Vanessa
@sciencevans.bsky.social
Enthusiastic about all things biology.
PhD student @ Bravo Lab/ISTA, biotechnologist/mycologist at heart.
American Football coach, player & watcher; elder emo & average metalcore enjoyer
PhD student @ Bravo Lab/ISTA, biotechnologist/mycologist at heart.
American Football coach, player & watcher; elder emo & average metalcore enjoyer
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Just don't risk it. Don't go.
April 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Just don't risk it. Don't go.
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It was an honor for my lab and myself to host the meeting on the Immune Systems of Bacteria. Such a high from all the incredible science and sharing with scientists from the whole world the greatness of Paris in the spring.
Vive la science, et vive Paris!
Vive la science, et vive Paris!
April 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It was an honor for my lab and myself to host the meeting on the Immune Systems of Bacteria. Such a high from all the incredible science and sharing with scientists from the whole world the greatness of Paris in the spring.
Vive la science, et vive Paris!
Vive la science, et vive Paris!
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Check out our new story led by @aesully98.bsky.social describing how bacteria turn immune evasion against phage! In collaboration with @benmorehouse.bsky.social lab, we discover that bacteria guard their nucleotide second messenger pool using a nucleotidyltransferase related to Cas10/CRISPR enzymes
Excited to share that my work from the @aaronwhiteley.bsky.social lab is now on bioRxiv! With @benmorehouse.bsky.social, we discovered that the Panoptes defense system—named after the all-seeing watchman of Hera—uses decoy nucleotides to detect phage anti-defense proteins.
A minimal CRISPR polymerase produces decoy cyclic nucleotides to detect phage anti-defense proteins
Bacteria use antiphage systems to combat phages, their ubiquitous competitors, and evolve new defenses through repeated reshuffling of basic functional units into novel reformulations. A common theme ...
www.biorxiv.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Check out our new story led by @aesully98.bsky.social describing how bacteria turn immune evasion against phage! In collaboration with @benmorehouse.bsky.social lab, we discover that bacteria guard their nucleotide second messenger pool using a nucleotidyltransferase related to Cas10/CRISPR enzymes
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For both synthetic and real data, using InstaMap for homogeneous reconstruction achieves higher resolution at shorter training stages than five other real-spaced representations #CryoEM #DensityMap #Heterogeneity doi.org/10.1107/S205...
April 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
For both synthetic and real data, using InstaMap for homogeneous reconstruction achieves higher resolution at shorter training stages than five other real-spaced representations #CryoEM #DensityMap #Heterogeneity doi.org/10.1107/S205...
Some (very shallow and quickly taken) impressions of Paris ✨
First day of the #ImmuneSystemsOfBacteria25 conference done, two more days filled with brilliant science to go!
First day of the #ImmuneSystemsOfBacteria25 conference done, two more days filled with brilliant science to go!
April 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Some (very shallow and quickly taken) impressions of Paris ✨
First day of the #ImmuneSystemsOfBacteria25 conference done, two more days filled with brilliant science to go!
First day of the #ImmuneSystemsOfBacteria25 conference done, two more days filled with brilliant science to go!
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@audeber.bsky.social opening the EMBO “Symposium of the Immune System of Bacteria” at Institut Pasteur. Looking forward to three days of amazing science!!
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
@audeber.bsky.social opening the EMBO “Symposium of the Immune System of Bacteria” at Institut Pasteur. Looking forward to three days of amazing science!!
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The EMBO workshop on the Immune System of Bacteria just started in sunny Paris in the Institut Pasteur.
So excited for three days of awesome science.
So excited for three days of awesome science.
April 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The EMBO workshop on the Immune System of Bacteria just started in sunny Paris in the Institut Pasteur.
So excited for three days of awesome science.
So excited for three days of awesome science.
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Hey, scientists:
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🌟 . * . 🌙
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🛰️ . ✨ *
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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🌏 🪐 *
🌞
👽 . * . ✨
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Pass it on.
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🌟 . * . 🌙
🛸 *
🛰️ . ✨ *
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
. * .
🌏 🪐 *
🌞
👽 . * . ✨
.
Pass it on.
January 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hey, scientists:
.
🌟 . * . 🌙
🛸 *
🛰️ . ✨ *
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
. * .
🌏 🪐 *
🌞
👽 . * . ✨
.
Pass it on.
.
🌟 . * . 🌙
🛸 *
🛰️ . ✨ *
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
. * .
🌏 🪐 *
🌞
👽 . * . ✨
.
Pass it on.