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Bringing in chocolate always helps to win a competition congratulations Timmy Páez Watson SIAM-microbiology

Many thanks to all participants of the 10y #siam2023 symposium of SIAM-microbiology with lots of exciting #anaerobic #microbiology . Safe travels home

Cool day with people working on quantitative microbial ecology in the NL! Thanks Djordje Bajić and Rebeca Gonzalez Cabaleiro for organizing the symposium and Gerben Stouten and robbert kleerebezem for showing us the UNLOCK-microbiomes facilities!

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs. And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM. A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates. It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the

Grad School Wrapped 2023

From metagenomes to metabolic potential by Timmy Páez Watson Illustrating the metabolic flexibility of the anaerobic conversions by Accumulibacter sp. SIAM-microbiology Faculteit TNW / Faculty of Applied Sciences #EBPR sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

From metagenomes to metabolism: Systematically assessing the metabolic metabolic flux feasibilities for “Candidatus Accumulibacter” species during anaerobic substrate uptake by Timmy Páez Watson et al. TU Delft sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very happy to share that I received the Westerdijk Award for best PhD thesis in microbial ecology by KNVM Thanks to everyone who contributed to this work, especially to my promotors Yuemei Lin, Mark van Loosdrecht  and David Weissbrodt

Finally out The ISME Journal 🥳 academic.oup.com/ismej/article/… We show that aerobic denitrification can significantly contribute to nitrogen turnover and N2O emissions 🌡️🌍 in dynamic oxygen environments

Does DNA (or RNA) hold all the secrets about life and its fundamentals? What better place to learn more than at #LRUA24 in Upasala, a conference on long read sequencing at such a fancy location!

I think some of the birthrate decline can be attributed to two forces happening everywhere: increasing complexity, and decreasing hardship. Life is too complex and too 'good.' I'll try to explain

"Write the paper you would have liked to read when you started your PhD" said Michele Laureni. And here it is. After 4 years working on the intricacies of nitrogen, iron and ammonia removal with biotechnologists and engineers, academics and practitioners, our* opinion 1/2

Vamos, Rafa Nadal!   As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.   Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I

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Friday in this theatre the PhD defence of Timmy Páez Watson with Timmy as the star and Aljoscha Wahl and me as directors. Want to read the script? see "The pulse of metabolism" repository.tudelft.nl/person/Person_…