The #ASMicrobe journey took me from NY to Chicago to LA overland, trailing tornadoes, downed power lines and ending with a burning engine at the entrance to the Mojave desert, where we hitched a ride on a bus and vaulted some fences to catch the last tram out of Union station. Took some good photos though!

Really glad I crammed in those expired packs of #polaroid films into the already overstuffed bag.

Absolutely delighted by the morning's talk- Geovirology: Bacteriophage influences on bacterial geochemical signatures by Cynthia Silveira, University of Miami

That IV bag-glove box setup for studying PSB samples was amazing. Also, viral/bacterial geological records? Wow #asmicrobe

Here are the #thrashlab presentations at #ASMicrobe this year, in chronological order:

Zack Henning AES-FRIDAY-793
Metagenomic Insights into Seasonal Hypoxia: Unveiling Microbial Diversity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Hasti Asrari EEB-SATURDAY-1101
Environmental Drivers of SAR11 Strain-Level Dynamics in the Coastal Northern Gulf of Mexico

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Madly querying genbank, building trees and typing notes with a collaborator at #ASMicrobe

We're so close to actually writing out a paper during the first day of the conference! #ASM2024