🔬 We have an open PhD position at SLU Uppsala! We're looking for a curious & driven PhD student to join the #ECOPHARM project funded by @kawresearch.bsky.social and investigate plasmid-dependent phages in aquatic ecosystems. Pls share with anyone who might be interested! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Out Now! Unravelling bacterial complexity at high resolution with single-cell transcriptomics #MicroSky

Single-cell genomics reveals opportunistic Enterobacterales carrying putative cationic antimicrobial peptide resistance genes in red crown rot-affected soybean rhizoplanes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.716964v1

the sensitivity of "tagIMseq" will be broadly useful for CRISPR-associated transposon work. Ruling out off-target insertions in resuspended colonies with minimal effort and cost investment is critical because targeting isn't always perfect.

A quick thread summarizing our new bioRxiv preprint on using CASTs for DNA barcoding to tell "look-alike" bacteria apart (Sphingomonas edition)!! Enjoy the read! ✨

When organisms look similar, you can use a tag to tell them apart. We wanted to tag our collection of diverse Sphingomonas bacteria with DNA barcodes to distinguish them. We planned to use Tn7, until we saw new reports about CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs).

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria

Programmed strain tagging and gene disruption throughout a diverse bacterial genus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.24.707161v1

Sharing our lab’s first publication! Probing clinical isolates of Cryptococcus, a disease-causing fungus of the lungs and brain, we found multiple heat-mobile elements that ‘jump’ in the genome at body temperature (!) with the ability to drive adaptive changes. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Integrative mobilizable elements are pervasive throughout Pseudomonadota https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.698999v1

Replicon family of Vibrionaceae plasmids as a reservoir of antimicrobial and phage resistance genes in marine ecosystems | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf274/8376499?login=false#546273460

🚀 Excited to share SMART-PTA (miniaturized Primary Template Amplification) a high-throughput single-cell whole-genome amplification method that preserves clonal lineage information while enabling deep genomic and transcriptomic profiling.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... How much environmental chaos to embrace in plant-microbe research, and to what end? A commentary on setting (with all choices OK as long as all options considered) w/ bergelsonlab.org, @fabriceroux7.bsky.social, @plantevolution.bsky.social, tkarasovlab.org

New Review Out! We explore how droplet microfluidics is opening new doors in microbial ecology - enabling single-cell functional insights into growth, metabolism & interactions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fems... #MicrobialEcology #DropletMicrofluidics #Microbiology

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social rdcu.be/exBSp

Curious about plasmid biology? Our latest paper is out now in Nature Communications! 🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s414... We analyzed thousands of diverse bacterial plasmids to shed light for the first time on a key aspect of plasmid biology: plasmid copy number. 1/7 👇

Thanks to everyone who came by my poster today for discussion! #2025ISMPMI If you weren’t able to make it but still interested in the potential role native plasmids play within Sphingomonas-plant interactions. Can check it out now on Zenodo zenodo.org/records/1591...

This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Last week, I had a great time at the New Phytologist EiC Symposium: “Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life” in Tartu, Estonia! Honored and very happy to receive the Best Poster Award! ✨ Big thanks to the organizers and all the inspiring scientists I met! 🌱 @newphyt.bsky.social