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Olivia Paxie

@olivia-paxie.bsky.social
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A postdoc at the University of Montreal establishing high-throughput metabolomics for antimicrobial drug discovery!

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Olivia Paxie @olivia-paxie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pretty excited to finally have my first PhD paper pre-print up! We investigated the fascinating aerobic metabolism of E. faecalis and show the importance of studying bioenergetics outside of novel organisms!
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Henrik Strahl @henrikstrahl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells. See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky
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The last resort antibiotic daptomycin exhibits two independent antibacterial mechanisms of action - Nature Communications
The precise mechanism of action of the antibiotic daptomycin is controversial. Here, Buttress et al. provide evidence for two independent antibacterial mechanisms: membrane depolarisation and inhibiti...
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