Regulatory Rewiring Drives Intraspecies Competition in Bacillus subtilis bioRxiv from @bacteriacities.bsky.social #competition #rapP #comP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Identification of Previously Unknown DNA-Binding Proteins Using DNA Affinity/Pull-Down Methods Followed by Mass Spectrometry Jutras, Babb, Jusufovic, Krusenstjerna, Saylor, Verma, and Stevenson Current Protocols 2025, 5:e70264 doi: 10.1002/cpz1.70264 #MicroSky

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

An Rhs effector uses distinct target cell functions to intoxicate bacterial and fungal competitors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685041v1

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

New preprint from the lab! @findunmun1.bsky.social @chemsley.bsky.social We looked at new protein synthesis and genetic fitness during starvation in P. aeruginosa. Resources are dynamically redistributed to support ongoing activity, even over days of total starvation: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

yes, the MMBs studied by george schaible and roland hatzenpichler are fascinating 𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 bacteria 🤩 STC had mentioned them first in 2007 > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... and recently in > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

In @molecularmicro.bsky.social: two special issues on Prokaryotic Chromosome Organization. Many excellent contributions, including a vision article: 'Future directions of the Prokaryotic Chromosome Field', outcome of BioPhyChrom 2023 @biophychrom.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Polyphosphate: The “Dark Matter” of Bacterial Chromatin Structure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

Congrats to Findlay and many thanks to examiners Dan Neill and Martin Welch for their work on a successful viva today! Findlay has worked so hard and accomplished so much while blazing the trail as the first PhD student in the lab :)

Together with @frimanscience.bsky.social and our Chinese colleagues, we have worked out how to predict (i) siderophore molecular structures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and (ii) siderophore interaction networks in communities www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from sequence data!