Great talk by Mikaela Daum from Mike Gebhardt lab on a novel sRNA in A. Baumannii in #phages2024

I had a great time in #phages2024! Many fascinating talks and fruitful discussions. It was good meet old friends and to make new ones. Big thanks to the organizers! Patty Champion Simmons Lab Julia van Kessel

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Today is our day 😎 You know how to find us…

It was great to visit the NIH this week, giving a Lambda lunch talk and discussing science! Thank you storzlab, Philip Adams and Aixia Zhang for hosting!

Finally in press! Congratulations Dimitrios Anastasakis and Maria Apostolidi for spearheading this collaborative study. We shed light on the reason G-quadruplexes are widespread and conserved in pre-mRNA! Hint: they fold cotranscriptionally. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Save the date! The 11th #ILANIT Conference is set for Feb 23-26, 2026, in Eilat. Join a vibrant community of researchers, from students to leading experts, for inspiring sessions, networking, and more. Don’t miss out—start planning your abstract today! conf.fiseb.org

1/2 Please mark your calendars for the 8th Conference on Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea! The meeting will be held September 1 - 4, 2025, at the Strasbourg Convention Centre, Strasbourg, France 🇫🇷. We are very excited and hope to see as many of you as possible!

A special statement by the Association of University Heads in Israel: We are shocked and profoundly saddened by the cold-blooded murder of the hostages, including students from various institutions, and we extend our deepest condolences to their families. We will forever honor

While the academic year in our MMG seminar was dedicated to PI talks, the summer 🌞 is student-centered! This week, Raghad Zaghal from Sahar Melamed 💔 and Alia Qasem from Florentin lab gave extraordinary talks! IMRIC Faculty of Medicine - The Hebrew University

It was a pleasure to participate in #ISM2024 organized by Meital Gal Tanamy Neta Sal-Man Dor Salomon Moshe Dessau , talk about our work, and to end with Best Poster award for Aviezer Silverman from our lab! IMRIC Faculty of Medicine - The Hebrew University #microbiology

Science has a short-term memory problem: vox.com/future-perfect…

אני מחפש פוסטדוק/ית להצטרף למעבדה שלנו בפקולטה לרפואה בעין כרם עבור פרוייקט חדש ומרגש הכולל עבודה עם פאג׳ים ורנ״א רגולטורים. הפרוייקט הוא בשיתוף פעולה עם אוניברסיטת טורונטו ויכול לשלב שהות בישראל ובקנדה. אודה לשיתוף! סהר לפרטים על המעבדה: melamed-rna-lab.huji.ac.il

Preprint alert 🚨! I present you the second and final manuscript on the BASEL phages! 36 new deeply characterized phages from viral groups that were so far mostly terra incognita - and all infect the E. coli K12 lab strain with easy tricks. 1/12 tinyurl.com/3xdt65f5

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Excited to start the first HUJI microbe day, assembling all the microbiologists of the Hebrew University in one place! It is going to be a great day!

Huge thanks to everyone who made HUJI Microbe Day a success! It was heartwarming to see our microbiology community come together. Special thanks to our speakers, PIs, students, IMRIC for sponsoring, and Sigal Ben-Yehuda for co-organizing. Hopefully, a new tradition begins! Hebrew University

Big applause to the HUJI Microbe Day winners of the Best 3-Minute Talk awards! 🎉 Osher Pollak-Fiyaksel from Sigal Ben-Yehuda, Dena Ennis from Moran Yassour, Nicole haj from Gilad Bachrach Lab, and Klil Cohen-Yaron from Ilan Rosenshine! Hebrew University IMRIC Faculty of Dental Medicine - The Hebrew University

A prokaryotic Argonaute protein recruits a helicase-nuclease to degrade invading plasmids: Cell cell.com/cell/abstract/…

It was fun to hear today 3 of our talented students in the MMG seminar series! Elizabeta Sirotkin from Orna Amster-Choder, Randa Tissawak from Yiska Weisblum, and Dvory Lintzer from Ophry Pines group. 👏🏼 IMRIC Faculty of Medicine - The Hebrew University #student