tatianadimitriu.bsky.social
@royalsociety University Research Fellow in St Andrews. Bacterial evolution, mobile genetic elements & defence systems, antibiotic resistance, social interactions. 🇫🇷 with some 🇷🇴 and 🇺🇦 roots. She/her
👤 Joined on 31 October 2023
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@tatianadimitriu.bsky.socialDo you like riddles(and molecular biology)? Maybe you can help me solve this one. We’ve found a short piece of DNA (a plasmid) present in almost all plague samples from the Second Plague Pandemic (1338-1840), but absent in all earlier or later plague cases. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Show PostGood job we don't expect more global pandemics and more historically "tropical" diseases to spread to the UK with climate change.
Show Postyou're certainly aware that the leading region of conjugative plasmids is not only optimized for translation but also for transcription. and their replication is driven by this transcription.
Show PostThanks to @zerdos.bsky.social who led this work. He worked tirelessly in and out of the lab. It is also the first paper out of my group which is a nice win. Shout out to @tatianadimitriu.bsky.social for advising on plasmid transfer assays, and Profs Buckling and Raymond who aren't on here.
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