Allison G
@assemblerag.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Banfield Lab @ UCBerkeley | PhD from McMasterU | Gut microbiome | Soil microbiome | Metagenomics | AMR
Most plasmids described in E. coli are small compared to the megaplasmids we identified here! Check out the preprint if you want to learn about these mysterious large elements and their potential functions 🧬. I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on this in @banfieldlab.bsky.social
Megaplasmids associate with Escherichia coli and other Enterobacteriaceae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679422v1
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Most plasmids described in E. coli are small compared to the megaplasmids we identified here! Check out the preprint if you want to learn about these mysterious large elements and their potential functions 🧬. I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on this in @banfieldlab.bsky.social
Amazing work by the team at McMaster & the IIDR! Finding new antibiotics is not easy. Congrats to Manoj et al on this significant discovery!
The last time a new class of antibiotics reached the market was nearly three decades ago — but that could soon change, thanks to a discovery by researchers at McMaster University.
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Drug discovery: McMaster researchers find new antibiotic
YouTube video by McMaster University
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March 27, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Amazing work by the team at McMaster & the IIDR! Finding new antibiotics is not easy. Congrats to Manoj et al on this significant discovery!