Very happy to see the second story from my PhD out in @currentbiology.bsky.social An exciting project where we explored the roles of secretion systems and gliding motility in predatory behavior in F. johnsoniae. www.cell.com/current-biol...

✨Are you interested in oxidative stress response regulation in bacteria and metalloproteins? 🗓️May 5th, 3 pm (GMT+2), Prof. Montserrat Elías-Arnanz will present our recently published paper about PexR, a new noncanonical peroxide stress response regulator of bacteria. cassyni.com/s/biometals

Un pequeño resumen de nuestro artículo publicado en PNAS sobre el origen y evolución de la ruta de biosíntesis de plasmalógenos: segenetica.es/articulo-en-... ¡Muchas gracias @segenetica.bsky.social ! Trabajo en colaboración con @multicellgenome.bsky.social y @jtrinidad13.bsky.social

Many thanks @iqf-csic.bsky.social for publishing a review of our last paper at @pnas.org Here it is 👇🏼 www.iqf.csic.es/es/

So happy to see our work finally published in @pnas.org! 🥳 This project was a deep dive into convergent evolution, HGT, and gene fission. It shows how messy and beautiful evolution can be. Huge thanks to the amazing team involved! Read the full paper here: 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

link 👉https://pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2529738123 @pnas.org We also directly detected plasmalogens in our beloved Chromosphaera perkinsii and Capsaspora. #ichthyosporeans #holozoans #protistsonSky #LGT @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @icreacommunity.bsky.social @csic.es

Many cellular innovations later used by animals were assembled long before animals evolved.We show that aerobic plasmalogen biosynthesis likely entered eukaryotes early from Myxobacteria, highlighting how bacterial genes shaped the cellular landscape from which animals emerged. 🧬✨ #protistsOnSky

✨Our preprint about the evolution and origins of the aerobic plasmalogen biosynthesis pathway is now published in @pnas.org ! 🧫Our beloved myxobacteria share more than we think with eukaryotes Great collaboration with @multicellgenome.bsky.social and @jtrinidad13.bsky.social

🧬 Nº 228  #RevistaSEBBM - Sexo en investigación biomédica 🏅 A fondo: FOXP3 y tolerancia inmunológica, con motivo del Nobel 2025 (J. M. Bautista) 🏛 Centros Severo Ochoa y Unidades María de Maeztu 🌍 SOMMa y ciencia de excelencia en 🇪🇸 📖 https://f.mtr.cool/gyomarhtjh

¡Muchas gracias @sebbm.bsky.social por compartir nuestro trabajo sobre el descubrimiento de un nuevo regulador no canónico en la respuesta bacteriana a estrés por peróxido! sebbm.es/revista/inve... @eva-bastm.bsky.social @umu @mit.edu

#NatMicroPicks It matters where cancer-associated bacteria are! 🦀💊 The spatial localization of bacteria associated with tumors dictates opposite immune outcomes - driving metastasis or triggering antitumour neutrophil activity #MicroSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Very happy that our work on the T6SS ADP-ribosylcyclase toxin made the Cover at JBC @asbmb.bsky.social y.social ! Congratulations Julius @jmartinkus.bsky.social for designing this Cover ! @dukasju.bsky.social @laurentterradot.bsky.social

📝Thrilled to share that part of my PhD work has been published in @narjournal.bsky.social 🧬 We discovered a new peroxide stress regulator named PexR, conserved across Myxococcota and beyond. 🔬It senses H₂O₂ through a metal-binding GAF domain, acting unlike classic OxyR/PerR systems.

Happy to share the last paper form the lab: Specialized shuttle proteins recognize T9SS signals and target effectors to their final destinations. Great work by @maellepllt.bsky.social, led by @thicoz.bsky.social in collaboration with @audebertstephane.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections go.nature.com/4oQ8bxO

📝 New preprint! We trace the origin of the plasmalogen biosynthesis pathway. 🧬 Phylogenetic and functional analyses suggest eukaryotes acquired it via HGT from Myxobacteria, with major lineage-specific differences. ✨Great collaboration between our group at @UMU and @multicellgenome.bsky.social

Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available go.nature.com/479Sni6

Fun fact: did you know that the slime bacterium Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis holds the record for having the longest scientific name of any living or fossil organism? No joke, this species really exists! 🦠🧫🔬🧐