Landon Getz
@landongetz.bsky.social
PostDoc in The Maxwell Lab at the University of Toronto. PhD. CIHR and EPIC-GSK Postdoctoral Fellow. | He/Him 🏳️🌈 Co-Founder of Pride in Microbiology | Saamis(Prairies) ➡️ Kjipuktuk(Halifax) ➡️ Tkaronto(Toronto).
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Landon Getz
@landongetz.bsky.social
· Nov 3
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🏳️🌈 PhD. Research Scientist studying <i>Vibrio</i> species, with a keen interest in science ethics and policy.
landongetz.com
Spending more time here, so if I'm a stranger:
I'm a PostDoc at the University of Toronto studying Vibrio-Phage interactions, a coffee and baked goods enthusiast, and housekeeper to a cat named Susan!
Learn more about me here: landongetz.com
I'm a PostDoc at the University of Toronto studying Vibrio-Phage interactions, a coffee and baked goods enthusiast, and housekeeper to a cat named Susan!
Learn more about me here: landongetz.com
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🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
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🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
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Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day to remember people lost to transphobic violence.
🏳️⚧️Today we mourn, but also reaffirm our commitment to fight for the living. Take care of yourselves Today!🏳️⚧️
🏳️⚧️Today we mourn, but also reaffirm our commitment to fight for the living. Take care of yourselves Today!🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day to remember people lost to transphobic violence.
🏳️⚧️Today we mourn, but also reaffirm our commitment to fight for the living. Take care of yourselves Today!🏳️⚧️
🏳️⚧️Today we mourn, but also reaffirm our commitment to fight for the living. Take care of yourselves Today!🏳️⚧️
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The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26
Couldn't have said it better!
@prideinmicro.bsky.social is happy to announce that we are the recipient of the 2026 EDI Prize @microbiologysociety.org
🏳️🌈 This is a very real affirmation that the work we do is valued by the community, and is an affirmation for 2SLGBTQ+ folks that you belong in STEM 🏳️⚧️
@prideinmicro.bsky.social is happy to announce that we are the recipient of the 2026 EDI Prize @microbiologysociety.org
🏳️🌈 This is a very real affirmation that the work we do is valued by the community, and is an affirmation for 2SLGBTQ+ folks that you belong in STEM 🏳️⚧️
I’m extremely happy to see @prideinmicro.bsky.social recognized by @microbiologysociety.org with the 2026 EDI Prize Lecture! 🏆👏
This award is both an affirmation and a call to action. It tells every 2SLGBTQI+ microbiologist: you are seen, you belong, and your future matters 🏳️🌈🧫🏳️⚧️
This award is both an affirmation and a call to action. It tells every 2SLGBTQI+ microbiologist: you are seen, you belong, and your future matters 🏳️🌈🧫🏳️⚧️
EDI Prize 2026: @edelplopez.bsky.social — Université Laval, Canada, @bfrancescol.bsky.social — Fluminense Federal University, Brazil, @landongetz.bsky.social — @utoronto.ca, @katie-barnes.bsky.social — @uwmadison.bsky.social and @nicholasbio.bsky.social — The State University of New York, USA
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Couldn't have said it better!
@prideinmicro.bsky.social is happy to announce that we are the recipient of the 2026 EDI Prize @microbiologysociety.org
🏳️🌈 This is a very real affirmation that the work we do is valued by the community, and is an affirmation for 2SLGBTQ+ folks that you belong in STEM 🏳️⚧️
@prideinmicro.bsky.social is happy to announce that we are the recipient of the 2026 EDI Prize @microbiologysociety.org
🏳️🌈 This is a very real affirmation that the work we do is valued by the community, and is an affirmation for 2SLGBTQ+ folks that you belong in STEM 🏳️⚧️
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On #LGBTQSTEMDay, Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira, a founding member of the Pride in Microbiology Network, reveals how it has developed since it was launched three years ago - and what needs to happen next. www.the-microbiologist.com/opinion/prid...
Pride in Microbiology Network: the road so far
Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira, a founding member of the Pride in Microbiology Network, reveals how it has developed since it was launched three years ago - and what needs to happen next.
www.the-microbiologist.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
On #LGBTQSTEMDay, Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira, a founding member of the Pride in Microbiology Network, reveals how it has developed since it was launched three years ago - and what needs to happen next. www.the-microbiologist.com/opinion/prid...
