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Gut phages fuel food addiction #ResearchHighlights In this study, Castells-Nobau et al. show that bacteriophages present in the gut microbiome contribute to the regulation of food addiction. IDIBGI Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona nature.com/articles/s4157…

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…

You want to learn about microbiology from a fantastic lineup of speakers on a beautiful Greek island? PhD students apply now for the EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course The New Microbiology! Registration: 1 Apr 2025 Course: 03 – 11 Sep 2025 | Spetses, Greece meetings.embo.org/event/25-new-m…

Our lab is recruiting postdocs with strong expertise in molecular microbiology and/or phage biology to work on different antibiotics-related projects (more info epfl.ch/labs/upgoemans/). Please get in touch if interested (with CV and references)!

Bacteriophage-driven DNA inversions shape bacterial functionality and long-term co-existence in Bacteroides fragilis biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

Very happy our paper on CARD domains in gasdermin anti-phage defense systems is now published in nature 🥳 Thanks to all the people involved especially the Kranzusch lab and Sorek Lab nature.com/articles/s4158…

Now published Science Magazine: TIR signaling activates caspase-like immunity in bacteria We report a new immune molecule: N7-cADPR. Produced by phage-induced TIRs and activates a defensive bacterial caspase Congrats @FrancoisRousset & Ilya Osterman! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

SAVE THE DATE ‼️ 📆 📢 BBM 2025 will be held on June 9-10th at the Harvard Science Center feat. the one and only Dr. Petra Levin as keynote! We can't wait to see you there. Registration and scholarship applications open next week.

Novel insights into the tRNA cleavage activity of the PARIS bacterial immunity system and the expansion of viral tRNAs enabling evasion of host defense. Thanks to Christophe. Rouillon and David Bikard for having us in this project! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New mechanism of gene transfer! With Tiago Costa CBRB, cf-PICIs form tail-less elements that, once released, spread among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. More exciting news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE

The Querques Lab at Max Perutz Labs Vienna at Vienna BioCenter is hiring a Postdoc ! 🔬 biochemistry, cryo-EM, mobile genetic elements and genome engineering 📅 from autumn 2025 🔗 More info: maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-posi… Feel free to RT 🚀

Another piece of the puzzle of CRISPR evolution is now solved: Cas13, a large, elaborate, RNA-guided and RNA-targeting CRISPR effector, has evolved from the small, non-specific toxin RNA nuclease, AbiF. Cool!

We are excited to report the discovery of TIGRs, a widely-occurring RNA-guided system found in bacteria and their viruses. TIGRs consist of a peculiar repeat region which is transcribed into RNA and processed into multiple guide RNAs to direct TIGR-associated proteins to their

Congratulations to 𝗗𝗿. 𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗶𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘇𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮-𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗿 on being awarded the #MarBiNa Prize for Biotechnology and Nanotechnology 2024 for her groundbreaking research kathaRiNA Höfer on #bacteriophages! Go Nadiia! Exciting times ahead 🔬 🌟 s.gwdg.de/IYQH7M

The sequel to our DRT2 story is here, and this one is once again full of surprises! This time around, the Sternberg Lab teamed up with the Wiedenheft Lab to study how DRT9 reverse transcriptases provide antiviral immunity. Here’s what we found: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper describing importance of a highly evolutionary conserved membrane-organising protein complex in bacterial respiration is now published in PLoS Biology in its final version doi.org/10.1371/journa… Congratulations Maria Isabel Perez !

🚨🚨New paper out!!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉nature.com/articles/s4146…

1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab! We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness. Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77