I might have helped my own Twitter robot (@Lactobot) to its end

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In December 2016, I apparently had lots of time to kill. Two years into my PhD I had acquired enough programming and Linux skills that I felt comfortable enough to start experimenting with these credit card-size computers. So I borrowed a Raspberry Pi from a friend and started looking for possible interesting projects. I quickly […]

Introducing comparative paperomics

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At the end of May, I was happy to hear that my second first-author paper, entitled Carrot juice fermentations as man-made microbial ecosystems dominated by lactic acid bacteria was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. I’m especially proud on this manuscript as we used different molecular (DNA vs RNA based 16S sequencing), analytical (HPLC-RI and […]