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Susan Jones
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Editorial Director, Nature portfolio. Ex-Chief editor at Nature Microbiology & Nature Reviews Microbiology. Ex-Senior editor at Nature Biotechnology & PLOS Medicine. Microbiology& technology are my happy place. Here for the science, views my own.
What a great PhD project! Check out the work of the Busby lab — includes forest canopy microbiome analyses agmicrobiome.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Reposted by Susan Jones
And see this related preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus

Yup. That does say "phage nucleus" and it really is a nucleus-like compartment.
Conserved jumbo phage factors required for protein import into a phage nucleus
Bacteriophages use diverse mechanisms to evade anti-phage defenses systems. ΦKZ-like jumbo phages assemble a proteinaceous nucleus-like compartment that excludes antagonistic host nucleases, while int...
www.biorxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Uses method published originally in Nature Biotechology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatial metagenomic characterization of microbial biogeography in the gut - Nature Biotechnology
The spatial distribution of bacterial species in the mouse gut is measured by microscopic ‘plot sampling’.
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November 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM
TL DR: spatial AND temporal engraftment matter
November 30, 2024 at 11:01 AM