@mervetepephds.bsky.social
PhD MICROBIOLOGIST / Phage Therapy, AMR, Biofilms, Drug Design and some other topics @remissionbiome.bsky.social & @renegaderesearch.bsky.social team DEFEND SCIENCE, RESIST IGNORANCE Ankara/Boston
In this new work we show that planarians establish long-lasting and heritable small RNA–based gene regulatory states despite lacking canonical RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and nuclear RNAi machinery.
A new mechanism for “RNA memory”! This time in Planaria! (Here's a video of a Planarian with mulitple heads, one of the heritable phenotypes we studied).
This work summarizes >10 years of research and is an amazing collaboration with the labs of Jochen Rink and Omri Wurtzel labs. Read thrad below👇
Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going.
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New episode of #ScienceCounterPunch is out now.
With @flintdibble.bsky.social and @kayleighhistory.bsky.social and @badboyofscience.bsky.social we tackle ancient apocalypse, alternative history, and all other archeology-themed pseudoscience.
It matters.
Listen:
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The latest Science Counterpunch just landed! 🥊
Archaeologist @flintdibble.bsky.social and YouTuber Kayleigh Düring expose the roots of pseudo archaelogy and alt history, their damaging impacts on society, and how we can all fight back!
Full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUEU...
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📢 #GAMRIC2026 is accepting abstract submissions and travel grant applications! Submit before March 31. #IDSky 🧪
🔗 Abstract submissions: bit.ly/40TrZ9k
🔗 Travel grants: bit.ly/4s0ecK9
The registration is now open for BACELL meeting on 8-9 June 2026 at University of Malaga, Spain.
Register and submit abstract for oral or poster presentation: bacell2026.eu
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March 2026
Registration deadline: 15 May 2026
Organizer @diegromero.bsky.social
New #bacterial species isolated from a #Helicobacter pylori-positive pre-neoplastic human #stomach ...
| #bacteria | #cancer | #Streptococcus | #mucosa | Via eurekalert .org
Excited to announce the opening of the applications for the Master in Biomedical Research.
An international, hands-on programme for students to think like scientists, work in real labs, and prepare for PhD training or R&D careers, in Lisbon. GIMM Institute
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🚨 Places are going fast!
🎉 Over 100 people have already signed up for the TARGetAMR Conference 2026
🗓️ Join us at our FREE event, on 14–15 May in Birmingham to explore the future of AMR Genomics
✨ Don’t miss out!
👇 Register now www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
#TARGetAMR26
📅 Register now!
🔬 Join Professor Xavier Didelot, University of Warwick, at our next monthly webinar:
🔍 Estimating the fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance from pathogen genomic data
⏰Wednesday 18th March @ 12pm
🔗 Sign up now: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/es...
New personal view article
The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024–29
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA
Stunning new structural analysis and mechanism for Tmn anti-phage defense by @fnobrega.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.
"we propose that the protoribosome was a parasite (...). If this view is correct, then like the spliceosome in the stem eukaryote, a repurposed host-parasite interaction led to a dramatic change in cell biology at the base of the tree of life, in this case leading to the exit from an RNA world"
This is an incredible resource:
The MicrobeAtlas Database www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🦠 Microbial friends - what is the BEST thing you've ever seen done in a teaching seminar demonstration during an interview? Pitch was to do an upper level micro lesson. Appreciate any tips for @micromal.bsky.social to consider.
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
🚀Save the date for TAE Day at #ESCMIDGlobal2026! Take part in round tables, draw inspiration from experts, get career advice & more.
Sign up on the mailing list to be informed when registration opens in the spring. https://ow.ly/r04K50Y4mre
#IDSky #clinmicro
New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology
Join our community & shape the future of research
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Our metagenomic diet-tracking method made it into #STATMadness this year! doi.org/10.1038/s422...
Vote for us! isbscience.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?...
@isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @natmetabolism.nature.com @cdiener.com @medunigraz.at @chmoei.bsky.social @geeksthatspeak.bsky.social
Antimicrobial resistance in Helicobacter pylori: from mutation catalogues to clinical practice - The Lancet Microbe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!
We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.
His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!
One week from today--join us!
#MicroSky: Antibiotic resistance crisis: Ansari & Nagar isolated jumbo lytic phage P19 targeting MDR Aeromonas. Its T4-type endolysin shows broad antibacterial activity across MDR Gram-negatives, highlighting phages as promising alternatives to antibiotics. doi.org/10.1111/1751...
Great work by Jamie Gorzynski and Josh-Harling-Lee from the group providing insights into the evolutionary origins of bacterial lineages. A collaboration with @jrpenades.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social. #Staph Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
And in case people have not read it - this is worth a read www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... .. by @deevybee.bsky.social and others
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Really excited to share this amazing #job opportunity @univie.ac.at !!
The brand new Vienna Centre for Advanced Studies #ViCAS is now hiring a #scicomm expert to direct their comms strategy and vision.
Apply to be my colleague!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Internat...
