@_casuali From our reanalyses, the 2D trees in which Eukarya emerge from asgards are biased by several pitfalls and by the existence of lateral gene transfer from proto-eukarya to asgards. See our review in Da Cunha et al., 2022 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ml…

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a multidisciplinary project w. high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization Université de Montréal Faculté de médecine Mila - Institut québécois d'IA IRIC. Apply @ [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s

Nitric oxide donor sodium nitroprusside serves as a source of iron supporting Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth and biofilm formation biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

Our student Xavier Bertran (who is not on X) worked out that in a closed culture system, the nitro oxide donor SNP, in addition to its role in dispersing PAO1 biofilms, promotes PAO1 biofilm and planktonic cell growth, potentially through donating its iron centre.

Microbiology Monday: To swim or to swarm? 🦠While c-di-GMP inhibits swimming to promote biofilm formation in E. coli, elevated levels of the secondary message molecule trigger production of a surfactant (colanic acid) that aids swarming. #mBio: asm.social/2pm

Research assistant position is available in my lab, please share: careers.uth.tmc.edu/us/en/job/2500…

Excellent piece and looking forward to the reading!

Out today in Biology Letters - mate copying is not limited to Drosophila melanogaster. It´s sister species D. simulans does it too! We tested females from 3 populations and they all copied. This suggests that this strategy may be more widespread🪰royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

"production of long ssDNA" Optimizing homology-directed repair for gene editing: the potential of single-stranded DNA donors sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We're proud of our community and its impact over the last 80 years. Help us continue to amplify our members’ voices and advance the understanding of microbiology in tackling global challenges. Get involved with the Society - microb.io/Get-Involved

Today I watched a movie titled 南京照相馆which depicted how a group of civilians used photographs to document the atrocities of the Nanking Massacre. It reminded me of my last visit to Nanking, where I paid my respects to John Rabe who protected Nanking civilians during that time

Our following up work on O-antigen sensitising E. coli to bile salt found home at mBio and now online! We showed that disruptions in OM-peptidoglycan linkages confer bile salt resistance in OAg-producing bacteria journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Loves the creative cover page & always very supportive of society journals

How to measure bacterial genome plasticity? A novel index helps gather insights on pathogens. Find out more in MGen: doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0… #MGen

🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking a new ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Join the Microbiome Jubilee! Learn more: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Acad…

Here is the press release on our recent article describing a novel superfamily of protein domains operating on lipids. Among other things, it unveils the origin of Wnt emerged in animals and numerous other metabolic and biological conflict networks that remain unstudied:

Was a pleasant read, congratulations.

In Haemophilus influenzae, beta-lactam antibiotics reproducibly selected mutants with increased MICs, but evolutionary pathways and resulting phenotypes remain unpredictable, highlighting the complexity of resistance evolution. Read in #AACJournal: asm.social/2Cy

New in #mLife: Yaoqin Hong, Jilong Qin & Makrina Totsika explore how both overly stiff and overly fluid membranes impair biofilm growth in E. coli—revealing a “Goldilocks” fluidity zone. @wileymicrobio 👉doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.7…

Thanks for providing the avenue to this timely work. Additional work revealing a novel strategy by which Gram-negative bacteria maintains fluidity will soon follow.