Great talk by ⁦Aleksei_Agapov⁩ on his ⁦Multi-Defence⁩ project studying the immune system of Pseudomonas ⁦Microbiology Society⁩

Excited for some great talks at #Microbio24 ! I have a PhD studentship, 2-year postdoc and 1-year research assistant positions available, so please message me through the conference app or on here if you'd like to meet to chat about opportunities! #MicroSoc

Some type III CRISPR loci encode an NYN ribonuclease. Here, Haotian Chi Haotian Chi investigated what it might be doing... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Tempted...love what they did there with the fonts

Now out in Nature Microbiology: conjugation of a CBASS cyclase to Phage Shock Protein A. Awesome work by Larissa Krüger, Laura Gaskell-Mew and the team. Thanks #ERC for funding! nature.com/articles/s4156…

The committee has been working hard to organise the next big #CRISPR conference. This is the official twitter account for the meeting to be held in ChristchurchNZ and is the next meeting following the successful one in #Würzburg . Please follow and share for updates.

Excited to share that our official website is now live 🎉🎉 Find out more about our team and our exciting research here sites.exeter.ac.uk/multidefence/

For those who use it, Pymol 3.0 is now available for download (pymol.org). It is definitely faster on my Mac M2, but still a bit buggy

Great to have you visit us in St Andrews Tracy, can't believe it's been 28 years since we took that first step as academics!

The membrane protein Csx23 provides antiphage defence when cyclic tetra-adenylate binds to the cytosolic domain - a new class of recognition module

Breakthrough**CRISPR antiphage defence mediated by the cyclic nucleotide-binding membrane protein Csx23 doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… Tracey Gloster Malcolm White

⁦Eveline Peeters⁩ opens the annual Belgian Microbiology symposium

Crossing the Forth on the first leg of my train journey to Brussels for the Belgian Society for Microbiology annual conference Belgian Society for Microbiology (BSM)

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Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity

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Aaron Whiteley and @hannahledvina review the similarities between eukaryotic and bacterial innate immunity, exploring conserved components, signalling and restriction mechanisms.

Clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have accumulated phage defense systems in their genome matching their broad resistance to diverse phage families.
Great work by Rita, Daan and Jelger. Ana Rita Costa, Daan F van den Berg
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Excited to see our story on defence system synergy now out in Cell Host & Microbe! 👇

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