Awesome work by Maria Vittoria Mazzuoli @vrrenske.bsky.social#MicroSkywww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

HU promotes higher-order chromosome organisation and influences DNA replication rates in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) are crucial for maintaining chromosomal compaction and architecture and are actively involved in DNA replication, recombination, repair, and gene regulation. In the...

A reminder that abstract submission for the SMBE satellite meeting on pathogen pangenomes and transmission closes soon (8th September, a short extension). See: smbepangenomes.bacpop.org

SMBE Satellite Workshop on Pathogen Pangenome Evolution

Academic conference held in Tokyo, Japan 2024

One for the bacterial vaccinologists 'A rationally designed antigen elicits protective antibodies against multiple nosocomial Gram-positive pathogens [Enterococcus faecium, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus]' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A rationally designed antigen elicits protective antibodies against multiple nosocomial Gram-positive pathogens - npj Vaccines

npj Vaccines - A rationally designed antigen elicits protective antibodies against multiple nosocomial Gram-positive pathogens

Nice promo video about our faculty @unil.bsky.socialyoutu.be/SnlRkkQJZXU?...

The Faculty of Biology and Medicine - 2024

YouTube video by FBM UNIL

Great episode of Night Science with one of my favorite scientists Dianne Newman! I completely echo with what she says (but could never say it so clear and eloquent). 'Don't worry with whats popular now, orient yourself to something that grabs you for a very fundamental reason' t.co/U2Lr0pjbiO

Dianne Newman and the visceral and intentional sides of science

Episode · Night Science · Dianne Newman – a molecular microbiologist at CalTech – is a professor both in Biology and Geology. In this episode, she encourages young scientists to pursue questions to wh...

ICYMI: 3 new preprints from the lab: 1) Make-or-Break Prime editing: the most elegant bacterial genome editing tech to date 2) PneumoBrowse2.0: Revamped pneumococcal genome browser 3) Dual CRISPRi-seq: One of the most comprehensive genetic interaction study in bacteria ever #MicroSky

Thanks to co-authors Paddy Gibson, Afonso Bravo, Vincent de Bakker, Jelle Slager, and @jwveening.bsky.social for all their hard work, other members of the Veening lab for input and feedback, and Doran Pauka for his support. Feedback is always welcome

 We hope you enjoy!

Genome-wide dual CRISPRi-seq! Knocking down every gene with every other gene in the pneumococcus, identifying > 4000 genetic interactions (GIs), most of which have never been reported. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dual CRISPRi-Seq for genome-wide genetic interaction studies identifies key genes involved in the pneumococcal cell cycle

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Did you like PneumoBrowse, our pneumococcal genome browser? We just released the newest version: PneumoBrowse 2! Try it out on pneumobrowse2.veeninglab.comwww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share that my sabbatical research project is now online at mBio! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...