The Phage Valley Belgian Society for Viruses of Microbes Yves Briers

Now it is official: the VoM triple helix model is becoming the Phage Valley!!

For this reason, the BSVoM is launching the Belgian Phage Valley. A central hub that will be an actualisation of the triple helix. More on this soon!

Save the date! The 3rd BSVoM symposium will take place on September 13th at ULB in Brussels! 😎 bsvom.be/en/calendar/sa…

⚡Meet Aishwarya Saxena our Researcher of the Month!⚡ Aishwarya Saxena is a PhD student at the URBM UNamur. She is working on transcriptional regulation of (p)ppGpp in C crescentus and its role in cell cycle regulation. She is also a fellow member of the Young Belgian Society for Microbiology (YBSM)🦠

Our third annual symposium is slowly getting closer! Abstracts due by August 1st! Come join us in Brussels 😎

Ready, set, go... For what's going to be an impressive session on bacterial immune systems #VoM2024

Our afternoon session on "Bacterial Immune Systems" begins with our invited speaker Nils Birkholz discussing phage counter-defence strategies. Followed by talks from Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Pedro Leão & Yuping Li Chaired by Greg German MD PhD FRCPC DTM&H & Rob Edwards

What a great #VoM2024!

🔎take a closer look - epidemiological analysis shows host-pathogen sympatry affects Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage transmission in humans by @Maha_Farhat Matthias Groschel nature.com/articles/s4156…

Gracias Carlos Alcaraz por estos días que han sido fantásticos en muchos aspectos. Experiencia inolvidable contigo y todo el equipo. Y, ahora, lo más importante; vamos Carlos a por la medalla, ya estás mas cerca después de la victoria de hoy, la puedes conseguir. ¡Estamos todos

A new software pipeline, Beav, combines new & existing tools for the comprehensive annotation of bacterial genomes & mobile genetic elements; it also generates publication-quality genome & plasmid maps. Learn about the easy-to-run platform in mSphere: asm.social/1ZT

Incredible tribute to phospholipids

JO 2024 – Légendaire Mijain Lopez : le Cubain décroche son cinquième titre olympique rtbf.be/article/jo-202…

I am happy to share with you our last work on lipoprotein transport in Bacteroidetes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The ever amazing Artyom Egorov in our group has made a new visualisation tool for comparative genomics. Makes particularly beautiful images of phages, plasmids, other MGEs or regions of prokaryotic genomes 😍 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Awsome! TRAILER: Six Kings Slam features Nadal and Djokovic like never before tennis.com/news/videos/si…

OUT NOW in nature: A bacterial immunity protein directly senses two disparate phage proteins By Tong Zhang, Abel Garcia-Pino, Michael Laub & colleagues. Michael Laub nature.com/articles/s4158…

Exited to share that our latest paper is now out!🤩 While most of the research on TAM has been investigated in Proteobacteria, I am proud we are the first to uncover its role, and specifically the importance of TamL, in Bacteroidetes outer membrane integrity!🎉 Please, repost ☺️