Sonja-Verena Albers

Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.

Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks Basile!

Thanks Patricia! Great to hear!

Was a great event, thanks for the invitation and great talk @juliengiraud.bsky.social !

Great to be here!

Look at this nice cover: beautiful archaella, image made by @sshamphavi.bsky.social !

Thanks also to Marta Rodeiguez for keeping the EM im shape in @ottlab.bsky.social lab!

At @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social

Some keen Observations in Our October issue!

🦠 Cancer microbiome
🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans
🌐 broad-range phages
🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella
🔧 Viral infection mechanisms
🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence

and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

Congrats to @sshamphavi.bsky.social : her image of archaella made it on the cover of @natmicrobiol.nature.com !

The future of @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de is about teamwork, curiosity, and collaboration across disciplines.

We are thrilled to be in this together @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @archaellum.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social !

Looking forward to be part of this team in the next few years!

Thanks!

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see, we keep our promises 👌🏻

Welcome at @uni-freiburg.de and the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social ! And it is not raining 😎

Thanks a lot, Geoff! Yes, indeed, you have to adapt to be able to adapt ....

Thanks Jürgen!

Filamentous growth, cell envelope architecture, and surface appendages of a member of the Chloroflexota, Litorilinea aerophila Litorilinea aerophila , a filamentous bacterium of the phylum Chloroflexota (class Caldilineae ), exhibits unique morphological and cell envelope features that challenge traditional bacterial models. ...

Yes, indeed, we were surprised, too! But we hypothesize that it only works because of the cell envelope structure of these Chloroflexota strains, see also here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks!

Thanks Daniela!

Thanks Jörg!

better today then never 😎 and thanks!

Molecular structure of the ESCRT III-based archaeal CdvAB cell division machinery www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676241v1 #cryoEM

🙏🏻 Thanks Sjon!

Bacteria with archaella, who would have thought that this existed. Happy to share that it does 🎉and we just published it today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🎉🥳. Congrats to everyone involved! 🦠

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 😉

😀 That‘s a new one!

Thanks, Dina!
It is still clear that only very few bacteria seem to have an archaellum, and so far, there are no flagella in archaea, so for now, I think we are good 😀

We are grateful for funding by the @dfg.de in the framework of the @sfb1381.bsky.social
Moreover, we are thankful for the excellent cooperation with the CryoEM Facility at the @uni-freiburg.de

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

Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...

Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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