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Rita Ramalhete

@ritaramalhete.bsky.social
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Try to pronounce my surname and you'll fail 🙃 🧫 🔬 Loves the tiny world of #microbiology 🦠 www.linkedin.com/in/ritaramalhete 📍 London 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯

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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy #worldimmunizationweek @who.int 💉 This year's campaign, “For every generation, vaccines work”, is a great reminder that #vaccineswork and have saved >150 million lives since 1974❗ In celebration of the life-saving power of vaccines, we spoke with 2 vaccinology experts. Read our Q&A below🔻
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Out today is this recent work by @josiebryant.bsky.social lab at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social showing body site translocation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - from the lung 🫁 to the gut - in hospitalised patients. @natcomms.nature.com
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Latest in our #Phage collection Through #experimentalevolution, researchers at @ucsandiego.bsky.social trained #phages to increase their ability to inhibit multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae 🧫 @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Experimental phage evolution results in expanded host ranges against antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates - Nature Communications
Ghatbale et al. adapted a co-evolutionary technique to develop Klebsiella pneumoniae phages to be highly active longitudinally against K. pneumoniae clinical isolates, including drug resistant isolate...
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Let's talk bacterial wars 🤺 Fresh out of the press is a new review on the #T6SS, with striking imagery and great insights into effector diversity and how this powerful nano weapon shapes #microbialcommunities #bacterialwarfare @springernature.com
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Latest in our #Phages collection 👇 learn how phage and bacteria interact in the honeybee gut🐝 @springernature.com @natcomms.nature.com #bacteriophages www.nature.com/collections/...
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📢Attention Phage Phriends 🦠Happy #WorldPhageWeek Check out our cross-journal Collection “Phages: from biology to the clinic”, with the latest on #phagebiology, phage–host interactions & #phagetherapy #PhageResearch #Bacteriophages #NaturePortfolio @natcomms.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Phages: from biology to the clinic
This cross-journal Collection welcomes manuscripts covering a broad spectrum of research related to phages, including fundamental studies on phage biology and ...
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Your weekend read VAP is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections, but #phages are here to help 🤝 In a murine model of VAP, the combination of phage and antibiotic therapy led to faster clinical improvement and prevented epithelial cell damage🐁🫁 #phagetherapy #VAP #pneumonia
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Satisfaction during your #PhD is multifactorial. It's not only how *happy* you feel, but how you're supported within your environment. Beyond #funding, quality supervision and a healthy #worklifebalance are essential for students to feel supported and engaged. #PhDlife #PhDstudent #Research
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In elephant news 🐘 A study led by the University of Surrey shows that a new vaccine can activate the immune system against EEHV, a deadly virus that affects many young African and Asian elephants. Read about their proof-of-concept trial here ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Did you know that the #T4SS can also mediate biofilm formation?🧫 A #Crohnsdisease associated E. coli strain carries a hybrid T4SS that drives pilin polymerization and #biofilm formation, leading to enhanced fitness in the gut. Read about it here ⬇️ @natcomms.nature.com #naturecommunications
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A fresh of the press with a brilliant accompanying thread! Great work by @aliciapcv.bsky.social and colleagues @cnb-csic.bsky.social 👏 #plasmidbiology
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The mRNA tech strikes *yet* again
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Rhys Grinter @rhyswg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excited to share our latest work using AI-designed proteins to block heme-piracy by E. coli. Published in @natcomms.nature.com. A team effort between my lab and the ‪‪@knottrna.bsky.social‬ ‬lab, with experimental work led by the talented @danielrfox.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Inhibiting heme piracy by pathogenic Escherichia coli using de novo-designed proteins - Nature Communications
Many pathogens encode transporters that extract heme directly from host proteins. In this study, the authors demonstrate the utility of de novo-designed proteins in understanding the mechanism behind ...
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Sara Hernando-Amado @hernando-amado.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I am very happy to share our latest study on ciprofloxacin resistance instability in P. aeruginosa during periods of drug restriction. A fantastic collaboration @pablolaborda.bsky.social, RuggeroLaRosa, JLMartínez, SørenMolin & HelleJohansen 🥳 @cnb-csic.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ciprofloxacin resistance rapidly declines in nfxB defective clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nature Communications
Antimicrobial resistance can decline due to compensatory mutations or genetic reversions to wild-type alleles. Here, the authors analyse the decline of ciprofloxacin resistance in nfxB-defective Pseud...
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The rhetorical question. However, it comes a point when all our spoken languages get jumbled up in our brains and we start speaking a mix of all 😅
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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · 14/07/2025
Now published, congrats Bevika, Kinki, Vincent, Florian and Paddy! #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genome-wide antibiotic-CRISPRi profiling identifies LiaR activation as a strategy to resensitize fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae - Nature Communications
Streptococcus pneumoniae, the causative agent of pneumococcal disease, has become increasingly resistant to fluoroquinolones. Through CRISPRi-seq, the authors identify the role of the LiaFSR operon in...
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Very exciting new collection on the clinical #microbiome 🦠
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