Alejandra Prieto-Davó
@alepdavo.bsky.social
Marine microbial chemical ecologist, natural products aficionado and single mom of two because, why have it easy? 😉
Good paper on microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Restoring soil and sediment microbiomes in the Anthropocene - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Wood and colleagues discuss how anthropogenic pressures are degrading soil and sediment microbiomes, propose restoration strategies and emphasize the importance of integrating microbio...
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Cool paper ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics
Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...
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Final version of our last paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through insertion sequence-mediated gene inactivation - Nature Microbiology
Inactivation of chromosomal genes through plasmid-encoded IS elements is an extended mechanism of antimicrobial resistance evolution in bacteria.
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Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 - Nature
Evo 2 is an artificial intelligence-based biological foundation model trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs spanning all domains of life that predicts functional properties from genomic sequences and p...
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Viruses in marine sediments: a review of their effect on biogeochemistry and microbial interactions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Viruses in marine sediments: a review of their effect on biogeochemistry and microbial interactions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
In the ocean, viruses are known to mediate the carbon cycle, keeping dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the microbial loop and preventing its movement into secondary consumers (1). However, few direct ...
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A reminder that we are actively recruiting a geneticist to the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine careers-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41... Another pretty cool one!
Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity - Nature
Reconstructing microbial genomes from 820 reef-building corals collected at 99 reefs across 32 islands throughout the Pacific Ocean highlights the importance of conserving coral reefs as vital reservo...
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Pretty cool paper out on Nature Biotechnology @nature.com www.nature.com/nbt/volumes/...
Nature Biotechnology - Detecting gene transfer in microbial communities
Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a record of gene transfer events without requiring translation. Kalvapalle et al. designed catalytic RNAs to...
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Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...
Working this week with our colleagues from Johns Hopkins University on a workshop for capacity building on Pig-2-bac detection #JHU @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social
A novel analysis workflow for simultaneous parsing prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial genes from metagenomes peerj.com/articles/207... #jcampubs
A novel analysis workflow for simultaneous parsing prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial genes from metagenomes
Accurately predicting coding genes from metagenomic samples containing a high proportion of eukaryotic content remains a significant challenge. Novel and reliable methods for the simultaneous predicti...
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Recent microbial evolutionary insights from metagenomics url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Recent microbial evolutionary insights from metagenomics
Abstract. Microorganisms have profoundly shaped Earth’s biological and geological history, from the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis to present-day globa
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11F! For a world with more girls never loosing interest in science!
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
Microbe-derived aromatic polyketides toward MRSA infection: current advances and perspectives This review classifies all natural aromatic polyketides (discovered 2005-25) with anti-MRSA activity (MIC<10 µg/mL) and summarises SARs, bioactivities and mechanisms. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Microbe-derived aromatic polyketides toward MRSA infection: current advances and perspectives
Covering: 2005 to July 2025Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), emerging as one of the most common multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial strains, has posed a serious threat to global heal...
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New paper out in PNAS!!! 🎉 Do more plasmid copies mean faster evolution? 🧵 Dive into the story www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Plasmid mutation rates scale with copy number | PNAS
Plasmids are extrachromosomal DNA molecules that spread by horizontal transfer and shape bacterial evolution. Plasmids are typically present at mul...
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Seminar at FCT NOVA last Thursday on the microbiome of anquihaline cave sponges! Yes I forgot to take pics at the actual seminar 😖😒
Happy to have contributed to the #protists section of this @ergabiodiv.bsky.social whitepaper 👉 From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hey people! So I’ve been traveling and forgot to show how they featured me at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Page! I’m at the very end he he scripps.ucsd.edu/annual-repor...
Scripps Oceanography Annual Impact Report 2025
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Microbial nitrogen removal and recycling in the redox transition zone of a meromictic lake and its coupling to sulfur cycling aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs
Cultivation and genomic characterization of novel methanogens from arid desert biocrust academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs
A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system - Nature Microbiology
A library of 400 phage protein-coding genes is used to find a trove of antiphage systems, revealing systems that target tail fibre and major capsid proteins.
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Hidden Bioavailable Dissolved Organic Matter in the Deep Northwestern Pacific Ocean agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #jcampubs 🌊
Ecological Processes Shaping Marine Microbial Assemblages Diverge Between Equatorial and Temperate Time-Series onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs 🌊