Vincent Burrus 🇨🇦💙💛

vincentburrus.bsky.social

05 October 2026 21:54

#plasmidbiology #plasmid Just out! 🚀 Thrilled by our discovery: the function of the C-terminal domain of MOBH1 relaxases! We uncovered this thanks to a fertility inhibitor encoded by a parasitic mobile genetic element. Congrats to Florence on a great piece of work! 👏 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Vivek Mutalik

vivekmutalik.bsky.social

29 September 2026 18:55

Happy to share that @averynoonan.bsky.social paper “Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage–host interactions from genomes using machine learning” is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🎉🎊 👉🏽 rdcu.be/nR2NizD7H5va

André Marques

amarques.bsky.social

20 September 2026 13:59

Out today in Nature: sex without crossovers. Rhynchospora tenuis makes pollen, fertilises and sets seed, yet 0 crossovers in 10,997 pollen nuclei. Chromosome drive and ~87% seed abortion rebuild the mother's genotype, so the offspring are clones. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Manuel Ares-Arroyo

aresarroyom.bsky.social

16 September 2026 08:45

As a wonderful way to wrap up these past few months, I’m deeply honored to receive the Plasmid Biology Prize from the International Society for Plasmid Biology at #ISPB2026 Berlin. 🍾🥳 Many thanks to the Society, and to all the friends, colleagues, and mentors I’m lucky to meet at these meetings.

Ellinor Alseth

ellinoralseth.bsky.social

14 September 2026 21:29

It's finally published! What a journey @brownlab.bsky.social and I have been on with this one (ask me about it over a pint 🍻). Super excited to be able to say that it's finally out in Trends (author gift link to follow)! 🦠🧫 #phagesky