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Microbiologist | @BBSRC Discovery Fellow | evolution & ecology of tiny things | @OxfordBiology @BiochemOxford | she/her 🇪🇺🦠🧫🔬

Oxford, England

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Joined January 2010

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Elisa Granato

5 months

Big career announcement!! A few weeks ago I was offered an interview and site visit for a tenure-track Professor of Microbiology position at a dream location. But - I declined! 🌟 Here is why ... (TLDR: enthusiastically saying "No, thank you" to academia) 1/8 @AcademicChatter

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Elisa Granato

3 years

We all know it's true 😤

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Elisa Granato

5 years

German word for that feeling when you watch a nature documentary and you go THERE ARE SEWING BIRDS??!! WHY AM I ONLY LEARNING ABOUT THIS NOW

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Drop a picture of your pet that looks like an album cover

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Imagine being God's perfect killing machine but you only weigh like 150g and people make kissy noises when they see you

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3 years

Miss Kestrel could not be any more adorable if she tried.

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Elisa Granato

2 years

Ah, yes. A productive day.

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Elisa Granato

10 months

Someone I know met a woman who's a Nobel-prize winning biologist and she said "I see you are wearing make-up, that already tells me that you're not focussed and committed enough to make it in science".

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Dr. Naomi Rendina

10 months

Wait, did you not know that there’s a disappointingly high number of toxic women in academia?

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Elisa Granato

3 years

sending emails with your PI cc'ed

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Me to my lab bacteria: my babies 🥺 here's a perfect mixture of every nutrient and vitamin you could possibly need Me to my gut bacteria: dinner is skittles and beer, deal with it

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Elisa Granato

2 months

I SAID YES!!! 😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💖💖💖💍💍💍💍💍someone asked me if i am still working on this paper

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Elisa Granato

4 years

Am I getting everything done perfectly? No. But am I getting the most important things done in a reasonable time frame? Also no.

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2 months

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MAMA G!

3 months

What is your contribution to the society?

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Elisa Granato

2 years

planned a big experiment and now I have to do it

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Elisa Granato

4 years

I would like to publicly thank everyone who nods along during presentations. That shit keeps me going for days.

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Elisa Granato

2 years

The bacterial capsule is a thick layer of polysaccharides that protects cells from various environmental and host-derived stressors

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Elisa Granato

2 years

When you're done with a presentation you were not well prepared for

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Elisa Granato

1 year

when you're only allowed 4 figures in the main text

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Elisa Granato

2 years

regular reminder that nature selects for "eh. good enough"

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2 years

Brazilian frogs which have evolved to be very tiny, have inner ear canals too small to help them balance well: this is why they are clumsy jumpers [full paper: ]

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Is it really a ""gap in the literature"", or did I just miss a paper from the 80s?

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Elisa Granato

3 years

A small habit I'm trying to cultivate is sending authors a quick e-mail when I enjoyed reading their paper. It takes 2 minutes and has resulted in 100% positive interactions so far. 10/10 can recommend 🙌

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Elisa Granato

3 years

2020 lab appliances: *break within 2 years* 1980s vortexer: I will outlive you and everyone you love. I am eternal. I am time itself

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Thinking about these hilariously small printouts of my PhD papers I was gifted

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Elisa Granato

2 years

accepting my own track changes in Word

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Biology Department e-mails are always a wild ride. "Apologies for the spam, I urgently need some salmon sperm DNA, a hilariously specific antibody, and a few grams of cocaine. Can anyone help out? Cheers"

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Elisa Granato

3 months

😔

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Elisa Granato

1 month

Rediscovered this pandemic gem ... please take me to the burn ward

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Elisa Granato

2 years

she's a 10 but she's on a log scale so she's only a 1

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Elisa Granato

2 years

this can't be the same brain I was using to memorize two semesters worth of immunology in 3 days as an undergrad

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Elisa Granato

10 months

me googling my own paper from 3 months ago just to remember what I did exactly

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Elisa Granato

1 year

when you're waiting for the centrifuge and you randomly start questioning the entire project

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Elisa Granato

2 years

"are you ok?" - no I have to pipette 1008 uL

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Elisa Granato

4 years

yeah the Nobel prize is cool and all but have you ever gotten a single positive clone after months of trying

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Elisa Granato

3 years

For the next game, players must peel off an ancient piece of autoclaving tape while wearing gloves

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Never underestimate the power of anti-mentors ... People who are such glaring examples of what you don't want to be like that they actually make for some really good life lessons 🤡

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Elisa Granato

2 years

Imagine having enough money to publish open access in @Nature and you blow it all on some social media platform

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Elisa Granato

10 months

Fellas, are my PCRs affected by my eyeliner?

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Elisa Granato

2 years

Just doing my silly little experiments

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Elisa Granato

11 months

when you wanna collab but they're playin

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Can't wait to be a PI and not harass anyone ever because it's actually incredibly easy

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Elisa Granato

10 months

Sorry I'm busy that day

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Getting ready to go to the lab knowing full well that the experiment didn't work

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Elisa Granato

4 years

When someone cites your paper

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Enzyme-substrate complex

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Elisa Granato

3 months

For a small fee, I will reply "Not your best work 🫤" to your arch-enemy's paper announcement tweet

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Neil Renic

3 months

For a small fee, I will sit in the front row of your presentation and nod excitedly

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Elisa Granato

5 years

"All authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript."

