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Interested in computational biology, microbial toxins, plant microbiome, and microbial adaptation to different hosts. PI at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. https://www.asaflevylab.com/ Expressing my personal opinions.
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A new preprint from the lab in collaboration with Feng Jiang. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is a thread for you if you're interested in secretion systems, phages, and evolution. The extracellular contractile injection system (eCIS) is a mysterious microbial toxin delivery system.

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And just like that, overnight our lab loses two 5-year R01s (both of which just started) because of the new NIH rules about foreign co-PIs. This is so painful.

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I dressed up appropriately for a molecular evolution guest lecture at @finkel-lab.bsky.social 's course.

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By Tamuz Eidelstein

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US Dept. of Energy Facebook user has successfully returned to 1985

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@mominisrael on X

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Il maestro

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When I teach this study I tell the students to consider symmetry in their experimental design, for: a. replication and b. beauty (contrast also helped!) @baym.lol

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It is not easy to discover a receptor. by Karla Stachel's group. @karlasatchell.bsky.social Vibrio MARTX toxin binding of biantennary N-glycans at host cell surfaces | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Aliens speak mostly English

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Come and work with me! The Nature Micro team is expanding and we're looking for someone to champion microbial ecology, plant micro & related areas for the journal Knowledge of microbial ecology/plant micro is desirable but we're open to applications from all microbiologists Link below 👇

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Springtime trip with some friends on Mt. Carmel @yairmau.com @jfriedman.bsky.social

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I brought back the dire lotus from extinction by using CRISPR in Arabidopsis! Same Arabidopsis thaliana species, just four mutations..

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Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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cool www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Marathon #17. First time in hilly Jerusalem. Chasing after a rabbit friend.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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What a day... 9:53 A grant was rejected 11:53 Another grant was rejected 18:52 A grant was awarded

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I am happy to contribute a bit to this massive effort by my friend Yang Bai from Peking University. Crop root bacterial and viral genomes reveal unexplored species and microbiome patterns: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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It was nice to host Lindsay Hall today and hear cool science about the early life microbiome, as part of our Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem microbiology journal club. Email me if you want to be added to the mailing list.

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This is cool. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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*Azrieli International Visiting PhD Fellowship* If you are a molecular microbiologist or computational biologist PhD student and would like to join our lab in Israel for 4 months generously funded by the Azrieli foundation - please contact me. We have several cool projects in mind. details below

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A T6SS lipase effector of Xanthomonas pathogen that suppresses plant reproduction. Non-adapted bacterial infection suppresses plant reproduction | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A controlled study on the sociology of science: We published last year two papers on bacterial toxins in the same journal ("Molecular Systems Biology"), edited by the same editor, both describe discovery of toxins associated with secretion systems that were predicted computationally and validated

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