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Out now in Molecular Cell: Cyanobacterial Argonautes and Cas4 family nucleases cooperate to interfere with invading DNA cell.com/molecular-cell… Most long-A pAgos interfere with invading DNA solo. Why then are cyanobacterial pAgos co-encoded with a Cas4-like protein? A 🧵

Out Now! West African–South American pandemic Vibrio cholerae encodes multiple distinct phage defence systems bit.ly/4jie4Rg #VibrioCholerae #PhageDefense #PandemicResearch

West African–South American pandemic Vibrio cholerae encodes multiple distinct phage defence systems | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

For those of you who aren't aware, cancelling Harvard's F and J visas does not just affect students. It also affects many, many postdoctoral researchers. And critically, it affects OPT holders. These are graduates who stayed here to work in the US, they cannot "transfer"

Such a cool story, great to see it in published form!

I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with Walter Isaacson & Christiane Amanpour on Amanpour and Company, airing on PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on CNN International earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…

Remarkable study being presented today by Dr. Melanie Blokesch #EESInfection EMBL Events

🧑‍🔬🔬 Researchers from our school uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. go.epfl.ch/VJc-en

When a cholera outbreak strikes, the race is on to stop the spread. In Ghana, work is underway to improve access to clean water and sanitation because prevention is always better than the cure: bit.ly/4dQ5xUv

Latest BREX story from the lab - turns out there is a nuclease after all! Congrats to Jenny Readshaw and the whole team, including wonderful collabs Barry Stoddard, Brett Kaiser and Darren Smith. Nucleic Acids Res New England Biolabs Durham BioSciences academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Dr. Shira Weingarten-Gabbay (Shira Weingarten-Gabbay) from Harvard Medical School is leading the new Laboratory of Systems #Virology. Her lab uncovers the inner workings of viruses and their interaction with the immune system to prevent current and future viral diseases: bit.ly/44peaBa

Elisa Oricchio and Andrew Oates elected EMBO Members 🍾🎉 actu.epfl.ch/news/elisa-ori…

We are looking for an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology ⁦Imperial Department of Infectious Disease⁩ ⁦CBRB⁩. All areas of bacterial/fungal infection biology considered. Details👇. Please contact me by email for any further information. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

Out Now! Addressing gaps in author and reviewer gender diversity bit.ly/4nx8flY #GenderDiversity #WomenInScience #ResearchEquity

Elisabeth Bik If helping to edit some sentences with AI makes the papers easy to write and read, and helps people who English is not their first language to communicate their science more effectively, what is the problem?

Since yesterday we are in Niagara Falls for the Acinetobacter Conference. Here is Dr. Melanie Blokesch starting her talk.