🍁 September flew by - two conferences, two cities, and lots of inspiration. I shared my research at Polonium Foundation’s “Science: Polish Perspectives” in Cambridge 🇬🇧, then presented a poster on our DEGRONOPEDIA at the #EYSF2025 in Vilnius 🇱🇹. Now to decide what to implement next in its 2.0 ver 😊

I had the pleasure of presenting my recent work at @embo.org #eysf2025. My talk focused on gut microbiota-host interaction via host tRNA modification with preQ1. It was a great opportunity to share our findings, exchange ideas with colleagues, and learn about exciting advances across the field.

Even though talks at a conference are always cool, the most exciting part of #EYSF2025 is the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social workshop by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social . They are a great resource for scientific creativity and they even have a podcast!

Next, at #EYSF2025 @reviewcommons.org is presented by @saramonaco-rc.bsky.social. It’s journal-agnostic, concentrates on science only and can save time as the peer-reviewed preprints can easily be resubmitted. How great would it be if we could ditch publishing and switch to reviewed preprints?

Next is Maido Remm presenting how DNA sequencing can be used for typing and diagnostics: StrainSeeker works similarly as Kraken. I wonder if it has the same issues as Kraken does? It’s cool to hear something new even after 4 days spent on this topic at IMMEM XIV.
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Continuing #EYSF2025 on CRISPR-Cas, Stephan Rieserberg is presenting how they developed cool tools to efficiently break complicated dsDNA targets and where conventional methods barely work. Also, there are cool CRISPR-Cas based methods to get rid of everything where initial DNA editing didn’t work.

As the conference season continues, it’s time for EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum in Vilnius. The day starts with a talk by Prof. Virginijus Šikšnys about bacteria antiviral defense systems, and how his lab was among the first to show that Cas9 can be used for programmable DNA cleavage.
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15.08 is the deadline of submiting the abstract for EMBO Young scientist meeting #eysf2025 More info here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf