Vincent Burrus 🇨🇦💙💛
@vincentburrus.bsky.social
Microbiologist, conjugative plasmid fanatic, genomic island freak, weather enthusiast, computer geek, green thumb, dog lover, and chocolate snob - Science rules! 🇫🇷🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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Thanks to @insidehighered.com for publishing my perspective about being reprimanded by the Gordon Research conference after my display of empathy for Palestinian victims of genocide.
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The Palestine Exception in Science (opinion)
A small act in recognition of Palestinian humanity during a scientific presentation should not have been met with a reprimand.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Thanks to @insidehighered.com for publishing my perspective about being reprimanded by the Gordon Research conference after my display of empathy for Palestinian victims of genocide.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
August 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Needless to say, it also helps when the institution provides professional help for grant writing, which is not the case in smaller universities.
Large study of scientists who move their labs reveals how location drives productivity | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Large study of scientists who move their labs reveals how location drives productivity | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Large study of scientists who move their labs reveals how location drives productivity
Concentrating funding at high-powered universities can maximize output, paper argues, but may sacrifice broader benefits
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July 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Needless to say, it also helps when the institution provides professional help for grant writing, which is not the case in smaller universities.
Large study of scientists who move their labs reveals how location drives productivity | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Large study of scientists who move their labs reveals how location drives productivity | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
First flowers of my 16 years old Cornus kousa (red dogwood tree) I grew from seeds. 🌳🌸🍁
#garden #springtime #dogwood #patience
#garden #springtime #dogwood #patience
May 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
First flowers of my 16 years old Cornus kousa (red dogwood tree) I grew from seeds. 🌳🌸🍁
#garden #springtime #dogwood #patience
#garden #springtime #dogwood #patience
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Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
April 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
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🔬 Ph.D. position in Environmental Microbiology
The LCPME is offering a 3-year Ph.D. position to work on the biology of conjugative plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes in environmental contexts. This project will combine bacterial genetics, microcosm experiments, and bioinformatic.
The LCPME is offering a 3-year Ph.D. position to work on the biology of conjugative plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes in environmental contexts. This project will combine bacterial genetics, microcosm experiments, and bioinformatic.
April 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🔬 Ph.D. position in Environmental Microbiology
The LCPME is offering a 3-year Ph.D. position to work on the biology of conjugative plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes in environmental contexts. This project will combine bacterial genetics, microcosm experiments, and bioinformatic.
The LCPME is offering a 3-year Ph.D. position to work on the biology of conjugative plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes in environmental contexts. This project will combine bacterial genetics, microcosm experiments, and bioinformatic.
Preprint: Conjugative transfer inhibition of IncA and IncC plasmids by pervasive SGI1-like elements via relaxosome assembly interference
#plasmid #relaxase #bacteria #parasite #MGE #plasmidbiology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#plasmid #relaxase #bacteria #parasite #MGE #plasmidbiology
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Conjugative transfer inhibition of IncA and IncC plasmids by pervasive SGI1-like elements via relaxosome assembly interference
Broad-host-range IncA and IncC conjugative plasmids propagate multidrug resistance in bacteria and mobilize chromosomal resistance islands, including Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) across genera. ...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Preprint: Conjugative transfer inhibition of IncA and IncC plasmids by pervasive SGI1-like elements via relaxosome assembly interference
#plasmid #relaxase #bacteria #parasite #MGE #plasmidbiology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#plasmid #relaxase #bacteria #parasite #MGE #plasmidbiology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Réservez les dates! Le BiSP (bactériologie intégrative, symbiose et pathogénèse) aura lieu le 5 et 6 novembre à l'Université de Sherbrooke - un événement qui sera en "symbiose" avec le MicrHub, rencontre annuelle de tous les microbiologistes de Sherbrooke. À ne pas manquer!
April 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Réservez les dates! Le BiSP (bactériologie intégrative, symbiose et pathogénèse) aura lieu le 5 et 6 novembre à l'Université de Sherbrooke - un événement qui sera en "symbiose" avec le MicrHub, rencontre annuelle de tous les microbiologistes de Sherbrooke. À ne pas manquer!
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New online! Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01157-yIn this Review, Lang and colleagues present an overview of the current knowledge landscape regarding mobile genetic elements in bacteria, with a focus on their…
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March 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New online! Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In collaboration with Andrew Lang and Alison Buchan, we just published a review on the complex and sometimes convoluted interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements.
