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Akos T Kovacs Jul 10, 2023

See the August issue of Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol online with a beautiful cover art that Lizah van der Aart has prepared for us, highlighting the review of Mark Lyng - Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions

https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/issue?pii=S0966-842X(22)X0009-7

Akos T Kovacs Jul 4, 2023

Such a pleasant surprise on the first day at Sylvius building from colleagues on the same floor (@ionica et al), they remembered that non coffee driven scientists also exist

Akos T Kovacs May 6, 2023

Rob Edwards May 6, 2023

Prophages are phages hidden in bacterial genomes, and they affect our health! We explored where they hang out in the human microbiome

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.04.539508v1

Akos T Kovacs May 6, 2023

The usual weekend morning 🐮

Akos T Kovacs May 5, 2023

RT @jaascensao
New preprint on @biorxivpreprint! We investigated the potential for microbial communities to regenerate ecological diversity following species removal, and we found a couple surprises! 🧵👇

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.03.539206v1

Akos T Kovacs May 5, 2023

RT @NicoleDubilier
Gutless marine worms on a Mediterranean diet: We show that tiny worms from the Mediterranean can make their own #phytosterols (1/n)
Check 🧵 for more info
@DolmaMichellod @Manuel_Kleiner @MarineMicrobio @maxplanckpress
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add7830

Akos T Kovacs May 5, 2023

Beutenberg campus chemical ecology week in @ScienceMagazine
-from @LeibnizHKI & @MPI_CE 👇🏼😲

Akos T Kovacs May 4, 2023

RT @PSUmBiome
"One of the biggest questions...is how do we change the composition of a microbiome in a person, and in this work you are looking at quite an actionable target because we now know the molecular components" -- @GETxLAB on his new @ScienceMagazine paper. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/essential-mechanism-bacterial-gut-colonization-discovered/

Akos T Kovacs May 4, 2023

RT @LeibnizHKI
For the first time a team led by the department of Paleobiotechnology has successfully reconstructed molecules from DNA of bacteria from Stone Age dental calculus🥳@ScienceMagazine
https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/scientists-revive-stone-age-molecules.html
@PStallforth @WarinnerGroup
@WSS_Stiftung @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @Harvard_Press

Scientists “revive” Stone Age molecules

Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of P…

Akos T Kovacs May 4, 2023

Complete integration of carbene-transfer chemistry into biosynthesis

@Nature from @Keasling_Lab @aindrilam @JohnFHartwig1
with @PabloCruzMoral1 @trentn

α-diazoester azaserine & Streptomyces albus ▶️ new-to-nature products

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06027-2

Complete integration of carbene-transfer chemistry into biosynthesis - Nature

The α-diazoester azaserine can be produced by Streptomyces albus engineered with a biosynthetic gene cluster and act as the carbene precursor for coupling with intracellularly produced styrene to generate unnatural amino acids containing a cyclopropyl group.

Nature