Plasmids weaponize conjugation to eliminate non-permissive recipients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.10.705089v1
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
Rational engineering enhances the signal and modularity of an RNA barcoding technology to track gene transfer in microbiomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.20.719664v1
bioRxiv Microbiology
Michael Baym
Check out our latest preprint from @jnvmartinson.bsky.social and @leosong.bsky.social! 🌟🦠
We found that conjugative plasmids can actively eliminate recipient bacteria that resist plasmid acquisition. 🧵
@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social New idea: spotify wrapped but for the stuff you have sequenced throughout the year.
Rubin Lab
The paper on my Ph.D. work is fully online! We used a ribozyme that barcodes 16S rRNA to track the transduction range of phage P1 in a synthetic community and real wastewater communities, while diving deeper into the unique range conferred by P1s two tail fibers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasmids weaponize conjugation to eliminate non-permissive recipients | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.10.705089v1?rss=1
Really proud to have been a part of this!
Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.
Zach LaTurner
🎊 New Preprint from phagefoundry.org ! Super excited to share our latest work on generating systematic phage-MDR P. aeruginosa interaction dataset & use of ML to predict phage susceptibility & phage cocktails from target genome sequences alone, w validations www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
