Judit Burgaya
@jburgaya.bsky.social
On Wednesday I started my postdoc at the Institut für Infektionskrankheiten (IFIK) @unibe.ch 🧬💻 Excited to get started on my project exploring Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence and all the science ahead!
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
On Wednesday I started my postdoc at the Institut für Infektionskrankheiten (IFIK) @unibe.ch 🧬💻 Excited to get started on my project exploring Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence and all the science ahead!
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Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Awesome to see the transparent, systematic, and evidence-based approach behind the WHO Bacterial Priority Pathogens List 2024 out in the Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The WHO Bacterial Priority Pathogens List 2024: a prioritisation study to guide research, development, and public health strategies against antimicrobial resistance
The 2024 WHO BPPL is a key tool for prioritising research and development investments
and informing global public health policies to combat AMR. Gram-negative bacteria
and rifampicin-resistant M tuber...
www.thelancet.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Awesome to see the transparent, systematic, and evidence-based approach behind the WHO Bacterial Priority Pathogens List 2024 out in the Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Truly honored to receive the Infection Biology PhD Prize. Grateful for the support @resist-cluster.bsky.social
Congratulations! Judit Burgaya Ventura, PhD, received the "Infection Biology PhD Prize" for her doctoral thesis "On the use of bacterial genome sequencing in studying pathogenicity and transmission in clinical settings". The prize is supported by RESIST. The photo shows her with Prof. Förster.
July 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Truly honored to receive the Infection Biology PhD Prize. Grateful for the support @resist-cluster.bsky.social
PhD, done 🥹🥂 Massive thanks to my brilliant supervisor @mgalactus.bsky.social and amazing colleagues!
Yesterday we had not one, but two PhD defenses! @jburgaya.bsky.social and Hannes held their own against the though questions from their examiners and are (provisionally) done with their PhD. We also had a pleasant surprise, with Judit winning the Infection Biology PhD prize! Congrats to both!
July 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
PhD, done 🥹🥂 Massive thanks to my brilliant supervisor @mgalactus.bsky.social and amazing colleagues!
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Are you interested what proportion of differentially expressed genes in bacteria can be explained by cis non-coding variants? Then head over to our latest preprint, in which Bamu used her dry- and wet-lab skills to answer this and other related questions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cis non-coding genetic variation drives gene expression changes in the E. coli and P. aeruginosa pangenomes
Bacteria use gene regulation to dynamically adapt to changes in their environment, including resistance to stress and the occupation of new niches. Gene expression is known to vary within a species pa...
www.biorxiv.org
June 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Are you interested what proportion of differentially expressed genes in bacteria can be explained by cis non-coding variants? Then head over to our latest preprint, in which Bamu used her dry- and wet-lab skills to answer this and other related questions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are very happy to report that the 3rd and 4th PhD theses from the lab have been submitted!
This time we had a “tale of two theses”: @jburgaya.bsky.social had her thesis 99% ready more than a week before the deadline (!), while Hannes preferred to wait until just before it was due ☕
Congrats!
This time we had a “tale of two theses”: @jburgaya.bsky.social had her thesis 99% ready more than a week before the deadline (!), while Hannes preferred to wait until just before it was due ☕
Congrats!
May 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We are very happy to report that the 3rd and 4th PhD theses from the lab have been submitted!
This time we had a “tale of two theses”: @jburgaya.bsky.social had her thesis 99% ready more than a week before the deadline (!), while Hannes preferred to wait until just before it was due ☕
Congrats!
This time we had a “tale of two theses”: @jburgaya.bsky.social had her thesis 99% ready more than a week before the deadline (!), while Hannes preferred to wait until just before it was due ☕
Congrats!
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And this only the beginning! I’m glad we did that collaboration with the Maric lab. ASOs for the people!
First post, first paper 🤭
Proud to share with all of you our work on mRNA blocking using our own high-throughput antisense approach! doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Many thanks to @hmariclab.bsky.social, @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social and especially Linda for the amazing collaboration 😸
Proud to share with all of you our work on mRNA blocking using our own high-throughput antisense approach! doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Many thanks to @hmariclab.bsky.social, @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social and especially Linda for the amazing collaboration 😸
High‐Throughput Tiling of Essential mRNAs Increases Potency of Antisense Antibiotics
The systematic tiling of essential genes’ mRNA here presented, proposes a valuable tool for the identification of novel PNA sequences with antibiotic potential. The high-throughput synthetic set up o...
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And this only the beginning! I’m glad we did that collaboration with the Maric lab. ASOs for the people!
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Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species?
How many cells transmit when a strain is shared?
Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable?
We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper.
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How many cells transmit when a strain is shared?
Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable?
We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper.
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May 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species?
How many cells transmit when a strain is shared?
Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable?
We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper.
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How many cells transmit when a strain is shared?
Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable?
We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper.
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This is fascinating, but also terrible news regarding antimicrobial resistance in multidrug-resistant Gram-positives
'Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria'
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
'Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria'
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria
www.nature.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is fascinating, but also terrible news regarding antimicrobial resistance in multidrug-resistant Gram-positives
'Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria'
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
'Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria'
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019
Author summary Antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat: resistant infections are currently associated with 5 million deaths per year globally. This burden may increase further in th...
journals.plos.org
April 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Properties of bacteria are constantly changing. @mgalactus.bsky.social is developing methods to better predict the properties. His team has now developed software that facilitates genome-wide association studies #GWAS Congratulations to all 🧫🦠😊
www.resist-cluster.de/en/better-pr...
www.resist-cluster.de/en/better-pr...
Better prediction of bacterial properties
Each bacterial species has not just a single genome, but a diverse ensemble of gene combinations. This means that the properties of bacteria are constantly changing – for example, how ill they can mak...
www.resist-cluster.de
February 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Properties of bacteria are constantly changing. @mgalactus.bsky.social is developing methods to better predict the properties. His team has now developed software that facilitates genome-wide association studies #GWAS Congratulations to all 🧫🦠😊
www.resist-cluster.de/en/better-pr...
www.resist-cluster.de/en/better-pr...
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We even got the press office to take this lovely photo of the three main authors :) Quite nice that we got it published on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We even got the press office to take this lovely photo of the three main authors :) Quite nice that we got it published on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
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Our paper describing the microGWAS pipeline was published yesterday in Microbial Genomics. Lots of fixes and additions to the code/documentation since the preprint, including a hard to reproduce bug that only showed up in a specific HPC 🥵
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
microGWAS: a computational pipeline to perform large-scale bacterial genome-wide association studies
Identifying genetic variants associated with bacterial phenotypes, such as virulence, host preference and antimicrobial resistance, has great potential for a better understanding of the mechanisms inv...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Our paper describing the microGWAS pipeline was published yesterday in Microbial Genomics. Lots of fixes and additions to the code/documentation since the preprint, including a hard to reproduce bug that only showed up in a specific HPC 🥵
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...