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lingchenhe.bsky.social
Someone‖‖Phd student‖MGEs‖HGT‖Phage person but sometimes anti-phage
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The BASEL collection of E. coli #phages is limited by its host strain. @humollidorentina.bsky.social @damienpiel.bsky.social @aharms485.bsky.social &co use a modified host to add 36 new phages, revealing roles of O-antigen in recognition & R-M systems in immunity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jirGvX

Congratulations Alex and the team!! Nice one!

We welcome on BlueSky Alfred Fillol Salom @alfredfisa.bsky.social, the leader of the The Ecology of Mobile Genetic Elements group at our research institute #microsky 🧫🦠🧪 #phages #virology #viruses

Why the ground is always breaking?

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

New online! Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements

New preprint on how a minimal Salmonella kinase needs a host kinase to activate it. Work led by @timeshpillay.bsky.social and another great collaboration with @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

More phage-encoded defense systems mediating interviral competition 😯

Wait... what !? 😱 A new family of RNA-guided systems in prokaryotes ! Mind-blowing !

co-chief

An experimental #AI system from Google, designed to support researchers, could supercharge science 🔬✨ Our researchers were among the first to test the 'co-scientist'—replicating a decade of work in just two days. More ⤵️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261293/...

New version of DefenseFinder available defensefinder.mdmlab.fr (& cli) Now encompassing 263 systems (+111 this year..!). Thanks @ftesson.bsky.social, DefenseFinder grandmaster. Full list of systems here: defense-finder-models/List_system_article.md at master · mdmparis/defense-finder-models

“I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain”

@jonaszpatkowski.bsky.social and I pinpointed tail piracy as a new mechanism of horizontal gene transfer and explained the wide spread of cf-PICIs among different bacterial species and viromes.

Hey, my new book is out - read it as consolation for that terrible presentation: bit.ly/OOYM