🚀 Excited to share our latest paper dissecting #Retron -Eco1!

Amazing collab with Guillermo Montoya and Nielsen Lab labs. Huge congrats to all co-authors, especially Arturo Carabias, Sarah Camara, Mario R Mestre — dream team! 🙌🎉

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Woow! What an extraordinary gathering of Mol Microbiol luminaries (mosty Europeans but peppered with quite a few stars from overseas 😀) this September in Sant Feliu de Guixols ... Check it out meetings.embo.org/event/24-bacnet EMBO

A receptor required for chitin perception facilitates arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and distinguishes root symbiosis from immunity Current Biology
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Single-cell network analysis reveals gene expression programs for Arabidopsis root development and metabolism Molecular Plant & Plant Communications
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Try out this new tool by David Meijer! Automated 3D visualizations of small molecules directly from (pure) Python code.

I’m thrilled to be able to announce that we were granted a NWO Summit grant entitled ‘Evolving Life from Nonlife’ (EVOLF) with 40 million euro for a 10-year project aimed to cross the gap between non-life and life by assembling a living synthetic cell from lifeless biomolecules!

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Phages enhance both phytopathogen density control and rhizosphere microbiome suppressiveness

mBio from Zhong Wei, Ville-Petri Friman 🇪🇺🇫🇮🇬🇧🇪🇺 and collagues at Nanjing Agricultural University

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Mobile-CRISPRi as a powerful tool for modulating Vibrio gene expression

AppEnvMicro journal from Julia van Kessel Mark Mandel

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Ecological and evolutionary processes involved in shaping microbial habitat generalists and specialists in urban park ecosystems

-in EIC Jack Gilbert

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Strigolactones shape the assembly of root-associated microbiota in response to phosphorus availability

in EIC Jack Gilbert by Pubo Chen et al at Hunan University

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Influence of PepF peptidase and sporulation on microcin J25 production in Bacillus subtilis

-in Microbiology Spectrum

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Species-specific design of artificial promoters by transfer-learning based generative deep-learning model
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-in Nucleic Acids Res

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New article from Christoph Giez & Thomas Bosch MetaorganismResearch Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 on the (not so!) primitive nervous system in Hydra.
Satiety controls behavior in Hydra through an interplay of pre-enteric and central nervous system-like neuron populations: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Intermittent water stress favors microbial traits that better help wheat under drought

ISME Communications by Ruth Schmidt, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 et al from Etienne Yergau lab

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Interesting article:
An evolutionary optimum amid moderate heritability in prokaryotic cell size: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

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Thanks to the awesome speakers of the session “Beyond model organisms” #srbr2024 Martha Merrow Charissa de Bekker The Reece Lab Filipa Rijo-Ferreira Instituto Milenio de Biología Integrativa 🌱

So Happy to see the beautiful work of Alejandra Goity 🤩 out, providing new insights into eukaryotic clock mechanisms and evolution Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Neurospora crassa Community Instituto Milenio de Biología Integrativa 🌱 Joseph Takahashi Susan Golden Antony Dodd #circadian #synbio #clocks