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Super excited to see our paper out today! Great to work with Anne Chevallereau Bridget Watson edze westra Peter Fineran University of Exeter, Cornwall #CRISPR #myfirstTweet nature.com/articles/s4158…

Have you ever heard that bacterial retrons make tons of small satellite DNA? If you want to find out why, read these 3 preprints: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… biorxiv.org/content/10.110… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wow 🤯

Stoked to report in @nature the discovery of prokaryotic viperins, which naturally produce diverse anti-viral molecules ! After providing us with antibiotics, bacteria might become sources of novel anti-viral drugs. (1/9) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Bacteria need to clear their viruses quicky or risk a costly "immune lag". Some new CRISPR modeling and experiments with @EllinorAlseth @SeanMeaden edze westra @JedFuhrman biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

Very honoured to receive the Philip Leverhulme Prize! Will enable new research in phage biology. Postdoctoral position to be advertised, but feel free to get in touch if you are keen to join my team University of Exeter ExeterMicrobes . For PhD position, see findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

What a strange but exciting first week in my new position!

Thought it was time for some perspectives from the bedside about the state of the COVID pandemic in the UK. The strain on the healthcare system is increasing daily, & what we are facing is in no way the same as that we face every year. These are not usual winter pressures 1/n

Happy to share results of my last 3 years of work on the Thoeris defense system - an amazing connection between bacterial and plant immunity! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A freely accessible symposium from 8-10 Feb organised by ExeterMicrobes covering a diverse range of Microbiology topics that are being worked on University of Exeter. Full schedule can be found here: exeter.ac.uk/news/events/de…. Feel free to retweet, and join if you're interested !

University of Exeter #Microbiology Symposium 8th-10th Feb 13:30- 16:30 each day. Watch via Uni of Exeter's ESI FB page. Login to FB to post questions! Cool science with Dr Mukaremera MRC Centre for Medical Mycology & collaborators Dr. David B Full schedule: bit.ly/3s07G7z #mycology #antifungal #Phage #AMR

Last week took part in Valneva vaccine trial . . . this week toddler catches COVID at nursery. Time to get your skates on immune system!

Another exciting lineup of speakers for Session 4, today at 4pm CET! Join us!

I repeat- I haven’t been this excited about a discovery since CRISPR. We found something enigmatic that, like CRISPR, is associated with microbial genomes. We have named these unique entities #BORGs

This is pretty amazing. If you’ve not seen it yet, it’s basically immunity 101 and a fantastic explanation of how mRNA vaccines work. x.com/SamIAm2021MD/s…

'Like their mammalian counterparts, bacterial gasdermins are activated by caspase-like proteases, oligomerize into large membrane pores, and defend against pathogen—in this case, bacteriophage—infection' Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We are looking for a Research Assistant to join us on an exciting project looking at phage-bacteria interactions at the single-cell level! 🦠🔬 2-year position Starting Oct 2022 at Institut Cochin in Paris More info in PM. RT appreciated! institutcochin.fr/offres-demploi…