Bioinformatics postdoc @novozymes, PhD from @phylogenomics lab @ucdavis + @UCDavisBiotech. Scientist, partner, pet mom, cake baker. KY➡️CA. She/her
Sacramento, CA
Joined February 2010
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I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a position at @Novozymes as a Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Scientist! 🎉 This is truly a dream job & I'm thrilled for the opportunity to work with this team. I'll be starting next month, while I finish wrapping up my dissertation!
ALT Alonna wearing a blazer and colorful patterned shirt in front of a computer screen displaying a title slide for a research presentation
Tea this morning in the most thoughtful mug (with my favorite figure from my diss) from @wattheheckman 🥰 I’m thankful for grad school in a lot of ways, but the incredible people it brought into my life is hands down the best thing I gained from it.
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Another tool for the toolbox of my microbial meta/genomics friends.
Bakta: rapid & standardized annotation of bacterial genomes, MAGs & plasmids
🦠🧬🖥️ Excited to announce Bakta v1.7.0 AND a major DB update!
New Features:
- A lightweight DB version -> only 1.2 Gb (zipped)
- Gene symbol curation for CDS & operons
- A metagenome mode
github.com/oschwengers/bakta…
More information below 👇 (1/10)
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Seminar-ed, Celebrated, and Conferred 🧬🎓 I’m officially Dr. Wright and feeling so loved and supported by my community who have shown up during this season of celebration 🥰
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There are not many books that I immediately buy when I hear about them being published, but this is definitely one. Can't wait for it to come in so I can ignore my dissertation writing for a weekend to read it!
It’s finally here! AN IMMENSE WORLD is now officially published (in the US at least). I’ve been working on this since The Before Times, and I’m thrilled that it now exists outside my head and my home. Here's a thread about what the book means to me. 1/
ALT A giant doofus holding up a copy of his book and staring at the monkey on the cover.
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I see students leaving PhD programs with a Master’s and feeling ashamed to tell people, but the thing is that I’m thrilled for you! The point of higher Ed is to ultimately get you closer towards your goal, and whatever that looks like for you I’ll be cheering you on 🎉🥳
@hannahhouts passed her QE and is a candidate now! Which is the perfect excuse to celebrate her by throwing a phage party.
I’ve found an injured hummingbird in my yard, and I’m unsure what to do. I’m in Sacramento county and the Wildlife Care hotline didn’t pick up. Advice? @phylogenomics @rachelvannette
Unpaid internships are merely filtering by privilege.
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@MGGucdavis and @SciSays are set up at @ExploritScience Center in Davis with cool bacteria plates and microscopes for the Women In STEM: See It To Be It event today, come by and see us from 12-2PM! Details here: explorit.org/women-in-stem-e…
@MGGucdavis is set up today with cool plates of bacteria and microscopes at the @ExploritScience Center in Davis for the Women in STEM: See It To Be It event, come by and see us from 12-2PM! Details here: explorit.org/women-in-stem-e…
My dog turned one, so I baked her a cake and bought her a hat. Living in a pandemic really reminds you to celebrate all the little things, and that no event is too small for a cake. Happy birthday to my Smellie Nellie! – at Rancho Cordova, CA
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Listening to current @MGGucdavis students present on their research at our annual MGG recruitment research symposium! – at Rancho Cordova, CA
Hearing someone's thought process through solving a problem is one of my favorite parts of science. I learn so much from those conversations, about both the science and the person. – at Rancho Cordova, CA
Reminder for myself and other PIs. Never underestimate the power of explaining your thought process to your trainees.
Today's @Cake4Kids delivery! This was a humble reminder to me how difficult cake decorating is, esp after being away from it for a few months😅 Hopefully the overload of toppers made up for the lack of decorating skills. I hope this fun cake made his birthday celebration special! – at Rancho Cordova, CA
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It seems like @ucdavis's idea of an equitable return to in-person instruction is "don't get COVID and don't be immunocompromised, or else you'll be penalized for not being in class" ??? How does this make any sense to anyone? – at Rancho Cordova, CA
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This is insanity. @ucdavis how are you working to fix this?? How can the university continue under the impression we're going back to in person next week??
cc: @phylogenomics @davidacoil – at Rancho Cordova, CA
Shocked to read what others are sharing on Reddit. @ucdavis students are testing positive and aren’t being moved to isolation facilities until days later, aren’t being contacted until 24+ hours later, and some students are having to call student health themselves. 🤯🤯
