In #StPetersburg, #Russia, the police detained a well-known survivor of the Siege of Leningrad Yelena Osipova at an anti-war #protest:

We are pleased to see the growing interest in attending VoM2022. However taking into account this time of extreme uncertainties and sadness for Europe and the World we have been able to extend the abstract submission deadline please check the new dates: vom2022.org

Fresh from the press ! Cool work by Leandra Knecht and colleagues from the Lars Fieseler lab ZHAW shows that #Erwinia #amylovora #phage S6 requires bacterial #cellulose for infection and encodes a #cellulase to degrade it - recycling done the phage way ! doi.org/10.1111/1462-2…

Paper by Pawel Markwitz (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and colleagues in The ISME Journal: Genome-driven elucidation of #phage-host interplay and impact of phage resistance evolution on #bacterial fitness buff.ly/3JsuAgc

Our work on SmdA - a new protein affecting cell division in staphylococci - has now been published in mBio. Olga Shapoval Daniel Straume journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Really exciting study from the Otto and Li labs. Investigating the novel mechanism of micrococcin P1 release/activity from Staphylococcus hominis

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Fresh from the paper mill - excited to present our new paper on the incredible activity of linker-modified endolysins against #Staphylococcus on skin - many thanks to #FritzEichenseher, #MathiasSchmelcher, many other co-authors, and support from Micreos ! doi.org/10.1128/aac.02…

PlasmidMaker is a versatile, automated, and high throughput end-to-end platform for plasmid construction. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Smashing of an immunological dogma...neutrophils can act as powerful antigen presenting cells ! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Prior #Saureus exposure—a pitfall to vaccine success. New work finds that prior #Staphylococcus aureus infection preprograms the host immune system to respond poorly to vaccines, with antibody competition further reducing efficacy cell.com/cell-host-micr…

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@JanesKrusche and Christian Beck talking about Staphylococcal phage-host interactions at the New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction meeting! Andreas Peschel

If you are interested in phages interacting with wall teichoic acid of Staphylococci, check out our new preprint from the Andreas Peschel lab on S. epidermidis GroP wall teichoic acid glycosylation with glucose. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Great to meet all these current and previous members of the Tubingen Staphylococcus crowd at #GRCStaph! Simon Heilbronner Andrea Salzer Minh-Thu Nguyen Laura Camus Xin Du Sook-Ha Fan Michael Otto DorotheeKretschmer Christian Beck christiane wolz Wenqi Yu

Are you interested in bacteriophage-host interactions? - Please have a look at our recently published review on S. epidermidis phages: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Thanks to @JanesKrusche Xin Du, Ahmed Elsherbini and Andreas Peschel

We discovered that S. epidermidis attaches glucose to its wall teichoic acids, which determines the binding behaviour of several bacteriophages. Now in mBio: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb… Thanks to Andreas Peschel @JanesKrusche, Cristina De Castro, Christoph Mayer and others.