"It's less like pressing a button for an answer and more like mentoring a junior colleague—asking the right questions, pushing back on shallow reasoning, and nudging the system toward sharper insights."

Imperial researchers have discovered how ‘pirate phages’ hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for dangerous traits.

This discovery that could be harnessed to tackle #AMR

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www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268213/...

Thrilled to share that two of our papers with @jrpenades.bsky.social & GoogleDeepMind
are now out in @cellpress.bsky.social

1️⃣Microbial piracy: tinyurl.com/yvf6t3b3
2️⃣AI co-scientist mirrors experimental science: tinyurl.com/2dym92kj

@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
@imperiallifesci.bsky.social

New study shows how bacteria evolved powered-up propellers www.imperial.ac.uk/news/265473/... ... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Honored to have been chosen for this year’s GlaxoSmithKline Award from @biochemsoc.bsky.social. A big thank you to lab members past and present @imperialsci.bsky.social and @erc.europa.eu @cruk-si.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social for supporting our work.

Check out our own Tiago Costa @tcostalab.bsky.social talking about Google's 'AI Co-scientist' on BBC Radio 4 here:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Exciting stuff!

You can listen to Jose Penades @jrpenades.bsky.social interview about #phages and Google's 'AI Co-scientist' on BBC Radio 4 here:
(go to 2:34:15)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

With @jrpenades.bsky.social, we challenged Google AI co-scientist to generate hypotheses. In just 2 days, it recapitulated our unpublished, experimentally confirmed mechanism for how cf-PICIs spread between bacterial species! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3byyaeh2

An unreleased AI system by Google designed to assist researchers has the potential to "supercharge science."

Dr Tiago Dias da Costa and other Imperial researchers were the first to test it, and say it replicated ten years of work in just two days.

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261293/...

New work from the lab with @jrpenades.bsky.social! We discovered a biological entity that spreads among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. This finding has major translational applications due to its broad host range. More news soon!
shorturl.at/kRJqE

Huge congratulations to our Head of Life Sciences Prof Dan Davis @dandavis101.bsky.social
who has been recognised in the 2025 New Year Honours list! 🎖️

Dan receives an MBE for his services to science communication.

#OurImperial

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imperial.ac.uk/news/259480/...

Great to see this paper published on Cpx signalling, LPS remodelling and colistin resistance. It is always a pleasure to work with my collaborators and friends @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @tcostalab.bsky.social @lukeallsopp.bsky.social and Gerald Larrouy Maumus.
Check at doi.org/10.1038/s442...