Excited to share our preprint on metabolic differences in the vaginal #microbiome. We find key differences in fatty acid metabolism among #Lactobacillus species & leverage those findings to identify a potential new therapy for bacterial vaginosis (BV) & #WomensHealth 🧵 (1/n)

We have an exciting group of speakers visiting this Spring via Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics at UMD Science, including Justin Meyer of UCSD who will give Mon. 3/25 12pm seminar in BRB 1103 on "Unraveling Darwin’s entangled bank using bacteriophage experiments".

The newest issue of JB is out! The bacterial nucleoid, archael actins, Streptomyces extracellular vesicles, making mutations in Mycobacterium abscessus, phospholipare regulation in P. aeruginosa, and more! journals.asm.org/toc/jb/206/3 ASM JBacteriology Eds

ISME and the Alma Dal Co Foundation are delighted to announce the renaming of the ISME Early Career Award to the ISME Alma Dal Co Award to commemorate the life and work of Alma Dal Co (1989 - 2022). 🔗 isme-microbes.org/news-dalco-awa…

Woohoo, our paper on the discovery of 65 new phages dependent on conjugative plasmids is published in it's final form today in Nature Communications ! Here follows a thread (1/ ) link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Thrilled to have these bold, visionary leaders join the SSF family. Welcome, 2024 Fellows!

New in JB: Sharma and Rajpurohit discuss the diverse functions of bacterial extracellular DNA in biofilms in this minireview journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

Check out the new preprint by Annie Yu Xiaoqian(Annie) Yu and colleagues on how genome wide selective sweeps structure the human microbiome: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint alert!🚀 Excited to share our latest preprint, where we discover a vast arsenal of phage anti-defense proteins using an interpretable machine-learning approach. Big thanks to Martin Polz, @ShaulPollak, Mariusz Ferenc, and all collaborators! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨Super excited to share our pre-print describing how we used genomics to discover a family of anti-phage lanthipeptides from Actinobacteria 🦠 This marks a significant expansion in the number of bacterial natural products involved in chemical defense. A thread 👇: MDMLab

Single cell mass and density relationships in marine unicellular algae reveal increased density during starvation with implications for nutrient access. Fabulous work by Teemu Miettienen, Annika Gomez and Yanqi Wu. Collaboration with Scott Manalis (MIT). science.org/doi/full/10.11…

The ISME ECSC is spotlighting Rachel Gregor (Rachel Gregor), a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral researcher, and her paper “Vitamin auxotrophies shape microbial community assembly in the ocean.” doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… (1/2)

It has recently been described that bacteria and eukaryotes share some part of their immune systems. But what do they share exactly? How did this evolve? We propose the concept of ancestral immunity to explore this emerging topic. Some answers but mostly questions 🙃.

Happy to see our paper out @nature today: A bacterial immune system conjugates ubiquitin-like proteins to phage tails. This generates non-infective virions Congrats Jens Hör & Sharon Grayer Wolf! Link to paper: tinyurl.com/Isg15 Read the thread: x.com/SorekLab/statu…

US Phage Foundry team at Brady Cress Ella Rotman Hemaa Selvakumar #VoM2024

Please join faculty from Yale Biomedical Informatics & Data Science Yale Department of Immunobiology and the Microbial Sciences Institute for a Q&A webinar about our faculty searches in computational microbiology and microbe-immune interaction at Yale. October 10, 2024 12p (noon) EST. Registration required: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Thrilled to see it! Congratulations Upasana DasAdhikari & Doug Kwon 🔑 findings: Colon CD8+ T cells in people with HIV on ART trigger apoptosis in epithelial cells, compromising gut integrity. Damage occurs through direct contact, sidestepping conventional T cell killing mechanisms.

Congratulations, Upasana DasAdhikari !

Mona Parizadeh, Ph.D., PDF (she/her)🕊 JoRondo 1st evening is already up to a gr8 start: NxC interaction in soil Seppe Kuehn, bifido longum dyn. in infant gut mbiome Moran Yassour, & + on SCFAs roles in infections by Candida Keiko, vaginal microbiome superkillers Fatima Aysha Hussain, phages & gut-mbiota-brain axis #CSHLmbiome

Fungal influence: Role of gut mycobiome in women’s health Preview of work showing A.tubingensis is enriched in patients w/polycystic ovary syndrome. In mice, this fungus induced a PCOS-like phenotype by inhibiting IL-22 secretion from ILC3s via AT-C1-AhR cell.com/cell-host-micr…