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MIDWEST LUST / SPEAK / MACHINE COUNTRY / SARIN

Not Not, Thursday, May 21 at 08:30 PM CDT

CRUSHING MECHANICAL WARFARE U.S. TOUR 2026

5/21

NOT NOT (dm for addy)

DOORS 8:30

MUSIC 9

10 bones PWYC/NOTAFLOF

MIDWEST LUST

SPEAK

MACHINE COUNTRY

SARIN

https://chicago.askapunk.net/event/midwest-lust-speak-machine-country-sarin

MIDWEST LUST / SPEAK / MACHINE COUNTRY / SARIN

Not Not, Thursday, May 21 at 08:30 PM CDT

CRUSHING MECHANICAL WARFARE U.S. TOUR 2026

5/21

NOT NOT (dm for addy)

DOORS 8:30

MUSIC 9

10 bones PWYC/NOTAFLOF

MIDWEST LUST

SPEAK

MACHINE COUNTRY

SARIN

https://chicago.askapunk.net/event/midwest-lust-speak-machine-country-sarin

https://www.europesays.com/ie/467415/ NUS scientists unveil a faster way to “train” bacteria for complex tasks, like munching plastics #Éire #IE #Ireland #NationalUniversityOfSingapore(NUS) #Newswise #Phage;phageBiology;phageResearch;phagemid;Microbiology #Science

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/111051/ Bactériophages : à la découverte des virus qui traquent les superbactéries #BactérieTueuse #bactéries #bactériophages #essai #EssaiThérapeutique #étude #Health #microbiote #phage #recherche #résistance #Santé #Suisse #SuperBactéries #virus

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/91547/ Bactériophages : à la découverte des virus qui traquent les superbactéries #BactérieTueuse #Bactéries #bactériophages #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #essai #EssaiThérapeutique #étude #Health #microbiote #phage #Recherche #résistance #Santé #SuperBactéries #virus

2'3'-cGAMP-induced membrane shearing promotes broad antiphage immunity.

CBASS 3TM‑SAVED effectors form cGAMP‑linked filaments that shear membranes and induce death.

#OpenAccess #virology #immunology #microbiology #phage #bacteriophage

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/23-cgamp-induced-membrane-shearing.html

2'3'-cGAMP-induced membrane shearing promotes broad antiphage immunity.

CBASS 3TM‑SAVED effectors form cGAMP‑linked filaments that shear membranes and induce death.

#OpenAccess #virology #immunology #microbiology #phage #bacteriophage

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/23-cgamp-induced-membrane-shearing.html

2'3'-cGAMP-induced membrane shearing promotes broad antiphage immunity.

CBASS 3TM‑SAVED effectors form cGAMP‑linked filaments that shear membranes and induce death.

#OpenAccess #virology #immunology #microbiology #phage #bacteriophage

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/23-cgamp-induced-membrane-shearing.html

2'3'-cGAMP-induced membrane shearing promotes broad antiphage immunity.

CBASS 3TM‑SAVED effectors form cGAMP‑linked filaments that shear membranes and induce death.

#OpenAccess #virology #immunology #microbiology #phage #bacteriophage

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/23-cgamp-induced-membrane-shearing.html

2'3'-cGAMP-induced membrane shearing promotes broad antiphage immunity.

CBASS 3TM‑SAVED effectors form cGAMP‑linked filaments that shear membranes and induce death.

#OpenAccess #virology #immunology #microbiology #phage #bacteriophage

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/23-cgamp-induced-membrane-shearing.html

Not just passengers: Phages as agents of genetic exchange in fecal #microbiota transplantation.

#Phage ‑mediated gene transfer may shape FMT outcomes by altering gut communities and microbial functions.

