Congrats to @camolsan.bsky.social @aliciaperezlorente.bsky.social and colleges for this fantastic work.

I am extremely proud to see our work about Hepatitis B now published in @cellpress.bsky.social From basic research to identifying the key step of infection & a potential first drug for curing this devastating disease. This has been an incredible journey.🧵 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited to share our latest collaboration with UNIBO, @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social, and ICMS 🌿 on developing a sustainable cling film for food packaging 🍃. A step forward toward greener materials and a more eco-friendly future! 🌍✨ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The spread of agriculture didn’t just change our diets—it altered our jaws as well, making it easy to pronounce "f"s and "v"s and opening a whole new world of words. Learn more on #WorldAnthropologyDay: https://scim.ag/4gLysc0

Researchers have developed a deep learning protein language model, ESM3, that enables programmable protein design. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/3Qo3HPw

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

A novel regulation on the developmental checkpoint protein Sda that controls sporulation and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis #JBacteriol from Yunrong Chai journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Well done Alicia. A wonderful piece work showing the complexity and beauty of microbial interactions.

Excited to share our latest preprint! A fascinating story of chemical dialogue and microbial warfare: the Bacillus extracellular matrix acts as a key driver in the antagonistic interaction with Botrytis, while the fungus mounts a multi-layered defense. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The offensive role of the Bacillus extracellular matrix in driving metabolite-mediated dialogue and adaptive strategies with pathogenic fungi https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.06.636830v1

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them. https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4

Co-zorbs: Motile, multispecies biofilms aid transport of diverse bacterial species PNAS - contributed by Jo Handelsman www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nature research paper: Fine-tuning gibberellin improves rice alkali–thermal tolerance and yield https://go.nature.com/3CvoEVy

Researchers present in Science a sustainable and biodegradable adhesive derived from a natural, microbially produced polyester that also exhibits exceptional adhesive properties. scim.ag/3PTgCZB

Super happy to share my first article at @diegromero.bsky.social´s lab, about Bacillus cyclic lipopeptides and how the diversification of structural variants production impacts biological activities!! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Don’t be glum about the long, cold winter. Look around: the trees are busy, not sleeping. When the temperature permits, cells in this bud are dividing, maturing into flowers, leaves, stems. The cambium, maker of all the trees, is preparing for its spring festivities. Be like a tree: keep growing.

Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature. Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn

Nature research paper: Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation https://go.nature.com/3PDa9lG

Absolutely breathtaking ….A pan across the stunning star cluster Westerlund 2... 💫👏💫👏💫👏💫👏💫 (Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScIAURA), A. Nota (ESASTScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team)

Blue birds huddling together for warmth

Post Doc position on discovering of circadian clock components within the #MicroClock #ERCSyG project at #LeidenUniversity with Ákos T. Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social 👉 deadline on 17 January 2025

Our EU project iCULTURE is on BBC!!!! Of course, we are not trying to producing classical antibiotics but #bacteriocins and other antimicrobial peptides to start with. But once this is achieved, anything is possible. www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...