Fully paid PhD fellowships Université de Lausanne available! Find and contact a host lab (for instance our lab or any lab DMF UNIL 😉) and apply before the 11th of October. More info here: unil.ch/ecoledoctorale…

New preprint from the lab, work led by Arnau, in JPIAMR collab. with BrochadoLab, Nassos Typas EMBL and Henriques-Normark lab. Identification and MOI of a set of compounds that potently inhibit competence and thereby HGT in #pneumococcus. Comments welcome! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interesting animated abstract on the latest preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… from Jan-Willem Veening lab DMF UNIL Université de Lausanne University of Groningen in collab. with researchers from EMBL Karolinska Institutet Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg #AntibioticResistance youtu.be/OXU_AHJqSsI

Excited to participate in the #GramPos2019 conference! Check out my poster #poster97! We are using #CRISPR for genome editing in #pneunococcus with Jan-Willem Veening #veeninglab

Chitosan films for microfluidic studies of single bacteria and perspectives for antibiotic susceptibility testing ow.ly/7dZv50vDcAI

Bacterial metabolic state more accurately predicts antibiotic lethality than growth rate nature.com/articles/s4156…

Comunicat de Tsunami Democràtic en veu de Pep Guardiola:

Looking for a Postdoc to work on computational biology of drug combinations. Exciting topic, together with experimentalists! Don't miss this opportunity! Lots of data already there, and more on its way! brochadolab.com

Dear Basketball. Amabas el baloncesto y nos hiciste amarlo a nosotros. #EternoKobe

Anti-evolution drug could stop antibiotic resistance rug.nl/sciencelinx/ni… Study by Jan-Willem Veening and colleagues from University of Groningen and Université de Lausanne youtube.com/watch?v=WlAoEb…

Introducing COM-blockers: Jan-Willem Veening &Co identify compounds preventing competence & #horizontalgenetransfer in #Streptococcus pneumoniae. COM-blockers perturb proton motive force, thus reducing export of #quorumsensing peptide that activates competence. cell.com/cell-hot-micro…

New study from the #veeninglab Jan-Willem Veening Arnau DMF UNIL Université de Lausanne in Cell Host & Microbe on the discovery of compounds that can inhibit horizontal gene transfer in the #pneumococcus.

Nice coverage by @NicolettaML Live Science on our latest paper in Cell Host & Microbe: New drugs could stymie superbugs by freezing evolution livescience.com/anti-evolution…

We're hiring! Very flexible in how we're going to spend the money, so casting a wide net in search for either a technician, PhD student and/or post-doc. It's a 4 year project from Swiss National Science Foundation to study pneumococcal competence! More information here: veeninglab.com/job-openings

The power of COM-blockers: Jan-Willem Veening &Co identify compounds preventing competence & #horizontalgenetransfer in #Streptococcus pneumoniae. COM-blockers perturb proton motive force, thus reducing export of #quorumsensing peptide that activates competence cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Check out our latest preprint! Dimitra Synefiaridou made an easy to use system to perform multiple rounds of genome editing in #pneumococcus by putting the CRISPR-Cas9 system on a temperature-sensitive replicative plasmid. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy Holidays Everyone. Enjoy my E-card of pneumococcus having a snowball fight with COVID-19!

Very proud of Paddy Gibson for solving this huge genetic puzzle, in collaboration with Lauren Cowley. The exact and minimal requirements for resistance to amoxicillin, the frontline antibiotic to treat #pneumococcal infections, were not known biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Nobel lecture of Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, has a section at the end where he considers personal responsibility and infectious disease. Still relevant. artsandculture.google.com/asset/alexande…