All science arises only because of the shared broader community. I want to especially recognize Rotem Sorek @soreklab.bsky.social Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social our collaborators and the many wonderful labs and scientists in the field bringing together human and bacterial antiviral research!
09.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Blavatnik National Awards
Blavatnik National Awards
Blavatnik National Awards
Blavatnik National Awards
Congratulations to Philip J. Kranzusch, Ph.D., Professor of Cancer Immunology and Virology, who was one of three scientists awarded top honors at the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
Watch to learn more about his work: bit.ly/4pZUDkF
08.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes
VAD is a Viral AlphaFold Database of protein monomers and homodimers from viruses infecting hosts across the tree of life.
Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances
~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers
Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses
New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered
Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
02.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 81 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 0
Excited to be part of this collaboration with the Burrows lab exploring twitching and surface surface sensing by P. aeruginosa. This work further delineates a role for the T4P motor proteins and pili for surface sensing.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
@asm.org
07.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Thrilled to be a coauthor in this story 🚀 Check out our latest publication on the archaellum - spoiler: it's an archaellum in bacteria 😱 Who would have thought? Thank you to all the authors, and especially @sshamphavi.bsky.social for really keeping this paper rotating 😉
17.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
17.09.2025 17:41 — 👍 119 🔁 58 💬 7 📌 8
And a major contribution from @vikramalva.bsky.social
19.09.2025 12:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ComFB, a widespread family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins | PNAS
Cyclic dimeric-GMP (c-di-GMP) is a ubiquitous bacterial second messenger that regulates
a variety of cellular processes, including motility, biofil...
And here is the published version of the work from @selimlab.bsky.social, @mygalperin.bsky.social, Dubnau labs and @thethormannden.bsky.social labs
(superb collaboration)
ComFB, a widespread family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
19.09.2025 11:04 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
https://kranzuschlab.med.harvard.edu
https://mikrobiologie.uni-hohenheim.de
Dept. of Molecular Microbiology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
Bacterial geneticist 🧫 🦠 🧬 focusing on #Shigella, #enteric #pathogens & #phage. Using host signals & #organoids to study #pathogenesis. Assist Prof at USUHS. Views my own. https://medschool.usuhs.edu/profile/christina-faherty-phd
Father of Eva and Adele, husband of Ariane. Teacher and researcher at the University of Parma (Italy): biochemistry & bioinformatics, metabolic pathways, coevolution.
Distinguished Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University.
Biofilms, dispersion, antibiotic tolerance, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Das Leibniz-Institut DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ist die global vielfältigste Sammlung für biologische Ressourcen. An der DSMZ werden Mikroorganismen & Zellkulturen gesammelt, erforscht und archiviert
The Pfam database is a large collection of protein families, domains and repeats. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/entry/pfam/#table
Microbiologist at Indiana University. We study the convergence of surface attachment, biofilm formation, genomics and virulence in bacteria.
Elmer R. Pfefferkorn, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine, EiC of the Journal of Bacteriology; Bacterial Biofilms, Surface Sensing, c-di-GMP Signaling, Polymicrobial Communities & Gut Microbiota in Cystic Fibrosis
Understanding how bacteria develop into one of the toughest cell types on Earth - Spores
Principal Investigator | Reader
www.rodrigueslab.com
Professor (Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany)
Research interests: archaeal metabolism and its regulation, stress response, biotechnlogical applications
Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia studying bacterial cell biology 🔬🧫🏳️🌈
microbiologist, McMaster U 🇨🇦 • type IV pili, phages, biofilms, antibiotic resistance • equestrian🐴 • cancer survivor🎗️
Assoc. Prof. @ at Illinois State University. We study the molecular secrets of bacterial stress responses.
https://about.illinoisstate.edu/jdahl1/
assistant professor at georgetown | polymicrobial interactions | bacterial physiology | science educator | views my own
www.zarrellalab.org
Computational biologist at Ohio State. Evolution. Bacteria. Football (primarily EPL). History & Politics. Food & Wine. Travel.
Departmental Group Leader - Protein Bioinformatics @ Max Planck Institute for Biology - Tübingen @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Protein evolution // MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit // prokaryotic cell-surface proteins // prokaryotic histones
Lecturer & group leader in Lund University. Computational microbiologist, mostly working on toxin-antitoxin systems, ribosomes and bacterial defence against phages. Director of the LU-Fold protein structure prediction infrastructure of LU.
Atkinson-lab.com
