Characterizing phage gene essentiality with PhageMaP: • High-throughput approach to generate genome-wide loss-of-function phage libraries. • Interrogates gene essentiality w/insights into phage genome organization, host antiviral defense & gene function www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

A future perspective article on the next 10 years in microbial molecular biology and physiology is online now. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🧵👇

I reused “Well-Lit” tech from the pandemic, with thanks to Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg, Joana Cabrera, and @andercot.bsky.social. We had a huge task—picking bacterial stocks from >200 96-well plates and re-arranging them—and the lab's anaerobic liquid handler was broken without the funds to repair. 🧵

Berkeley Lab released a news article describing our recent work on the genetics of the infant-specialized bifidobacteria biosciences.lbl.gov/2025/05/01/h...

Interested in the influence of the infant microbiome on health? Quickly interrogating non-model organisms using omic approaches? A new publication, describing genome-scale resources in bifidobacteria, is now available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #microbiome #microsky