If someone breaks into the servers of all grant applications world-wide, and downloads all application files, the most common word in these file name would be "_final"
Widespread horizontal gene transfer between plants and bacteria #ISMEComms@asaflevylab.bsky.socialacademic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Abstract. Plants host a large array of commensal bacteria that interact with the host. The growth of both bacteria and plants is often dependent on nutrien
Our new paper on T6SS effector-immunity is out: "Identification of type VI secretion system effector-immunity pairs using structural bioinformatics" www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Interested in bacterial toxins? Check out our paper in @mbiojournal "Toxinome—the bacterial protein toxin database". An interactive database of 1.4M toxins and 491K antitoxins encoded in 59K bacterial genomes. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Trivia: what is the most and least common aa in Uniprot (250M proteins)?
New postdoc position in our lab for a project led by Marie Touchon (bioinformatics) and with O Tenaillon (experiments) on the evolution and dynamics of microbial genomes to understand their diversification by gene flow. Check research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
A very cool finding. The Mougous lab reports a new bacterial toxin delivery system in a shape of umbrella in Streptomyces that mediates competition between vegetative mycelia of related species.
@relenski.bsky.social Prof. Richard Lenski gave one of the most inspiring and humble talks we ever had in the microbiology journal club. Rich presented his insights from his 35 years study of E. coli evolution. We had 160 participants eager to listen to great science during wartime in Israel.
