Sarah Svensson
@campy-bara.bsky.social
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (the Institute formerly known as Pasteur and Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection) Vibrio, Campy, Helicobacter, sRNAs & reverse ecology 🇨🇦
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Evolution of hunt, kill, devour in a Vibrio ecospecies
Bacterial ecospecies are a recently recognized genetic structure that is hypothesized to arise by complex adaptation to a new niche. Coadaptation within the “Molassodon” ecospecies of Vibrio parahaemo...
www.biorxiv.org
Sharing the link to our updated Vibrio preprint, where we compare and contrast Ecospecies with other genetic structures, and using the opportunity to fix typos and update some bluesky handles! with @danielfalush.bsky.social @whqqq.bsky.social @yjchao.bsky.social @chaooo.bsky.social
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Apply now for EMBO Workshop "Evolving together: From #genomics to biological interactions" in Taipei, Taiwan, 24–27 Apr 2026.
Abstract submission/Registration deadline: 20 Jan/28 Feb 2026
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#EMBOEvoGenBio #GeneSky #EvoSky #EcoSky #EMBOevents 🧪
Abstract submission/Registration deadline: 20 Jan/28 Feb 2026
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
#EMBOEvoGenBio #GeneSky #EvoSky #EcoSky #EMBOevents 🧪
Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions
Genomic and evolutionary research has transformed our understanding of how biological interactions shape life’s diversity. From symbiosis and host–pathogen relationships to competition, cooperation, …
meetings.embo.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Apply now for EMBO Workshop "Evolving together: From #genomics to biological interactions" in Taipei, Taiwan, 24–27 Apr 2026.
Abstract submission/Registration deadline: 20 Jan/28 Feb 2026
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
#EMBOEvoGenBio #GeneSky #EvoSky #EcoSky #EMBOevents 🧪
Abstract submission/Registration deadline: 20 Jan/28 Feb 2026
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
#EMBOEvoGenBio #GeneSky #EvoSky #EcoSky #EMBOevents 🧪
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If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is for you: oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is for you: oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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Thrilled to share that our study on how the pcnB gene sustains Shigella virulence is now published in PLOS Pathogens: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
In short: pcnB ➝increased virulence-plasmid replication ➝ elevated T3SS expression ➝ enhanced invasion/spread within the intestinal epithelium.
In short: pcnB ➝increased virulence-plasmid replication ➝ elevated T3SS expression ➝ enhanced invasion/spread within the intestinal epithelium.
The pcnB gene sustains Shigella flexneri virulence
Author summary Bacterial infections represent a major global threat. Understanding the genetic determinants promoting infections is crucial to overcome this threat. Shigella is an intracellular bacter...
journals.plos.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Thrilled to share that our study on how the pcnB gene sustains Shigella virulence is now published in PLOS Pathogens: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
In short: pcnB ➝increased virulence-plasmid replication ➝ elevated T3SS expression ➝ enhanced invasion/spread within the intestinal epithelium.
In short: pcnB ➝increased virulence-plasmid replication ➝ elevated T3SS expression ➝ enhanced invasion/spread within the intestinal epithelium.
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
The HZI is seeking new junior group leaders for its HUMAN program: If you’re passionate about infection biology, data science, or #AI driven health research, this is your chance to lead your own team.
🧬 Deadline: November 26
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
🧬 Deadline: November 26
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The HZI is seeking new junior group leaders for its HUMAN program: If you’re passionate about infection biology, data science, or #AI driven health research, this is your chance to lead your own team.
🧬 Deadline: November 26
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
🧬 Deadline: November 26
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
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🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for early-career researchers supervising short-term student projects | #Education #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #PLOSCBTSR #ECR 🧪 🔓 CC/ @knaegle.bsky.social
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Ten simple rules for early-career researchers supervising short-term student projects
Author summary Supervising undergraduate or master’s research projects is a vital aspect of academic life, offering opportunities for both student development and supervisor growth. For many early-car...
journals.plos.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for early-career researchers supervising short-term student projects | #Education #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #PLOSCBTSR #ECR 🧪 🔓 CC/ @knaegle.bsky.social
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Come discuss recent breakthroughs in RNA biology, from molecules to organisms, at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'The complex life of RNA'! 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-12-bl
Submit your abstract by 7 July and present your research at #EESRNA 🥼
Submit your abstract by 7 July and present your research at #EESRNA 🥼
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Come discuss recent breakthroughs in RNA biology, from molecules to organisms, at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'The complex life of RNA'! 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-12-bl
Submit your abstract by 7 July and present your research at #EESRNA 🥼
Submit your abstract by 7 July and present your research at #EESRNA 🥼
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Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
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Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
apply.interfolio.com/176994
apply.interfolio.com/176994
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
apply.interfolio.com/176994
apply.interfolio.com/176994
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Very happy to see this piece out in @plosbiology.org, on the bacterial immune systems and microbial communities. It was a great team effort with Rafael Custodio, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social , @brownlab.bsky.social, and Edze Westra! 🦠🧫 #phagesky #mevosky
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Bacterial immune systems as causes and consequences of microbiome structure
Bacterial immune systems have evolved in response to diverse molecular "parasites", yet their ecological roles remain poorly understood. This Essay explores how interactions between mobile genetic ele...
journals.plos.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Very happy to see this piece out in @plosbiology.org, on the bacterial immune systems and microbial communities. It was a great team effort with Rafael Custodio, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social , @brownlab.bsky.social, and Edze Westra! 🦠🧫 #phagesky #mevosky
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity.