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Almost three years after @prideinmicro.bsky.social, where are we at?
On #LGBTQSTEMDay, Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira, a founding member of the Pride in Microbiology Network, reveals how it has developed since it was launched three years ago - and what needs to happen next. www.the-microbiologist.com/opinion/prid...
Pride in Microbiology Network: the road so far
Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira, a founding member of the Pride in Microbiology Network, reveals how it has developed since it was launched three years ago - and what needs to happen next.
www.the-microbiologist.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Almost three years after @prideinmicro.bsky.social, where are we at?
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Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
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I’m excited to share my recent postdoc work. Here, we interrogate how different phage infection outcomes (productive vs. restrictive) affect the expression of phage defense systems. We find that a restricted infection not only inhibits the phage but also induces increased immune protein abundance.
Surviving phage attack dynamically regulates bacterial immunity to defeat counterdefenses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688357v1
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’m excited to share my recent postdoc work. Here, we interrogate how different phage infection outcomes (productive vs. restrictive) affect the expression of phage defense systems. We find that a restricted infection not only inhibits the phage but also induces increased immune protein abundance.
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Amazing piece of work from @rtoshiro.bsky.social
& Kim Seed at UC Berkeley. 🙌
Played a tiny role in this work.
Surviving phage attack dynamically regulates bacterial immunity to defeat counterdefenses
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
& Kim Seed at UC Berkeley. 🙌
Played a tiny role in this work.
Surviving phage attack dynamically regulates bacterial immunity to defeat counterdefenses
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
bsky.app
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Amazing piece of work from @rtoshiro.bsky.social
& Kim Seed at UC Berkeley. 🙌
Played a tiny role in this work.
Surviving phage attack dynamically regulates bacterial immunity to defeat counterdefenses
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
& Kim Seed at UC Berkeley. 🙌
Played a tiny role in this work.
Surviving phage attack dynamically regulates bacterial immunity to defeat counterdefenses
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tri-Councils had our backs: "...at no time did CIHR consider disclosing individual EDI and/or self-identification data, information about individual unsuccessful applications or peer reviewers’ review notes and scores" in response to demands of the Parliamentary Committee on Science and Research.
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tri-Councils had our backs: "...at no time did CIHR consider disclosing individual EDI and/or self-identification data, information about individual unsuccessful applications or peer reviewers’ review notes and scores" in response to demands of the Parliamentary Committee on Science and Research.
Really sad state of affairs...we have safe and effective paths forward to prevent this.
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Really sad state of affairs...we have safe and effective paths forward to prevent this.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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🚀 Looking for a motivated postdoc in molecular biology! Apply for a Juan de la Cierva 2025 fellowship and join R'n'R lab in Madrid.
📅 PhD Jan'24–Dec'25
🔍 DNA replication & biotech #piMDA #WGA, bacterial genomics & defense
👉 rnrlab.github.io
#Postdoc #JdC2025
@iib.uam.es @uammedicina.bsky.social
📅 PhD Jan'24–Dec'25
🔍 DNA replication & biotech #piMDA #WGA, bacterial genomics & defense
👉 rnrlab.github.io
#Postdoc #JdC2025
@iib.uam.es @uammedicina.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚀 Looking for a motivated postdoc in molecular biology! Apply for a Juan de la Cierva 2025 fellowship and join R'n'R lab in Madrid.
