A nice write-up on the latest paper from my lab: news.ku.edu/news/article... More commentary to come! #PlantBiology #Drought #Corn #Maize #Microbiome #PlantScience #SoilHealth #PlantHealth

DAY 156 SPECIES 156 - Marinomonas arctica STAGE: Bacteria MEDIUM: Arches Paper, QoR Watercolor, Writech pen and Tombow colored pencil M. arctica is a Gram-negative, psychrotolerant and motile bacterium that was isolated from sea ice in the Canadian Basin. #sciart #watercolor #bacteria #art #paint

Multifunctionally diverse alkaline phosphatases of Alteromonas drive the phosphorus cycle in the ocean | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64455-2

#microsky #phagesky #phage defence Novel bacterial ubiquitination-like pathway! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.the-scientist.com/ants-can-fer... #MicroSky

www.the-scientist.com/grapevine-ba... #MicroSky

www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-g... #microsky

DIPPIN' DOTS were never the future but maybe this is McMaster U 🇨🇦 Science Advances BACTERIOPHAGE-LOADED MICRONEEDLES that enable safe phage delivery directly into food matrices Multi-log reduction in E. coli CFU in raw hamburger or cooked ready-to-eat chicken www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.iflscience.com/bacteria-tha... #microsky

How do bacteria survive phage infections? Bae et al. explore diverse #antiphage defense systems, with a special focus on the model pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa due to its strain diversity and genomic adaptability. buff.ly/phnGnWL #FEMSMicrobiolRev

@contamclub.bsky.social A fungus on THY agar broth... secreting some yellow compound...

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... #MicroSky

New in JB: A minireview from my team, led by a recently graduated PhD student Kaitlyn Barrack, compares the microbiota and physiology of the CF gut with features of the gut in inflammatory bowel disease - there are many similarities! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

#MicroSky: The protein PsyOmp38 inhibits and disrupts S. epidermidis biofilms. When combined with vancomycin, it enhances antibiotic efficacy by lowering MBEC values. PDMS coated with PsyOmp38 prevents biofilm formation, highlighting its promise for antibiofilm materials. doi.org/10.1111/1751...

doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #MicroSky

academic.oup.com/nar/article/... #MicroSky

“No -canonical” cell division machinery #MicroSky

www.genengnews.com/topics/infec... #MicroSky

microfabricated stamps, fresh off the printer :)

Nucleoid structure and dynamics influence natural chromosomal transformation in Bacillus subtilis: the role of EbfC url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MicroSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #phagesky #phage defence system Thoeris

Did you know most 'complete' Streptomyces genomes are missing their telomeres? Thanks to David and Tues hard work, we now have a new tool to recover them! A pleasure to be part of a team. :) 🦠🧪💻 #microsky

New retron systems from environmental bacteria identify triggers of anti-phage defense and expand tools for genome editing | PLOS Biology https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003042

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #MicroSky

fans of NAPs take note 👇 what Spurio 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (1992) saw as complete condensation of the 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 nucleoid due to H-NS overproduction (f), can now be traced down to individual loops by Way 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2025). #MicroSky @meyerroc.bsky.social @pdersch.bsky.social y.social @phoeberice.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #microsky a database of bacterial small RNA experimental data

Chromosome replication and cell division cycles are not synchronized in Staphylococcus aureus, with cells exhibiting two segregated origins of replication at the start of the cell cycle #bacteria #microbiology

Emergence of population-level feedback control by transposon-plasmid coevolution doi.org/10.1101/2025...

E. coli bacteriophage N15 suppresses Mre11-Rad50-mediated end degradation of its linear genome via a telomere-resolution-independent function of its telomere resolvase TelN #RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by @gruberlab.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Bacteria use paralog teamwork to survive stress. H-NS forms fluid condensates; its partner StpA forms rigid fibrils. Together, they balance flexibility & stability to keep genes properly regulated under pressure. #PhaseSeparation #Bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.livescience.com/planet-earth... #MicroSky

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10... #MicroSky

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #phagesky #phage defence #synbio #microsky

Our work on viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their DPANN symbionts is out today in Nature Microbiology! @mkrupovic.bsky.social @deemteam.bsky.social @anagtz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

academic.oup.com/nar/article/... #pjagesky #phage defence

www.cell.com/cell-systems... #phagesky #phage

ribosomologists take note 👇 archaeal ribosome hibernation factors aRDF, Dri, ...and now: Hib (see ALT) #Archaea #ArchaeaSky

"Bacterially grown living materials"... 🤦‍♂️

‘Soil batteries’ use sunlight to fight pollution in the dark #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #microsky #microbiome from the @gavinhthomas.bsky.social lab in York in collab with Hull

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #microsky #microbiome DGRs FTW