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Emily Kibby

@emilykibby.bsky.social
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Postdoc in the Kim Seed lab at UC Berkeley exploring phage-bacteria interactions. She/her. 🏔🐕🦠

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Reid Oshiro @rtoshiro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I’m excited to share my recent postdoc work. Here, we interrogate how different phage infection outcomes (productive vs. restrictive) affect the expression of phage defense systems. We find that a restricted infection not only inhibits the phage but also induces increased immune protein abundance.
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Emily Kibby @emilykibby.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I’m so excited to share that some of my grad work in the @aaronwhiteley lab is now available on bioRxiv! We used an AlphaFold-multimer screen to uncover how a bacterial NLR-related proteins senses multiple phage-encoded proteins to confer phage protection. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A bacterial NLR-related protein recognizes multiple unrelated phage triggers to sense infection
Immune systems must rapidly sense viral infections to initiate antiviral signaling and protect the host. Bacteria encode >100 distinct viral (phage) defense systems and each has evolved to sense cruci...
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