Dr. Melanie Blokesch

Professor of Life Sciences & Director Global Health Institute @EPFL_en. HHMI International Scholar alumni. Passionate about science 🤩 Views are my own.

[Dr. Melanie Blokesch @MBlokesch]

Exciting news! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @NatureMicrobiol

We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3

https://t.co/8sOWrCCcN4

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Who everyone is supporting in today’s USA vs Belgium match

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Vibrio vulnificus — a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria with a staggering 20% mortality rate — is now being detected in multiple U.S. waterways.

And here’s the part you’re not supposed to ignore: this comes after the Trump administration dismantled critical water monitoring systems and gutted CDC programs that were tracking this very threat.

When you defund science and silence public health experts, Americans pay the price.

[Arjun Raj @arjunrajlab]

Can someone start a journal called “Cell Atlases” so that the rest of the journals can go back to publishing interesting things?

[Horizons Magazine @horizons_en]

Switzerland’s relations with Europe have enabled it to become established as a nation of science, says Yves Flückiger, President of @academies_ch. Signing the Bilateral Agreements III is strategically important for the future of our country.👇 https://t.co/SHI9YQYHY1

[Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News @GENbio]

DNA Uptake in Cholera May Increase Defense Mechanisms

Results also showed that in the pandemic 7PET lineage of V. cholerae, the SCI appears largely static
@MBlokesch @EPFL_en

#GENinfectiousdiseases #cholera #DNA
https://t.co/ptS868Toty

[Lee Juen Jie @JJie96]

Competence-mediated DNA uptake diversifies Vibrio cholerae sedentary chromosomal integrons | Science https://t.co/m9nalRkTho

[Dr. Melanie Blokesch @MBlokesch]

Excited to share that our latest paper is published @ScienceMagazine
We show that HGT via natural competence drives diversification of chromosomal integrons in V. cholerae.
Thanks to Laurie, Sandrine, Loriane & Alexandre for their help with this study🥳
https://t.co/Efzmjj8MD6

[CD BioSciences @CDBioSciences]

DNA uptake in Cholera does more than spread genes—it may actually enhance the bacteria's defense mechanisms! 🦠🧬 New research sheds light on how these pathogens protect themselves and evolve. #Cholera #InfectiousDiseases #Microbiology #CDBioSciences
https://t.co/IrhtiwgN9L

[Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc1841]

Competence-mediated DNA uptake diversifies Vibrio cholerae sedentary chromosomal integrons | Science https://t.co/HBGHLgU4II

[Arjun Raj @arjunrajlab]

Dear journals: please please please don't take a lengthy stay of a manuscript on Biorxiv as a sign of something "wrong" with a paper. Given how long review processes and even editorial decisions have gotten these days, it really doesn't mean anything. Thanks!

[Iman Hajirasouliha @hajirasouliha]

@OdedRechavi @biorxivpreprint Preprintveröffentlichungsungeduld

[Dr. Melanie Blokesch @MBlokesch]

@AHarms485 Thanks so much Alexander for your visit and your expert feedback on the thesis of our PhD student Celine.
Very much appreciated 🤩!!
And I hope you had a productive train ride back home 🚂🚆

[Johannes Gräff @GraeffJohannes]

Do you think you can rejuvenate your cognitive capacities? Perhaps by reprogramming specific cells in your brain? Sounds crazy? Well, it is... but it works! By using partial #reprogramming targeted to #engram cells in the mouse brain, we just did that: https://t.co/rlUXbdz0iU

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

@KamounLab @Blunt_Microbe Why do you think that preprinting represents a form of peer review? We frequently preprint our work and never received any critical feedback because of it.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is just so good. Grandpa Don clearly failed geography. Oh and he flunked history too.

How did he do in economics? Don’t answer that.

Jon Stewart is so good at this

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/2W7Shk0r24

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

My advice for young scientist who are looking to "develop a brand" as the ad I just got from Cell press offers is this: Develop a brand as a careful, thoughtful, methodical scientist. A scientist who does elegant experiments w/ lots of controls & doesn't oversell their findings.

[Dr. Melanie Blokesch @MBlokesch]

@JWVeening @NatureMicrobiol Exciting - congrats to all authors 🥳

[Jan-Willem Veening @JWVeening]

Now online @NatureMicrobiol ! https://t.co/eeVmXtFR73

[Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina @Leopoldina]

🎉 Tiefseeforscherin und Leopoldina-Mitglied Antje Boetius wurde in den Orden Pour le mérite gewählt. Die Aufnahme in die Künstler- und Gelehrtenvereinigung zählt zu den höchsten Ehrungen, die WissenschaftlerInnen in Deutschland zuteilwerden kann.

[Tim Blower @BlowerLab]

Rel/Par superfamily toxins have yet another activity - trimming off the 16S rRNA to kill tuberculosis. Thanks again to wonderful collab with @GenevauxPierre and team, out today https://t.co/3pZD8ogyHB @DurBiol @NEBiolabs @izaakbeck 🤓🎊🎉