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Evolution 101. 🧵 Mutations occur as chance errors in replication. They're just mistakes in copying. Most have no effect. Some are detrimental to the organism (or virus), a few may happen to be beneficial -- this depends on the environment.

Alternative functions of CRISPR–Cas systems in the evolutionary arms race Staals, van der Oost and colleagues explore these non-canonical functions of CRISPR–Cas systems with relevant consequences for CRISPR-based genome editing applications rdcu.be/cEsFm

Bacterial origins of human innate immune mechanisms Tanita Wein skillfully summarized current knowledge on how key components our own immune system evolved from bacterial anti-phage defenses Out today in Nature Reviews Immunology rdcu.be/cKWrz

Mutualistic interplay between bacteriophages and bacteria in the human gut rdcu.be/cQHTz Shkoporov, Turkington & Hill suggest that the relationship between phages and their bacterial hosts in the gut is best characterized as a mutualistic relationship between partners

Grad students thinking about a career industry, TA-ing is a highly underrated role in phd programs, often considered a burden in addition to research. But being a teaching assistant can provide several industry-specific transferable skills 🧵

DNA Enzymes explained with earphones 🧬🎧

The coordination of anti-phage immunity mechanisms in bacterial cells CIB Margarita Salas (CSIC) @gisc_group @BiologiaUcm Complutense Matemáticas UCM @AreaUCM @iMMolecular #CRISPR #phages #Microbiology go.nature.com/3XEew1F

Excited to announce the release of #ggplate on CRAN! ggplate is an R package that enables easy visualization of culture and microplate data. Find out how to use it here: jpquast.github.io/ggplate/ 1/5 #rstats #DataScience #datavisualization #Biology #microbiology #AcademicChatter

Presentation of the Ralstonia Phage Therapy project by Sara Franco Ortega. #BPDProjects

I love that you can see which phages have injected their DNA and which have yet to

Our new paper on early drought response in wheat! Congratulations to joint first authors ⁦Liam Barratt⁩ and ⁦Isaac Reynolds⁩, as well as ⁦Sara Franco Ortega⁩ links.email.frontiersin.org/ls/click?upn=D…

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journa… 1/9

Last experiment at Fera with Daniel Nariño Rojas and Karla Cardenas Gómez #phages, it's time to work 💪 #bacterialwilt 🍅 Dr Andrea Harper @FrimanScience

We are starting our satellite event: #ecology and #evolution of #bacterialwilt 🦠with Alice Guidot! ICPP2023 British Society for Plant Pathology Dr Andrea Harper @FrimanScience

The 13th Jakob Erikson Prize 🥇 is awarded to Pr. Silvia Restrepo of the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia for her pioneering international work in mycology and plant pathology. 👏

Great PhD opportunity in Harper Lab! 🦠🌱

Update from the Ralstonia phage project by Sara Franco Ortega showing very promising results for the use of phages to control disease.

Check out the fabulous Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme 2020-24 research summaries, including ours on the use of phages to control the bacterial wilt pathogen 𝘙𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘮!