It's database update season (thanks to the Nucleic Acids Res database issue)! Progenomes 3 (>1 million annotated prok genomes, Anthony Fullam Daniel Mende): doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… progenomes.embl.de

OUT NOW: Chemotaxis and autoinducer-2 signalling mediate colonization and contribute to co-existence of Escherichia coli strains in the murine gut by Wolf-Dietrich Hardt & co Microbiology_ETH nature.com/articles/s4156…

Obituary: Alma Dal Co (1989–2022) A visionary and interdisciplinary scientist who brought a fearless passion to everything she did, inspiring all those around her. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Check out our new preprint in collaboration with the Sigel Lab and find out more about Theta Ribozymes: Thousands of novel HDV-like, self-cleaving ribozymes that are often found next to viral tRNAs. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #tRNA #biochemistry #ribozymes #bioinformatics

Thank you so much for a great evening, was fun getting to know some new faces- and looking forward to many more! #BinningSingletons #ASMicrobe

If you're interested in Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics and a useful website for your own research stop by at my Poster Presentation today at #ASMicrobe Will be there from 10:30-11:30 am and 3-4 pm. Let's have a chat :) @binningsingletons.com on bluesky

Congratulations too to the winners of this year's poster prizes!

From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mm…

Did you know that gut bacteriophages can switch between distinct genetic codes? We may have discovered key players in this code transition, theta ribozymes. Summary below, read the full story here: nature.com/articles/s4146… 🧵1/6

A global survey of prokaryotic genomes reveals the eco-evolutionary pressures driving horizontal gene transfer nature.com/articles/s4155…

What a fun project this was! So interesting to see how phages may change their genetic code with the use of ribozymes ✂️🧬 Original article: rdcu.be/dANOT

Interested to learn more about how recoded phages may regulate and/or trigger lysis in the the human gut? Join me tomorrow after lunch in beautiful Cairns at Poster Number 002 for a chat 🦠 Original Article in Nat. Comm: rdcu.be/dANOT #VoM2024

It was a pleasure to contribute to this interesting project led by the amazing Yassine Cherrak. We investigated the role of non-canonical start codons (GTG instead of ATG) in sugar utilization regulator genes in Enterobacteriaceae 🦠 Check out our paper here: rdcu.be/dRlvi