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Metabolism and Antibiotic Resistance. Alternative strategies to antibiotics. Predatory bacteria
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Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán
4 months ago
🚨🚨New paper out in
@natcomms.nature.com
!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Universal rules govern plasmid copy number - Nature Communications
Plasmids exhibit a broad range of sizes and copies per cell, and these two parameters appear to be negatively correlated. Here, Ramiro-Martínez et al. analyse the copy number of thousands of diverse b...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61202-5
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Paula Ramiro-Martínez
4 months ago
New paper alert! 🚨 Plasmids promote bacterial evolution through a copy number-driven increase in mutation rate. We combine theory, simulations, experimental evolution, and bioinformatics to demonstrate that mutation rates scale with plasmid copy number. Let's dive in! 🧵👇
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Plasmids promote bacterial evolution through a copy number-driven increase in mutation rate
Plasmids are autonomously replicating DNA molecules that stably coexist with chromosomes in bacterial cells. These genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer and play a fundamental role in bacter...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665944v1.article-metrics
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Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán
4 months ago
Do plasmids evolve faster 🐇, slower 🐢, or just like chromosomes 🧬? In our new paper, we tackled this question using theory, simulations, bioinformatics, and experiments! 👇 Check out all the details in Paula’s thread! Hint: 🐇 (most of the time)
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Sarah Bigot
3 months ago
Our paper “Genetic determinants of pOXA-48 plasmid maintenance and propagation in Escherichia coli” is now online in
@natcomms.nature.com
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social
@mmsb-lyon.bsky.social
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Genetic determinants of pOXA-48 plasmid maintenance and propagation in Escherichia coli - Nature Communications
pOXA-48 plasmids have emerged as key vectors of carbapenem resistance within Enterobacteriaceae. In this study, the authors use a transposon sequencing (Tn-seq) approach to identify genetic determinan...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62404-7
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Alicia Calvo-Villamañán
3 months ago
This work is finally published! 🥳🧬 Plasmids are associated with very variable fitness costs in their different bacterial hosts. But, what is the contribution of each of the plasmid-genes in these host-specific effects? Study led by
@jorgesastred.bsky.social
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@sanmillan.bsky.social
and myself! 1/14
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Dissecting pOXA-48 fitness effects in clinical Enterobacterales using plasmid-wide CRISPRi screens
Nature Communications - This study investigates the effects of the carbapenem resistance plasmid pOXA-48 in clinical enterobacteria. Using CRISPRi screens, the authors revealed that the...
https://rdcu.be/eBhe3
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Un placer estar en Logroño en tan buena compañia hablando de resistencia a los antibióticos.
#fundacionibercaja
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Vincent Burrus 🇨🇦💙💛
8 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In collaboration with Andrew Lang and Alison Buchan, we just published a review on the complex and sometimes convoluted interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements.
#phage
#plasmid
#evolution
#bacteria
#plasmidbiology
#MGE
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Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Lang and colleagues present an overview of the current knowledge landscape regarding mobile genetic elements in bacteria, with a focus on their evolutionary relationships and interacti...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-025-01157-y
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James Orr
8 months ago
In our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (
@darmitage.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1111/1462...
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Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa
Classical models from theoretical ecology are seeing increasing uptake in microbial ecology, but there remains rich potential for closer cross-pollination. Here we explore opportunities for stronger ....
https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70072
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Ignacio (Nacho) de Quinto
10 months ago
Just migrated here from twitter! Hello everyone. Also, I've just put up a super simple (and free) to use APP to streamline experiment design and result analysis of 96 (or 384) wells plate experiments for my lab pals. You can try it here:
rosettier.streamlit.app
Feedback is very welcome 😁!
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Rosettier
A free, user-friendly web application for planning 96 or 384-well plate experiments. Rosettier si...
https://rosettier.streamlit.app
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Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán
10 months ago
Really beautiful day receiving the “Margarita Salas” Award from the Madrid Region! Really proud to share it with my colleagues, friends and family!!
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Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CSIC)
10 months ago
El Prof. José Luis García, investigador del CIB, ha recibido el Premio de Investigación Margarita Salas 2024 otorgado por la CAM, en reconocimiento a su trayectoria investigadora y de transferencia, que ha posicionado la Biotecnología Española como referente internacional. ➡️
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Juan Díaz-Colunga
10 months ago
⚠️ Job(s) alert! ⚠️ We are launching a new postdoctoral program in Systems Biology at IBFG. Join us! 👉 Several positions available with competitive work conditions for up to 4 years 📄 More info:
jdiazc9.github.io/files/jobs/2...
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Alvaro San Millan
11 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper out!!
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A plasmid-chromosome crosstalk in multidrug resistant enterobacteria - Nature Communications
The authors describe a new crosstalk between a globally disseminated carbapenem resistance plasmid and clinical enterobacteria clones. This crosstalk provides a fitness advantage to the plasmid-carryi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55169-y
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Jeff Maltas
10 months ago
Very excited to have this paper officially out. This one is pretty special... Unfortunately,
@kevinwoodum.bsky.social
passed away when this paper was in its final stages. He was my biggest supporter, and I miss him deeply as a mentor and friend.
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Alvaro Sanchez
11 months ago
Nora finished her paper with a sentence I like a lot "Our results show that even under extremely restrictive, competitive conditions, the simplest biological entities on Earth can still find paths to coexistence." There is a curious dichotomy in her experiments... 1/3
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host
Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1183
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Alvaro San Millan
over 1 year ago
New preprint in collaboration with
@asantoslopez.bsky.social
lab and led by Jorge Sastre. Combining experimental evolution and analyses of longitudinal samples from hospitalised patients, we unveiled a new mechanism of plasmid-mediated evolution beyond HGT 1/8
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Plasmid-encoded insertion sequences promote rapid adaptation in clinical enterobacteria
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.01.582297v1
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Alfonso Santos Lopez
over 1 year ago
Excited to share the first preprint from my lab, collaborating with the fantastic
@sanmillan.bsky.social
's lab, led by the amazing Jorge Sastre. We've demonstrated how insertion sequences encoded in plasmids promote bacterial adaptation. This project has been incredibly fun!
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