#bacteriophage #microbiology #virology #virome

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/not-just-passengers-phages-as-agents-of.html

How do #bacteriophage life history strategies influence host invasion & inter- #phage competition in #biofilms? This study shows that spatial structure shapes invasion success, favoring temperate phages over lytic ones when diffusion is limited @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/47Aripq

How do #bacteriophage life history strategies influence host invasion & inter- #phage competition in #biofilms? This study shows that spatial structure shapes invasion success, favoring temperate phages over lytic ones when diffusion is limited @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/47Aripq

How do #bacteriophage life history strategies influence host invasion & inter- #phage competition in #biofilms? This study shows that spatial structure shapes invasion success, favoring temperate phages over lytic ones when diffusion is limited @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/47Aripq

How do #bacteriophage life history strategies influence host invasion & inter- #phage competition in #biofilms? This study shows that spatial structure shapes invasion success, favoring temperate phages over lytic ones when diffusion is limited @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/47Aripq

How do #bacteriophage life history strategies influence host invasion & inter- #phage competition in #biofilms? This study shows that spatial structure shapes invasion success, favoring temperate phages over lytic ones when diffusion is limited @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/47Aripq

Discovery of human gut #phage -encoded anti-CRISPR proteins unveils diverse mechanisms for phages to evade type II #CRISPR immunity.

Gut #phages encode diverse Acrs; 651 candidates found, including some with dual regulatory & CRISPR‑inhibitory roles.

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/03/discovery-of-human-gut-phage-encoded.html

#microbioloy

If, in literally ANY sci-fi series or movie, a colleague runs up to you saying firmly, "We have to go! Now!!!" and you don't then you're a fool.

#Phage #StarTrekVoyagerRewatch

Phage P100 resistance in clinical & foodborne Listeria monocytogenes isolates is associated with adsorption-inhibiting mutations & fitness trade-offs.

Study shows diverse P100 resistance mechanisms in #Listeria & significant serovar‑dependent fitness costs.

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/02/phage-p100-resistance-in-clinical-and.html #OpenAccess #bacteriophage #phage #food

Excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to undertake a postdoc in #phage research, with Professor Andrey Shkoporov https://twitter.com/AShkoporov at University College Cork. Contact Andrey directly about this position.

#microbiome #virome #HGT

Excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to undertake a postdoc in #phage research, with Professor Andrey Shkoporov https://twitter.com/AShkoporov at University College Cork. Contact Andrey directly about this position.

#microbiome #virome #HGT

Excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to undertake a postdoc in #phage research, with Professor Andrey Shkoporov https://twitter.com/AShkoporov at University College Cork. Contact Andrey directly about this position.

#microbiome #virome #HGT

Excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to undertake a postdoc in #phage research, with Professor Andrey Shkoporov https://twitter.com/AShkoporov at University College Cork. Contact Andrey directly about this position.

#microbiome #virome #HGT

Excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to undertake a postdoc in #phage research, with Professor Andrey Shkoporov https://twitter.com/AShkoporov at University College Cork. Contact Andrey directly about this position.

#microbiome #virome #HGT

Nice work by Sanika Vaidya (and collegues)
done during our PhDs together at @maxplanckgesellschaft and @unibasel

Peptidoglycan triggers #biofilm formation across bacterial species.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01886-5

#openaccess #mpg #mpitm #phage #V_cholerae #bacteria #nature #microbiology #science #research

"A Leap of Faith, Part 2" is now posted https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/a-leap-of-faith-part-2/
#science #evolution #microbiology #education #LearningFromMistakes #Phage #Bacteria #mentoring #careers

"A Leap of Faith, Part 2" is now posted https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/a-leap-of-faith-part-2/
#science #evolution #microbiology #education #LearningFromMistakes #Phage #Bacteria #mentoring #careers

"A Leap of Faith, Part 2" is now posted https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/a-leap-of-faith-part-2/
#science #evolution #microbiology #education #LearningFromMistakes #Phage #Bacteria #mentoring #careers

"A Leap of Faith, Part 2" is now posted https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/a-leap-of-faith-part-2/
#science #evolution #microbiology #education #LearningFromMistakes #Phage #Bacteria #mentoring #careers

Coinfecting #viruses obstruct each other's cell invasion https://phys.org/news/2024-08-coinfecting-viruses-obstruct-cell-invasion.html Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)00675-4

When there were more #phages attached to the surface of the cell, relatively fewer of them were able to enter... the first stage of infection, #phage entry, is an important step that was previously underappreciated... the coinfecting phages were impeding each other's entry by perturbing the #electrophysiology of the cell.

