Excited to share our work on bacterial immune signaling! Our preprint reveals how RNA-guided Cas13 cleaves host tRNAs to generate small-molecule messengers that activate 2TMβ, linking RNA recognition to membrane damage and phage defense. 1/11

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Glad that you like it! We are very proud of this work 😊

The final version of our manuscript on TnSeq in bacteriophages (“HIDEN-SEQ”) is out today – if you have an interesting phage phenotype and want to know the underlying genetic basis, this one is for you! 1/4

Beautiful mural at Imperial College's White City Campus commemorating the discovery of mauveine (a synthetic dye) - my new life goal is to convince a university that they need a giant bacteriophage on one of their buildings 🧬🎨

Good morning, London 🌤🧬🇬🇧

Great time at the @embo.org BacNet26 conference - nice venue, fantastic science, and lots of good discussions with old and new friends! 🦠🧬☀️

Great talk by Akos Kovacs @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social about circadian rhythm in Bacillus - crazy biology and ingenious approaches to study it! 🕰🦠🛠

Thank you, very happy that you liked it! Great pleasure to speak about viral diversity on World Microorganism Day 🦠🥂

Great honor to present our work in a keynote lecture at the Belgian Society for Viruses of Microbes @bsvom.bsky.social in Louvain-la-Neuve! This was a fantastic meeting celebrating the power of collaborations in phage research from the fundamentals to applications in clinics or crop protection. 🧬🍺🇧🇪

Great Master's defense yesterday by Matilde Pettenella (working with Enea @phagemuffin.bsky.social and Martin Loessner) - brilliant science and a phage-tastic cake for the lab! 🎂🧬