Our work on the Panoptes antiphage system is published! Here we find that Panoptes "watches" the cytosol for phage immune evasion proteins–captured in this illustration by Clair Huffine of Insight Illustrations. A beautiful example of the effector triggered immunity paradigm.

"Bdello" is from greek for "to leech" because Bdellovibrio leeches nutrients from other bacteria by growing inside their periplasm! This micrograph from Liz Sockett's review shows the predator in action. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...