Excited to share a preprint from my postdoc work in @seth_shipman’s lab!
We developed Detectrons — programmable biosensors that convert RNA signals into stable DNA barcodes inside living cells, enabling multiplexed RNA sensing. 🧵👇
https://t.co/85kxjiEyo8
Eugene Koonin @AudeBer discuss why some bacterial immune systems have no counterparts in eukaryotes, whereas a small subset of comparatively rare systems was co-opted as key elements of eukaryotic innate immunity 🦠🛡️🧍🏽♀️
🚨New preprint out!
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research (1/8) https://t.co/BejXcSxauc
What if we could use precision #microbiome editing in vivo to turn harmful gut microbes into allies against disease? We did it using #CRISPR Transposon & mobilome engineering. With @harriswangnyc and Tyler Perdue. In @natBME
👉 https://t.co/CbMkQH8FF7
👉 https://t.co/fY0pREBBUe
1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab!
We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness. Find the preprint and full story here: https://t.co/rh4PoOWn9l
Our @MolecularCell Spotlight on the Hailong anti-phage system from the Kranzusch lab!
This defense uses "ssDNA tripwires" to trigger toxic ion channels 🧬⚡☠️
Fun write with Johannes Kühn!!
🧫 Save the Date!
We’re excited to announce an upcoming scientific seminar organised by our Early Career Team, with a spotlight on host–microbe crosstalk. Join us for a day of cutting-edge insights, discussion, and networking! Registration is open now - https://t.co/D6RtpvHmgA
OPEN CALL for PhD positions in our lab through the @semm_it program:
1️⃣ Microbiome signatures of early on-set colorectal cancer
2️⃣ High-resolution computational metagenomics for the study of human microbiome transmission
More info: https://t.co/9Bg79EvOvX
Apply by June 9!
📣Free event about #microbes👏
#Ecology & Cocktails: Without microbes, animals can't do much🦠
By Professor Tom Gilbert followed by an ecology open #mic night🎤 and an interactive #art activity!
May 15 at 18-24 @HusetKBH
Read more 👇
https://t.co/3ycET9n1Yf
@GrundforskFond
Our new preprint, "Spatial constraints drive amylosome-mediated resistant starch degradation by Ruminococcus bromii in the human colon" is now on bioRxiv! Key findings in the thread below below https://t.co/kg8pETnEGh.
Our latest paper is out in science advances discussing cell division and morphogenesis control in S. aureus. Massive congratulations to Mariana and all of our other authors and collaborators!!
https://t.co/Ielp7YQ04q
A large-scale literature review to which I contributed was recently published in Nature Medicine!!
"Clinical translation of microbiome research."
https://t.co/vx6SqInpPs
If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs!
https://t.co/8HC4xs6hdE
I have been teaching classes on the gut #microbiome for almost 20 years and always struggled to have a good book to recommend. Finally there is one. Fergus Shanahan's "Fast Facts: The Gut Microbiome" provides expert insight, is brilliant, and it is free.
https://t.co/IpcR1ZNwVA