ELEPHANT ON LOOSE IN BUTTE: An elephant got loose in Butte on Tuesday. The elephant is now safe with its handlers. A viewer said before the elephant was captured it did number two on a Butte lawn. Credit: Brittany McGinnis. Share Your Photos and Videos: NBCMontana.com/ChimeIn

*📣 **Research associate position** Excited about microbiology, microbial ecology, & all aspects of phage biology in the context of microbial community dynamics in heavy metal contaminated sites? #Enigma_SFA Apply 👉🏽 lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/research-…

The Pedra Laboratory is recruiting postdoctoral fellows to study tick-borne diseases. We have projects related to arthropod immunology, skin immunology, immunometabolism and neuroimmunology. Contact me if you are interested. Thanks!

📢Applications are still open for these graduate positions on large mammal monitoring in Montana!

We are recruiting a Research Technician on molecular detection of Lyme disease bacteria in different animal models. We are looking for candidates who are motivated and enthusiastic about science and may consider developing careers in academia and/or industry. Please repost this!

Happy and super excited to share our discovery of a protein fractal! We unravel the surprisingly simple emergence of these marvellous structures and show it might have even been an accident of evolution. Read the full story here

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Or just stick around 🧵

Structure of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 Type IV pilus
Congrats Hannah Ochner Jan Böhning Abul Tarafder MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Ido Caspy 💔 Zhexin (Eric) Wang

biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Caught a brief glimpse between the clouds here in MT

Excited to share that our Science paper is online now! Small viruses of bacteria can be used to disarm pathogenic bacteria, for example, phage PP7 to disarm human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa in this paper.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Interested in doing a postdoc in Seattle? Join us May 7 for Seattle DROP, a virtual biomedical postdoc recruitment event. The first 250 US registrants enjoy lunch via delivery voucher! 
Underrepresented candidates are esp encouraged to attend.
Register: bit.ly/seattledrop

Congrats to Maryam Hajfathalian and David Cormode on their recent #JCI paper on using nanoparticles and thermoablation to treat wound infections, here highlighted in NIH news.
nibib.nih.gov/news-events/ne…

Check out our new paper in collaboration with Travis Wheeler's group out today in NAR Genomics & Bioinformatics! Editors choice!

VIBES: a workflow for annotating and visualizing viral sequences integrated into bacterial genomes

doi.org/10.1093/nargab…

I want to (belatedly) share our new publication in PLoS Genetics - journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Led by Jakob T Rostøl and Nuria Quiles, with Lasa_Lab, we show that prophages utilise noncontiguous operons to balance immunity and autoimmunity. Our results underscore the essential fine regulation of these processes for prophages' life cycle development.
nature.com/articles/s4156…

We are excited to share the publication of our latest paper! In furthering our understanding of the gut-brain axis, we showed that past intestinal inflammation is associated with deficits in sociability in mice. nature.com/articles/s4146…

In a new study lead by Josh Kirsch and in collaboration with Andrew Hryckowian, we provide a comprehensive IS database for use with polymicrobial MAGs. We show that IS insertions target accessory genes within the microbiota that support gut adaptation. cell.com/cell-host-micr…

The phiKZ jumbo phages build a protein based nucleus to protect their DNA(!), but what do they do before the nucleus is built? Led by outstanding post-doc Deepto Mozumdar, here we identify host and phage proteins in an immediate early phage lipid vesicle.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Biofilm and brains: As part of an awesome team led by bryan yipp and with jaideep bains Altier lab and Kurrasch Lab, I am thrilled to share a paper showing that P. aeruginosa #biofilm polysaccharides alter sensory-neuron-mediated sickness in lung infection
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…