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14 May 2025
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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15 May 2025
Massive effort lead by the amazing @FabBenz to discuss the present and future of CRISPR-based antimicrobials ⚡
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13 May 2025
CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria bit.ly/3RZbnJ5
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14 May 2025
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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14 May 2025
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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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ps
this is my last post on X — you can find me on 💙 under fabbenz for plasmid eco-evo and CRISPRy subjects
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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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16 Jan 2025
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:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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17 Dec 2024
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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11 Nov 2024
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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5 Nov 2024
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! 🤓
30 Oct 2024
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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22 Oct 2024
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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15 Oct 2024
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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9 Oct 2024
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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27 Sep 2024
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
27 Sep 2024
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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19 Aug 2024
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
18 Aug 2024
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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