Engineered microbes can detect harmful chemicals, but may not work well in complex environments. Here, the authors built microbial sensors for detection of TNT explosive and tested their response over...

Bacteria deploy a broad range of defense systems to protect themselves against viruses and other mobile genetic elements. Here, we review recent work that reveals how most defense systems are carried ...

The central dogma at the core of molecular biology states that information flows from DNA to RNA and

AbstractSummary. PyCoMo is a python package for quick and easy generation of genome-scale compartmentalized community metabolic models that are compliant w

First living biosensor developed to study honeybee gut microbiome, providing insights into health and conservation.

Genome scale metabolic models (GSMM) are commonly used to identify gene deletion sets that result in

Predictable and parallel changes occur in the fitness effects of mutations in Escherichia coli over 50,000 generations.

I’ve published about 95* papers in my career so far, and most of them aren’t very exciting. I don’t mean that they’re boring to read, as written texts. Well, most of them are boring to read, t...

Abstract. Integrons are genetic platforms that acquire new genes encoded in integron cassettes (ICs), building arrays of adaptive functions. ICs generally encod

Comparative metabolomics and NanoSIMs reveal that the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi uses host-derived metabolites to colonize the gut, indicating adaptation to a specific metabolic niche in it...

Computational analyses and molecular genetics reveal that integron cassettes integrate into bacterial genomes at widespread non-classical attG sites, enabling acquisition of genetic material and disru...