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Bacteria can be pirates too... 🏴‍☠️ Let us introduce you to Captain Aureispira ⛵️ A bacterial pirate ship loaded with canons 💉 and grappling hooks 🪝🌴predating on other bacteria 🦠 Check the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #predation #T6SS #T9SS #cryoEM #cryoET #teamtomo 🧵1/6

Excited to see Cornelia Welte Heleen Ouboter's beautiful data suggesting the involvement of #cytochrome OmcZ-like #nanowires in archaea generating electricity from methane! nature.com/articles/s4146… Thanks a lot for believing in our prediction in Nature Microbiology! nature.com/articles/s4156…

📢I am so excited to announce the publication of my work characterizing extracellular vesicles of Euryarchaeota! Here, we identify an archaeal small GTPase directly involved in vesicle production with similarities to eukaryotic Arf GTPases. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Finally out! Our story on new proteins involved in archaeal FtsZ-based cell division! rdcu.be/dAgFB Spearheaded by Phillip Nussbaum and a great collaboration with the labs of Jan Löwe @MRC_LMB, Simonetta Gribaldo Simonetta Gribaldo and Martin Loose @nartimsoole

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Have you ever had nightmares of killer archaea? 🔪☠️😱 stop dreaming! Have a look at our latest preprint on how Halogeometricum borinquense uses it type 6 secretion system to kill Haloferax volcanii: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In my review, I made a list of much science that happened bc AlphaFold2 code was released. I suggested that so much science will not happen if AlphaFold3 code is not released (or not with AF3 itself). We've made ~100k models with AF2 code. How could we use a server for all that?

13 PhD positions available in a European consortium working on the biotechnological potential of Archaea! Please spread the word! #positions #PhDposition 1 position in my lab. Apply here until the 12th of May! archaeaforbiotechnology.eu/esr-3-universi…

Heute ist ME/CFS-Awareness-Tag. Ich habe einen Text über mein Leben mit der Krankheit geschrieben — und soooo viele haben ihn schon gelesen und geteilt. Ich bin ganz gerührt. Danke. Bitte teilt den Text weiter, um ME/CFS bekannter zu machen! 🙏🏻💙 #ME zeit.de/gesundheit/202…

Excited to share our latest collaborative work on the ammonium-trapping S-layer in ammonia-oxidising marine archaea. Proud to be part of this amazing team! Andriko von Kügelgen, @TBharat_lab, @sofie_dot_rec, Phill Stansfeld, C. Keith Cassidy, and others; @MPI_Bio

Excited to share our new preprint on S-layers! We've modeled ~150 S-layers spanning the prokaryotic tree of life. Great collaboration with Ed Johnston, Jonathan Doye at Oxford Chemistry, Buse Isbilir, @TBharat_lab at @MRC_LMB, and myself at @MPI_Bio.

Die Fakultät für #Biologie der Universität Freiburg hat #Chemie-Nobelpreisträger und Alumnus Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Joachim Frank die #Ehrendoktorwürde verliehen. Zum Interview: ufr.link/interview-frank

Our paper on the structure of twitching pili from the archaeon S. acidocaldarius is finally out in Nat Comms! nature.com/articles/s4146…. Thanks the authors Matt Gaines, Shamphavi Sivabalasarma, Misha Isupov, Risat Haque, @cyril_hanus, mathewmclaren, Vicki Gold, @archaellum.

Workshop vibes!

The use of thermostable fluorescent proteins for live imaging in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

We often see small molecules (ligands) in cryo-EM structures❄️🔬, but how do we know if they were properly modelled into the maps? Proud to be a team CIBSS of the EMDataResource Ligand Model Challenge, and the outcomes are published in Nature Methods 🥳

Check our our paper on how glycans contribute to cell motility in Halobacterium salinarum. nature.com/articles/s4146… Great work by Shahar Sofer, Zlata Vershinin, and Leen Mashni! Collaboration with Jerry Eichler, Ran_Zalk_BGU_Cryo_EM Anat Shahar MCRC-Macromolecular Crystallography Centre at BGU

Our latest: Nature of the Last Universal Common Ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system nature.com/articles/s4155… led by @ERR_Moody UoB Palaeobiology and many other greay colleagues inc Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) Gergely J Szöllősi Anja Spang (she/her) Ziheng Yang's Group David Pisani, Tim Lenton and Graham Shields

Wonderful work by Michael Hohl and Emma Banks probing how the bacterial Tad pilus system motor powers both pilus assembly and retraction. Thank you to the Tung Le lab for the fantastic collaboration.. 👏 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Captain Aureispira - a bacterial pirate ship🦜🏴‍☠️🪝- boarded Science Magazine. Check out the manuscript here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… and have a look on our extended thread below ⬇️We provide new insights on bacterial predation from molecules ⚛️to ocean samples 🌊