Science funding has still not reached gender equality: "Projects led by male PIs received roughly twice the mean funding compared to female PIs." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Asaf Levy
@asaflevylab.bsky.social
Interested in computational biology, microbial toxins, plant microbiome, and microbial adaptation to different hosts. PI at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. https://www.asaflevylab.com/ Expressing my personal opinions.
The pope promotes people to saints after having evidence for their miracles. Pope Leo already canonized 9 people in his short term. Pope Francis: more than 60. And I am thinking about this graph
The only people who ever loved war for long were profiteers, generals, staff officers, and whores. They all had the best and finest time of their lives and most of them made the most money they had ever made. Hemingway, 1936
The year is 2500 Technology enables sampling of the entire ecosystem at atom resolution within milliseconds. Analysis is done using ImageJ
We're recruiting a fungal biologist to our friendly department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel. For details contact our chair. Talented non-Israli applicants are welcome to apply. See below.
A cool work from Ilya and Rotem on the 'damage-associated molecular pattern' that bacteria sense to detect phage attack (DNA degradation leading to increase in methylated nucleotides) and the immune response as abortive infection. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bacteria sense virus-induced genome degradation via methylated mononucleotides
Phages often degrade the genome of their bacterial host to individual nucleotides. Here we describe Metis, a bacterial defense system that directly senses phage-mediated host genome degradation. Metis...
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This God somehow has many hands when it comes to Argentina's football
And all the roads we have to walk are winding And all the lights that lead us there are blinding @proftracypalmer.bsky.social Good luck!!!
On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration —46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-born
From the lead authors of Haimlich S. et al. 2024 and Bograd A. et al. 2025 The lab's best achievement till now!
Anusha Majumder from Sahar Melamed's lab @saharmelamed.bsky.social identified sRNAs in P. putida that affects plant growth.
After this amazing half someone needs to name a new taxonomic group: Dembelearcheota
Recruiting a postdoc to join my lab at @lshtm.bsky.social to work in an MRC porgramme grant funded project to dissect the gut colonziation by Klebsiella. In vivo and in vitro models, and new approaches to identify Klebsiella factors involved. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
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Our new review paper is out: Discovery of novel antimicrobials within microbiomes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A fun collaboration with @delafuentelab.bsky.social and the 1st paper of Erez Weisberg and Aya Friedman
Discovery of novel antimicrobials within microbiomes
Antimicrobial-resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens constitute a severe threat to public health. The pace at which new antimicrobials are being rel…
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A relatively recent work with cool finding. Many questions remain open. "A complete DNA repair system assembled by two endosymbionts restores heat tolerance of the insect host" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A complete DNA repair system assembled by two endosymbionts restores heat tolerance of the insect host | PNAS
DNA repair systems are essential to maintain genome integrity and stability. Some obligate endosymbionts that experience long-term symbiosis with t...
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Meyerowitz, Sundaresan, Dangl, JG Jones, Staskawics and the late Chory received yesterday the 2024 and 2025 Wolf Prize in agriculture in the Knesset. (Among laureates in other natual sciences) 'The founding fathers'
Amazing group of Wolf Prize in Agriculture awardees (2020, 2024,2025) today at the Hebrew Univeristy faculty of agriculture. In the picture: Elliot Meyerowitz Venkatesan Sundaresan Brian Staskawicz Jonathan D. G. Jones Caroline Dean Missing: Jeffery Dangl (presenting from home) The late Joanne Chory
What does change a gene's definition from a 'regulator' to a 'master regulator'? The fact that you are studying it
So many brave Iranians lost they lives becaue they believed him.
Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...
How your email found me today (by the genious Haim Goldberg)
The Natufian culture lived in the area of today's Israel and Lebanon from 15,000–11,500 Before Present. In the Eynan site people discovered a burial of 45 yo woman and her puppy, which is the oldest physical evidence for dog domestication. Published in Nature in 1978 www.nature.com/articles/276...
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Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor
Plants and animals respond to pathogen attack by mounting innate immune responses that require intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. These immune receptors detect pathog...
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