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Defne Surujon

@dsurujon

Cheese and chocolate enthusiast. Computational biologist. Former organizer of @science_tap 🏳️‍🌈

 Boston, MA
github.com/dsurujon
Joined July 2016
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These are the two wonderful scientists who have devoted hundreds of hours to make BBM possible @AlamGarciaHered @shailabshrestha @MITBiology @Tufts_Biology
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Fun and chill aynen şekerim 😂😭🫠
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📢 This is the last week to submit abstracts for BBM2023! 📢 bostonbacterial.org/registra…
Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) (@BostonBacteria) profile pictureBoston Bacterial Meeting (BBM)@BostonBacteria14 Mar 2023
Registration for BBM2023 is now open! 🧪Abstracts submissions are due April 30th 🧫Online registration ends on May 31st You can register here: bostonbacterial.org/registra…
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Check out this year's BBM session chair lineup! Special shoutout to @dayzerodx cofounder (and fantastic colleague) @melisanahtar 🦠
Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) (@BostonBacteria) profile pictureBoston Bacterial Meeting (BBM)@BostonBacteria12 Apr 2023
We're delighted to announce these six amazing scientists will serve as "Research Session Chairs" at BBM2023: @melisanahtar, @lbackman21, @roby_bhatt, @Thea_BK, @Cur1ousRsearchr, & #JeffreyMoffitt. Thank you all for kindly volunteering your time to help us plan an awesome event!
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We're looking for panelists for our BBM2023 breakout panels: 1) Careers Beyond the Bench 2) Food Microbiology, Brewing, & Bacteria Art 3) Host-Pathogen Interactions Please reach out if you're attending BBM (June 12-13) & would like be a panelist or (know an expert). Thanks!
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Twitter, Instagram gibi farklı kaynaklardan gelen tüm yardım çağrılarını topluyoruz ve bu datayı anlamlı hale getiriyoruz. Eğer kullanmak isteyen STK'lar olursa bize ulaşmanız yeterli, elimizdeki dataları sizlerle paylaşmak istiyoruz.
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Looking at my 12 tabs of BLAST results
Mick W@tson ↙️ (@BioMickWatson) profile pictureMick W@tson ↙️@BioMickWatson29 Aug 2022
Replying to @BioMickWatson
#5 NCBI BLAST ONLINE Need a clean and simple interface to search sequences one by one? Of course you do. Elite bioinformaticians don't automate things, because you can MISS SOMETHING in the results. Simply paste your millions of sequences one by one into NCBI BLAST ONLINE
It was such a pleasure to work alongside of this great cohort of people in the #bostonbacterial22! We pulled off a great in-person meeting after 2 years. Such an awesome cohort!
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Come get #BostonBacterial22 swag and support our BBM registration scholarship for undergraduate students! Payments are via Venmo only.
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Almost ready for BBM2022! #bostonbacterial22
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Elliot Hershberg (@ElliotHershberg) profile pictureElliot Hershberg
@ElliotHershberg11 Jun 2022
The claim by @lpachter that "hardly anyone reads papers anymore" is super interesting, and has generated a lot of discussion. I think that there is a lot going on here...
Screenshot of Lior pachter's tweet about reading papers.

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Save the date for June 13-14 and register now for the return of in-person BBM 2022! bostonbacterial.org/registra… Submit your abstracts for talks, posters, and flash talks by May 8th! Our keynote speaker is Robin Patel, MD @micro_rp.
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The oSTEM scholarship program is back for 2022! Applications open today and will be open until June 10th! There are opportunities for community college, undergraduate, and graduate students! Check out bit.ly/3uyFL1M for more information and to apply! #scholarship #STEM
Light blue background with dark blue text that reads in large font at the top “Apply for an oSTEM Scholarship.” Below, in smaller font, it says “Applications Close Friday, June 10th, 2022.” Below it says “$70k in Scholarships available. For Community College, Undergraduate, and Graduate Students. Eligibility Requirements: STEM Major; Identify as LGBTQ+; Completed at least 1 semester at current institution; Attending USA, UK, Mexico, or Canada based institution; Happy to be recognized at oSTEM conference.” At the bottom is the oSTEM logo.

ALT Light blue background with dark blue text that reads in large font at the top “Apply for an oSTEM Scholarship.” Below, in smaller font, it says “Applications Close Friday, June 10th, 2022.” Below it says “$70k in Scholarships available. For Community College, Undergraduate, and Graduate Students. Eligibility Requirements: STEM Major; Identify as LGBTQ+; Completed at least 1 semester at current institution; Attending USA, UK, Mexico, or Canada based institution; Happy to be recognized at oSTEM conference.” At the bottom is the oSTEM logo.

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Our computational biology team at @dayzerodx is looking for an associate bioinformatician (bachelors/masters level). If you want to work on NGS data analysis, supporting rapid diagnostics of bacterial infections, please DM me! #bioinformatics
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I first started using ApE over a decade ago. It’s wild to see that this is the first ApE paper. Congrats, and thanks for such a wonderful piece of software 🎉
ApE A plasmid editor (@ApEplasmid) profile pictureApE A plasmid editor@ApEplasmid8 Feb 2022
A description of ApE is now out in Frontiers in Bioinformatics: frontiersin.org/articles/10.… Thanks to the readers, reviewers, and everyone who's helped make ApE what it is.
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Last week I was invited to sign a letter offering support for David Sabatini, organized by current & former lab members. Universities considering hiring him have asked for this. I will not sign. There was no option to provide a more nuanced response, so I will elaborate here 🧵
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The CDC now recommends doing bioinformatics in excel
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My experience does not align with this. I joined a company after my PhD, and nobody thought they were entitled to my time 24/7, all of my colleagues were respectful and appreciative of my labor. That makes it easier by orders of magnitude.
John Wallingford (@jbwallingford) profile pictureJohn Wallingford@jbwallingford19 Sep 2021
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Academia is definitely not for everyone. (I literally WANT to get up early Saturday morning and write.) If you hate it, you should get out ASAP. Just don’t be fooled. It’s gonna be really hard at that other job, too. 4/n
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Also, this reminds me of when i was told “you won’t be successful at anything you try before you get my approval for your graduation” by my PhD advisor. I know this probably wasn’t meant to be in that tone, but I’m not really thrilled to hear the
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“If you can’t make it in academia, you can’t make it anywhere because you’ll run into the same problems” narrative. Where academia is lacking is accountability. Which leads to abuse of power, exploitation and non-constructive work conditions for students and postdocs
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