We are delighted to welcome Joseph Mougous to the Microbial Sciences Institute. An international leader in microbiology and HHMI Investigator, Mougous joins the faculty YaleMicroPath later this year. medicine.yale.edu/news-article/j…

Our new story on #T6SS WHIX effectors and bacterial warfare is out in PLOS Biology . It has a lot more data than the original bioRxiv preprint, so take a look even if you’ve read that. What did we find? A thread... 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

New review out today in Nature Biotech on nanopore-based protein sequencing. Feels... like... something... coming... soon... 👀

1/ New preprint! We discovered that Bacteroidales in the gut microbiome can metabolize exogenous DNA 🧬 —turning genetic material into usable nutrients. “DNA-utilization loci enable exogenous DNA metabolism in gut Bacteroidales” 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Bacteria hitch a ride on neighboring yeast puddles to zoom around. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria to spread more rapidly, turning what appears to be a physical barrier into a stepping stone. More in Biophysical Journal: cell.com/biophysj/fullt…

Programmable cell aggregation by a synthetic biosilicification approach "synthetic multicellular systems via programmable cell aggregation within 15 min. Bio-bricks were created by mixing engineered cells displaying the R5 peptide with sand." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Major update to BacFighT6: sites.google.com/view/bacfight6/ Simulate the role of motility/chemotaxis, capsule production, activation by autoinducers, contact dependent killing, kin-exclusion, foraging and more. Long simulations, extensive data import/export and analysis. Interactive Q&A!

中央研究院 Academia Sinica #ASConference2025 is coming June 30–July 3! 🗓️ Full agenda: asconference2025.dia.as.edu.tw IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) is co-organizing 3 interdisciplinary symposia, showcasing our work in plant and microbial biology. Join us for the exciting program!

Check out the new single-tip IMAC-HILIC method from IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) for simultaneous enrichment and sequential elution of phosphopeptides and N-glycopeptides in plant samples. Now published in @JProteome_Res! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Be our IMB colleague! Join us for cool science! OPEN FACULTY POSITION, INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, ACADEMIA SINICA, TAIWAN nature.com/naturecareers/…

🚨 Happy to share our new preprint in which we explore different layers of the phage-bacteria arms race. The highlight: phage homing endonucleases attenuate bacterial defenses 🤯 A 🧵... (1/7) #bacteriology #antiphage #T6SS Tel Aviv University TAU Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences biorxiv.org/content/10.110…