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New preprint! We characterise the small, regulatory RNA Arp which controls DNA uptake and twitching motilty in A. baumannii. Led by our Dr Fergal Hamrock @hamrockfergal.bsky.social and in collaboration with @westermannlab.bsky.social and Mike Gebhardt's lab!

New preprint! We characterise the small, regulatory RNA Arp which controls DNA uptake and twitching motilty in A. baumannii. Led by our Dr Fergal Hamrock @hamrockfergal.bsky.social and in collaboration with @westermannlab.bsky.social and Mike Gebhardt's lab!

Charline studied how some clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii create a transient intracellular niche before infecting neighboring cells. Great collaboration with @kroegerlab.bsky.social If you are interested, check out her preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Latest preprint from our lab describing a new 2-plasmid system to investigate sRNAs-target molecule interactions in A. baumannii.

Transposon-directed insertion-site sequencing (TraDIS) analysis of Enterococcus faecium using nanopore sequencing and a WebAssembly analysis platform https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.03.641140v1

Our lab contributed to this including @hamrockfergal.bsky.social : CsrA-mediated regulation of a virulence switch in Acinetobacter baumannii. Great work led by Phil Rather's group. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A work that started 10y ago with a simple experiment with a curious result. Great to see it finally published. Massive effort by @nic-ler.bsky.social and Andrew Cameron! Happy to have contributed to this!

Delighted to share our work led by IRC GoI PG Scholar Fergal Hamrock: Global analysis of the RNA–RNA interactome in Acinetobacter baumannii AB5075 uncovers a small regulatory RNA repressing the virulence-related outer membrane protein CarO. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...