A blog post, a blog post, my kingdom for a blog post!
Great fun to co-lead projects with @microbesrule.bsky.socialrdcu.be/dWUrg
Nature Microbiology - Using shotgun metagenomics, cultivation and metabolic modelling, the authors construct the Salmon Microbial Genome Atlas as a resource for future studies on sustainable...
Our study on the (huge) variations in transformation rates is now out in OA! Key question: why are so many strains non-transformable if the many recent transitions to non-transformability seem deleterious? doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Bacterial species exhibit large variations in their transformation rates. This study of Legionella pneumophila and Acinetobacter baumannii shows that their transformation rates evolve by sudden quick ...
🚀Announcing my first (co)first-author manuscript 🚀 "Cell attachment and tail contraction of S. aureus phage phi812" 🔗 bit.ly/Phi812#PhageTherapy#cryoEM 🧪 | 🧬🧶 | 🦠 1/11
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Choose 20 books or papers that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. h/t @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social Day 20
Intragenomic conflicts with plasmids and chromosomal mobile genetic elements drive the evolution of natural transformation within species (PLOS Biology) from @epcrocha.bsky.socialjournals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Great paper looking at phyologenetics+genetics of transformation
Now out in MGen! Daria Frolova's paper on measuring plasmid relatedness using rearrangement distances www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...#microsky
Dynamics of the distribution of fitness effects during adaptation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.09.617468v1
Mutations drive adaptive evolution due to their heritable effects on fitness. Empirical measures of
Which scientific challenges have the highest potential for AI impact? 🖥️🧬 The DOE Office of Science wants your input to identify and prioritize initiatives — share your thoughts by 10/21: forms.gle/BfZGBTR2Zat5...@axelvisel.bsky.social@simrouxvirus.bsky.social@danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com
Recognizing the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Nation’s scientific discovery, energy research and national security future, DOE-Office of Science (SC) is commissioning a set of 6 Sc...
A family of Tn7-like transposons evolved to target CRISPR repeats (bioRxiv) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... These Cyanobacterial transposons insert into the CRISPR array repeats - but are thought not to disrupt the array function, and may have evolved from tRNA-targeting transposons
