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A milestone in Food Science - Unprecedented food microbial diversity of 2,500 metagenomes published in Cell. Huge accessible database of genomes to study food microbes! Hard work with Nicola Segata Edoardo Pasolli Paul Cotter and many MASTER IA H2020 partners! rb.gy/yvi7j1

Fantastic meeting of the Swiss Society for Microbiology in Bern - great science with a view 🧬🏞️

Important news: there's a new NASA Goddard website that can spell out your name in NASA Landsat satellite imagery of 🌎 and I love it very much.

Experimental capture of genomic islands defines a widespread class of genetic element capable of non-autonomous transfer biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Latest from the lab! PICI and prophage-encoded Tai proteins protect cells by blocking phage tail assembly. Prophages counter with a mechanism allowing tail formation after induction. Defence and counter-defence genes are organised for expression. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Farewell of the Amgen Scholarship summer interns - fantastic program for undergraduates enabling two-month lab projects with a rich cultural program 🧬⛰️. There should be more opportunities like this!

Annual summer party of the local community farm 🚜🌾🌻

Jobs I have as a PI that I didn't know I'd have before I became a PI: accountant, financial planner, HR manager, conference & event organiser, grant manager, counsellor, meeting facilitator, course developer, academic administrator, facility manager, purchasing officer, AV tech.

I love meeting friends + colleagues and discussing science, but I do admit that the view is always another good reason to pass by at Biozentrum in Basel. 🏙️⛅

We are hiring! Together with Philipp Popp, we are looking for two motivated PhD candidates to investigate fundamental immune mechanisms of bacteria against bacteriophages in the framework of the DFG priority program New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/269521

OUT NOW 🦠Individual bacterial cells can use spatial sensing of chemical gradients to direct chemotaxis on surfaces. Science at Sheffield nature.com/articles/s4156…

The journey to Lausanne is always a special treat for train+ nature enthusiasts 🚆🏞️

A viral family tree gets a makeover! 🧬🦠🔍Our new study, out today in nature, reveals the Flaviviridae's hidden history. MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research #virology nature.com/articles/s4158…

Fantastic day with many old and new friends as external speaker of the science day at DMF UNIL! Thanks for hosting me and to Honsworth + the whole team for the great organization 🧬⛅😁

Great lab hike in the mountains together with the group of Martin J Loessner ⛰️⛅🍻

Folks please remember, when looking for a lab to join, always talk with current *and* past trainees. Joining a lab that nurtures and supports trainees is more important than where they publish. I cant stress that enough. Join a lab that will help guide you in your career

nature.com/articles/s4155… Woah! "At the deepest phylogenetic levels, ancestral habitat reconstruction analyses suggest that eukaryotes may have first evolved in non-marine habitats and that the two largest known eukaryotic assemblages arose in different habitats."