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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had a really great time at ESEB 2025. I think the organizers did a great job 👍, and it was a truly gargantuan effort. I am excited that the next ESEB is a hub conference. I hope that future ESEBs also decide to go plant based and plastic free to become even more sustainable. #ESEB2025 #ESEB2027

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wish all the best to everyone completing the Marie Curie fellowship application for next week. It's a big endeavor and you're in the home stretch now! Best of luck! #grants #mariecurie

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Dhanya Bharath @dhanyabharath.bsky.social · Mar 5

New beginnings!✨

Happy to share that I've started a PhD @eawag.bsky.social with Dr. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza :)

Excited to be working on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of regime shifts and tipping points in ecosystems integrating theory and experiments!

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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · Aug 20

The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Aug 19

Come to my talk on Thursday if you want to hear about some soil microbial metagenomics! We are studying how climate extremes affect soil microbial communities. #ESEB2025

Julio Ayala-López @ayajulio.bsky.social · Aug 17

Getting started at #eseb2025
Looking forward to seeing lots of cool science in the upcoming week

@zacharybailey.bsky.social
@wachalak.bsky.social
@dhanyabharath.bsky.social
@ellamrb.bsky.social
@lorhab.bsky.social

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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · Aug 19

Phages on the big screen! 🎬 Premiere of a brilliant film about phage therapy by our friend Thomas Häusler - powerful story, a great panel discussion, and inspiring conversations over the apero. 🧬🥂 #PhageTherapy

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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · Aug 19

Look at this very cool #luxart of the late great Elio Schaechter by Jennifer Quinn 🤯😍
(wife of @markowenmartin.bsky.social )

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Jul 17

Having a good time at #FEMS2025

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Jul 17

Speaking later today at #FEMS2025 in the "Microbial dynamics in a changing world" symposium.

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Jul 17

It was really nice!

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Jul 13

I am also going alone this year! Always happy to meet more Bacteriophage people! I will be in Milan tommorrow.

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Jul 13

Looking forward to #FEMS2025! I am heading to Milan tomorrow to give a short talk and a poster.

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · Apr 3

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea

The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...

www.science.org

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Mar 5

Happy Birthday!!! I would listen to this on repeat whenever things are difficult. Wishing you the best!
youtu.be/7Xfwu8NH1iI?...

Sia and David Guetta - Floating Through Space (Official)

YouTube video by Sia

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Mar 5

Does anyone have suggestions on a UV Transilluminator for gel imaging?? We are in the market for one and apparently there are so so many to choose from. #gelimaging #gelectrophoresis #science #pcr

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Feb 26

This looks really cool! Another banger from Andrew Millard. I am excited to try this out later!

remidenise.bsky.social @remidenise.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚀 Excited to share our new paper: taxMyPhage: Automated Taxonomy of dsDNA Phage Genomes at the Genus and Species Level 🦠🔬!

Big thanks to all collaborators, especially @milja001.bsky.social & Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén! 🙌

📄 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

taxMyPhage: Automated Taxonomy of dsDNA Phage Genomes at the Genus and Species Level | PHAGE

Background: Bacteriophages are classified into genera and species based on genomic similarity, a process regulated by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses. With the rapid increase in...

www.liebertpub.com

Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Feb 23

With all of the uncertainty in the US regarding NIH funds. I wanted to share that the NIH MHRT program allowed me to do an internship abroad and is directly responsible for me being where I am today. It allowed me to connect with European research institutions, get my masters and my PhD here.

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · Feb 22

This hurts new and early career investigators (like me) the hardest. Most of us finished our postdocs & started our labs during the COVID-19 pandemic with shutdowns and supply issues at that time. Now we’re being hit with ::all of this::

www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos

Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

www.science.org

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Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · Feb 14

Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site

Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC

For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...

Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Feb 15

My fiancé got me an amazing valentine's day gift. Now I get to add an E. coli and T4 phage to my collection.

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy Valentine's Day! If you know me, you know I love to put comics at the end of my presentations. Here is one such comic done by The Amoeba Sisters for Valentine's Day.

Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Feb 13

Hey Alex! That's really awesome! Do your P22 like virus(es) also infect Salmonella Typhimurium?

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Feb 6

☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️

2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution

ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution?

Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Feb 13

⚠️This is not your average preprint on antibiotic resistance. This preprint is a really interesting story from several researchers of my former lab about human gut-microbiota and one potential way AMR resistance is maintained. ☠️

Ricardo Leon-Sampedro @rleonsampedro.bsky.social · Dec 11

🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · Feb 13

I was super happy to see this come out after hearing about this project during the MEEHubs conference in 2024. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this!

Nora Pyenson @norapyenson.bsky.social · Dec 12

Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host

Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...

www.science.org

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