Intracellular pathogens like #Chlamydia can hide from host defenses in a #vacuole. This study shows that CpoS maintains the stability of Chlamydia’s parasitophorous vacuole; early vacuole destabilization clears infection, suggesting a potential therapeutic target @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Ur0YqJ

Ran my first 10k in beautiful Heidelberg 🙂‍↔️ And got to see some babies on the way!

Just a few minutes for this really great conference to start! Amazing talks, superb program and beautiful city Happy as always to represent @plosbiology.org at #EESMicrobiology Feel free to approach and have a chat!

📅 I am organizing a session on #ERC funding opportunities at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium-Infection: pathogens, hosts, and microbiomes. 26-28 May 2025. If you are around, feel free to stop by. @erc.europa.eu @embl.org

Excited to join next week to this @embl.org symposium #EESInfection! The program looks great and I am happy to say that @plosbiology.org will be giving 2 poster prizes! As always, reach out if you are going to be there too!

Another exciting conference! I am attending this week the #GRC of #Neuroimmunity in Lucca representing @plosbiology.org Really cool talks and people in a beautiful place! Looking forward to it! www.grc.org/neuroimmune-...

Great talk from @audeber.bsky.social about defense system diversity. And then also from @pdeweirdt.bsky.social from the lab of one of our Editorial Board Members Michael Laub. So much to still discover!

So excited to participate on this @embo.org workshop representing @plosbiology.org! There'll be amazing talks & posters! Feel free to come to me! I'm always happy to chat ;) I'll also take the opportunity for a site visit @institutpasteur.bsky.social Mon & Fri, so reach-out if you are there!

Happening TODAY! It is not too late to register for the #FEMSMicrobiolEcol Webinar. This session will not only push the boundaries of ecological understanding but also underscore the critical role of microbes in addressing environmental challenges.🌍 buff.ly/3X6aCR9

Reviewer fatigue is there. Check out this editorial :) If you have ideas that you think we should consider feel free to comment. I am already aware that a solution may be to pay reviewers, it will be interesting to see the outcome from CoB, and how affordable that is (specially for non-profits)

What is up Bluesky! I'm an Associate Editor working at #PLOSBiology with everything related with #Microbiology and #Immunology Looking forward to all #science posts! Also, if you wanna book a meet-the-editor zoom meeting with me and talk about your work, just click scheduler.zoom.us/melissa-vazq...!

Our new story on #T6SS WHIX effectors and bacterial warfare is out in @plosbiology.org. It has a lot more data than the original bioRxiv preprint, so take a look even if you’ve read that. 🦠 What did we find? A thread... 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Super fun to be part of this. Thank you @sparrerlab.bsky.social for inviting me to talk a bit about AI in scientific publishing!

Really happy to attend the "Molecular Determinants of Zoonotic Virus Infections and Beyond" meeting in Freiburg representing @plosbiology.org I will also have a meet the editor session this Friday, so come over! As always, feel free to reach out in person, by e-mail or dm

In this uncertain and weird times, I am so happy and proud to be part of @plos.org and @plosbiology.org. "PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor & editorial integrity... we seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science"

Important then, and even more important now... Also, I have to say that I am quite proud of this team, PLOS and the values we support

biology is so beautiful!

Iron-sulfur proteins require specialized assembly pathways. @s-besteiro.bsky.social &co show that the plastid-derived protein HCF101 functions in the cytosolic Fe-S assembly pathway in #Toxoplasma and is crucial for #parasite viability 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3EFKKoQ

quite a nice study from the @maierlab.bsky.social

In a see of horrible, and sometimes disheartening news, here is a picture of my ninja cat enjoying the sun

500 classrooms have signed up for Skype a Scientist 2025! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&A sessions. It's FREE! We have an advertising budget of $0. So tell an educator in your life that we exist SkypeAScientist.com

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If you're just getting back on Bluesky, welcome to 2025! Here's a 🧵 on the editors' highlights of the stuff that we published in @plosbiology.org last year, compiled in this v nice editorial by @droutledge.bsky.social ...

This has also been my first year as editor and being part of this amazing team was one of the best things in 2024. I would like to thank the whole team and the Academic Editors for their help and patience, the authors for their trust, and the reviewers for their hard work. Happy holidays everyone!

