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Your cell line sequencing data isn’t mapping well? Before blaming the aligner—check if you're sequencing bacteria instead of human. Let’s talk about mycoplasma contamination.

Very dignified and interesting farewell symposium of VP Research Christian Wolfrum in the Semper Aula at ETH Zurich Zürich today🥂🎓🧳

Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources dlvr.it/TL9f8B

🎙 New Episode Out! In this episode, we had the pleasure of talking with Alexander Harms researcher and professor at ETH Zürich, about a well-known resource in phage biology: the Basel Phage Collection. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3ndSV6…

Bacterial peptide deformylase inhibitors induce prophages in competitors biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

Thrilled to share my first PhD paper, out of the Mazel lab! Didier Mazel We discovered that accessory peptide deformylases (PDFs) are widespread in bacteria and may provide resistance to natural inhibitors, posing a challenge to future antibiotic strategies. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Lake Lucerne 🌥️🏔️

Excited to see our work published in Science Advances! We present RBPseg, a method for structural prediction of #phage receptor-binding proteins. We applied it to diverse tail fibers and validated the predicted structures using #cryoEM. Read here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Now published in the June issue Nature Neuroscience I am especially happy that the artwork my 4-year-old son created (with a little help) was chosen for the cover. #Glial cells in diverse hues as paint splotches, CD8+ #Tcells in red, aberrant #myelin in purple. Thanks Elisa Floriddia & co!

.Alexander Harms was interviewed on the PhageCast podcast about the Basel Phage Collection, basic science insights from E. coli #phages, and how these findings can predict phage traits. buff.ly/g8PvF4x

The great phage escape: Activating and escaping lactococcal antiphage systems | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - absolutely humbled by the beauty of this place and the ubiquitous spirit of the Delbrück "phage group" era 🧬🌊🦪

New favorite writing spot at the beach of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 😙🌊

Summer break at home between two science travels 🌤️🍹🧳

Fantastic retreat of NCCR AntiResist this year - strong science, great company, and wonderful nature! 🧬🍹🏞️

Turning E. coli into a comic-book hero or villain🦸‍♀️🦹‍♂️🦠 Gozzi et al. show how the Adopt-a-Bacterium method lets biomed students craft memes, games & comics to teach microbiology—boosting engagement, teamwork and #SciComm. #FEMSMicrobiolLett buff.ly/Iw6TncN

Back in Basel for some days - refreshing at Jean Tinguely's Carnival Fountain ☀️💦⛲

Latest BREX story from the lab - turns out there is a nuclease after all! Congrats to Jenny Readshaw and the whole team, including wonderful collabs Barry Stoddard, Brett Kaiser and Darren Smith. Nucleic Acids Res New England Biolabs Durham BioSciences academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Moules + frites with the group and phage friends in Zürich 🍻😁