#AI can now design functional #viruses - not the computer kind, either
Inject this synthetic #phage into #Ecoli and it kills better than the real thing
#Bacteriophages, are viruses that infect bacteria, have been widely studied since their discovery in the early 20th century. The end result of the AI portion of the project was a pool of 302 candidate #genomes, 285 of which were able to generate full genomes. Of those, 16 were found to inhibit growth of E. coli #bacteria.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/researchers_just_created_a_working/

New paper with @CCWendling Co-transfer of functionally interdependent genes contributes to genome mosaicism in lambdoid phages - we use an approach that does not rely on the core genome phylogeny to infer gene transfers, and then detect co-transferred genes in lambdoid phages, we highlight known and novel co-transfer examples

#phage #evolution #recombination #HGT #Epistasis
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.000915

For Throwback Thursday, an episode of the @EMBO Podcast on the clinical use of #phage to treat antibiotic resistant bacterial infection - with a brief stop at the Siege of Leningrad.
Featuring pediatric infectious disease physician Ameneh Khatami, historian Dmitriy Myelnikov, and Jessica Sacher of Phage Directory.

#EMBOPodcast #SciComm #PhageTherapy #Phage #antibioticresistance #sciencepodcast

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/the-enemy-of-my-enemy/

New #tip #feditips that I just discovered for #Mastodon #fediverse: you can follow hashtags! Just search the hashtag and at the top-right click the follow button

Hoping this will re-create some of the #twitter recommended-content experience

Note: only works if your instance is running >4.0, which ecoevo.social is!

Now following: #phage #microbiology #ExperimentalEvolution

New preprint from Banfield lab. Curated project-specific #phage database essential to study.

Infant gut bacteriophage strain persistence during the first three years of life https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.07.552389v1

#microbiome #virome

Molecular basis for anti-jumbo phage #immunity by AVAST type 5.

Avs5 detects an early jumbo‑phage activator and halts infection by rapidly hydrolyzing NAD+.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1097276526000249 #phage #bacteriophage #microbiology

Show HN: Phage Explorer
https://phage-explorer.org/
#ycombinator #phage #bacteriophage #bioinformatics #genome_visualization #DNA_sequence #amino_acid #lambda_phage #virology #microbiology

"The very discovery of phage was the subject of a prolonged dispute between two camps: on one side was Félix d’Herelle,Citation5 the French-Canadian autodidact who first recognize ..."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/bact.20757

#InfectiousDisease #Medicine #phage

A pleasure to have @mfwhite2.bsky.social for our first #BiosciencesInstitute seminar this year and hearing all about #bacterial #phage defences

1/5

Today I finished reading the non-fiction book The Good Virus, by Tom Ireland. Picked it up somewhat at random since I don't usually read non-fiction, and I'm not usually into biology.

But it turned out to be an excellent book, perhaps the best book I've read this year.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Virus-Amazing-Forgotten-Promise-ebook/dp/B0BHPRSWFT/

#bookreview #bookstodon #phage

"Entelli-02 exhibits 88% host coverage against The Alfred Hospital’s ECC isolate collection (n = 206), confirmed by plaque formation and reduced bacterial load in septicaemic mice by >99%. We produced this cocktail as a therapeutic-grade product, ready for clinical use. Entelli-02 represents a hospital-specific phage cocktail with frontline efficacy and on-demand availability."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02130-4

#phage

I'm having a blast testing out Phold from @GB13Faithless - new preprint available here:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.668817v1

Protein language model & structural alignment aided annotation. It immediately picked out some interesting replication genes from a prophage region I've been wrecking my head over for a while now.

https://github.com/gbouras13/phold

Worth checking out!

#bioinformatics #phage #microbiology

Interesting.

BBC News: I found a bacteria-eating #virus in my loo - could it save your life?

#bacteria #phage #PhageTherapy #antibiotics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czryvm3nlvdo

#Phage-induced #protection against lethal #bacterial #reinfection, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/06/phage-induced-protection-against-lethal.html

A precursor procapsid is initially formed during #bacteriophage assembly, but how? The #cryoEM structure of the scaffolding protein complex & portal within #phage P22 procapsid reveals how this complex orchestrates the initiation of procapsid assembly @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/44B71iE