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This is a game changer for how we do genetics in our lab! Fantastic effort by Monica, MV Mazzuoli Axel Janssen Anne-Stephanie & xue liu 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please join us in congratulating Bárbara Sousa da Mota for winning one of 2024’s prestigious SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Awards for her excellent talk "Investigating the ecological suicide (“ecocide”) theory in Rapa Nui with ancient DNA data" #SMBE2024 SMBEmeetings

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

PneumoBrowse 2 is freely available on pneumobrowse2.veeninglab.com. Many thanks to the entire lab for keeping track of updates and literature and specifically Axel Janssen Paddy Gibson @afonsbravo Vincent de Bakker @JelleSlager for putting it all together and Doran for IT support!

Genome-wide dual CRISPRi-seq! Knocking down every gene with every other gene in the pneumococcus, identifying > 4000 genetic interactions (GIs), most of which have never been reported. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Had a blast at GRC Streptococcal Biology, grateful for new friends made, and honored to go home with a short talk award! Time to fight the jet lag.

Genome analysis adds to mounting evidence against the idea that Rapa Nui’s population collapsed owing to overexploitation of natural resources go.nature.com/3AYW5yR

Amazing work!

Out with a blast. Leaving Lausanne today after more than five beautiful years that shaped me considerably, on both a professional and personal level. Looking ahead with excitement, but I will miss the wonderful people that made this place a true home. Au revoir!

📢A new PhD student position in Bacterial Genetics is now open in my team DMF UNIL in beautiful Lausanne/Switzerland 🇨🇭 More information on that position and on the application procedure can be found here: tinyurl.com/3m35nr54 Please RT.

Thrilled to have contributed to this innovative approach of costitutively activating TCS sensors to decode complex regulatory networks. Exciting insights into GBS host-pathogen interactions—definitely a must-read! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Do you use D39V, TIGR4, EF3030, BHN418, or another pneumococcal strain in your research? Easily browse their genome on PneumoBrowse 2 pneumobrowse2.veeninglab.com! Now out in shiny PDF in Nucleic Acids Research! Do you have any feedback? Please let us know! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Proud to share my latest PhD work! We found that in GBS, CRISPR-Cas9 immunity is integrated within the virulence regulatory network. This co-regulation, mediated by CovR—the major regulator of virulence—could enhance the immune repertoire during infection. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Checkout Bevika Sewgoolam 🇿🇦 in 🇨🇭 preprint! She used CRISPRi-seq to determine antibiotic-stress signatures, specifically of pneumococci treated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics. It's a really powerful approach revealing a surprising antibiotic combination therapy. 1/9 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great collaboration with Morten Kjos to figure out which genes are required for Staphylococcus aureus to live in milk. Important to know due to Staphs ability to cause bovine mastitis and food poisoning biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our work on genetic determinants for S. aureus fitness in milk is now available online. The study also exemplifies how milk can modulate antibiotic susceptibility. Congrats Marita Torrissen Mårli and thanks to all collaborators (Davide Porcellato Jan-Willem Veening Vincent de Bakker xue liu)!

I had some help 🎶 Teamwork makes the dream work! Checkout our latest preprint spearheaded by Jessica Burnier in a great collab with the labs of Waldemar Vollmer, ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET & Malcolm Winkler biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very cool paper from Julien Damozci from Pascal Hols' lab with large input by Johann Mignolet DMF UNIL. Clever pipeline to uncover bacteriocins with various antibacterial activities. nature.com/articles/s4200…

My PhD work got published in Nature Microbiology! Please, have a look!

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis to join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o .