Excited to share our new paper out today in @science.org 🎉

We show that HGT via natural competence drives diversification of chromosomal integrons in V. cholerae 🤩

Below a 🧵 on key findings incl. background on natural competence in V. cholerae 1/
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A recipient-based anti-conjugation factor triggers an abortive mechanism by targeting the Type IV secretion system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Convergent evolution of hexenal isomerases in Lepidoptera and plants - Nature Ecology & Evolution Phylogenetic and functional analyses across 34 Lepidoptera and 183 plant species show that hexenal isomerases found in Lepidoptera exhibit functional convergence with those found in plants despite hav...

Phylogenetic and functional analyses across 34 Lepidoptera and 183 plant species show that hexenal isomerases found in Lepidoptera exhibit functional convergence with those found in plants despite having evolved independently from unrelated enzyme families 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Independent, ongoing clade-specific expansions of IS5 elements in Pseudomonas syringae Insertion sequence (IS) elements are transposable regions of DNA present in a majority of bacterial genomes. It is hypothesized that differences in distributions of IS elements across bacterial strain...

Hey y’all,

New paper out from the lab in Microbial Genomics, starting down the rabbit hole of IS elements in Paeudomonas syringae

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

We are hiring! There is a PhD-position available in my group on environmental signal integration in plants. @swammerdamuva.bsky.social
More information:
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Hydathodes at the forefront of plant immunity against vascular pathogens Hydathodes are tiny plant organs that form an interface between the leaf surface and xylem vasculature. They facilitate excretion of xylem fluid under…

We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research.

📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice detective work on spotting this! A little worrying that this could go wrong in the first place. What about other barcoding kits such as NBD114?

Wonderful workshop! Very inspiring for my dashboard idea.

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Finally a method to identify plant RNA-binding proteins! 🧬 This enables so much new biology to discover from immunity to development! 🤯 🪴 Established by the incredible Victor Sanchez with @havandenburg.bsky.social @uva.nl Congratulations!!

New paper from my PhD lab, continuing the work on plant immunity in hydathodes against Xanthomonas campestris.

Happy to share our most recent paper on the evolution of Xcc!

Indeed! This is certainly an interesting parallel, the paper appeared just a bit too late to include it in our discussion. Together with reports of some human pathogens, this warrants further investigation.