Congratulations Ellinor! It's great to see it out!! 😍
7 yrs ago, I got very lucky when I got my permanent researcher position @cnrs.bsky.social Now, even more so. I just got promoted to director of research (associate professor?) Thx to all who contributed closely or loosely & special thx to PhD student julie for a wonderful & unexpected gift!
While struggling to isolate a phage at all, we also discovered that other phages in our collection actually *can* infect AB5075... but only in liquid culture. In other words, phages that do not plaque on a bacterial lawn may still be able to infect in liquid!
Going from PhD to independent postdoc has been hard, and switching bacteria didn't make it easier. Especially when I found out that my A. baumannii (5075) has/had no available phage. But, that meant I had a gap to fill! And that's resulted in this work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sharing our latest paper as my first post here 🔵 💙 Plasmids encode Type IV CRISPR-Cas to fight other plasmids💥⚔️ Now out in Cell Host & Microbe www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Plasmid-encoded type IV-A CRISPR-Cas systems lack an acquisition module, feature a DinG helicase instead of a nuclease, and form ribonucleoprotein com…
Nice paper from Tim Cooper from earlier this year showing variation in AMR plasmid cost across E. coli strains explained by a genetic conflict with a resident prophage #microskyjournals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
🧪Any time you think you understand viruses, they get weirder. Meet Jingmen tick virus (JMTV), the 1st multipartite virus of primates discovered. What's weird about it? Imagine a group of people who travel everywhere together, but in different cars. That's the JMTV genome.
I've got a fully funded, 4-year PhD position available to work on virus-bacteria interactions in soils. Part of the GenerationResearch scheme at York aimed at widening access to postgrad research. Please share! generationresearch.ac.uk/phd_proposal...
New paper from the lab, the mysteries involving the genetic elements that move by being mobilized by other MGEs. Hitcher Genetic Elements are distinctive, ancient and diverse. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...