems biology Uni Cologne, Germany). The project is on microbial evolution experiments in the context of the immune system. Details here bpsb.uni-koeln.de/open-positions Cologne is a cool city to live in and the group is nice! #mevoSky
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialTIL you can pause reviews for a while on the reviewer dashboard! Earlier reviews will still be active for revisions etc. 😄 Since I've always tried to review in an encouraging tone + list solutions for each of my criticisms, it takes up a lot of effort and time Is it better than refusing to review?🤔
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialWas very very fun to visit the labs of @bkoskella.bsky.social and @tagalab.bsky.social recently at UC Berkeley. Exciting phage and community projects!! 😃😃 Also lovely questions on my work, makes me happy 😊
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialI got a seemingly-LLM-generated email from someone applying to PhDs & had a biology question. I called it out, got a 2nd seemingly LLM generated response saying you caught me! I asked to write question in their own words, got a 3rd LLM-generated response saying they're sorry they wasted my time...
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialCool! And what's the white plaques then?
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialGreat episode about recognising mistakes in your research! The guest Kate Laskowski also gives tips for undergraduate courses and research groups for improving data sleuthing and data management 🔍 We've also defined clear lab-wide folder structure and file-naming conventions @ the Wendling group 😁
@kristinsainani.bsky.socialReposted by @lavishaparab.bsky.socialIn the latest episode of Normal Curves podcast, we interview the winners of the inaugural Cntl-Z awards. Amazing interviews with Kate Laskowski and @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social who have great stories to tell and advice that every scientist should hear!
bit.ly/cntlzepisode
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialHowwww
@lavishaparab.bsky.social12 podcasts: Microbiology society microbe talk Matters microbial Science, microbes and health New scientist the world the universe and us When Science finds a way Guardian science weekly Normal curves Phage therapy today Nature podcast Science magazine podcast The rest is science Science Vs
@natmicrobiol.nature.comReposted by @lavishaparab.bsky.socialOut Now! Prophage-encoding engineered bacteria enable prophylactic lytic phage therapy for enteric infection in mice #MicroSky
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialToday I'm feeling thankful for all the people in my life who accept, "I replied in my head" as a valid true phenomenon. Some also say, "it's okay, I do that too." So many emails. Emails scale exponentially with the number of (active) collaborations and linearly with the no. of students I supervise 😅