@vivekmutalik.bsky.social
Dad, Teacher, Artist, Gardener and Scientist. Change is constant. This moment will pass. Be kind and have gratitude. Ps. All I post is my personal opinion
Heads-up! I’ll be starting my research group at MedUni Vienna in January 2027, with postdoc and PhD positions available soon. Looking for people interested in bacteria–phage interactions, bacterial defense systems, and phage anti-defense strategies. Please send your CV: [email protected]
@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialBiotech startup is so painful.
Wish we could compile all the cases into lessons learnt
@lavishaparab.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.socialhello #phage pholks, any of you already have a protocol for high-through put one-step growth curves? Making any step faster/more convenient is welcome. Thanks!!!
Spotting on a big agar plate doesn't save as much time as we lose by reducing the precision/least count and then having to repeat it 😅
@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.socialRethinking soil microbiome interventions through an ecological lens
@natrevmicro.nature.com Comment by Yiqin He & Joana Falcao Salles
@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialIn the same volume:
Phage Therapy and Global Health Equity: Opportunities in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Phages Targeting Flagella: Adsorption and Infection Mechanisms of Flagellotropic Phages
@astrobrian.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.socialHow bacterial immune systems sense phage infection
#bacteriophage #phage #microSky #scienceSky
@lucasmoriniere.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.socialAttention, phage friends! Our new work on predicting phage-host interactions is out in Nature Microbiology since yesterday!
@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.socialThe phenotypic landscape of the model firmicute Bacillus subtilis
PNAS from Carol A. Gross
@vivekmutalik.bsky.social@vivekmutalik.bsky.social@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialWas fun working through these 😎 [email protected] l @denish-piya.bsky.social Many of these projects are already underway in our lab and in phagefoundry.org Hopefully it inspires some of you.
Funding from DOE BER 🙏
@vivekmutalik.bsky.social🎉
Scaling Phage-Bacteria Interaction Contexts: From Pairwise Mechanisms to Community Dynamics
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialIn our brand new 🥳 review, @hemaa-selvakumar.bsky.social & team pull a scattered literature in phage biology into a coherent framework for scaling up to engineering complex communities. We poured our hearts into this to share challenges & future opportunities for the nextGen!
@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialCongratulations to all authors; Led by Arkin lab and my team at LBNL; This work is funded by DOE Office of Science for BRaVE phagefoundry.org
And NSF EDGE program 🙏🏽
@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialHappy to share that @averynoonan.bsky.social paper “Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage–host interactions from genomes using machine learning”
is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🎉🎊
@lizneeley.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.socialEach Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪
Sept 25 (Year 2, Week 39)
- Justice Dept drops 50+ longstanding school desegregation cases
- no new NIH EO (but threat isn’t past)
- $1B in new pocket rescission
& more
@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.social@vivekmutalik.bsky.socialMapping structural constraints and adaptive potential in a capsule-degrading phage tailspike protein | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@medchemexpress.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.social A new review in Trends in Microbiology examines how, when, and through which routes microbes are shared between mothers and infants.
🔗Read more: https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(26)00216-7
@marynmck.bsky.socialReposted by @vivekmutalik.bsky.socialFake. USDA. Seals.
Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports.
We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no?
