Jack Bravo

jpkbravo.bsky.social

20 October 2026 14:02

Excited to share this one, led by Theo and my postdoc Bel! We uncover how RNase E generates pAgo guide RNAs and how SPARMA turns that recognition into defense. We solved the cryo-EM structures in the Bravo lab. Great collaboration with Swarts & Zaremba! 🧬 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...

Aditya Kunjapur

kunjapur.bsky.social

20 October 2026 14:02

This work led by @jennbrophy.bsky.social and her lead student Vivian in collaboration with my lab & lead student Michaela published online this morning at Nature Biotechnology www.nature.com/articles/s41... Helps limit engr'd microbial functions to target plants Exciting science & amazing collab

Luuk Loeff

lloeff.bsky.social

20 October 2026 07:33

Exciting times for cryo-EM in NL 🇳🇱! As part of EMPower, two new Titan Krios G5 microscopes have been installed at NeCEN in Leiden and Utrecht. First benchmarks with ApoF reached 1.12 Å resolution 🤯. Looking forward to seeing all the exciting science these microscopes will enable! 🔬

Alexander Harms

aharms485.bsky.social

18 October 2026 09:46

Cover image alert 🎨🚨👇🏼 - check out the amazing drawing of Sophia Zimmermann from our group in Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com ! Fun fact: Sophia initially drew it as a present to Dorentina @humollidorentina.bsky.social when we celebrated her recent paper on TnSeq with phages 🥂😊.

Kenneth Loi

kenjmloi.bsky.social

18 October 2026 09:46

Viruses have parasites too. Our new preprint shows how phages use VIPR to silence parasitic satellites, and how the satellites fight back with its own decoy VIPR RNAs that redirect VIPR to DNA REP elements in the host genome!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...