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Shadok Bacteria

I pump therefore I am. For the small digression: I cannot think of bacteria transporter and other molecular pumps, without thinking of the "Shadok" (Wikipedia). An apparently very french show depicting weird blob birds who are characterized by ruthlessness and stupidity and inhabited in a nonsense world. They are known…
Adrien
February 22, 2022
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New spotlight – The Devil is in the Microbial details

I am happy to share my latest writing product, a spotlight for Molecular cell called: "The Devil Is in the Microbial Genetic Details" you can access it here for free for the next few weeks. This short text highlight the work of Zeevi et al., which shows that variations in gene…
Adrien
June 23, 2019
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A review of 2018

While I was enjoying the most hipster Saturday afternoon, in an old gas station refurbished into a coffee shop named Retrospect, I thought the name was appropriate to write a short review of the past year. I thought this would be an interesting writing exercise. 2018 started from the side of a…
Adrien
January 15, 2019
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[Monday’s Paper] A Microbial social network

Hello Folks, it's been a while since I posted here. Plenty of things have happened since my previous Japan posts. The main one being the new postdoc position I started this March in the lab of Buck Samuel at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Reducing your life to…
Adrien
April 2, 2018
FunOpinion

Microbial Advent Calendar – A review

Now that I can move my neck properly again it's time to have a look back on my Microbial Advent Calendar attempt. The exercise was to produce a small blog post a day, for 24 days, about a cool microbiology fact/paper related anywhere from close to pretty far from the…
Adrien
January 3, 2018
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[Fun] Futurism & DNA Data

I am always amazed by what Science Fiction was able to predict right, predict wrong, and better than that what was completely unforeseen. Recently we were re-watching the first "Blade Runner" and I kept annoying my wife by pointing out elements falling into each category. Beyond the fact that 2019…
Adrien
November 19, 2017