Just finished my first @skypeascientist.bsky.social session and feeling so full of enthusiasm for science from the lovely questions the middle schoolers asked. However I did compare phage specificity to someone who makes chairs ending up in a coca-cola factory and not knowing how to make anything 🤦‍♀️

When is an antiphage mechanism an evolved defence adaptation? This question has been on my mind for so long, because despite the field’s rapid progress there is currently no widely agreed framework in place to answer it. So @brownlab.bsky.social and I wrote this, and I'm happy to share the preprint!

📢 Opportunity to apply for a PhD fellowship to join our group and work on MGE-MGE interactions and phage defence systems! @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social See informations about eligibility and research project on this web page: graduate-plus.fr/immunology-v... Contact me if you are interested !

🎉Extremely happy that Josie Elliott was awarded a MCSA postdoctoral fellowship to continue our work on the competition between mobile genetic elements in bacteria ! Congratulations !

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I'm excited and grateful to share that I have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellowship for my work with @annechevallereau.bsky.social at @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social. I feel incredibly lucky and I'm looking forward to getting to work on all the phage-y experiments we have planned 🧫

I'm excited and grateful to share that I have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellowship for my work with @annechevallereau.bsky.social at @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social. I feel incredibly lucky and I'm looking forward to getting to work on all the phage-y experiments we have planned 🧫

Two conferences two weeks apart, thank you to everyone who came and chatted to me at my poster (or in general) at the Phages.fr conference in Nancy and the @microbiologysociety.org #MicroEvo25 conference in Liverpool. It was great to show the first data from my postdoc and get advice and feedback

Two fully-funded PhD openings in my research group at the University of York. If you’re excited about viromes, phage biology, Nanopore sequencing, soils and the odd bit of alpine or agricultural field sampling, we’d love to hear from you! 🌱🦠🏔️ tiny.cc/c4pv001 tiny.cc/e4pv001

A Farewell to Arms: The Trade-off Between Growth and Defence in Bacteria (York YBDTP Project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - A Farewell to Arms: The Trade-off Between Growth and Defence in Bacteria (York YBDTP Project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

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JOB OFFER #PhageSky We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions ! We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social Contact me for more info ! >> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

We're looking for a technician at Institut Pasteur for experimental work on satellite-phage-bacteria interactions, working directly with @jmouradesousa.bsky.social and myself in the lab of @epcrocha.bsky.social ! ANR funded. Link to the job emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp... Thx for sharing!

🎉🧪 The MEEP lab @mmsb.cnrs.fr celebrates its first anniversary! A year of experiments, caffeine-fueled late nights, and nerdy excitement. 🚀🔬 I'm very grateful to the team of amazing #WomenInScience who joined this incredible journey @josie-e.bsky.social Clarisse Plantady and Elodie Kenck.

Can CRISPR-Cas systems target any phage? Yes, no, it depends? What does it depend on? The second paper from my PhD came out today in a special issue of Phil Trans B on the ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Phage susceptibility to a minimal, modular synthetic CRISPR-Cas system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is nutrient dependent | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

CRISPR-Cas systems can provide adaptive, heritable immunity to their prokaryotic hosts against invading genetic material such as phages. It is clear that the importance of acquiring CRISPR-Cas immunit...

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PhD opportunity, please share: We are looking for a prospective PhD student to start in October 2026 who is excited about bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae), how they interact, and how they exchange DNA. All details can be found on the funder website 👉 gw4biomed.ac.uk/developing-c...

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

Honored to have our paper featured in the Spotlight of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by authors @josie-e.bsky.social & @annechevallereau.bsky.social Thank you for making our work more accessible and highlighting its relevance! www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X%2825%2900158-1

Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources

In nature, phages frequently coinfect bacteria, leading to inter-species competition. Furthermore, phage therapy often involves using a cocktail of different species to circumvent bacterial resistance...

