Interested in the societal & scientific dynamics shaping microbial #conservation, #assetization & #biodiversity research? Then these back-to-back articles with Fred Vagneron on microbial culture collections in JHB's new Microbes & Health collection are for you!
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The past century has seen an extraordinary shift in the perception of microbes, both within biomedical science and in the broader culture, from deadly enemies ...
Article Two "Assetizing Diversity" traces the accelerating post-1960s enclosure of the microbial #commons with microbes turning into proprietary or sovereign assets as well as the manifold consequences for microbial exchange & biodiversity #conservation efforts.
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Article One "Culture, Codes, Communities" maps the #internationalist aspirations, (post)colonial #geopolitics & #microbiological controversies shaping early microbial conservation infrastructures.
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Claas Kirchhelle
Incredibly proud of this paper showing how plants couple vesicle delivery and phragmoplast expansion during division. This project started in the lab of the great and late Ian Moore, and it was a joy to finish it with @liamelliottplants.bsky.social et al!
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Claas Kirchhelle
Super-excited to be organising the first in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social network today and tomorrow.
We will be launching an initiative for pump-priming and an amazing comic by Eddie Ross on AMR Genomics
@willhgaze.bsky.social @kirchhelle.bsky.social
Cytokinesis is a key process in the development of multicellular organisms, through both formative and proliferative divisions. In land plants, successful cytokinesis requires precise targeting of Gol...
