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Emily Meier

@emilykmeier.bsky.social

Doctoral student studying the cnidarian immune system and host-microbe interactions that establish symbiosis. 🪸🦠 Cleves Lab @ UC Berkeley • MCB • PADI Divemaster 🌊

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess@laurenfuess.bsky.social · last wk.

Alright now that I’m home I guess it’s time to officially announce some really good news: I have received an NIH R35 MIRA!! This award will fund five years of research in my group using Aiptasia to study context dependency and GxGxE interactions in animal-microbe symbioses!

Screenshot of NIH status page, stating the project titled: “Mechanisms of Intergenomic Epistasis and Environmental Context in Animal-Microbe Symbioses” has been awarded with PI Lauren Fuess
Zak Swartz@zakswartz.bsky.social · last yr.

We have shared detailed protocols for the expression, purification, and use of VitelloTag-Cas9 (in sea stars) on our website. We hope that this will be a useful starting place for working in your own favorite organism! www.theswartzlab.org/tools-and-pr...

Tools and Protocols — Swartz Lab @ The Marine Biological Laboratory

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Zak Swartz@zakswartz.bsky.social · last yr.

At last! The plasmids from our VitelloTag paper ( journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... ) are now available on Addgene: www.addgene.org/browse/artic... We hope they might be useful for you to deliver Cas9 in your favorite organism. Stay tuned for detailed protocols on our lab website.

Aude Bernheim@audeber.bsky.social · 2w ago

Out @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social, natural products meet bacterial immunity! We used genomics to identify lanthivirins: a family of >2,000 lanthipeptide BGCs that protect Actinobacteria against phages. Led by @hshomar.bsky.social & @mariegllm.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A family of lanthipeptides with anti-phage function

Bacteria produce natural products to adapt to their environments, with phage interactions as major ecological and evolutionary drivers. While some nat…

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@marialukarska.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m happy to share our pre-print exploring the activity and specificity trade-offs in adenine base editors. Thanks to my amazing co-authors Luke Oltrogge, @hnisonoff.bsky.social, and all the other contributors @jlistgarten.bsky.social @savagecatsonly.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social 🧵1/7

Activity and specificity trade-offs in adenine base editors

Adenine base editors (ABEs) are CRISPR effectors that introduce A-T to G-C transitions in the genome using a nucleotide deaminase fused to a Cas protein. ABEs have been evolved to have very high editi...

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Emily Meier@emilykmeier.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Unfortunately, in 2023, an acute heating event, when water temperatures exceed the maximum monthly mean SST by 2.5 C for many weeks, led to the extinction of wild and replanted corals on the Florida Keys.” — Caroline Ash www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef

In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...

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Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social · last yr.

For grad students and postdocs: We'd love to see you at the Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis course at the Marine Biological Labs this summer! Application deadline is Apr 14, so apply soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis | Marine Biological Laboratory

This is an immersive research-based course designed to teach basic concepts, open research questions, and facilitate state-of-the-art experimental approaches in symbiosis research.

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Nature Reviews Microbiology@natrevmicro.nature.com · last yr.

#weekendreading🔬📑 Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea @science.org #microsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea

The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...

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Amro Hamdoun@hamdounlab.bsky.social · last yr.

And... it's live! In situ hybridization has been foundational for sea urchin developmental biology. Here we report a fully automated method to probe more than a hundred genes using a general purpose liquid handler.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644641v1

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Emily Meier@emilykmeier.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s live! Check out the Cleves Lab website and learn how the lab uses ecologically relevant cnidarian models to gain key insights into how microbial symbiosis and its breakdown impact animal biology and health, driving new coral conservation efforts. 🪸🎉 @pcleves.bsky.social www.cleveslab.org

The Cleves Lab

The Cleves Lab researches the molecular, cellular, and developmental basis of how intracellular beneficial microbes invade and persist in animal cells to form symbiosis. They use ecologically critical...

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Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · last yr.

OUT NOW: Inducible transposon mutagenesis identifies bacterial fitness determinants during infection in mice #microsky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inducible transposon mutagenesis identifies bacterial fitness determinants during infection in mice - Nature Microbiology

InducTn-seq, a method for inducible mutagenesis followed by transposon insertion site sequencing, enables temporal control of transposition to bypass population bottlenecks and enable the quantificati...

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