📅 PhD Jan'24–Dec'25
🔍 DNA replication & biotech #piMDA #WGA, bacterial genomics & defense
👉 rnrlab.github.io
#Postdoc #JdC2025
@iib.uam.es @uammedicina.bsky.social
📅 PhD Jan'24–Dec'25
🔍 DNA replication & biotech #piMDA #WGA, bacterial genomics & defense
👉 rnrlab.github.io
#Postdoc #JdC2025
@iib.uam.es @uammedicina.bsky.social
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Preprint: Bacteria sense virus-induced genome degradation via methylated mononucleotides
tinyurl.com/ch3damp
We show how molecular byproducts released during virus-induced cell exploitation are used as signals to trigger host immunity
Revealed by the amazing Ilya Osterman. See his thread below👇
tinyurl.com/ch3damp
We show how molecular byproducts released during virus-induced cell exploitation are used as signals to trigger host immunity
Revealed by the amazing Ilya Osterman. See his thread below👇
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Preprint: Bacteria sense virus-induced genome degradation via methylated mononucleotides
tinyurl.com/ch3damp
We show how molecular byproducts released during virus-induced cell exploitation are used as signals to trigger host immunity
Revealed by the amazing Ilya Osterman. See his thread below👇
tinyurl.com/ch3damp
We show how molecular byproducts released during virus-induced cell exploitation are used as signals to trigger host immunity
Revealed by the amazing Ilya Osterman. See his thread below👇
Reposted by Landon Getz
I’m a bit puzzled that the employers of faculty and staff-and the educators responsible for students whose information we protect so carefully-haven’t made any public statements about the risks of releasing private grant information in Canada, which contains confidential and sensitive details.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I’m a bit puzzled that the employers of faculty and staff-and the educators responsible for students whose information we protect so carefully-haven’t made any public statements about the risks of releasing private grant information in Canada, which contains confidential and sensitive details.
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Structures of the sheathed flagellum reveal mechanisms of assembly and rotation in Vibrio cholerae
Structures of the sheathed flagellum reveal mechanisms of assembly and rotation in Vibrio cholerae - Nature Microbiology
In situ cryo-electron microscopy structures show the spatial arrangement of flagellin proteins and provide insight into mechanisms of assembly and rotation of the sheathed flagellum in Vibrio cholerae...
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Structures of the sheathed flagellum reveal mechanisms of assembly and rotation in Vibrio cholerae
Excited to share: DNA glycosylases are diverse antiviral effectors. They recognize phage base modifications and initiate genome destruction. A structure‑guided approach made the scope of this discovery possible! 🧪 #phagesky doi.org/10.1101/2025... #phage #microbiology
Antiviral Defence is a Conserved Function of Diverse DNA Glycosylases
Bacteria are frequently attacked by viruses, known as phages, and rely on diverse defence systems like restriction endonucleases and CRISPR-Cas to survive. While phages can evade these defences by cov...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Excited to share: DNA glycosylases are diverse antiviral effectors. They recognize phage base modifications and initiate genome destruction. A structure‑guided approach made the scope of this discovery possible! 🧪 #phagesky doi.org/10.1101/2025... #phage #microbiology
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Toronto's ROM is hiring 2 new curators! Botany & Ornithology. Come be part of the Toronto EEB community, with cross-appt in my dept at UofT @romtoronto.bsky.social
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Toronto's ROM is hiring 2 new curators! Botany & Ornithology. Come be part of the Toronto EEB community, with cross-appt in my dept at UofT @romtoronto.bsky.social
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
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Rapture tomorrow. Go ahead and push directly to prod.
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Rapture tomorrow. Go ahead and push directly to prod.
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How can we understand the earliest events in evolution of eukaryotic immunity? @yao-li.bsky.social reports incredible molecular fossils of complete bacterial-like operons in eukaryotes that illuminate how animal immunity was first acquired from anti-phage defense
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
How can we understand the earliest events in evolution of eukaryotic immunity? @yao-li.bsky.social reports incredible molecular fossils of complete bacterial-like operons in eukaryotes that illuminate how animal immunity was first acquired from anti-phage defense
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Beautiful work on the emergence of the pandemic clone of V. parahaemolyticus
Combination of large-scale phylogenomic analysis, mouse lethality experiments and bacterial growth assays shows sheds light on how a pandemic clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was able to spread worldwide
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wave succession in the pandemic clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus driven by gene loss - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A combination of large-scale phylogenomic analysis, mouse lethality experiments and bacterial growth assays shows that gene loss in the putrescine utilization pathway has enhanced biofilm formation an...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Beautiful work on the emergence of the pandemic clone of V. parahaemolyticus
Last week, we had to say goodbye to our sweet Susan. She was the embodiment of kindness, trust, resilience, and forgiveness. Through her love we were changed. She is sorely missed ❤️
August 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Last week, we had to say goodbye to our sweet Susan. She was the embodiment of kindness, trust, resilience, and forgiveness. Through her love we were changed. She is sorely missed ❤️