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Ellinor Alseth
@ellinoralseth.bsky.social
Eco-evo with microbes. I happen to like fjords, I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. CMDI Early Career Award Fellow at Georgia Tech. She/her
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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).
Mystique is a lytic phage that's genetically similar to a few other A. baumannii phages, but structurally it seems to have more in common with wildly different phages. Mykhailo Kopylov and Daija Bobe did some beautiful work on the structure
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Ellinor Alseth
@ellinoralseth.bsky.social
Eco-evo with microbes. I happen to like fjords, I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. CMDI Early Career Award Fellow at Georgia Tech. She/her
567 followers583 following185 posts