Jan-Willem Veening
@veeninglab.com
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Professor and director at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, https://veeninglab.com/. Interested in antibiotic resistance, bacterial cell biology, host-microbe interactions.
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ETH Zurich
@ethz.ch
· 14d
“Treatment with bacteriophages can combat antibiotic-resistant infections, but Swiss patients lack access”
It is not only antibiotics but also certain viruses – known as bacteriophages – that can kill off pathogenic bacteria. However, Switzerland lacks the legal framework for the use of these viruses in th...
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Jan-Willem Veening
@veeninglab.com
· Sep 8
PneumoWiki: A pan-genome-based database for the pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae
The Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen that exhibits more than 100 different capsular serotypes and considerable genomic variation. S. pneumoniae is also an imp...
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Jan-Willem Veening
@veeninglab.com
· Sep 8
LytF contributes to pilus extrusion during natural competence in Streptococcus sanguinis SK36.
Streptococci may enter a physiological state called competence, during which they express a specific set of genes required for exogenous DNA uptake and its subsequent integration into the genome throu...
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Craig Kaplan
@triggerloop.bsky.social
· Sep 3
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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Jan-Willem Veening
@veeninglab.com
· Sep 3
A toxin/antitoxin system targeting the replication sliding-clamp induces competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a pathogenic bacterium capable of entering a cellular differentiation state, called competence, which enables it to acquire new genetic functions by natural transformation,...
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Sorek Lab
@soreklab.bsky.social
· Sep 2
Synthetically designed anti-defense proteins overcome barriers to bacterial transformation and phage infection
Bacterial defense systems present considerable barriers to both phage infection and plasmid transformation. These systems target mobile genetic elements, limiting the efficacy of bacteriophage-based t...
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Jan-Willem Veening
@veeninglab.com
· Aug 7
