Extracellular Bacterial Interactions Lab at @inrsciences Our favourite bug? Myxococcus xanthus, "the E.coli of development" #myxo
Montreal (Laval), Canada
Joined February 2020
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Proud to announce I'll be organizing the upcoming 52nd International Conference on the Biology of Myxobacteria (i.e. MyxoMeeting 2027)🦠, to be held in Toronto, ON, Canada, from June 27-30, 2027.
Check this link for details as more become available: islamyxolab.com/myxomeeting2…
Turns out (i) myxospores are actually coated in exopolysaccharide (making them sticky!), (ii) biosurfactant polysaccharide is needed to help them disperse, and (iii) spore "coat" polysaccharide instead forms a sub-surface cortex layer!🦠🔬
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How do bacteria🦠polymerize sugars at the IM, but then get them out of the cell?
Answer: OPX proteins in the periplasm interfacing with OM and IM components!
Check out our latest @IslaMyxoLab and Calmettes lab team effort in @NatureComms!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Found a printed copy at home of one of my recent grant proposals, figured I could use it as tinder to light the wood stove. Worked like a charm! Although, there's something very "à propos" about watching your proposed research project go up in flames... 🔥🔥🔥
Our group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus as a model organism (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…) made the cover of the Journal of Bacteriology!!!
It's here! Celebrating 50 y of the MyxoMeeting, we myxologists teamed up & wrote a JBac group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus & how it became the coolest model bacterium ever 🦠🧫. Really proud of this 1, check it out for tons of useful info! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10…
It's here! Celebrating 50 y of the MyxoMeeting, we myxologists teamed up & wrote a JBac group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus & how it became the coolest model bacterium ever 🦠🧫. Really proud of this 1, check it out for tons of useful info! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10…
Sometimes I have too much fun working on review articles😁! Hmmm, how to end off a group review on the history of Myxococcus xanthus as a model 🦠?
"The remarkable research journey of M. xanthus can thus be summed up as follows: from a pile of poop to getting shit done!"
Our Resource Allocation grant for computing 💻 allotment was approved, at double the amount from last year! 😃 Thnx @Alliance_Can! Time for some even cooler #moleculardynamics simulations!!! Stay tuned... 😉
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Our recently work shedding light on the reason why most OAg in E. coli favoured the initial sugar with GlcNAc same to ECA structure is out! It is like a plumbing solution to ensure efficient recycling of the essential cell envelope building block, UndP
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We shown the very first quantitative evidence to localise the sequestration of C55 oligosaccharide intermediates to the cytosolic face of the cytoplasmic membrane. Thanks
@MicrobioSoc for giving the concise story a good home.
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Delighted to share our bTB in bison story. Great partnership between Parks Canada and @VIDOInterVac with exceptional assistance from VIDO veterinary services team.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Excited to announce: I'll be joining the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bacteriology! 🦠🧫🔬 @JBacteriology, published by @ASMicrobiology since 1916, has long been a home for solid bacteriology research. It has been a pleasure to review for them over the years!
Shhhhhhh.... 🤫 *whispers* Nobody tell @InnovationCA or @NSERC_CRSNG RTI, ok?...🙊
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So true & prescient! For shits & giggles, I've long planned to write up 1 of our stories currently in the pipeline using the leftside format (at least for the preprint), detailing the actual sequence of events that led to the final conclusion. Brace yourselves for an epic Fig.1🤓
Not science-related, but this is just too perfect not to re-post. If you know, you know... #Shatkins
