Camila Valenzuela, PhD

Investigating the role of the Vi antigen in Salmonella pathogenesis. at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Investigating the role of the Vi antigen in Salmonella pathogenesis. at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

If you’re interested in solving bacterial mysteries, this PhD project is for you!

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Congrats Dr Newman!! It was a pleasure to meet at the GRC this year!

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Don't forget to register for the #1st ever @shigellameeting.bsky.social at Pasteur next year! Apr 20 - 24 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

🚀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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🚨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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Call for abstracts - EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention

#Abstract submissions are open for The #Shigella Meeting! If you would like to be considered for a #travel #grant, abstracts are due December 16, 2025. Regular submissions due January 14, 2026. Show us your #science!
@shigellameeting.bsky.social
🦠 🧫🔬 #Microsky #IDsky

Text box reading: Vaccines do not... do not overload or weaken the immune system – it's safe to give children and adults several vaccines at a time and this reduces the amount of injections needed do not contain mercury (thiomersal) do not contain any ingredients that cause harm – only ingredients essential to making them safer and more effective and only in very small amounts do not cause autism – studies have found no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism

Should you find yourself - for whatever reason - looking for a new set of authoritative, accessible summaries of the risks and benefits of vaccines to share with people, the NHS website is still doing a good job at this www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

With this working, as a first test we took two plasmids, identical save for 8 point mutations changing the color, and competed them against one another. Here’s a video of what it looked like when we activated the recombinase. You can see the two compete in real time: 4/

Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees

Nottingham to suspend music and modern foreign language degrees, warning international fee levy will wipe out income from domestic fee rise. Some nursing, theology, education, microbiology and agriculture degrees hit too www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Cannot agree more with this thread 👇. More supportive grant for early career and junior group + a continuum of supportive landscape is the way to keep science at high level (never been a big fan of the science "mercato"...)

Less academic freedom leads to less innovation - Impact of Social Sciences Drawing on data showing a decline in academic freedom over the past decade, David Audretsch, Christian Fisch, Chiara Franzoni, Paul P. Momtaz and Silvio Vismara, analyse the relation of academic freed...

🗃️From the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science."

#AcademicFreedom

Some great news for this Monday! So incredibly proud of @jayhinton.bsky.social et al!!

so yeah, just keep moving.

Autumn is in full force in Paris, so sleepy cats season has begun! Sending you lots of positive fluff vibes

Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al

We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The unique lipopolysaccharide composition of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 dampens pyroptosis and inflammasome activation and suppresses host cell death https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679141v1

Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

New preprint in the lab! How the mitochondrial ETC works during infection of human macrophages with #Legionella or #Salmonella? Spoiler: there are some similarities and also pathogen-specific differences. Work led by Francisco Garcia and Paula Martínez, with @cbuch.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr

💊 🧬 Insightful dive into in-host bacterial evolution under antimicrobial pressure, a work from @csavin.bsky.social and @pierrelebury.bsky.social in our lab at @pasteur.fr

Time for some insights into our latest #preprint

Using cryo–electron tomography, we peeked inside different #Mtuberculosis strains, and a couple of other mycobacteria.🧐 Surprise: some species, especially the host-adapted ones, build intracytoplasmic membranes (we call them MIMs)! 🦠

More outstanding maps in this Mercator / 'Correct The Map' explainer by Reuters 😍
www.reuters.com/graphics/AFR...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis forms nitrate-induced intracytoplasmic membranes (MIMs) that rewire metabolism & dampen inflammation during infection, uncovering a new layer of bacterial adaptation!
✍️ @camimille.bsky.social @enningalab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
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Registration & abstract submissions are open for the #Shigella meeting! Travel grants available too! All are welcomed, whether you are active in #Shigella research or interested in the 21st century perspective on this formidable pathogen! 🦠 🧫 #Microsky
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Come and join us in Paris 2026 to talk all about Shigella!

After years of hard work and months of growing MTB @camimille.bsky.social submitted her story ! Check this out if you wanna discover new intrabacterial structures and their function ! 🦠🔬✨

🦠 Mycobacteria aren't just tough, they're interior designers! 🦠 Check out our latest #preprint 🚨, led by our PhD student @camimille.bsky.social , where we show that #Mycobacterium tuberculosis builds secret cytoplasmic membranes to adapt its metabolism and sneak past immunity 🤫

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New preprint from the lab! Great work led by @camimille.bsky.social #mycobacterium #TB #cryoET

There are half a million cases of invasive non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) every year and while you might know S. Typhimurim and Enteritidis, you may not have heard of S. Panama 💩 🩸 🧫 💊 Check out our latest in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.la... and the 🧵 below to find out more 1/n