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antanij.bsky.social
https://antanij.netlify.app/ Microscopy of bacteria and their viruses. Postdoc at Yale University @paulturnerlab.bsky.social. Phage researcher, biotech enthusiast. Research Facilitator at Optical Microscopy and Imaging in Biomedical Sciences (MBL, Woods H
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Super cool work modernizing phage biology! #phagesky 💧🔬🦠

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

My mehndi (henna tattoo) at close cousin's wedding. I asked the tattoo-artist to draw the podovirus where the genome is cousin's wedding logo. #phagesky

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

1/11 - With Karin Mitosch and Clément Potel + colleagues in Savitski lab and @typaslab.bsky.social @embl.org, I’m very happy to share our discovery of a hyper-promiscuous phage protein kinase (T7K) which broadly deactivates bacterial defenses! 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Microscopic phage adsorption assay: High-throughput quantification of virus particle attachment to host bacterial cells "..highly quantitative, model-free readouts at single-virus resolution, helping to uncover single-virus phenomena missed by traditional measurements"

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

We developed a microscopy-based technique🔬 to measure attachment of viruses #phages to host cells. 🦠 The paper was posted online today: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #phagesky #microsky

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

Reposted below is the Yale News coverage about our former postdoc @norapyenson.bsky.social's latest paper. And linked below is the summary post from Nora: bsky.app/profile/nora...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share our work on broadly effective phage-antibiotic cocktails. We report 4 cocktails that each work against 96% of 153 antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas isolates. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Kevin Kim @KevinMinyo6651

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

Phenotypic buffet for phages presented by a clonal population of bacteria 🦠 🧫 Check out this hot paper from my labmates 🤩 The thread presents an excellent... not a tweetorial. Do we call it SKYnopsis here? #phagesky #microsky

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Really beautiful RNA structures from Rachel Kretsch in the Das and Chiu groups These look like viral capsids but they're only RNA!! Hopefully this unlocks more work on "ornate" RNAs 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

I love this study, it started as a way to identify mutations involved in coevolution - a fundamental evolutionary question - and is now contributing to growing interest for predicting phage-bacteria interactions to improve phage therapy. Congrats to the team!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share our latest, "Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes." @plos.bsky.social We developed a cell-labeling strategy using far-red dyes to image dense microbial communities (where fluorescent proteins often do not work well) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Using filamentous phages as drug-cargo carriers. Cool cool cool. #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Oh look! @asm.org is here now 🧪🧫

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Working on phage research? Dr. Catherine Hernandez and I are co-convening the "Phage Ecology: From Prophage Decision Making to Ecosystem Modulation" in-depth symposium at ASM Microbe 2025 and we want YOU to be part of it! Abstract submission is now open! More info below 🧪🦠🔬 #Phagesky #Microsky

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Metabolites from intact phage-infected Synechococcus chemotactically attract heterotrophic marine bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.

submitted 105 days ago • 113 comments

Hello new phage phollowers! I am shamelessly self-promoting mine and Angus Buckling's relatively new review "Critically evaluating the relative importance of phage in shaping microbial community composition" www.cell.com/trends/micro...

submitted 105 days ago • 8 comments

Putting together a Phage starter pack, please let me know if you'd like to be put on the list! go.bsky.app/UNaEwKi I'm also trying to workout how to resurrect my popular paper bot Phage papers here on Bsky. @phagepapers.bsky.social

submitted 128 days ago • 61 comments

Hello Blueskis. Here is a starter pack of General Microbiology. It's a small list currently. Please feel free to self-nominate and I will add you. go.bsky.app/QgSQHJ9

submitted 107 days ago • 127 comments

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submitted 109 days ago • 12 comments

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 109 days ago • 73 comments