#phage #plasmid #evolution #bacteria #plasmidbiology #MGE
In collaboration with Andrew Lang and Alison Buchan, we just published a review on the complex and sometimes convoluted interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements.
#phage #plasmid #evolution #bacteria #plasmidbiology #MGE
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Lang and colleagues present an overview of the current knowledge landscape regarding mobile genetic elements in bacteria, with a focus on their evolutionary relationships and interacti...
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In collaboration with Andrew Lang and Alison Buchan, we just published a review on the complex and sometimes convoluted interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements.
#phage #plasmid #evolution #bacteria #plasmidbiology #MGE
In collaboration with Andrew Lang and Alison Buchan, we just published a review on the complex and sometimes convoluted interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements.
#phage #plasmid #evolution #bacteria #plasmidbiology #MGE
Reposted by Vincent Burrus 🇨🇦💙💛
Go to Google
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Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia
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February 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Go to Google
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It took me longer than I wanted, but I finally have an official lab website! www.fjplab.com
FJP Lab @ USherbrooke
Welcome!
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February 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It took me longer than I wanted, but I finally have an official lab website! www.fjplab.com
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Officially published now: RDFs for Large Serine Integrases that are moonlighting proteins.
With collaborators the Olorunniji group @femijohn.bsky.social we find the TG1/phiC31 family RDF is an SSB, and the Bxb1 RDF has the fold and activity of an exonuclease.
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With collaborators the Olorunniji group @femijohn.bsky.social we find the TG1/phiC31 family RDF is an SSB, and the Bxb1 RDF has the fold and activity of an exonuclease.
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Large serine integrases utilise scavenged phage proteins as directionality cofactors
Abstract. Recombination directionality factors (RDFs) for large serine integrases (LSIs) are cofactor proteins that control the directionality of recombina
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February 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Officially published now: RDFs for Large Serine Integrases that are moonlighting proteins.
With collaborators the Olorunniji group @femijohn.bsky.social we find the TG1/phiC31 family RDF is an SSB, and the Bxb1 RDF has the fold and activity of an exonuclease.
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
With collaborators the Olorunniji group @femijohn.bsky.social we find the TG1/phiC31 family RDF is an SSB, and the Bxb1 RDF has the fold and activity of an exonuclease.
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Speaking of which, the Canadian Society of Microbiologists annual meeting is June 17-20 in beautiful Montréal. The EDI Workshop is on the Thursday afternoon event.fourwaves.com/scm-csm2025u...
February 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Speaking of which, the Canadian Society of Microbiologists annual meeting is June 17-20 in beautiful Montréal. The EDI Workshop is on the Thursday afternoon event.fourwaves.com/scm-csm2025u...
It's fall 🍂🍁
October 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM
It's fall 🍂🍁
Just out in PLOS Genetics: Surface exclusion of IncC conjugative plasmids and their relatives.
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Congrats to all the authors!
#plasmids #plasmidbiology
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Congrats to all the authors!
#plasmids #plasmidbiology
Surface exclusion of IncC conjugative plasmids and their relatives
Author summary Bacterial conjugation plays a pivotal role in the evolution of bacterial populations. The circulation of drug resistance genes bolsters the emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens, w...
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October 9, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Just out in PLOS Genetics: Surface exclusion of IncC conjugative plasmids and their relatives.
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Congrats to all the authors!
#plasmids #plasmidbiology
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Congrats to all the authors!
#plasmids #plasmidbiology
Beautiful auroras last night above Sherbrooke #auroras #nothernlights
May 11, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Beautiful auroras last night above Sherbrooke #auroras #nothernlights
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Can random sequences encode meaningful functions and allow de novo gene birth? To explore this, Michael Laub and I screened 100 million random genes, without sequence similarity to natural genes, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of E. coli cells producing the ribonuclease toxin MazF.
Can random sequences encode meaningful functions and allow de novo gene birth? To explore this, Michael Laub and I screened 100 million random genes, without sequence similarity to natural genes, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of E. coli cells producing the ribonuclease toxin MazF.
December 25, 2023 at 10:59 AM
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Can random sequences encode meaningful functions and allow de novo gene birth? To explore this, Michael Laub and I screened 100 million random genes, without sequence similarity to natural genes, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of E. coli cells producing the ribonuclease toxin MazF.
Can random sequences encode meaningful functions and allow de novo gene birth? To explore this, Michael Laub and I screened 100 million random genes, without sequence similarity to natural genes, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of E. coli cells producing the ribonuclease toxin MazF.