Standout talks at #asmicrobe2026 I'll be digging into after:
Gene transfer agents are a conserved feature of the Caulobacterales - Kevin Gozzi
*GTA activation detected via simple electrophoresis (8kb band). Selective targeting of packaging via presence of ncRNA, role unknown. Regions tend to be away from termini&origin of the genomes as well. Possible role in protection against DNA damage?
Standout talks at #asmicrobe2026 I'll be digging into after:
Gene Transfer Agents: a stress-response toolkit of a microbial population? - Olga Zhaxybayeva
*There's so much to think about here, I don't even know where to begin. AA profile to differentiate prophage from GTA, etc
Standout talks at #asmicrobe2026 I'll be digging into after:
Oysters as living laboratories: natural experiments in vibrio-phage ecology - Frederique Le Roux
*Longitudinal recovery of identical phages across years(!), great adsorption vs lysis and other analysis methods
It's happening again. I'll be presenting 2025's sequencing data focusing on Haloarchaeal methylation patterns, comparing outputs between Pacbio and ONT platforms at #ASMicrobe2026.
What do you think - microbial mechanism discovery or applied & environmental microbiology track?
Also kind of crazy how much work's been done so far with warehouse work money, though it was a long and grueling process.
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