Devin Drown, PhD

Time series of the Alaska annual average temperature each year 1925 to 2025 with the ten highest and lowest temperatures highlighted along with a piecewise linear regression to estimate the change.

Alaska statewide 2025 average temperature was the highest since 2019 and ninth highest in the past 101 year based on NOAA analysis.The typical year nowadays is about 3.5F (1.4C) warmer than in the early and mid-20th century. #akwx #Climate #ClimateChange @climatologist49.bsky.social

"The Hidden Power of Microorganisms: No microbes, no life…”

“Self-portrait of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.”

“Circles of Life: Microbes in Motion.”

The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart

Had a great time telling the story of #FannyHesse and the introduction of agar-agar to the microbial sciences. Thanks to #CorradoNai and #ASMicrobiology #CHOMA for the opportunity. #ASMicrobe

An open book in a glass case

People at the CHOMA exhibit at ASM Microbe

People at the CHOMA exhibit at ASM Microbe

The CHOMA exhibit at #ASMicrobe showcases a selection of items with connections to some of the most important figures in microbiology's history—from Alice Evans, ASM's first woman president, to Joshua Lederberg. If you're on site, be sure to swing by and take a look for yourself!

Also also come find me or Jamal if you want to talk BV-BRC @bvbrc.bsky.social - we might hang out near the NIH table in the exhibit hall at #ASMicrobe at some point.

Attn ASM 2025 attendees interested in Mars, astrobiology, and sample return! I'll be speaking Fri June 20 (10:45am, AES Track Hub, Exhibit Hall) on the frontiers of microbial life detection in context of (potentially) returning samples from Mars. Hope to see you there! #ASMicrobe

The Ushijima Lab's logo

The Ushijima Lab will be represented at #ASMicrobe by PhD student Liz Weatherup presenting her poster on the coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus during Friday's poster session! I'll be there running around part of the #AES planning committee as well as posting AES scientific program updates here!

Both might have some Alaska microbe themed stickers if you introduce yourself. #ASMicrobe

Woman standing at a display table with sequencing demonstration

Danielle Wrenn, Evaluating Real-Time Software-Based Host Depletion for Improved Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance AES Saturday Poster Sessions (AES02-Saturday-4050). Using @nanoporetech.com adaptive sampling to sequence less chicken and more microbes for improved AMR detection. #ASMicrobe

a superhero cartoon of a student holding a pipette and dressed for the winter

Ági Lehr, Drivers of Bacteriophage Diversity to Gain Insights into Climate Change in the North. Friday Rapid Fire at EEB Track Hub (11:45-12:30). Using ‪ @nanoporetech.com sequencing to explore bacteriophage puppet masters in high-latitude soil microbiomes. Full Poster (EEB-FRIDAY-1136) #ASMicrobe

Drown Lab logo with colorful squiggles and images of DNA, plants, and microbes.

The Drown Lab will be representing at #ASMicrobe with two posters and a Rapid Fire Talk. @uafairbanks.bsky.social students, Agi Lehr and Danielle Wren, will be sharing their ongoing graduate research on soil and host associated microbiomes using @nanoporetech.com sequencing.

Slide: Making Genomic Education Accessible for All

Thrilled to present at #Nanoporeconf - London Calling 2025 with Yvonne Chen on making DNA sequencing an activity that students in every classroom can participate in. #biotechnology #STEM #Education

UAF to host free Arctic Research Open House The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host its annual Arctic Research Open House Thursday, May 15 from 4 – 7 p.m. on the West Ridge of the Troth Yeddha’ Campus in Fairbanks.

Come on down! The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host its annual Arctic Research Open House Thursday, May 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. on the West Ridge of the Troth Yeddha' Campus in Fairbanks.

www.uaf.edu/news/uaf...

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Resister TODAY for Binning Singletons @ #ASMicrobe in LA! 🧪

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Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

I talked to Lori Schoening at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and they have had some awesome Tribal partnerships to coproduce curricula. Check out all their projects here: www.gi.alaska.edu/services/edu...

Sewage could act as early warning system for influenza A outbreaks Researchers monitoring wastewater for avian and human influenza A virus have detected a surge in virus as the flu season got underway, showing that the technique could act as an early warning system f...

Recent #birdflu cases highlight the need for proactive #pathogen monitoring. Read how researchers using nanopore sequencing in wastewater detected surges in #influenza A, showing its potential as an early warning system.

Read here: www.the-microbiologist.com/news/sewage-... #H5N1

Nanopore adaptive sampling enriches for antimicrobial resistance genes in microbial communities Nanopore adaptive sampling enriches for antimicrobial resistance genes in microbial communities

First paper from UA Fairbanks undergraduate D Wrenn
now published at GigaByte gigabytejournal.com/articles/103 testing nanopore
Adaptive Sampling with #AMR

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A hexagonal design with the words lterdatasampler at the top. Within the border are plants, animals and weather patterns representing the different datasets currently in the package.

Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...

Thrilled I'm a co-author with @concentricbygbw colleagues on a SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 preprint

We flag multiple bioinformatics tools failing to call 12bp spike ins21608 - many BA.2.86 sequences uploaded to GISAID have this region masked

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm hoping to make it down to NM, so AZ would be an easy connection.

Congrats! Hope you're pursuing new mysteries.

Me sitting on a log in the middle of a small stream.

Starting my first academic sabbatical. Looking forward to a year of focused research and connecting with colleagues across the globe.