William MBOUH SEKO FOPA

Why Syphilis Cases in Newborns Are Rising The number of babies being born with syphilis has climbed for 12 straight years, continuing even as STIs have declined.

Why #Syphilis incidences in #Newborns are increasing ...

| #bacteria | #STI | #infections | #babies | Via @time.com

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."George Orwell

After hearing this talk, climbing mountains to sample soil does not seem so bad anymore! Things we do for science 😊 great talk Savvas!
#mbkceesme2025 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social

Stay tuned for the afternoon session where I will talk about forests! More precisely, the response of soil microbes to forest disturbances. Results from @holisoils.bsky.social and Lifegenmon projects. 🍄🍄🍄
Thank you for support @isme-microbes.bsky.social @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social #mbkceesme2025

Phage susceptibility to a minimal, modular synthetic CRISPR-Cas system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is nutrient dependent | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences CRISPR-Cas systems can provide adaptive, heritable immunity to their prokaryotic hosts against invading genetic material such as phages. It is clear that the importance of acquiring CRISPR-Cas immunit...

Can CRISPR-Cas systems target any phage? Yes, no, it depends? What does it depend on? The second paper from my PhD came out today in a special issue of Phil Trans B on the ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems
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Phage provoke growth delays and SOS response induction despite CRISPR-Cas protection | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Bacteria evolve resistance against their phage foes with a wide range of resistance strategies whose costs and benefits depend on the level of protection they confer and on the costs for maintainance....

How do bacteria choose what type of defences to use against phages? We explored that question in the last paper I worked on as a postdoc at the Uni of Exeter @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social with Stineke van Houte, Stefano Pagliara and Edze Westra (not on Bluesky)
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Inside science labs trying to survive in the Trump era Anastasia Khvorova’s lab at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School shows how quickly the administration is dismantling an 80-year partnership that made the U.S. a scientific superpower.

Prof of biomedical sciences: “Sickness doesn’t have political boundaries…Everyone deserves a better treatment for their disease, & I just want to make that possible. & I can’t do that if my lab, my university, my colleagues’ ability to do science is destroyed.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Crocheted mucin glycans and microbes

Hello Bluesky 🦋,

I am excited to join the Bluesky community!

My name is Maryse and I am working on the interaction between #microbes and #mucus at Wageningen University in The Netherlands 🦠

And as you can see in the image - I enjoy crochet!

great achievement

The rights we have are never permanently secured; they must be defended every day. 💪🏽

Ce mémoire de fin de formation témoigne de mon initiation à la recherche scientifique, notamment dans le domaine de la microbiologie

This end-of-training dissertation marks my initiation into scientific research, particularly in microbiology.@microbiologist,@scientists,@bsky

I would like to warmly thank the entire scientific community on Bluesky. I wish to join your network in order to promote the exchange and sharing of scientific knowledge. Your expertise and experience will be a valuable source of learning and enrichment for me.

je remercie chaleureusement toute la communauté scientifique de Bsky. Je souhaite rejoindre vos contacts afin de favoriser les échanges et le partage de connaissances scientifiques. Votre expertise et vos expériences seront pour moi une source précieuse d’apprentissage et d’enrichissement @bsky.app