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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · 20d

@hanarb.bsky.social Hannah Bonham masterpiece, capturing Bacillus subtilis (red) lysis💀 by lytic phage. Phage DNA stained with SYBR gold (green). 😎🤓 @erc.europa.eu

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 28

An aggregate of phage scientists at gala dinner #SSM2025, interstingly all linked by present/past in 🇩🇰☺️

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 18

Nature research paper: Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny

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Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny - Nature

Zip promotes the accumulation of free phages in bacterial lysogen communities, safeguarding phage progeny.

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 27

Phage and bacterial immunity session🤗 opened by @francoisrousset.bsky.social

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 27

Beautifull venue Casino Kursaal #SSM2025. Two keynote talks: Pascale Vonaesch🇨🇭and Rafael Pinilla-Redondo🇩🇰, phages starring in both🤩

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 26

And the best room view award goes to SSM2025 in Interlaken🇨🇭

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 26

Omw to SSM2025 meeting🤗 to give a talk tomorrow @aharms485.bsky.social ppt almost finished😉🦠🆘 (im ok, last emoji corr to my session😅

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 26

Omw to SSM2025 meeting🤗 to give a talk tomorrow @aharms485.bsky.social ppt almost finished😉🦠🆘 (im ok, last emoji corr to my session😅

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 18

Latest review from our lab by postdoc Nina Vesel et al in collab with colleagues from the department👇🤗🥳 natural competence and phage experts join forces💪

Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Aug 14

Naturally competent bacteria and their genetic parasites - A battle for control over horizontal gene transfer?

@femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiol Rev by Nina Vesel, Eva Stare, @polonca32.bsky.social, Valentina Floccari, Ines Mandic Mulec & @annadragos.bsky.social

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Naturally competent bacteria and their genetic parasites – A battle for control over horizontal gene transfer?

Abstract. Host-mediated natural competence for transformation of DNA and mobile genetic element (MGE)-driven conjugation and transduction are key modes of

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 18

www.nature.com/articles/s42... Recent work from our lab, PhD work of Valentinna Floccari in collab with @bramkamplab.bsky.social lab and @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social and many others. 🥳🤓

Lysogenic control of Bacillus subtilis morphology and fitness by Spbetavirus phi3T - Communications Biology

Lysogenic conversion exerted by phi3T, SPbeta-like virus on the bacterial host Bacillus subtilis leads to a strong alteration of host features, especially in terms of host cell morphology, fitness and...

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Aug 5

Experimental project MIKROBUM where we collaborated with faculty of social sciences and artists from non-profit org. Zavod Kersnikova, mentoring 8 students from different fields. They came up with cool artistic research🎭🦠 ideas involving microbes. Surely to be continued...

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jul 17

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny - Nature

Zip promotes the accumulation of free phages in bacterial lysogen communities, safeguarding phage progeny.

www.nature.com

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jul 10

Lovely visit to ICTP in Trieste together with Jaka Jakin Lazar to meet our collaborators Jacopo Grilli @jacrickets.bsky.social, Lorenzo Fant & Akari Matsuki🤗 brainstorming on phage-host dynamics, tasty☕️, best views🤩

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jun 23

#Bacell2025 in Amsterdam, great week full of Bacillus science. Thanks to Leendert Hamoen and the team🙏

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jun 17

Bacillus subtilis ensures high spore quality in competition with Salmonella Typhimurium via the SigB-dependent pathway - Eli Podnar from the group of Ines Mandic Mulec
#BACELL2025

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jun 17

Adele Pioppi from our lab is now on the scene at #BACELL2025 presenting on Sorghum-derived flavonoids influence Bacillus growth
#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jun 16

Ljubljana team on the way to #Bacell in Amsterdam

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jun 16

Friday 'team buidling'😉 of Microbiology Department hosted by department head Ines Mandić Mulec🍻 group photo next to new dep logo designed by Maja Popović from our group😁 with @hanarb.bsky.social @uporabniskoime.bsky.social

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jun 16

Last week at 20 Years of the Centre for Functional Genomics and Bio-Chips (CFGBC) at Faculty of Medicine UL. Cool promotional ginger bread cookies. photo with Tanja Kunej and Klementina Fon Tacer

annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Timely excision of prophage Φ13 is essential for the Staphylococcus aureus infectious process

Mobile genetic elements play an essential part in the infectious process of major pathogens, yet the role of prophage dynamics in Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis is still not well understood. Here ...

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · Jun 7

Another nice example of prophage induction during interbacterial competition 💣 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bacterial peptide deformylase inhibitors induce prophages in competitors

While antibiotics mediate chemical warfare among microbes, their roles in the wild extend beyond direct growth inhibition. Some antibiotics have the potential to mediate interference competition by tr...

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Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social · Jun 1

Phage people: Rich Losick and I are combing the world looking for T4 rIIB mutant FC0 (also known as P13). FC0 was the starting point for Francis Crick's beautiful 1961 paper on the triplet nature of the genetic code. We want to sequence it. Anyone have it in an ancient stock collection?

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · Jun 1

I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required.

Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · May 30

Prophage induction - nice study, inducers other than MitC, but also that inducer concentration matters. Search for optimum needed to get highest titers ☝️
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High-throughput screening reveals diverse lambdoid prophage inducers

Prophages; dormant bacteriophage genomes integrated within the bacterial chromosome, play pivotal roles in shaping microbial communities when awakened. Our current understanding of prophage activation...

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annadragos.bsky.social @annadragos.bsky.social · May 30

@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social finally made it to Bsky:) only 4 followers so far😭 #Prophage, #Bacillus, #SPbetavirus researchers, follow some news and views from #Ljubljana phage group. Recent group photo😊

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