Many important bacterial non-coding RNAs and structural elements remain undiscovered. To help, @_David_Li, @garykbrixi, @mfgrp, @BrianHie & team introduce Minerva, which uses a genome language model to predict RNA base pairing, repeats, & other interactions from sequence alone.

Hannah and Simone co-taught a crash course on cryoEM to the 1st year Stanford medical students !

Excited to share Minerva, our approach using genome language models for biological discovery! Using Minerva, we find that UG27 reverse transcriptase systems encode variable arrays of diverse ncRNAs with a shared structure, each templating a short DNA hairpin. With @garykbrixi.

Congratulations to Pujuan on receiving the Katharine McCormick Advanced Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship! This fellowship supports exceptional postdocs pursuing faculty careers who have demonstrated a track record of uplifting women in science. Excited to see what’s next for you!

They solved a 2.3 Å cryo-EM structure of Avs2 bound to phage terminase, with an unexpected ATP molecule bridging the two proteins at their interface. (2/4)

Congratulations to Simone (@simone_alma), Collin, and Max (@maxewilkinson) on their paper - out today- on terminase sensing by Avs2 and Upx! (1/4) nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)

Immune recognition is far more universal than we thought! Our new paper uncovers ≥ 90 families of bacterial immune receptors that recognize conserved phage proteins. We also reveal how Avs7 recruits EF-Tu to assemble an immune complex. Congrats to Hyunbin, Sofia, & others !!