Julia Egido

Systematic mapping of bacteriophage gene essentiality with HIDEN‑SEQ The constant arms race of bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts has inspired major breakthroughs in biotechnology and shaped phages as fierce predators with great clinical potential to fight multid...

First the link to the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.

Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.

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🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
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Having named a phage after a snack finally pays off

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/OR61...

(artwork by Sophia Zimmermann)