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Elisa Granato

3 years

I'm just a girl standing in front of the lab waste bin wishing she could get her sample back

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Well hello, future Supplementary Table S3

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Google Scholar when you're early career

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Elisa Granato

2 years

agarose gel agarosé gel

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Elisa Granato

2 years

Happy to report that my PCR didn't work because I made a mistake and not because the basic rules of biology have to be rewritten (as I initially suspected)

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Two hours of cycling today. What's your excuse?? 🚵‍♀️💪 #dailygoals #fitnessjourney

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Elon you should cite your sources

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Elisa Granato

2 years

preparing media for that one stupid experiment

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Elisa Granato

2 years

that one forgotten cryotube deep in the -80

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Elisa Granato

3 years

same energy

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Elisa Granato

10 months

one ticket for one ticket for oppenheimer barbie

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Types of Microbiology paper. 🔬

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Costin Antonescu

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3 years

Types of Cell Biology paper. 🔬

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Elisa Granato

4 years

Rebuttal letter 1st draft vs. submitted

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Elisa Granato

3 years

deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old-fashioned way (bump into another prokaryote, engulf them, turn them into a proto-organelle, and our children shall inherit the Earth)

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Elisa Granato

2 years

"Porins" are large channel proteins through which molecules can diffuse into the bacterial cell

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Peer reviewer alignment chart

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Elisa Granato

2 years

waiting for that key reagent to be delivered

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Elisa Granato

2 years

how I feel when I see the new batch of undergrads

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Elisa Granato

3 years

When a way more experienced person helps you out with something

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Girls don't want boyfriends, girls want to log in to Editorial Manager without having to set another goddamn password

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Elisa Granato

3 years

I don't want to "succeed in academia", I want to drift through the ocean like a jellyfish

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Elisa Granato

4 years

Good morning to this queen only

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Elisa Granato

1 year

how tf did people give me three degrees in biology without ever showing me this picture

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Anne Carpenter, PhD

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1 year

@allmeasures Love it! I’ve definitely never seen them side by side, it’s 🤯

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Elisa Granato

3 years

When scientists happy-tweet their papers like "Have you ever wondered how HjnG-Tx3 complexes trigger UblF dyblobination? 😃" and you're just like nope :/

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Elisa Granato

2 years

Bacteria when I revive them from the freezer just to kill them off in yet another assay

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Elisa Granato

3 years

I miss awkward conference coffee breaks. The shuffling around, the shy small talk, PIs in the corner making last-minute slides, the extroverts scream-greeting each other ... We didn't know how good we had it.

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Elisa Granato

5 years

Common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)

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Elisa Granato

1 year

a helpful chart for those new to the field

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Elisa Granato

4 years

Normalize overly honest method sections. "Cells were spun down at 5000 rpm because the centrifuge makes a funny noise at higher speeds."

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Elisa Granato

2 months

PhD students and their postdoc friends

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Microbiology is just regular biology but fun-sized

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Elisa Granato

2 years

out of office replies at the science department

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Underrated perks of being a scientist - when I keycard into the lab out of hours I feel like a spy on a secret mission

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Elisa Granato

1 year

me and academia on a weekly basis

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Elisa Granato

2 years

making LB from scratch

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Elisa Granato

3 years

These are getting crazy

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Elisa Granato

1 year

me and my random supplementary figures no one will ever look at

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Elisa Granato

2 years

Samples were imaged using glass bottom multi-well plates

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Rare, high-magnification images of gel electrophoresis samples before migration

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Elisa Granato

4 years

Because 2020 has major "Fuck it" energy, I just reported the senior academic who harassed me after a conference many years ago. It's an excruciatingly difficult process. If you're in a similar situation, my DMs are open. @AcademicChatter

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Planning experiments vs Doing experiments

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Elisa Granato

2 years

In widefield microscopy, the entire sample is illuminated at the same time

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Elisa Granato

3 years

I'm never more than one "mild inconvenience in the lab" away from treating myself to takeout dinner

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Elisa Granato

2 years

when you're waiting for that one sample to be done incubating so you can go home

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Elisa Granato

5 months

If you've ever wondered what it's like working in the UK, I just submitted a risk assessment ... for a Zoom meeting.

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Elisa Granato

4 years

One killed the other over night. Sorry, but I study toxins 🤷‍♀️

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Elisa Granato

4 years

Folks, if my bacterial colonies can reach out and check in on each other you can do it too

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Elisa Granato

3 years

Showing off new data at lab meeting

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Elisa Granato

2 years

spent two months troubleshooting A Lab Thing and it turned out to be something really dumb

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Elisa Granato

2 years

microwave: would you like me to overboil and explode your agar me: what if you just heat it up nicely microwave: wHaT iF You JuSt HEaT it Up NiceLY lmao ok goldilocks

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Elisa Granato

3 years

them: long day, pour me a stiff one me:

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Elisa Granato

3 years

me: academic couples are really no different from regular couples e-mail from my partner: "great chatting with you yesterday, could you please send me XYZ as discussed. cheers"

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Elisa Granato

5 years

I am so glad to see that people are enjoying these amazing animals. I have nothing to plug, just go and protect nature at all cost, everyone!

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Elisa Granato

2 years

lab person: *hands over tiny tube containing a barely visible droplet of clear liquid* other lab person: ... lab person: "I know. It's a lot."

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Elisa Granato

2 years

Misfolded proteins can result from folding intermediates forming aberrant, non-native interactions during the folding process

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Elisa Granato

2 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but "You should apply, they're desperately looking for women" is not the motivational message you think it is

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