Bacterial Schlafen proteins mediate phage defence (new work from @anemudraia.bsky.social and @artemnemudryi.bsky.social labs) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Schlafens are an ancient, mechanistically conserved family of tRNA-targeting immune effectors.

Our work on bacterial Schlafens in phage defense is out today @natmicrobiol.nature.com! Check out the final version here: rdcu.be/e7Bmz We are looking for postdocs and students to expand our team! Official postings are coming soon. Please reach out if you're interested! #phage #phagesky #microsky

Exciting times ahead! Today marks the first day of the Loeff Lab at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands 🇳🇱. I’m thrilled to begin this new adventure and continue exploring microbial defense mechanisms and their applications through an integrative structural biology approach.

New preprint from the Wiedenheft lab! We used #cryoEM to show how a type I-F #CRISPR integrase captures, delivers, and integrates foreign DNA. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First preprint from the Nemudryi Lab! 🍾 In this work, we link antiviral immunity in bacteria and humans by showing that homologs of human Schlafen nucleases protect bacteria from phages. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@anemudraia.bsky.social and I are grateful to our very first team members, Veronica, Yimo, and Riley, who bravely joined the lab early on and worked hard on this project! And big thanks to our collaborators, @lloeff.bsky.social and @kirillemedvedev.bsky.social. Excited for what’s next!

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...