Rob Edwards

@linsalrob.bsky.social

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Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials

A computer generated 3D reconstruction of a phage, based solely on its genome sequence. For this image, we started with the genome, and used PholdAPhage to create the structures. Colours are based on pLDDT scores.
The introduction to viruses of microbes 2026
ISVM President Lone Brønsted opening #vom2026
The awesome virome logo of a phage above a strand of DNA
Every 10 minutes some one publishes a paper citing the EMBL-EBI, every months 300 patents cite them, and every year 40 million visitors
A newpaper clipping from the Adelaide Advertiser showing high school students discovering new phages.
A photo of the post's author with newly appointed Dr. Bhavya. In the background is a piece of art by @elliejameson.bsky.social depicting a bacterium being lysed by phages.
@motherofphage.bsky.social getting ready to tell us about the rise of amr in warzones
@surtlab.bsky.social getting ready to talk tailocins
ISVM leadership at the Phage Protein Meeting in Ghent 2025
The ISVM logo for the International Society for the Viruses of Microorganisms
Examples of protein annotations across functional classification schemes. Yellow: hierarchical classification schemes, red: orthologous/homologous groups, and blue: methods using protein domain information. Protein structures were generated using the ColabFold Alphafold MMseqs2 interactive notebook (version 1.5.2) (57) and visualized using ChimeraX (58). (A) Functional labels associated with the glycogen synthase protein in Escherichia coli (UniprotKB P0A6U8). (B) Functional labels associated with Kehishuvirus sp. tikala major capsid protein (NCBI WEU69752.1).
The view of the Adelaide Oval, site of the 2025 Australian Biology and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) conference, from across the River Torrens. The conference will be held in Adelaide from 24 to 28 November and celebrates 10 years of ABACBS.
A violin plot overlayed with a scatterplot. Each point is an email I've received this year. The violin plots are sorted by day of the week, and I've shaded the time between 17h00 until 09h00 in grey. Most of the emails are received during the morning of working hours.
The #ABACBS2025 #ABACBSAdel25 new conference logo shows a picture of the Torrens River and the Adelaide Oval with the words "ABACBS Conference 2025" and the tag line "Celebrating 10 years"
A graph of historic ARC DP Announcement days. Most grants are announced on Wednesday, fewest on Thursday. 7 were announced on Monday. 9 were announced on Tuesday. 10 were announced on Wednesday. 2 were announced on Thursday. 5 were announced on Friday.
A bald headed smiling scientist wearing a white lab coat surrounded by bacteria, viruses, and computers
Sarah B. From Pawsey standing in front of a slide titled "a crash course in HPC"
Jingyi Jessica Li with a slide describing scDEED and mcRigor to permute data
How AI can help you do bioinformatics
Brett Neilan explaining how terribly toxic Australian cyanobacteria are
Lone Hoj introducing the National Sea Sim at the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences
Phil Hugenholtz intro slide with his title "You cannot B. cereus the necessity and absurdity of microbial taxonomy"
Photo of Kate Howell presenting to a room of scientists
Two screenshots from chatGPT, both asking chatGPT to draw a virus in ASCII art. On the left, with legacy GPT-4, it drew a smiley face. On the right, with the current GPT-o1 model, it drew a bacteriophage
A panel of plots of "alignment length" versus "percent identity" for amino acid sequences from 12 phage families, showing some well known families, and some new discoveries.
Asked ChatGPT "can you draw a virus using ascii art?" and it drew an ascii picture of a smiling face
A picture of a petri dish with an unknown bacteria (?) growing on it
Mr Garrison from SouthPark presenting a splitstree that shows humans evolved from fish-frogs and monkeys