Just over two weeks until the abstract deadline on May 10th! Submit your abstract now at thermophiles2023.org. #thermophiles #extremophiles

& Phage-tail like bacteriocins nature.com/articles/s4139…

Excited to share the latest pub from Sarah Price in collaboration with @tvanop! Here we used a new form of TnSeq to identify the yersiniabactin secretion system in Y. pestis. A short teaser of the findings. 1/10 embopress.org/doi/abs/10.152…

A streamlined method to obtain biologically active TcdA and TcdB toxins from Clostridioides difficile biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to have contributed to the story! Check out our structure of the archaeal pilus that is allowing twitching motion! 🎉 and check out the back to back story from @A_CharlesOrszag biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and Junfeng LIU biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you are interested in bacterial toxins check out our new database Toxinome: nearly 1.5M toxins and 500K antitoxins within 59K bacterial genomes. We defined the concept of genomic Toxin Islands which are densely populated with toxins and antitoxins. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m very proud of our most recent publication on heat shock response in #Sulfolobus Congratulations to Rani Baes and all collaborators!

What's better than doing science by yourself? Doing it with friends and colleagues! This was the motivation behind our recent summer Archaeal Cell Biology Workshop-- Woods Hole-style collab here in San Francisco. Sam Lord @A_CharlesOrszag Sonja-Verena Albers Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) UC San Francisco (1/n)

The Year of the Dragon

A new archaeal virus that suppresses the transcription of host immunity genes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Revisiting the Multifaceted Roles of Bacteriocins Microbial Ecology by Sara Arbulu and Morten Kjos link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Archaea.bio by the the Society for Archaeal Biology! A long-term informational resource for #archaea researchers. Visit the website and submit your protocol: archaea.bio

As part of the Marie Curie Doctoral Network ARCTECH, our lab is recruiting two motivated PhD students to investigate the structure, function, and biotechnological applicability of archaeal cell surface proteins. To apply, go to jobs.exeter.ac.uk and search for ARCTECH.

Please RP! We are hiring a postdoc to explore how eukaryotic chromatin evolved from Archaea! This position is funded for 3 years by #HFSP. jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDe…

We have two postdoc positions available (funded for 3 years by Volkswagen Momentum) for research related to the de novo evolution of (i) bacterial anti-CRISPR activities and (ii) archaeal tRNA gene introns. Please feel free to share or apply: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/299…

#MicrobiologyMonday: It's been proposed that delivery of the bacterial toxin colibactin requires cell-to-cell contact. However, new research in E. coli shows it can damage DNA in bacterial cells that are close by or hundreds of microns away. mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Discovery, characterization, and application of chromosomal integration sites in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_synbio

Reply to: Natively expressed AcrIII-1 does not function as an anti-CRISPR protein | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am excited to share a recent work (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…) I co-supervised with my friend Zhirui (Ray). In this study, we demonstrated that cyclization of archaeal membrane lipids can influence membrane protein function and archaellum assembly.

The ECS Committee is excited to explore Career Choices for Microbial Ecologists! This month, we’re featuring María A. Baustista. She encourages ECS to be adaptable and proactive in shaping their own path. Read her full interview here: isme-microbes.org/career-choice-…