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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · 8d

Great opportunity!

Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 8d

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great final session of the #BMD2025 in #Leiden Universiteit Leiden today! 😎 With our own @mmzdouc.bsky.social presenting #FERMO, including a flashback to his talk 3 years ago in Utrecht at the #BMD2022, and a fantastic keynote by Jonathan Martin on the #metabolomics of #exposomics!

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great to see it out! Congrats @mmzdouc.bsky.social !

Mitja M. Zdouc @mmzdouc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Into natural product biosynthesis & tailoring enzymes? Frustrated by the lack of a dedicated resource to explore their functions? Tired of endless literature searches for reaction info? Meet the MITE database, freely available at mite.bioinformatics.nl. Preprint: doi.org/10.26434/che... (1/8)

Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jul 5

Absolutely! I will start in January, so I’ll reach out to you once I move!

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thanks so much! Looking forward to meeting you in person!

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jul 4

Looking forward to meeting you!

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you!

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you! 😊

Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jul 3

🔬 Learn more about my research:
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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jul 3

🎉 I'm thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor starting January 2026!

I’ll be recruiting PhD students, lab technicians, and postdocs—so if you're interested in host-microbe interactions, I’d love to hear from you!

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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · Apr 4

A single python package for calculation of quality metrics like DockQ, LDDT, RMSD, & others

peppr.vant.ai

Screencap from the homepage showing various structural similarity metrics between a pose and a reference structure

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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · Apr 3

ICYMI: New online! Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.

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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · Mar 27

New online! Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.

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GAMA Miguel Angel @miangoar.bsky.social · Feb 12

1/10 A 🧵of resources to learn about AlphaFold (2 and 3).

IMO, the best way to get started with AF2 is "AlphaFold. A practical guide" from the EMBL-EBI. It explains how AF2 works in plain English, without code, and covers key metrics like pLDDT/PAE/etc.

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AlphaFold - A practical guide

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Feb 12

If you have single cell data with metadata, this approach could be very helpful for you… check it out!

Jeremias Sulam @jsulam.bsky.social · Feb 12

Today, on #WomenInScience day, this paper on biomarker discovery for breast cancer, by my amazing student Zhenzhen, has just appeared in @cp-patterns.bsky.social
🎉 Her work shows how to construct fully interpretable biomarkers employing bi-level graph learning! @jhu.edu @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Feb 6

Very useful!

Rauf Salamzade @raufs.bsky.social · Feb 5

Difficult to focus on science during these times, but if you have the bandwidth, our study on zol is now out in NAR: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

GitHub: github.com/Kalan-Lab/zol

Please give the software a try and let us know if you have any feedback! And stay tuned for new features...

zol and fai: large-scale targeted detection and evolutionary investigation of gene clusters

Abstract. Many universally and conditionally important genes are genomically aggregated within clusters. Here, we introduce fai and zol, which together ena

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Philipp Engel @pengellab.bsky.social · Feb 5

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics/gut microbiota ecology and evolution (22087)

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Jan 26

Happy to be part of @carnegiescience.bsky.social 🙂

Carnegie Science @carnegiescience.bsky.social · Jan 25

Karina Gutierrez-Garcia recently published a paper in Science Magazine identifying genes that help beneficial bacteria colonize the gastrointestinal tract. 🧫 Her work is shaping the future of microbiology! #HBDCarnegieScience

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3Wwij2K

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Dec 23

3). The adhesin binding domains are conserved throughout the Lactobacillales, and the island also encodes a secretion system widely conserved among commensal and pathogenic bacteria.

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Dec 23

2) L. plantarum establishes stably within its niche through host-specific adhesins encoded by genes carried on a colonization island.

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Dec 23

1) In this work, we use live imaging of individual symbiotic bacterial cells colonizing the gut of living Drosophila melanogaster to show that Lactiplantibacillus plantarum specifically recognizes the fruit fly foregut as a distinct physical niche.

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Karina Gutiérrez García @karinagtz.bsky.social · Dec 23

Finally, our paper, "A Conserved Bacterial Genetic Basis for Commensal-Host Specificity," has been officially published in Science.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity

Animals selectively acquire specific symbiotic gut bacteria from their environments that aid host fitness. To colonize, a symbiont must locate its niche and sustain growth within the gut. Adhesins are...

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