
Vikram Alva
@vikram_alva
Protein evolution // MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit @mpitoolkit // prokaryotic cell-surface proteins @MPI_Bio
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Excited to share our new paper in PNASNews! 🚀 Halofilins shape archaeal cells during cell-type shifting. For details, check out Alex's threads! Huge thanks to Pohlschroder Lab, Amy Schmid, and great team at @BissonLab. Read more: shorturl.at/tzNqn @MPI_Bio


1/9 Insanely PROUD to share our new collaborative project with Gautam Dey & @CentrioleLab. #PlanExM We think (almost certain) #Expansion #Microscopy (#UExM) is a turning point for #Protistology and #Cell Biology. 🔗 [tinyurl.com/PlanExM1]

Independent group leader in Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections at Universität Tübingen Can't recommend anything More ..... The best place to start your group...

Our review paper on the evolution of tailocins got the cover of Trends in Microbiology tinyurl.com/5665979b with Talia Backman and Talia Karasov (tkarasovlab.org) UCL Biosciences CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution UCL Faculty of Life Sciences University of Utah School of Biological Sciences




Happy to share our recent collaboration with Michael Galperin Vikram Alva & Dubnau ComFB is a new widespread family of c-di-GMP & c-di-AMP receptor proteins, important for motility #subtiwiki #Cyano #Vibrio Support by Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf @MPI_Bio NCBI Rutgers University biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out this cool work from conticellolab, Egelman, & Han Remaut labs on cannulae—hollow tubules in Pyrodictium abyssi! These resilient structures connect cells into networks, even in extreme conditions. CryoEM reveals calcium-driven assembly via donor strand complementation.





