My epidemiology senses are tingling 🦇

Anyone who doubts that preprints are an amazing force for good should be swayed by this: the receptor for the Wuhan coronavirus is already identified and in the public domain thanks to bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110… h/t Richard P Grant

Be sure to mark your calendars for the next #BostonPFU meeting on Thursday March 19th at 5:30 pm. Two research talks and networking--you don't want to miss this! 🔬🧫🧬

Online today in #MGen : How we can use transcriptomic data to reveal new temperate phage biology microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… This started with a simple idea and became a nice proof of concept. And one of the last papers from my PhD in @jay_salsa lab ! ( a thread ⤵️ ) Microbiology Society

Super delighted and proud to share our latest work on high-throughput characterization of phage resistance landscape! This has been a multiyear project with a strong team and awesome colleagues. @Deutschbauer_Lab Ben Adler Denish Piya Harneet Singh Rishi Britt Koskella #AdamArkin Institute for Geographic Information Science

Our latest work on the battle between Vibrio cholerae and lytic phage ICP1 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… PLEs are parasitic mobile genetic elements in VC genome that completely abolish ICP1 production while exploiting phage resources to further their own lifecycle 1/ 4

When two of your epidemiologist friends get married during a pandemic ♥️ congrats Jen and Matt 🍾

Check out my recently published work in mBio! Traxler Lab Rita Pessotti Monika Fischer mbio.asm.org/content/11/4/e…

SO excited to share our preprint led by Kristen LeGault in collaboration with Dr. Munir Alam's team icddr,b! 🎉🎉🍾 We did time-shift experiments to see if #phage in clinical samples infect epidemic Vibrio cholerae and discovered an interesting pattern biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In a study published today in Science Magazine, members of the Kim Seed lab unlock genetic mechanisms behind cholera and its viruses. ow.ly/RYx250FGAq8

🚨Calling Harvard Micro postdocs🚨 Come to the first *Micro Postdoc Retreat* on Friday May 20th to get to know the HMS postdoc community and chat about cool science! Registration info below 👇

Happy to finally have my preprint out in the world! I isolated phage from stool to identify anti-phage systems on conserved V. cholerae genomic islands The Vibrio cholerae Seventh Pandemic islands act in tandem to defend against a circulating phage biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Best way to get to know your new bacteria? Infect it with phage! Check out my preprint 👇 where I used tn-seq to find phage resistance in Corynebacteria and ID'd new genes involved in mycolata envelope assembly

Happy micro postdoc retreat to all! Harvard Micro

Great Harvard Micro representation at #Phages2022 🤙🤙

Congrats to the incomparable Dr. O'Hara Brendan O'Hara! Phage hunter, dissertation defender, and champagne saber-er 🍾

Pleased to share that my latest manuscript had been published! Check it out for some phage and bacterial goodies👇 elifesciences.org/articles/79981

Exciting news! The pre-print for our paper, “Diverse and abundant viruses exploit conjugative plasmids” is finally out! Join me on this thread to hear more about this mysterious group of phages with rather unique lifestyle preferences. 1/ biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Happy Halloween from the Candy Corn-ybacteria crew!