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#SISB2026 was fantastic! A big thanks to the organisers - super inspiring event!
Daan C. Swarts
Daan C. Swarts
Daan C. Swarts
Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.
We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.
Thread + link below.
Polish phage science meets Polish visual storytelling 🇵🇱🦠
To celebrate our last paper, we collaborated with an artist who previously worked on The Witcher 3 — to create a comic about phages and why understanding them matters in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Comic below 👇
Happy to share our latest pre-print on the Druantia defense system.
We find that Type III Druantia uses a cooperative helicase-nuclease mechanism to sense and degrade replication-associated forked DNA structures.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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📢 Registration for our International Symposium on “New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interactions” is now open!
🗓️ 5–7 October 2026
📍 Harnack House, Berlin, Germany
➡️ Information and registration: spp2330.de/symposium-20...
I'm looking for an enthusiastic student to join my team as a PhD candidate on archaeal genome evolution 🦠💻
Work in beautiful Utrecht, at @binfutrecht.bsky.social, an international group full of caring, amazing scientists, and with frequent cake breaks!
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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www.biorxiv.org
Excited to share the first preprint from the lab! We show that ApeA defends against RNA phage infection by cleaving the phage genome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our paper is out! Hiding in plain sight among Cas12a nucleases, Cas12a3 cleaves not its RNA target but the 3′ ends of tRNA. Huge thanks to all who made this possible, especially the Beisel lab, Biao & Dirk for the structure, & @sebastianglatt.bsky.social for all things tRNA. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Kenneth Loi
That's a wrap on three days of incredible science at #SISB2026! Special thanks to @rockefeller.edu for hosting us on their beautiful campus, to our speakers and poster presenters, and most of all to this community that never fails to inspire. Can't wait for #SISB2027 🫶
