Excited to share our latest work, just out in PNAS, in which we show that mechano-adaptation in the bacterial flagellar motor is independent of its direction of rotation. A step closer towards understanding nature’s most marvelous nanomachine pnas.org/content/118/15…

Very excited to announce our first paper on toxin-antitoxin systems in phage defense. Entirely the work of a supremely talented student, Chantal Guegler! It's been mind blowing to explore the amazing world of phage biology... cell.com/molecular-cell…

A while ago, I mentioned words of advice and wisdom from my PhD supervisor and geneticist extraordinaire, Gerry Fink, that I wrote down and included as an appendix in my PhD thesis. Here's a short list of my favorites: "I suggest doing a Mendel on them."

We are looking for a postdoc and technician to join us! We have interests in protein homeostasis, microbial stress responses, and AAA+ proteases. We're committed to an inclusive lab and I strive to tailor mentoring for each person. Here's some of what we do...

Very proud to see it finally out! 🥰🦠🔬 go.nature.com/3vW4kEg Here is a thread with our major findings 1/9

New! From me and @yhgrad, Kyra Fryling, Giovanni Traverso, Ying Li, and Adam Wentworth: Identification of bile acid and fatty acid species as candidate rapidly bactericidal agents for topical treatment of #gonorrhoea bit.ly/3rckBU8 out now in JAC BSAC Thread: 👇(1/n)

Our latest preprint is out, another fantastic collaboration with CavaLab! Lytic transglycosylases remove uncrosslinked PG strands, i.e. PG synthesis byproducts produced by endopeptidases. Lots of exciting new implications for PG turnover mechanisms! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does living in close association with a eukaryotic host affect the (highly immunogenic) peptidoglycan in bacteria? Our new paper shows that loss of class A PBPs has allowed some host-associated bacteria to build minimal walls. Explainer thread below. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mB…

OUT NOW: CcrZ is a pneumococcal spatiotemporal cell cycle regulator that interacts with FtsZ and controls DNA replication by modulating the activity of DnaA. By Jan-Willem Veening & colleg. @ClementGallay Jan-Willem Veening Read it here: rdcu.be/ctIQO nature.com/articles/s4156…

Just awesome? Nope, super awesome.

congratulations SloanSiegristPalmore woohooo!!!👏

Awesome work Andrea Vettiger! 👏👏Congratulations :)

I think there's perhaps been some confusion regarding transmissibility vs immune escape in Omicron. The apparent rapid increase in frequency of Omicron in Gauteng does not mean that Omicron is necessarily more intrinsically transmissible than Delta. 1/15

I am so delighted today to finally announce the passion project we've been working on. ArrePath is combining the awesome power of bacteria, imaging, and machine learning to revolutionize drug discovery and find new antibiotics that society desperately needs.

My lab, together with Ethan Garner´s at Harvard MCB, are searching for a postdoc interested in tackling an exciting unsolved question: how bacteria synthesize their membranes? Check the ad below if you´re interested! linkedin.com/posts/frederic…

Our correspondence on the 2022 outbreak of cholera in Haiti was just published in NEJM. As of Dec 7th, the outbreak had caused more than 13,000 suspected cases and 250 deaths. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Please read the excellent thread 🧵by @DrLouiseIvers: (1/6)

Check out this preprint by Aditya Bandekar. Using live imaging of N. gonorrhoeae, he figured out 1) why these cells grow as diplococci, and 2) why these bugs have sequentially perpendicular division planes: it arises from the cell having axial asymmetry! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…