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✍️ We had a great time writing this Spotlight article on one of our favorite topics: how phages interact with each other! 🦠 From cooperation to competition, phage-phage interactions reveal a fascinating layer of microbial life that’s often overlooked. A piece crafted by the talented Josie Elliott!

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Honored to have our paper featured in the Spotlight of @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by authors @josie-e.bsky.social & @annechevallereau.bsky.social Thank you for making our work more accessible and highlighting its relevance! www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X%2825%2900158-1

Had a great time in Paris at the EMBO workshop on the immune system of bacteria, thank you to all the organisers. Conferences in cool cities are also the perfect opportunities to go to other awesome places like Fontainebleau and try some outdoor bouldering

Fantastic new preprint of Vaughn Cooper's lab @vscooper.micropopbio.org - filamentous phages can get cancer and it's contagious. 🔥👇🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness

Many bacteria carry phage genome(s) in their chromosome (i.e., prophage), and this intertwines the fitness of the bacterium and the phage. Most Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains carry filamentous phages ...

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Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

New job announcement: Since wrapping up my PhD at Bath Uni, I have crossed the channel and am settling in as a postdoc in the Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Phages group of @annechevallereau.bsky.social in Lyon France 🇫🇷. Very excited for the next few years of phage-based-fun!

Please share: I'm looking for a #phage enthusiast PhD student to join my team on a funded project part of the Norwich Research Park DTP. Application deadline 25/11. biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bac... CC: @quadraminstitute.bsky.social

Bacteriophage-based biocontrol of pathogens in the food chain | Doctoral Training Partnership

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I could not be more grateful for having such lovely examiners in @jpjhall.bsky.social and @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and moreover the best lab group ever with the @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social . 4 years has fully converted me to a die hard phage lover 🦠🧬👩‍🔬

Tiffany Taylor@taylorlabgroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hooray 🎉 @josie-e.bsky.social who passed her PhD viva with flying colours. Many thanks to examiners @jpjhall.bsky.social & @zaminiqbal.bsky.social. Josie was cosupervised by Edze Westra & will soon start her postdoc with @annechevallereau.bsky.social Go get 'em Dr Elliott.

Excited to share my 1st paper with @bridgetwatson.bsky.social @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social Edze Westra Sylvain Gandon & David McLeod academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... where we ask “when would using a defence system (CRISPR-Cas) be selectively advantageous over mutations that block phage binding?”1/10

Conditions for the spread of CRISPR-Cas immune systems into bacterial populations

Abstract. Bacteria contain a wide variety of innate and adaptive immune systems which provide protection to the host against invading genetic material, inc

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I'm recruiting a Research Technician to work on plasmid transmission and antimicrobial resistance in St Andrews, to start in October. Deadline for applications is 19 June. Please share! www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Congratulations to @josie-e.bsky.social for winning the @meehubs.bsky.social poster prize 🏆 Thank you to the organisers for a brilliant conference.

Thank you so much @meehubs.bsky.social and the Microbiology Society! I might be a little biased now, but I have had an amazing time at the Oxford Hub 😊

MEEhubs@meehubs.bsky.social · 3y ago

Congratulations to our MEEhubs2024 Oxford Poster Award winner @josie-e.bsky.social! 🎉🏆 Prize generously sponsored by the Microbiology Society UK

Poster session in full swing at the Oxford hub! 🔥 #MicroSky

Interested in how phages deal with dormant bacteria? After a looong and difficult peer review our paper by Enea Maffei and colleagues has finally been published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One-week international workshop on evolution June 22-29 in the Swiss Alps for Master's & early PhD students. Application due 28 January 2024. I've co-taught the course several times (but not this time), and it's a terrific format and beautiful location. www.evolution.unibas.ch/teaching/gua...

I am passionate about both doing and communicating evolutionary research effectively. If you are too, do check out this #PhD opportunity with me and Prof L Hurst. Deadline 11th Feb, Start Sept 2024, Funding available for home students (Sorry). #scicomm *Pls RP* www.findaphd.com/phds/project...