Combination of large-scale phylogenomic analysis, mouse lethality experiments and bacterial growth assays shows sheds light on how a pandemic clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was able to spread worldwide www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beautiful work on the emergence of the pandemic clone of V. parahaemolyticus

Our “Less is more” story is out! 🚀 We reveal how gene loss shaped the adaptive evolution of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus, highlight a potentially general mechanism across bacteria. Huge thanks @danielfalush.bsky.social @campy-bara.bsky.social @jaimemurtaza.bsky.social & all coauthors

How to get introgressed fragments in genomic data? Everything you always wanted to know you find in our review in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social, led by Xin Huang: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

What drove the post-pandemic global pertussis upsurge? Immunity debt? Waning immunity? Other factors? Our recent study highlights the key role of pathogen evolution. We also identified the global spread of a drug-resistant clone, MR-MT28, which warrants coordinated global surveillance.

Molassodon! Excited to post my research group's first laboratory project. We identify a phenotype and a putative ecological strategy for the Molassodon ecospecies of Vibrio parahamolyticus, thanks to the hard work of our lab team led by @campy-bara.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Delighted to present our Macrogenetics atlas of prokaryotes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is a herculean effort from Chao Yang, which has a previous existence as a preprint first posted in 2018 "why panmictic bacteria are rare?" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...