Are you excited about microbial predation and have a background in microscopy/microfluidics? Please apply to join our team @EMBL! Retweet please embl.org/jobs/position/… vangestelgroup.com

Large scale capsid-mediated mobilisation of bacterial genomic DNA in the gut microbiome biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our new paper is published in Scientific Data describing the genome sequences of 121 Bacillales isolates from all around the world -together with @tilmweber Joint DTU Bioengineering-BGI PhD project and nice collaborative effort providing the isolates nature.com/articles/s4159…

Do not miss Second Slovenian Phage Meeting 🇸🇮 on 23.01.2025 at UL, Biotehniška fakulteta co-organized with #FKKT, Jafral and #COBIK - FREE registration still open⏱️

Characterization of widely conserved novel pigment production in Bacillus subtilis species | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Xmas time at UL, Biotehniška fakulteta and in Ljubljana 🇸🇮 old town, this time bacteria are part of the exhibition🤩 Happy group members Valentina Andrea Floccari, Maja Popović and Hannah Bonham🎄

Xmas party in the group UL, Biotehniška fakulteta theme Xmas sweater and...karaoke😀. Hm wish Kasia Mickiewicz and Errington lab could be here🎤🎉🎄

Please retweet, registration deadline till 15th of Jan. 2025👇

Thrilled about our paper with Polonca Stefanic E. Stare, Valentina Andrea Floccari, I. MandicMulec UL, Biotehniška fakulteta 🇸🇮, in collab Mikael Lenz Strube CeMiSt DTU 🇩🇰, Akos T. Kovacs LeidenBiology 🇳🇱, Dr. Ulisses Rocha (he/they) UFZ 🇩🇪 , R. Hertel & Kovac Lab 🇺🇸. Global&local Bacillus prophages🔊European Research Council (ERC)

Check out the program of II slovenian phage meeting 👌bf.uni-lj.si/en/units/micro… 2 more days to register🔊 In the meantime, regular Monday in the lab (no posing) at UL, Biotehniška fakulteta European Research Council (ERC) Valentina Andrea Floccari, Hannah Bonham, Nina Vesel and Jaka Jakin Lazar💪

Second Slovenian Phage Meeting day starts🎉 keynote speaker Rob Lavigne opens with mysterious title UL, Biotehniška fakulteta 🇸🇮

First session Aljoša Beber, Polonca Stefanic, Nejc Stopnisek and Virginie Grosboillot on phage ecology and genomics 🤓🇸🇮

Jaka Jakin Lazar from our group on phage-encoded bacteriocin☢️💪 UL, Biotehniška fakulteta 🇸🇮

Second Slovenian Phage Meeting succeeded🎉🇸🇮🤓 🙏 to all speakers, our keynote Rob Lavigne, UL, Biotehniška fakulteta for hosting and coorganizers and sponsors #FKKT, Jafral, Cobik and support team especially Valentina Andrea Floccari, Maja Popović 👩‍🔧👩‍🔧

Nice morning surprise at the department 😍 ⁦UL, Biotehniška fakulteta⁩

New publication from our previous @cemist_dtu project by Rune OS that he also worked on during his external stay at LeidenBiology Plipastatin is a shared good by Bacillus subtilis during combating Fusarium spp academic.oup.com/femsec/advance…

A prophage-encoded anti-phage defense system that prevents phage DNA packaging by targeting the terminase complex biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

check new paper from Antonia Sagona lab🤩

Super excited to share our new selection-free CRISPR-Cas9 editing protocol for Dictyostelids, generating 80% KO and 30% KI efficiencies without selection in D. discoideum, and being effective in Dictyostelid species that diverged millions of years ago! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness biorxiv.org/content/10.110…