NEW paper 🚨! We engineered TNT sensors in soil bacteria for long-term detection of explosive in natural soil, enabling geospatial detection of contaminated soil. This work (led by Erin Essington) included new sensors, circuits, modeling, & a 28-day testing workflow. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Going viral: The role of mobile genetic elements in bacterial immunity www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Genetic encoding and expression of RNA origami cytoskeletons in synthetic cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598448v1

PyCoMo: a python package for community metabolic model creation and analysis academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs

Very happy to share our latest preprint DMF UNIL: Jung and Gábor controlled the ring patterns in E. coli colonies generated by a synthetic oscillator with optogenetics. We observed synchronisation, resonance, entrainment, undertone, period doubling and even chaos! Feedback welcome.

www.advancedsciencenews.com/a-living-bio... Nice news article in “Advanced Science News” covering our recent publication (result of a collaboration with @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes).

Filamentous Phage Shields by Roberto — Elaborate mechanisms that protect bacteria against phage are well known, with CRISPR leading the way. Less familiar but equally fascinating is the fact that, somewhat unexpectedly, phages themselves sometimes offer... Read more > tinyurl.com/yktjj3z7 #MicroSky

Bottlenecks in the Implementation of Genome Scale Metabolic Model Based Designs for Bioproduction from Aromatic Carbon Sources https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.15.585139v1

Amazing to see this finally out!!From competition to collaboration: we show how 2 bacterial species that compete for a carbon source can interact positively in a toxic environment, with one species removing ROS to the benefit of the other plos.io/3SOvRnZ congrats Aurore Picot & Rita Di Martino

Our paper engineering yeast to be phototrophic (gaining energy from light) by chucking a rhodopsin into the vacuole is out in Current Biology. www.cell.com/current-biol...

How stable are bacterial genomes as they adapt to an environment? My collaboration with Anurag Limdi, Alex Couce, @relenski.bsky.social, and Olivier Tenaillon exploring this over 50,000 generations of evolution is out today! 1/ (cross-post from the other place) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

why most of my scientific papers aren't really all that exciting - and why that's perfectly OK and a normal part of how science advances. With bonus architecture analogy... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/w...

And its out! New paper for #integron aficionados. We found gene-less cassettes in superintegrons that express/silence other cassettes in the array. Here is a 🧵(if I know how to do this in Bluesky...😆) academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Application deadline has been extended until Feb 5th!

Finally published! We show that host metabolites facilitate gutcolonization of a symbiont of social bees. Huge congrats to co-lead authors @andrewhq9.bsky.social & Yassine El Chazli. Super collabo with NanoSIMS expert Anders Meibom EPFL and our Electron Microscopy Facility FBM_UNIL 🐝 🧪

#Pseudomonas enthusiasts! Join us at the international #conference Sept 1-5 · Dive into the latest research on #microbiology, clinical #infection & #biotechnology · Abstract submission opens later this week · #Pseudomonas2024 · Please spread the word! microbiologysociety.org/event/full-e...

When researchers tried to evolve a yeast population to stick to plastic, they accidentally increased it’s ability to cause infection. What more can we learn about ‘accidental virulence’? elifesciences.org/articles/945...

Integron cassettes integrate into bacterial genomes via widespread non-classical attG sites www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs