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...

Environmental differences impact Acinetobacter baumannii phage isolation and infectivity

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Cool work, Ellinor!

Congratulations Ellinor! It's great to see it out!! 😍

Finding a phage was quite the journey though, as 5075 can rapidly capsule switch in a way that likely also confers phage resistance. So, it wasn't easy, but we found a phage that we named Mystique (because it was and still is quite mysterious).