Knut Drescher

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato (LIVE) | Estonia 🇪🇪 | First Semi-Final | Eurovision 2025

The Eurovision Song Contest final will take place in my *Basel* tomorrow.
After watching this👇, I realized it will be outstanding. There are only 36 other songs to watch. 12 points for Estonia.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ws...

Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids | PNAS Plasmid conjugation is a contact-dependent horizontal gene transfer mechanism that significantly contributes to the dissemination of antibiotic res...

Biofilm architecture determines the dissemination of conjugative plasmids: We measured the spatiotemporal spread of plasmids in biofilms and found that plasmids only spread in some biofilm regions!

Collab with lab of @sbigot.bsky.social & Christian Lesterlin
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Master in Physics of Life -
apply by April 30. 👇

I’m back in Marburg today - very nice.

#BiozentrumResearchSummer 2025: Internships for #Bachelor Students in the #NaturalSciences! Engage in a real-life research project in one of the Biozentrum labs during 7 to 9 weeks. Application deadline is approaching: February 23, 2025. @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch bit.ly/3mYZEsC

Proteomics LC-MS Specialist (100%)
Proteomics Core Facility, Biozentrum
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

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I will join the CSSB Symposium on May 7-8 in Hamburg: "Mechanisms of Infection - from structure to translation"

symposium2025.cssb-hamburg.de

🚨🚨 MEGA JOB ALERT 🚨🚨
Independent Group Leader Positions in Computational Biology @humantechnopole.bsky.social!

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ASM's podcast "This Week in Microbiology" discussed our peptidoglycan danger sensing manuscript in detail: It is a true joy to hear how the paper is perceived through someone else's eyes. The enthusiasm of the speakers is amazing.

[From 20 min onwards:] asm.org/Podcasts/TWi...

Great news, congratulations

Great recent work from Sanika Vaidya and Knut Drescher Lab

Mammalian innate immunity recognizes bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan (PG) via TLR2

Turns out multiple bacteria also sense PG from their lysed compatriots as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s a great tool, thanks for maintaining and updating it!

Sophisticated early warning system: How bacteria respond to threats University of Basel researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when nearby cells are dying and proactively form a protectiv...

How do bacteria sense potential threats in their environment and initiate protective measures? Researchers led by @knutdrescher.bsky.social have discovered that fragments of the bacterial cell wall serve as an alarm signal indicating danger in the environment.
@biozentrum.bsky.social

Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation - Nature Microbiology Peptidoglycan released by neighbouring kin or non-kin cell lysis induces physiological changes that protect from a range of stresses, including phage predation.

We found that many bacterial species use exogenous peptidoglycan fragments - released by lysis of neighboring cells - as a general danger signal, triggering a danger response that protects bacteria against many dangers: biofilm formation.

Details here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am just migrating from X right now. X has become unbearable. I hope we can recreate what science twitter used to be.