Teresa M. Coque

El asombroso fenómeno de la calidad menguante Asientos de avión cada vez más pequeños, prendas irreconocibles al segundo lavado, máquinas que te atienden por teléfono para cualquier trámite. El cuidado por las cosas bien hechas parece haber dejado de ser un valor que cuenta

Asientos de avión cada vez más pequeños, prendas irreconocibles al segundo lavado, máquinas que te atienden por teléfono para cualquier trámite. El cuidado por las cosas bien hechas parece haber dejado de ser un valor que cuenta

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality | Science

@jdtonkin.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How to bring experimental evolution to the classroom Pupils of all ages can benefit from witnessing evolution in real time - and it’s now possible in schools, say this researcher from the University of Bath

Its here! Finally published. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Evolution of antivirus defense in prokaryotes depending on the environmental virus prevalence and virome dynamics Prokaryotes can acquire antivirus immunity via two fundamentally distinct types of processes: direct interaction with the virus as in CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity systems and horizontal gene transfer ...

Cool work by Sanasar investigating how bacteria-phage dynamics affect the distribution of antiphage defense systems in the genome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social

We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from my lab (first author is Sonia Ghose): www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Skin microbiomes of frogs vary among body regions, revealing differences that reflect known patterns of chytrid infection

Figure 2 of the preprint

And this is also what we see experimentally! Defensive or co-invading CRISPR-Cas are always beneficial, but offensive CRISPR is severely limited by and even detrimental when there is TA.

4/6

The cover of the May issue of Trends in Microbiology, featuring several cells with cartoon figures of phages and plasmids listening to environmental cues, e.g. by fishing for signaling molecules outside their host or staring at an empty pantry shelf.

Our opinion piece on transmission timing in phages and plasmids graces the cover of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social this month. Featuring the work of talented master student Andrina Bernhard, the illustration showcases cues that MGEs use to switch between horizontal and vertical transmission.

Genomic surveillance reveals different transmission patterns between third-generation cephalosporin and carbapenem resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae in the Comunidad Valenciana (Spain), 2018–2020 - ... Background The emergence and spread of third-generation cephalosporins (3GC) and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae pose a global critical challenge. Understanding the transmission dynamics wi...

Good papers, like good wine, need maturing. I'm proud and thrilled to share our work on genomic epidemiology of K.pneumoniae in Valencia and differential transmission patterns of resistances, part of Neris Garcia's PhD thesis and the NLSAR consortium. go.uv.es/td8iL4c #publichealth #EpiSky 🧬🖥️

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia exhibits defensive multicellularity in response to a Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecule Microorganisms commonly exist in polymicrobial communities, where organisms can respond to interspecies secreted molecules by altering behaviors and physiology, however, the underlying mechanisms rema...

New preprint alert 🚨: We found that Steno maltophila senses a quorum sensing molecule from the co-infecting pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and switches to multicellular aggregates as a protective mechanism. #MicroSky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling all evolutionary biologists! 👇👇👇

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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/...

“Calamity Jane” performed by Doris Day ( Juanita Calamidad in spanish) A musical movie very very popular among spanish community @wvschaik.bsky.social

Major European institutes join race to save US science data As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration, Nature has learnt.

https://go.nature.com/42uEw50

Félix
From a Roman cognomen meaning "lucky, successful" in Latin. Belonging to the governor of Judea who imprisoned Saint Paul.
Due to its favourable meaning, it was popular among early Christians, used in England since the Middle Ages, though it has been more popular in continental Europe.

“Festus” Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin, Biblical
Roman cognomen, possibly meaning "festival, holiday" in Latin. This was the name of a Roman official in the New Testament

ESGEM, the ESCMID Study Group on Epidemiological Markers is launching a working group to develop standards for interpreting AMR genotypes. Much like EUCAST guidance for interpreting lab phenotypes as S/I/R, we want to define the AMRrules for interpreting genotypes.

Brooke Raboutou, la primera mujer en alcanzar el 9b+, hace historia al escalar tan duro como los mejores hombres La estadounidense logra superar el máximo grado de dificultad confirmado en el mundo de la escalada al encadenar la vía ‘Excalibur’

La estadounidense Brooke Raboutou se convierte en la primera mujer en alcanzar el 9b+, una dificultad que solo habían superado ocho escaladores masculinos. Hija de dos leyendas de la escalada, Raboutou, de 24 años, encadenó la vía ‘Excalibur’

The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019 Author summary Antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat: resistant infections are currently associated with 5 million deaths per year globally. This burden may increase further in th...

New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford
Please apply and share this post:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...

Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Penadés et al. explore the genetics, potential origins and life cycle of phage satellites, and they discuss the impact of these elements on the...

If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! rdcu.be/efkvG

Two people walk through the dappled light of a courtyard in front of a brick building with a columned entrance, flanked on both sides by tall trees, on Harvard University’s campus. A headline reads: "Trump Pulled $400 Million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next." Photo by Adam Glanzman for The New York Times

The Trump Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University cast a shadow over at least nine other campuses worried they could be next. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

YouTube video by Anthony Rocco Amaru When Harry Met Sally Ending Scene

Cualquier excusa es buena (la mención de ayer en los Oscar, por ejemplo) para volver a ver uno de los mejores finales de la historia del cine.

youtu.be/g4ODPyUxLNw?...

Looks interesting, plasmid assembly from multiple metagenomes
"On synthetic benchmark datasets, PlasMAAG reconstructed 50-121% more near-complete plasmids than competing methods and improved the Matthews Correlation Coefficient of geNomad contig classif. by 28-106%

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"An assault on science and scientists anywhere is an assault on science and scientists everywhere."

Cardiometabolic benefits of a non-industrialized-type diet are linked to gut microbiome modulation Is it possible to restore the human gut microbiome in industrialized settings and reintroduce microbial species that have been lost? In healthy adults, Li et al. found that consuming a diet mimicking ...

Cardiometabolic benefits of a non-industrialized-type diet are linked to gut microbiome modulation: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

This will be a really exciting webinar, don't miss it if you are working in the AMR genomics field

Hey genomics community, @sandrareuter.bsky.social and I will be leading the one on the 27th March so join us for an interactive workshop on genomics!