Our Molecular Cell Spotlight on the Hailong anti-phage system from the Kranzusch lab! This defense uses "ssDNA tripwires" to trigger toxic ion channels 🧬⚡☠️ Fun write with Johannes Kühn!!

If anyone needs a clear explanation of how to do standardised antibiotic susceptibility testing (MICs) properly then I highly recommend this article nature.com/articles/s4425…

Phage therapy in a patient with prosthetic join infection in Spain! Another sucessful treatment from the #EnBiVir VLC Phage Hunters Evolving Therapeutics in collaboration with Dr. de la Villa Special mention Mireia Bernabéu-Gimeno and Marco Pardo-Freire for the phage production! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Call for papers! 📄📢 Sustainable Microbiology invites #Rhizosphere focused original research, review, and perspective articles which advance our knowledge in the field and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 🌱 Submit your research today - academic.oup.com/sumbio/pages/c…

📢Preprint out! Excited to share my final work from the @Soreklab! We mined phage dark matter using structural features shared by anti-defense proteins (viral tools that help phages bypass bacterial immunity) to guide discovery. Found 3 new families targeting immune signaling!

Breaking news!!! Fist bacteriophage-based feed additive with EU authorisation. BAFASAL®, Proteonpharma pioneering #bacteriophage-based feed additive, has received full regulatory approval from the European Union for use in #poultry. proteonpharma.com/the-eu-approve…

Why do #phages make short #endolysin isoforms? 🧬🦠 Matthew Dunne team in ETH Zürich, using Staph φ2638A, reveals both full-length and short variants form heterodimers to boost lysis & phage release—explaining conserved internalTSSs in phage genomes! buff.ly/1I0H9ya

🔔‼️job alert‼️🔔 We are recruiting a research technician with expertise in microbiology, biochemistry and tissue culture to support our TB research and also Matt Gibson group’s research programme Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. Get in touch if you are interested! jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Come work with us as a research technician..!

Interested in living/active matter? I will be giving a Royal Society of Chemistry "desktop seminar" webinar on August 5, describing our recent work studying bacterial growth in complex fluids, along with my friend & intellectual hero Kate Stebe (U. Penn)! Register at: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regist….

1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab! We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness. Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77

Out Now! Expression level of anti-phage defence systems controls a trade-off between protection range and autoimmunity bit.ly/4lNbzZf #Microbiology #PhageDefense #Autoimmunity

Thrilled to see our Kiwa story out today! A membrane-associated supercomplex that senses infection and blocks replication and transcription. Huge congratulations to ugobananas @Zhangzhiyi58692 and Thomas Todeschini, and to all our collaborators. shorturl.at/l0ayB

A postdoctoral position, funded by the The Leverhulme Trust for up to 36 months, is available to join my group Chemistry Edinburgh. The project focuses on biomimetic approaches to natural product synthesis. Deadline: 28th August 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

wow, just wow. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

.YuGeng Zhang (Dunn_School (now @DunnSchool.bsky.social)) and colleagues published a new paper on a repressor, RptR, that controls Type I restriction modification system defence islands. They show that RptR binds TAGCTA repeats to silence the island until #phage infection lifts repression buff.ly/UCZGWrc

Happy to share our latest work online! Huge thanks to Franklin Nobrega for his outstanding leadership, and to our amazing co-first authors Thomas Todeschini & ugobananas for their amazing efforts.🔬 Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Our new paper out in Microbiology Spectrum: Nontuberculous mycobacteria remodel lung microbiota in #cysticfibrosis associated respiratory infections Driven by Damian Rivett and Michelle Hardman from her Cystic Fibrosis Trust funded PhD project #CF #microbiomeecology doi.org/10.1128/spectr…

Day 1 - We're off! First walk complete - 3.79 miles through the University of Warwick campus on this beautiful Friday afternoon! Starting my commitment to walk and run every single day in August for Scleroderma & Raynaud's UK. sclerodermaraynaudsuk.enthuse.com/pf/ryan-mushin…

#Phages 2025: 1-2 Sept 2025, St Edmund Hall, Oxford View full agenda below: lpmhealthcare.com/phages-2025/sp… Only a last few places remain for in-person attendance. Poster abstracts can be submitted until 15 Aug. #PhgOx25 #bacteriphage #antibioticresistance