Prediction and diversity of tracrRNAs from type II CRISPR-Cas systems Is avaiulable! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Targeting of temperate phages drives loss of type I CRISPR–Cas systems disq.us/t/3lidlc3.

The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes disq.us/t/3lbip03

#PLOSONE: Fungal diversity in canopy soil of silver beech, Nothofagus menziesii (Nothofagaceae) dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Looking for a Postdoc in Microbial Genetics. otago.taleo.net/careersection/… Biochemistry, Dunedin, New Zealand. otago.ac.nz/biochemistry/i…

We are pleased that our collaborative anti-defense paper is published in Nature Communications. Two great PhD students were joint first authors on this. nature.com/articles/s4146…

The latest publication from Otago Biochemistry Analysis of fungal genomes reveals commonalities of intron gain or loss and functions in intron-poor species ift.tt/3ru3awD Mol Biol Evol. 2021 Mar 27:msab094. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab094. Online … ift.tt/eA8V8J

Know Your Enemy: Successful Bioinformatic Approaches to Predict Functional RNA Structures in Viral RNAs frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Great review