Repeated antigen exposure drives T-cell exhaustion, impairing immune function. Study identifies HAT p300 as a driver of CD4+ #Tcell exhaustion, implicating novel surface receptors & transcriptional regulators, and a metabolic shift to dysfunctional fatty acid oxidation 🧪 #PLOSBiology plos.io/4glg2iO

It is happening! Make sure to follow @plosbiology.org and all other @plos.org journals to keep on track with great science!

Open call for new research groups @pasteur.fr in Paris lots of immunology themes welcome #immunosky #IDsky #Scisky 🧪🥼🔬 get in touch if you have questions

Happy to say I will be attending and representing @plosbiology.org I will post again closer to the dates but I am sure it will be a great conference!

Winner of Equality & Diversity champion #BES2024 goes to @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social - yesterday I posted a link to one of his @plosbiology.org papers, but arguably this one (the costs of having English as a 2nd/3rd/4th language in science) is arguably just as important: plos.io/46Rfptc

#MVIF 34 program👇 ⭐Microtalks 🇹🇼 Ha T. Doan 🇦🇺 Vedanth Ramji from bigdatabiology.bsky.social ⭐Keynote 🇺🇸 Sean Gibbons @gibbological.bsky.social ⭐Selected Talks 🇯🇵 Yuya Kiguchi 🇦🇺 Kurtis Budden 🇨🇭 Amit Halkhoree Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-34

#PhD position in my lab! Interested in polar #diatoms, molecular biology, essential minerals and adaptation? Join us working with Glen Wheeler & C. van Oosterhout. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #Arctic #Antarctic #Ocean Deadline: 8 January 2025 (midnight UK time) www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

The first couple of paragraphs in this BMJ article are scathing. I appreciate how the Brits pull no punches

New post on some preliminary – but troubling – signals about the direction H5N1 might be taking: kucharski.substack.com/p/h5n1-influ...

Rhizosphere #microbiome and #plant hormones; new #PLOSBiology study shows that #bacteria associated with plant roots can degrade auxin, so counteracting the root inhibition caused by auxin-producing bacteria plos.io/3Oqzgaq

So happy to see this piece by Cesar de la Fuente on new #AI-driven approaches to #antibiotic discovery, to help tackle the #AMR crisis It was a pleasure to work with Cesar on this piece - do have a look!

I'm a senior editor at #PLOSBiology, jumping ship from the Musky Swamp into the Blue. I'll be posting stuff from our wonderful journal (especially the cool stuff that I handle myself!) until such a time as the journal follows me to this place...

New piece by Cesar de la Fuente in #PLOSBiology about using #ArtificialIntelligence #AI for #antibiotic discovery in the war against #AntibioticResistant #AMR: plos.io/3B3rWP8

Hi folks! Check out this starter pack that we created to find folks in oceanography (including marine microbiology, biogeochemistry, modeling, 'omics, and more). Please reply to this post if you would like to be added to the starter pack. Thanks! go.bsky.app/KaUvLwp

Thermal biology / Metabolic theory: bsky.app/starter-pack... Infection biology: bsky.app/starter-pack... Synthetic biology and biotech: bsky.app/starter-pack... General Microbiology: bsky.app/starter-pack... Chemical biology: bsky.app/starter-pack...

The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

#microbiome starter pack 1 & 2 by @claesengroup.bsky.social: ---- bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... #human #microbiome starter pack by @ruairirobertson.bsky.social: --- bsky.app/starter-pack... #MVIF starter pack by @microbiomevif.bsky.social: ---- bsky.app/start/did:pl...

I couldn't find one, so I decided to put together a starter pack of folk working on the evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions, eco-immunology, or similar. I know I've missed many (sorry) so please share and let me know if you want to be added (or removed). go.bsky.app/QvrnjHS

Victim of its success the Virology and Virus-Host interaction starter pack got packed (150 users) so I created #2 ! Reach out if you want to be included ! go.bsky.app/6bSDmrW

What is up Bluesky! I am an Associate Editor working at #PLOSBiology with everything related with #Microbiology and #Immunology! Looking forward to all #science posts!