David Sünderhauf

Phage resistance research position with a fantastic supervisor 👇

Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Congratulations, very happy for you 😁😁

Great, I'll gamble on the exchange rate and pay in EC dollar now 🏝💵 come onnnn November 🤞🏻

Brilliant idea!

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

Strategies for zygotic gene expression during plasmid establishment Conjugative plasmids are key drivers of horizontal gene transfer and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Their successful establishment in new hos…

Plasmid leading regions & their contribution to plasmid establishment are all the rage in the plasmid world right now. This review summarizes why 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hopefully this link actually works:
sites.exeter.ac.uk/vanhoutelab/...

Conference flyer, all info is on link too

Please share! 🦠
Workshop on Phage Therapy in Liverpool on 25th November organised by Stineke van Houte, @jojofoth.bsky.social, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, & Edze Westra.

Limited FREE tickets & more info here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/vanhoutelab/...

#MicroSky

Looks great, congrats all!

IS1216 drives the evolution of pRUM-like multidrug resistance plasmids in Enterococcus faecium pRUM-like plasmids are commonly found in multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium , but the evolution of these plasmids has not been characterised in detail. When we analysed the genome sequences of t...

New manuscript from the group

'IS1216 drives the evolution of pRUM-like multidrug resistance plasmids in Enterococcus faecium'

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

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Congratulations, this looks great! I'll send you an email re antibiotic resistance genes moving onto the chromosome.

Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids toward ecological redundancy Abstract. Plasmids are a ubiquitous feature of bacterial genomes, but the forces driving genes and phenotypes to become associated with plasmids are poorly

New paper with @rwheatley8.bsky.social and Cedric Lood

Actual title: Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids towards ecological redundancy.

Sensationalist title: Plasmids carry useless genes

academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Scaling laws of bacterial and archaeal plasmids - Nature Communications The capacity of a plasmid to express genes is constrained by parameters such as its length and copy number. Here, Maddamsetti et al. present a computational method that enables rapid and accurate dete...

Scaling laws of bacterial and archaeal plasmids www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Congrats on getting this out! I loved hearing about this at ISPB & enjoyed the preprint 😊

Universal rules govern plasmid copy number - Nature Communications Plasmids exhibit a broad range of sizes and copies per cell, and these two parameters appear to be negatively correlated. Here, Ramiro-Martínez et al. analyse the copy number of thousands of diverse b...

Curious about plasmid biology? Our latest paper is out now in Nature Communications! 🚨

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We analyzed thousands of diverse bacterial plasmids to shed light for the first time on a key aspect of plasmid biology: plasmid copy number. 1/7 👇

UK to expand nuclear deterrent with US fighter jets capable of carrying warheads Starmer to unveil purchase of 12 F-35A jets that can deliver tactical nuclear weapons, which may be kept at RAF bases

An absolutely horrible idea to store nuclear bombs in the UK which belong to a country that looks far too close to a proto-fascist regime for comfort

UK to expand nuclear deterrent with US fighter jets capable of carrying warheads www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You're on fire Meaghan 🔥 Congrats!

New phage therapy publication!🦠 #phagesky

We analysed an MRSA phage therapy case study, assessing how predictions made in vitro differed when using one (standard practice) or multiple bacteria isolates from the patient.

Collaborative work: Exeter and Queen Astrid hospital

doi.org/10.1093/jamb...

Emily presenting her talk

. @emgoodall.bsky.social presenting her cool new transposon-based method on discovery of novel small proteins #EESMicrobiology

Happily representing @multidefence.bsky.social at the #EESMicrobiology in Heidelberg!
Come to my poster if interested in prophage-mediated phage defence!
Also don't miss @emgoodall.bsky.social's talk today, and @alekseiagapov.bsky.social and @davvi36.bsky.social posters!

Me showing off my poster

Made it to Heidelberg for #EESMicrobiology @events.embl.org!
Find me at poster 240 and make to check out @annaolina.bsky.social & @alekseiagapov.bsky.social 's posters and @emgoodall.bsky.social 's talk to see everyone from the lab 😁

🚨 Reminder! You have just over two weeks to submit an abstract, if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org meeting "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" in Liverpool in November! #microsky 🦠🧫🔬

I'm sad to have missed this one, glad it went well! Hoping to make it again next year 🤞🏻

How do multiple coexisting bacteria and phages (co)evolve? Well... they don't (or do so much less!

In this paper we tracked bacteria-phage (co)evolution in monoculture (individual bacteria-phage pairs) or in polyculture (all three pairs) over 6 weeks. Read more here👇
doi.org/10.1099/mic....

I highly recommend this conference, i thoroughly enjoyed the 2022 meeting 👇🏻

Poster of Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025 saying that abstracts are closing. With the date of the event and location.

The abstract submission deadline for Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025 is soon approaching! Make sure to submit by 23:59 BST on 7 July 2025. microb.io/Abstracts #MicroEvo25

Well thats incredible!

Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture | mSystems In this work, we describe a targeted phage discovery method that allows immediate isolation of phages with specific traits. Currently, to find a phage with specific properties, huge libraries of phage...

The latest work from my lab, Phage Disco, a method
@ellie-rand.bsky.social
developed for targeted discovery of bacteriophages based on the bacterial receptor, defense system, or other component they interact with, is now live in mSystems
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Plasmid–bacteria associations in the clinical context Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing global health problems, with plasmids playing a central role in its evolution and dissemination. Over the past decades, many studies have inv...

New opinion paper from the lab!

www.cell.com/trends/micro...