Incredible!

Super cool work! Congratulations!

Terrific news! Congratulations

Thanks Ariane :-)

Indeed, thanks

Wonderful collaboration with Sigal Ben-Yehuda lab! Our PhD student Somavally Dalvi, who just had her superb thesis oration drove the high-resolution imaging part of the project.
@unimelb, @FMDHS, @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social

In this system, bacteria detect phage infection through a sensor protein (YjbH) and respond by severing the infected part of the cell via aberrant division. The rest of the cell survives and continues growing happily, essentially, bacterial autotomy!

Just as doctors may amputate an infected limb to save a patient’s life, or lizards drop their tails to escape predators, despite being single-celled organisms, bacteria can do a similar escape act. How cool is that?

Of course! Let’s catch up

Very interesting work!

Amazing structure and insights! Congratulations.

Great team of grad students and post docs and led together with an awesome group of PIs @debnathghosal.bsky.social @kmichie.bsky.social @iduggin.bsky.social. As something different here be a cool AI-generated artistic impression of our #Asgards hanging in their microbial mat 'ancient home'....⚔️

Thanks much Harry!

Thanks Martin @pilhoferlab.bsky.social

Massive Team effort! Thanks to all for bringing this together! @brendanburns999.bsky.social
@iduggin.bsky.social @kmichie.bsky.social
@snobsi.bsky.social , @juliameltzer.bsky.social, @xabivc.bsky.social, @tiltedscientist.bsky.social @bindusmitapaul.bsky.social @dcshepherd.bsky.social and others.

This offers the first glimpse into how complex eukaryotic cells may have evolved from archaeal ancestors — one of the biggest open questions in biology.
As ‪@brendanburns999.bsky.social‬ says: “Stromatolites may represent the ‘microbial village’ that helped raise a eukaryote.” Exciting times ahead!