Be our IMB colleague! Join us for cool science! [open faculty position at the institute of molecular biology, academia sinica in taiwan] www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Excited to learn that our story on characterizing an interbacterial protease toxin is finally out @plosbiology.org "An interbacterial cysteine protease toxin inhibits cell growth by targeting type II DNA topoisomerases GyrB and ParE". Led by my wonderful team at Academia Sinica!

Always love a good bacterial warfare study: "Horizontal gene transfer of molecular weapons can reshape bacterial competition" by @prokaryota.bsky.social, @jdpal.bsky.social, et al. in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

OUT NOW: Inducible transposon mutagenesis identifies bacterial fitness determinants during infection in mice #microsky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our Phage infection/T6S story is finally out @embojournal.org! "Surface-mediated bacteriophage defense incurs fitness tradeoffs for interbacterial antagonism" Led by my wonderful team at Academia Sinica! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

A҉L҉T҉R҉U҉I҉S҉T҉I҉C҉ ҉Z҉O҉M҉B҉I҉E҉ ҉B҉A҉C҉T҉E҉R҉I҉A҉🦠🧟 Fascinating Nat Comm paper Martin Cann Lab Durham UK Dead bacteria encode post-mortem protein catabolism via Lon protease—provides nutrients promoting growth of surviving bacteria No benefit of Lon to live bacteria to account for this www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check it out! Another novel RNA modification - ADP-ribosylation - that was previously only known on proteins. A cousin to #glycoRNA 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Discovery of a distinct BAM complex in the Bacteroidetes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.636011v1

A ubiquitin-like protein controls assembly of a bacterial Type VIIb secretion system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634720v1

Beautiful #symbiosis paper. Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles www.cell.com/current-biol...

What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Breaking Barriers: Gender Equity in Science, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Together, stronger! www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4GE...

OUT NOW - Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New review🚨 Evolution and ecology of anti-defence systems in phages and plasmids Link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.04.631297v1

Starvation of the bacteria Vibrio atlanticus promotes lightning group-attacks on the dinoflagellate Alexandrium pacificum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.629110v1

The bully phage: A Shiga toxin-encoding prophage interferes with the induction of co-hosted prophages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.01.630987v1

A widespread family of viral sponge proteins reveals specific inhibition of nucleotide signals in anti-phage defense https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.30.630793v1

An Interbacterial Cysteine Protease Toxin Inhibits Cell Growth by Targeting Type II DNA Topoisomerases GyrB and ParE https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.30.630690v1