Rodolfo Dantas
rodolfo-dantas.bsky.social
Rodolfo Dantas
@rodolfo-dantas.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) - SP, Brazil
Looking for secondary metabolites involved in plant-pathogen interaction and new natural products from microorganisms of different ecological niches
An Assessment of Chemical Diversity in Microbial Natural Products | ACS Central Science pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
An Assessment of Chemical Diversity in Microbial Natural Products
Natural products continue to play important roles in biomedical, agricultural and ecological science. Yet despite ongoing advances in “omics” technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics, phenomi...
pubs.acs.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reposted by Rodolfo Dantas
Super happy to see our work on lydiamycin biosynthesis, structure and function published in @pnas.org 😀
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The work is described in the thread below, where we use BGC info to guide the discovery of multiple key features of this antibiotic.
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Brilliant! Looking forward to reading it 😀
mRNA vaccines hold promise for creating new and improved immunizations, but their delivery is challenging. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Bioengineering proposes an edible mRNA vaccine platform using lettuce chloroplasts. go.nature.com/4lBJiF5 🔒
April 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reposted by Rodolfo Dantas
A headline Alexander Fleming would have been proud of!

@nature.com #AMR #IDSky #ClinMicro

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden
The molecule targets bacteria in a way that other drugs don’t.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM