Working on the spread of antibiotic-resistance plasmids and the role of plasmid-encoded CRISPR-Cas currently postdoc @institutpasteur previously phd @ETH
Paris, France
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1/6 🚀 Delighted to see our review out online in Nature Reviews Bioengineering: CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria. Read: doi.org/10.1038/s44222-025-0…
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Massive effort lead by the amazing @FabBenz to discuss the present and future of CRISPR-based antimicrobials ⚡
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1/6 🚀 Delighted to see our review out online in Nature Reviews Bioengineering: CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria. Read: doi.org/10.1038/s44222-025-0…
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🙏 Huge thanks to co-authors @BeatrizBeamud @RaphaelLaurenceau @amandinemairee @duportet @AntoineDecrulle & @dbikard. 👏 Shout-out to the academics pushing the boundaries and to innovators at @sniprbiome , @LocusBio , @EligoBio and others turning concepts into clinics
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Two Postdocs (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bacterial genomics in the context of evolutionary epidemiology, with potential projects including antibiotic resistance, HGT and plasmid dynamics.
with @sonjaklehtinen
at University of Lausanne
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/bacterial-g…
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Plasmid Biologists ‼️
⚠️4 days left ⚠️ to sign up to join the #ISPB Virtual Seminar Series and submit your abstract for a talk.
See you there 💥
📢 Can’t wait until the 2026 meeting to dive deeper into plasmids?
Join the ISPB Virtual Seminars Series, an exciting initiative aimed at strengthening our community in 2025! 🤓
📅 Registration and abstract submission open until 20th January:
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The honor of being a 'Pasteurian' does not pay rent, certainly not in Paris…
Fingers crossed for today's negotiations with @institutpasteur
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For the past two years, we have been working on a novel approach to identify origins of transfer by conjugation in plasmids from any bacterial species.
We are thrilled to see this work now published in @NatureMicrobiol after thorough peer review!
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Fantastic PhD Opportunity on plasmid-phage interactions in Manchester with @c_igler and Mike Brockhurst👇also: the time in Germany would be spent in my lab
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Make sure you don't miss it! 🤓
Excited to share our last collab paper in @NatureComms on the structure & interference mechanism of the mysterious 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗜𝗩-𝗔 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗣𝗥-𝗖𝗮𝘀 system!! 🧬🚀
🔗nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
🧵 by @patrick_pausch below!
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Should I stay or should I go? 🎶
In a new opinion piece, @c_igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vi…
Our framework illuminates many sides of MGE biology (1/7)
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1/8. 𝐧𝐜𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐬 often fly under the radar... but they're vital in bacteria-phage conflicts & beyond. Curious 𝙬𝙝𝙮!? 🤔
Here, we dive into their immune roles, plasticity, and discuss their hidden potential! 🧬🚀
🔗:cell.com/trends/microbiology…
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Meet The Shielded Plasmid🛡️🧬
Our new @Nature paper reveals how plasmids outsmart bacterial defenses during conjugation.
It's all about being in the right place at the right time! The positioning of anti-defense genes boosts transfer efficiency🧵(1/7) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
ALT Illustrated by @Irisburstein
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We are hiring! 1 PhD position available within our newly-funded @ERC_Research project
#PHAGEPRO @LMU_Muenchen. We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in bioinformatics! ChatGPT-generated applications will not be considered. Watch👇to learn more about the project
ERC Starting Grant for PHAGE-PRO – Prof. Carolin Wendling🌟
@ERC_Research has awarded the project PHAGE-PRO with an #ERC Starting Grant.
🔎What is #PHAGE-PRO about?
👇Watch the video👇
👉 Prof. Carolin Wendling explains how PHAGE-PRO offers a novel approach to combating bacterial infections using phage therapy – a promising opportunity amidst the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
💡 Traditional phage therapy faces challenges like slow phage identification and limited effectiveness. Prof. Carolin Wendling aims to overcome these obstacles by using prophages (viral DNA integrated into bacterial genomes) in probiotics to enhance their in vivo efficacy.
👉Learn more about this year's 5 ERC Starting Grants at #HelmholtzMunich in our news:
🔗t1p.de/ch7ex
@CCWendling @DeshwalSoni @ie_fernandez @Pseudomanifold @LungHealthMUC @HorizonEU @EUScienceInnov @ERCGrantees @LMU_Muenchen
#ERCStG #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #EuropeanResearchCouncil #StartingGrants #EU #PhageTherapy
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So glad to see this out!
It was definitely a labor of love, but it has become my new blueprint of how I think about AMR evolution. We aimed to highlight how much we've learnt as a field, and especially, how much we still *don't* know 1/4
Thrilled to see the first review article from my lab out in advance @AnnualReviews, helmed by @Celia_Sqe: From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations:
Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance
annualreviews.org/content/jo…
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