Happy to share our work in Nature Microbiology. Gamma-Mobile-Trio systems are mobile elements rich in bacterial defensive and offensive tools. If you're interested in #Antiphage #T6SS #Vibrio #MGE then this is for you. 🧵1/15 rdcu.be/dXMwQ nature.com/articles/s4156…

Great talk by Jaime Iranzo at #IUMS2024 International Union of Microbiological Societies, discussing the dynamics of CRISPR-Cas in the human gut microbiome. For more details, check our recent work in The ISME Journal: academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

🦠 Abstract deadline approaching! Submit by 12 Nov for the 2025 Microbiology Society Annual Conference in Liverpool! Two exciting sessions on 2-3 April Join us to explore competition & survival strategies in bacteria and MGEs!

Abstract submissions for the 2025 Microbiology Society Annual Conference close soon(12th Nov). Submit your research on microbial warfare (MGEs,HGT, bacteriophage, interference, toxin/anti-toxins, plasmids and more!)Jamie Hall João Botelho Christopher Cooper & Jerry Reen want to hear from you!

Mobile genetic elements: the hidden puppet masters underlying infant gut microbiome assembly? oaepublish.com/articles/mrr.2…

Plasmids are commonly view as burdensome. But maybe this burden can be advantageous? Check out this new review paper from the lab that investigates this further!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi…

Diversity-generating retroelements for the win! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interesting paper showing how miniature inverted-repeat TEs (MITEs) can be used as a method to link microbial hosts to their viruses. Cool! academic.oup.com/nar/article/52…

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, along w Mike Brockhurst, are looking for a PhD student w bioinformatic experience/interest to investigate the evolution of transmissibility in bacterial pathogens, with a focus on P. aeruginosa. findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

A 3-year postdoctoral position in antiphage immunity hosted by my lab (Lund), co-supervised Gemma C Atkinson (co-PI, structural bioinformatics, Lund University) and Pontus Gourdon (co-PI, cryo-EM, Lund University and University of Copenhagen). PleaseRT! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Chromosomal plasticity can drive rapid adaptation in bacteria by macarena toll-riera's lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨New paper alert🚨 So happy to finally share this! now out Cell Reports ✨ We explored the hierarchical structure that controls virulence in Pseudomonas🦠, finding a mutational hotspot that acts as a genetic switch for hypervirulence💀 and AMR💊 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

We are happy that our work has finally been accepted for publication at Genome Research! Link to follow soon

Excited to share that this preprint is now published Genome Research! 🎉 Check it out here: genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Love phage-bacteria interactions, anti-phage systems, and a sprinkle of evolutionary biology? There’s still time to apply and join our team in Glasgow at UofG Sii !

🚨 PhD and postdoctoral positions available. We seek candidates for the MGE Team to work on # epigenomics of # bacteria and # microbiomes. Start: Fall 2025. Please RT!

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more & apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo… #phage #Bioinformatics

Does genome streamlining influence the prevalence and abundance of freshwater prokaryotes? Does metabolic interdependencies influence the co-occurrence of prokaryotes in freshwater ecosytems? ⬇️ We examine the answer to these questions in our new pre-print ⬇️

It was great having you there, Rafael! I'm looking forward to seeing the next steps in your research 😃

So happy to share my work José R Penadés lab 🤩 We investigated the efficiency of HGT mechanisms in S. aureus🧬, finding that LT is the most efficient one, and that strains defective in immune systems🛡️act as gateways for inter-clonal complex HGT🔀 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…