The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
web103.reachmee.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
Sharing the link to our updated Vibrio preprint, where we compare and contrast Ecospecies with other genetic structures, and using the opportunity to fix typos and update some bluesky handles! with @danielfalush.bsky.social @whqqq.bsky.social @yjchao.bsky.social @chaooo.bsky.social
Evolution of hunt, kill, devour in a Vibrio ecospecies
Bacterial ecospecies are a recently recognized genetic structure that is hypothesized to arise by complex adaptation to a new niche. Coadaptation within the “Molassodon” ecospecies of Vibrio parahaemo...
www.biorxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Sharing the link to our updated Vibrio preprint, where we compare and contrast Ecospecies with other genetic structures, and using the opportunity to fix typos and update some bluesky handles! with @danielfalush.bsky.social @whqqq.bsky.social @yjchao.bsky.social @chaooo.bsky.social
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork Vacancies
my.corehr.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence:
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
albany.interviewexchange.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence:
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
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Our latest paper is out with @adiop.bsky.social and @gmdouglas.bsky.social. We analyzed the extent of homologous recombination between bacterial species (introgression) and how it affects species borders (it can vary a lot depending on the approach used to classify species!). rdcu.be/eQAMf
Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy
Nature Communications - It is commonly thought that bacterial species borders tend to be fuzzy, due to frequent exchange of DNA. Here, Diop et al. quantify the patterns of gene flow between core...
rdcu.be
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our latest paper is out with @adiop.bsky.social and @gmdouglas.bsky.social. We analyzed the extent of homologous recombination between bacterial species (introgression) and how it affects species borders (it can vary a lot depending on the approach used to classify species!). rdcu.be/eQAMf
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
Update to BacFighT6, with presets for easy exploration of complex behaviors:
sites.google.com/view/bacfight6
Try "battle royale" preset where prey (blue) produce capsule, attackers (red) move towards prey and feed on it, defenders (orange) retaliate!
Took a while to eliminate the reds!
sites.google.com/view/bacfight6
Try "battle royale" preset where prey (blue) produce capsule, attackers (red) move towards prey and feed on it, defenders (orange) retaliate!
Took a while to eliminate the reds!
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Update to BacFighT6, with presets for easy exploration of complex behaviors:
sites.google.com/view/bacfight6
Try "battle royale" preset where prey (blue) produce capsule, attackers (red) move towards prey and feed on it, defenders (orange) retaliate!
Took a while to eliminate the reds!
sites.google.com/view/bacfight6
Try "battle royale" preset where prey (blue) produce capsule, attackers (red) move towards prey and feed on it, defenders (orange) retaliate!
Took a while to eliminate the reds!
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
Happy to share our latest T6SS review:
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Basler and colleagues examine the type VI secretion system (T6SS), focusing on the diversity of antibacterial T6SS effectors and the evolutionary forces that shape them. They explain h...
nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happy to share our latest T6SS review:
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
"Postdoc in the job market"
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Postdoc in the job market"
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
The first is from former PhD student Zhiru Liu @zzzhiru.bsky.social (now in @bengrbm.bsky.social's group @ MSK) examining the long-term patterns of selective constraint – measured by the classical ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutations (dN/dS) – within recombining populations of bacteria.
Dynamics of dN/dS within recombining bacterial populations
The ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions (dN/dS) encodes important information about the selection pressures acting on protein-coding genes. In bacterial populations, dN/dS often decline...
www.biorxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The first is from former PhD student Zhiru Liu @zzzhiru.bsky.social (now in @bengrbm.bsky.social's group @ MSK) examining the long-term patterns of selective constraint – measured by the classical ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutations (dN/dS) – within recombining populations of bacteria.
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
Job: Assistant a professor in Biology
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell is looking for a biologist to teach and do research with undergrads. Topic is broad but we need physiology, immunology, development, metabolism, and like eco/evo perspective.
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell is looking for a biologist to teach and do research with undergrads. Topic is broad but we need physiology, immunology, development, metabolism, and like eco/evo perspective.
Apply - Interfolio
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November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Job: Assistant a professor in Biology
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell is looking for a biologist to teach and do research with undergrads. Topic is broad but we need physiology, immunology, development, metabolism, and like eco/evo perspective.
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell is looking for a biologist to teach and do research with undergrads. Topic is broad but we need physiology, immunology, development, metabolism, and like eco/evo perspective.
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
Very cool print demonstrating how variation in at TonB-dependent transporter repertoires shapes the ability of Bacteroides and Phocaeicola species to utilize fructooligosaccharides (FOS) of different chain lengths
Niche partitioning by resource size in the gut microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688124v1
November 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Very cool print demonstrating how variation in at TonB-dependent transporter repertoires shapes the ability of Bacteroides and Phocaeicola species to utilize fructooligosaccharides (FOS) of different chain lengths
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
Niche partitioning by resource size in the gut microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688124v1
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Niche partitioning by resource size in the gut microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688124v1
Reposted by Sarah Svensson
The phenotypic landscape of the mycobacterial cell https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.688347v1
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The phenotypic landscape of the mycobacterial cell https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.688347v1