Delighted to share work by Kristie Yu, Celine Son, & co showing that selective fructan metabolism by the gut microbiome can contribute to host associative learning of dietary preference, even when it comes to choosing between diets with the same perceptual salience (and macronutrient composition!)
Complex carbohydrate utilization by gut bacteria modulates host food preference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.13.580152v1
The gut microbiota interacts directly with dietary nutrients and has the ability to modify host feed
One week left to apply to the Social Lives of Viruses 2024! 50-person meeting on viral sociality, from virology to evolution, in Puerto Rico this June. All welcome; free accommodation and registration. Apply here: forms.gle/SvgCix9Njr8r...#SocialViruses#ViroSky#MicroSky#EvoSky
Delighted to announce a call for applications for the PSL-QLife Summer School on 'Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales', to be held in Paris, July 8-12, 2024. Application deadline April 8, 2024: www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?art...
The department of Cell Biology at Einstein is hiring! Cell, molecular, computational biology focus, all levels. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
This is so cool! Generate your Google Scholar word cloud here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... 🧪👩⚕️
New collaborative work from our lab on the transmission of AMR in a community context. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We find that Gram positive bacteria, particularly enterocci, increase the conjugation efficiency of uropathogenic E.coli.
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New from the lab. We were stuck studying plasmid mobility because we ignored most origins of transfer by conjugation. Using the occurrences of known oriT, we developed a method to find novel unrelated families. Works well. We now cover most conjugative plasmids of E coli, K pneumo & A baumannii.
Identification of novel origins of transfer across bacterial plasmids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.30.577996v1
Conjugative plasmids are important drivers of bacterial evolution, but most plasmids lack genes for
There's a ~1000nt sub-viral RNA that shows up on every continent, and in humans, and it seems to have gone unnoticed! It has no sequence similarity to any database and codes for a wacky protein Super happy to finally share my thesis work on "Obelisks" tinyurl.com/yc54fzj9#MicroSky#microbiomesky
Have a look at our paper on a new group of pleomorphic viruses infecting marine hyperthermophilic #archaeadoi.org/10.1093/isme...
and the recent discoveries of novel viriod-like 'obelisks' @viroid.bsky.social, new programmable recombinase systems from Patrick Hsu + others, and minimalist phage satellites Frédérique Le Roux, there's paradigm-shifting work going on. (9/9 fini!)