Last week we had the CCeMMP Symposium 2025. Fantastic event with an outstanding line-up of speakers. There were 2 poster prizes and 1 oral presentation prize; thrilled that we did a clean sweep! Huge congratulations @tiltedscientist.bsky.social @somavallyd.bsky.social and @lucatroman.bsky.social

The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria blocks many antibiotics. Our latest work reveals that L-type pyocins bypass this barrier by inactivating the BAM complex, killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa without entering the cell, providing a new blueprint for beating antibiotic resistance.

Story on our Asgard microtubule paper by Nikki Greenwood: www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r... Thanks to all interviewees🎤

We recently discovered a brand-new (and unique!) anti-phage defense system in bacteria. Check out this Pursuit article from @Melbourne University featuring our recent work. Terrific effort from our PhD student Somavally! lnkd.in/geXUApmK

We are excited to share our new study which talks about the unique anti-phage system. Please check out the article for more details. Thank you Debnath Ghosal and Sigal Ben Yehuda for this amazing opportunity. Thank you University of Melbourne and Pursuit team!

📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/ Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic ⚔️🦠❄️🔬

An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.663070v1

Excited to share that our work on a family of pore-forming proteins is now live in Science Advances! We show structural snapshots across the entire pore-forming pathway for a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin-like (CDCL) bicomponent system.

Fabulous collaboration with Steve Petrovski lab at La Trobe University. Amazing team that made this happen @tiltedscientist.bsky.social, JaysonRose, MiladReyhani, @unimelb, @FMDHS, @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social.

Delighted to share our recent work in Nat Comms. This is a "Story of a dwarf predator" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am very happy to announce that we solved the in-virus #cryoEM structure of the #HIV matrix protein. The structure helped us to resolve a long mystery in HIV biology. A🧵1/5 Read more in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

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