Human-gut phages harbor sporulation genes journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb… Jay T Lennon Daniel Schwartz Mike Shaffer Rebecca Daly Josué Rodríguez-Ramos 🇵🇷 Kelly Wrighton #mBio

Congratulations to Daniel Schwartz on their new paper in M Hoelscher documenting sporulation genes in phages. More importantly, congratulations to Daniel Schwartz on the new microbiology job @DSM with move to the Netherlands! It was great having you here IU Biology!

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Bacteria-phage coevolution with a seed bank The ISME Journal by Daniel Schwartz Will Shoemaker🥭 Andreea Magalie Joshua Weitz and Jay T Lennon #Bacillussubtilis #SPO1 nature.com/articles/s4139…

I am proud to see my final first-author from my postdoc research with Jay T Lennon now published in The ISME Journal. Congratulations and many thanks to all coauthors and many other people that helped along the way.

Bacteria-phage coevolution with a seed bank nature.com/articles/s4139…

“Bacteria-phage coevolution with a seed bank” Led by Daniel Schwartz with Will Shoemaker🥭, Andreea Magalie, Joshua Weitz available The ISME Journal 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4139…

Looking forward to attending #ASMicrobe in-person for the first time! I’ll be giving a talk on recent work with Jacopo Grilli in the Math of Microbes session Friday the 16th @ 3pm I’ll be here until the afternoon of the 18th and am happy to chat eco/evo, feel free to reach out!

Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

“Evolution of a minimal cell” in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… Led by R with Brent Lehmkuhl at IU Biology J. Craig Venter Institute collaborators: Lijie Sun, Daniela Bittencourt, Kim Wise, John Glass Along with @dschoolmaster, and Mike Lynch Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

If you are interested how preculture conditions prepare Lactococcus cremoris for future sugar consumption have a look at a proteome study by S. Douwenga, Berdien van Olst, Michiel Kleerebezem, Bas Teusink ..Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

Bacterium secretes chemical inhibitor that sensitizes competitor to bacteriophage infection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Another update... after nearly 10 years in development, delighted to share news that 'Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations' is available for pre-order from Princeton University Press: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Streptomyces vs Bacillus👇🏼 “The phage-promoting metabolite, coelichelin, sensitized B. subtilis to a wide panel of lytic phages, and it did so by preventing the early stages of sporulation through iron sequestration. “

Ok, I guess today is the right day to write about our manuscript that was published a month ago in The ISME Journal. This was the outcome of ~ 5 years of hard work of (mainly) Dikla Kolan, who was the first PhD student in my lab (now Dr. Kolan), with some help from

I highly recommend joining the lab of Jay T Lennon , my former postdoc mentor! His unwavering support for innovative ideas coupled with a playful approach to research ensures not only impactful science but also an enjoyable journey along the way!

My paper with Jay T Lennon , "Phage-Encoded Sigma Factors Alter Bacterial Dormancy", was highlighted as an ASM Highly Cited paper in 2024! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… #ASMJournals Top Cited Articles (asm.org)

Thrilled this work is out in Nature Microbiology! nature.com/articles/s4156… (free link here: rdcu.be/d5ADw). We found that bacteria secrete #naturalproducts that sensitize competitors to #bacteriophage.