Bruno Lima (@BLimaMicro on X): oral microbiota produce AHLs and disrupting quorum sensing affects dental plaque bacterial community composition #phages2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky

@eswaralab.bsky.social : regulation of the mra operon by MraZ controls FtzL levels to quickly arrest cytokinesis via decondensation of the Z-ring #phages2024 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #microsky

Jan-Ulrik Dahl(@JanUlrikDahl1 on X): #Saureus induces polyphosphate synthesis in #Paeruginosa and ultimately killing of #Saureus #phages2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky

@TahliaBastholm on X: An epigenetic switch activates bacterial quorum sensing and horizontal transfer of an integrative and conjugative element that converts non-symbiotic Mesorhizobium spp. into nitrogen-fixing legume symbionts #phages2024 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Claire Kokontis (@CKokontis on X): key regulator of import into jumbo phage nucleus discovered by forward genetic screen with toxic cargo #phages2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #phagesky

Karen Maxwell(@theMaxwellLab on X): Pseudomonas prophage superinfection exclusion protein Zip alters pilus dynamics through the pilus assembly chaperone PilZ, providing strong phage resistance without a fitness cost #phages2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky

@felixrl.bsky.social : PcdA, a member of the McrB family of AAA+ NTPases, sets the orthogonal division plane in Saureus ahead of FtsZ ring formation and interacts with DivIVA #phages2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

David Basta (Waldor lab): InducTn-seq bypasses a highly restrictive host bottleneck in mouse host to generate a diverse transposon mutant population from the few cells that initiate infection #phages2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky

Igor Jouline (@zhulinlab on X): PAS domain classifications are outdated and biologically irrelevant #phages2024 #microsky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Liz Ortiz (Wiles lab): “Phollow”: a live imaging-based approach for tracking phage replication and spread in situ with single-virion resolution #phages2024 #microsky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ana Flores-Moreles (@alfmireles on X): fibrinogen is critical in catheter-associated urinary tract infections and is used as an attachment scaffold for pathogenic biofilms #phages2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

I want to respect people’s wishes for privacy for the data they share at #phages2024 so I won’t live tweet any talks that don’t have Twitter/Bsky handles posted on opening/closing slides. Or please respond to this tweet if you’d like me to tweet about your talk! #MicroSky

George O’Toole gives the keynote: “persistence matters” on polymicrobial biofilms in cystic fibrosis (or how he “climbed up the nerd ladder” from a UW Madison grad student to the keynote speaker at #phages2024) and makes a case for developing model polymicrobial communities #microsky

Thank you Delta for canceling my flight 3 hours before take-off and having no alternatives. Guess I'm driving to Madion! See y'all at #Phages2024 😅

Sternberg Thesis Prize | Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting

Don't forget to submit your nomination for the Sternberg Award to celebrate your amazing graduating student! LMK if you have questions #phages2024

conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/award...