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Scanning electron micrograph of 𝘒𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘦 adhering to a human type I pulmonary epithelial cell 🧵

📢📢We are hiring! Fully funded 4-year PhD position in medicinal chemistry/chemical biology in my lab UPF Medicine and Life Sciences 🔬Validation of intramembrane proteases as therapeutic targets 📍Barcelona 🗓️Dealine: 21 October 2024 📩 upf.edu/web/phdfunding

1/8. 𝐧𝐜𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐬 often fly under the radar... but they're vital in bacteria-phage conflicts & beyond. Curious 𝙬𝙝𝙮!? 🤔 Here, we dive into their immune roles, plasticity, and discuss their hidden potential! 🧬🚀 🔗:cell.com/trends/microbi…

Merecedísimo premio a Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán. Alegría inmensa para los que disfrutamos tu saber y compañia. Tb para la microbiología española, comunidad de excelentes investigadores con aportaciones esenciales a la ciencia global durante décadas SEM SEIMC CIBERINFEC Microbiología Clínica RyC 🧫🔬🦠

Should I stay or should I go? 🎶 In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… Our framework illuminates many sides of MGE biology (1/7)

Orgulloso y feliz de recibir el Premio de Investigación Margarita Salas de la CAM. Es el segundo premio en dos semanas ¡un verdadero reconocimiento al trabajo que hacemos en el labo! Gracias a mis mentores, compañeros y colaboradores ¡este premio es de todos! ¡Seguimos! 🍾🥂🎉

Extremely happy to see the final version of our paper "The expression of integron arrays is shaped by the translation rate of cassettes" out in Nature Communications 🥳!!! Thanks to the reviewers for their valuable feedback and suggestions! rdcu.be/dX8BB

🧬🧬 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩!!🧬🧬 Latest collab with the amazing Ming Li & Yue Feng labs! How do phages bypass multi-layered defenses in bacteria? Spoiler: with equally complex anti-defenses!! 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

For the past two years, we have been working on a novel approach to identify origins of transfer by conjugation in plasmids from any bacterial species. We are thrilled to see this work now published in Nature Microbiology after thorough peer review! nature.com/articles/s4156…

It is out Current Biology ! we show that when learnt together conflicting experiences formed co-existing memories that compite to drive behavior & that ➕ valence of a stimulus is encoded differently in the 🧠 depending on its meaning.

Jose Luis Martinez—not active in social media ☹️—a legend of Spanish Microbiology will retire soon. His friends & colleagues will hold in Nov 28 a warm homage of a lifelong dedication to Microbiology & his many contributions to Ecology and Evolution of antibiotic resistance 👏

Awesome! Huge thanks to Benjamin Kerr, Olivia Kosterlitz and Elisabeth Duan for this fantastic Spotlight on our recently published paper (nature.com/articles/s4155…).

Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with Siân Owen, Michael Baym, Natalia Quinones-Olvera, Kesther and Carmen! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

Las seis universidades públicas madrileñas han aprobado una Carta Abierta y un Comunicado para reclamar a la Comunidad de Madrid una financiación suficiente en los Presupuestos de 2025 en defensa del servicio público que prestan. uam.es

» Gene acquisition by giant transposons primes eukaryotes for rapid evolution via horizontal gene transfer | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.11…

🚨New preprint!! How do antibiotic-resistant bacteria grow in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🤔 We reveal strain-specific ecological interactions that shape their growth within microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New paper from the lab. The brilliant Nora Pyenson led a multi-lab collaboration to investigate the consistent formation of stable phage communities infecting a single clonal host population. She explains the gist of it beautifully in the quoted thread. Congrats Nora et al

Happy to announce we have been awarded an i-LINK grant to create a new obligate intracellular bacteria consortium with 3 top labs Matt Welch Becky Lamason Bonazzi Lab. I can´t wait to start exploring new science with you all. See you soon at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC)

Excited to share our latest collab with Wenyuan Han's Lab! 🚨 Bacteria use dITP as an immune signal to activate NAD+-depleting effectors. Phages counter immunity by destroying dAMP (dITP precursor)! 💥🧬 Preprint 🔗: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…