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Landon Getz

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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

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

🏳️‍🌈 PhD. Research Scientist studying <i>Vibrio</i> species, with a keen interest in science ethics and policy.

landongetz.com

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 16d

Rapture tomorrow. Go ahead and push directly to prod.

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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

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...

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Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#phagesky #phage

Phage-encoded homing endonucleases attenuate bacterial immunity

The arms race between bacteria and bacteriophages (phages) gave rise to multiple layers of antagonistic mechanisms, many of which remain unexplored. Here, we investigated the anti-phage defense system...

www.biorxiv.org

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Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social · Aug 27

Beautiful work on the emergence of the pandemic clone of V. parahaemolyticus

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Aug 27

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...

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

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Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Aug 26

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 ❤️

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Aug 17

Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is standing in sick bay talking down to someone. Not like in a belittling way, she's just talking to someone who's sitting down. And she has a dolphin shaped metal mechanism above her eyeball because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Survival is insufficient."

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Aug 8

Streptomyces venezuelae uses secreted chitinases and a designated ABC transporter to support the competitive saprophytic catabolism of chitin

vs Bacillus subtilis

@plosbiology.org by Anne van der Meij et al from Justin Nodwell
with Marie Elliot

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Streptomyces venezuelae uses secreted chitinases and a designated ABC transporter to support the competitive saprophytic catabolism of chitin

More than a billion tons of chitin are produced on earth each year, rich in fixed nitrogen and carbon, but it is hard to degrade and use. This study shows that the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuel...

journals.plos.org

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EMBL @embl.org · Jun 23

EMBL researchers have developed a new AI framework – AlphaDesign – which can design new proteins that might have therapeutic benefits.

Using AlphaDesign, the researchers succeeded in creating synthetic inhibitors for a bacterial phage defence system.

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

The EMBL scientists who developed AlphaDesign. From left to right: Michael Jendrusch, Kashif Sadiq, Jan Korbel. Credit: Kinga Siring/EMBL

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Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations to the organizing committee, especially Adnane Sellam, Frédérique Le Roux and Marylise Duperthuy, for hosting an impactful event. Thanks to CSM, U de M, sponsors, session chairs, and attendees for making this conference memorable (as always!)

Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm home after the 74th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists at Université de Montréal. This year I had the pleasure of sharing our work on anti-phage defence and Vibrio integrons in the Postdocotral Research Symposium—and I won the Knowles Postdoctoral Research Prize!

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Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 23

At least someone can enjoy themselves in this heatwave...

A tabby cat named Susan, lying on her side, enjoying a sunbeam on a blue patterned bedspread

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Dr. Sue Ishaq @drsueishaq.bsky.social · Jun 19

A letter from scientists to the community: Protect transgender scientists.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Protect transgender scientists

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

www.science.org

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Pedro Leão @pedroleao.bsky.social · Jun 16

"In a competitive academic world, building bridges instead of walls may be our most powerful tool to accelerate discovery and rebuild public trust in science."

I'm very happy with this article piece! 🥳

www.the-scientist.com/science-thri...

Science Thrives on Trust: Why Collaboration Is Our Greatest Strength

In a competitive academic world, building bridges instead of walls may be our most powerful tool to accelerate discovery and rebuild public trust in science.

www.the-scientist.com

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Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 16

As an aside, after living so close to the ocean for over a decade, I still have trouble believing that Lake Ontario is in fact not the ocean 🌊

Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 16

On my way to the 74th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists at Université de Montréal! Looking forward to sharing our recent work on integrons and anti-phage defence at the upcoming postdoctoral symposium!

Thanks for the ride @viarailcanada.bsky.social

A photo of rural Canada taken from a train window. The photo includes a recently plowed field, with Lake Ontario in the background

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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · Jun 16

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Pride in Microbiology @prideinmicro.bsky.social · Jun 16

THANK YOU to everyone who attended our first annual Pride Month Game Night with us on Saturday! We had a blast and are so excited to announce our next Pride Month event... 🥁
PowerPoint Karaoke!🎙️
June 28th
More info to come 🌈

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Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · Jun 10

#phagesky

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

RBPseg: Toward a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas

RBPseg enables accurate modeling of tail fiber structure, providing the first comprehensive tail fiber structure atlas.

www.science.org

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Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 10

Can we engineer phages to bypass bacterial defenses, enhance host-range, and reduce the bodies immune response to them?

We cover current knowledge in these areas within the last two years. Check it out! We would love to know what you think and where this field should go next!

Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 10

While phages offer significant promise, our primary hurdle now is identifying effective phages for therapy...Currently it can take months to identify effective phages for a single patient. How can we improve phages and make this process faster?

Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm excited to share our new review in Current Opinion in Microbiology: “A solution to the post‑antibiotic era: phages as precision medicine.”

Here, we explore how engineered bacteriophages could be the next generation of anti-bacterials!

A solution to the postantibiotic era: phages as precision medicine

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections pose a significant global health challenge. Phage therapy provides a promising alternative to antibiotics th…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Pride in Microbiology @prideinmicro.bsky.social · Jun 10

🏳️‍🌈Hello Pride in Microbiology Network!🏳️‍🌈

We’re kicking off Pride Month with something FUN!

Join us for our very first Pride Month Games Night—Saturday, June 14th at 7PM EST! Expect lots of laughs, good vibes, and a chance to meet new friends and fellow microbiology enthusiasts.

A colourful retro-gaming pixel art style flyer of a cat on a park bench, advertising the Game Night with Pride in Microbiology.

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Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks!!

Landon Getz @landongetz.bsky.social · Jun 9

I attended the 6th annual 2SLGBTQ+ in STEM conference at Toronto Metropolitan University last week.

We've built this conference over the last 6 years. It was incredible to see what we've built come together!

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 So proud of these leaders and excited for the future of Queer STEM in Canada 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

4 people at a conference (3 men and 1 woman) posing for a selfie. All 4 are wearing rainbow lanyards with conference badges attached.

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Pride in Microbiology @prideinmicro.bsky.social · Jun 3

We have things planned indeed!! Looking forward to sharing the details with you all in the coming week...

In the meantime, Happy Pride Everyone! Take this time to appreciate the community we build together everyday and appreciate your Queer and Trans family!

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