Position Summary This position will be in the lab of Dr. Joseph E. Peters in the Department of Microbiology. Research in the Peters’ lab broadly involves deciphering mechanisms in genome stability and...

Abstract. Advances in long-read sequencing technology have led to a rapid increase in high-quality genome assemblies. These make it possible to compare gen

Pseudomonas aeruginosa chronic lung infections pose serious challenges for phage therapy due to high between-patient strain diversity and rapid within-patient phenotypic and genetic diversification, n...

Phages infect bacteria and have recently re-emerged as a promising strategy to combat bacterial infections. However, there is a lack of methods to predict whether and why a particular phage can or cannot infect a bacterial strain based on their genome ...

Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.

Bacteria produce antibacterials to aid competition in complex communities. Here, the authors show that class II microcins, an understudied group of secreted antibacterials, are abundant, with diverse ...

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Evolution of bacterial and archaeal genomes is highly dynamic, including extensive gene gain via horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and gene loss as we...

Understanding how and why human skin bacteria differ from our closest animal relatives provides crucial insights into human evolution and health. While we have known that human facial skin hosts disti...

Bacterial colonies growing on solid surfaces can exhibit robust expansion kinetics, with constant radial growth and saturating vertical expansion. Here, the authors use modeling and experiments to sho...

Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex are opportunistic pathogens that can transmit between humans, animals, and the environment (1). Here, we report hybrid genome assemblies of 578 (568 complete) gen...

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The recent application of artificial intelligence-based prediction of protein and protein complex structures by AlphaFold has revolutionized biology. Here, we give an overview of the tools that make t...

Klebsiella host strains infected with telomere phages can grow to be the dominant lineage in mixed populations.

Research on horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has surged over the past two decades, revealing its critical role in accelerating evolutionary rates, facil…

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Unlike that in plants, fungi, and marine animals, bacteria are vastly underrepresented in the production of terpenoids. Here, the authors report a systematic screening of terpene synthases from bacter...

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