@LeptihnLab

Biochemistry Prof. in Erfurt (Germany) Adj. Prof @UniSouthDenmark Scientist @FraunhoferIZI #phages #AMR #Biochemistry

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Joined March 2019
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Our guideline for personalized bacteriophage therapy provides concrete guidance for its implementation in clinical practice. As a biologist, I was privileged to lead Expert Group 6 on future research priorities for phage therapy. Link (Nature Medicine): rdcu.be/nPxb3KDkUWKa
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Postdoc with four more month on his/her contract. #academia
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New preprint on hypervirulent #Klebsiella #Phage 🔹 2 phages, shared receptor 🔹 Cocktail can be antagonistic 🔹 Order-aware sequential therapy limits resistance and improves efficacy Happy to be part of this study 😊 doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.10.…
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Just posted about our new Bioinfo-Software called TattleTail for the prediction of #Tailocins in Bacteria. It appears that X's #AI algorithms recognize tailocins as "adult restricted adult content"... @grok We "see what we want to see"?
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We often hear: “Phage therapy is not approved.” But approval follows research, not the other way round. We explore alternatives like tailocins and built TattleTail, a tool to detect pyocins in P. aeruginosa genomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Tailocins are phage‑derived protein complexes that kept the ability to kill bacteria but lost the capacity to replicate. They are basically phage tails which target specific strains killing them with high specificity and efficiency, making them promising antimicrobials.
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Using TattleTail, we identified pyocin clusters in clinical P. aeruginosa genomes. After induction, we visualized tail‑like particles by TEM and confirmed their activity in killing assays. TattleTail works – the predicted loci encode functional tailocins!
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Fascinating insights from Jeremy Barr's talk on "Translating Phage Therapy into the Clinic"! The team developed a phage cocktail to tackle a nosocomial Enterobacteria outbreak at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. #Phage
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Just heard an inspiring talk by @SkurnikMikael on his decades-long journey with Yersinia phages. From the early days of sequencing a phage by primer walking, (costing ~€50K!) to pioneering insights that shaped the field. A true phage veteran! 🦠📚 #phage #Yersinia
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Hit 42 m on a single breath - a personal milestone in freediving I'm incredibly proud of. Grateful to be coached by Jesper Stechmann (@Innerdive), 4x Danish champion. Huge thanks to the Innerdive crew for everything! 🌊💙 #freediving #Gozo
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10e26 phages/mL. Let that sink in. That's more phages than stars in our galaxy, fitting into a single milliliter. Some basic arithmetic might be needed. #PhageFail #CantBeSerious #PeerReview
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The article "Phagentherapie in Deutschland – Update 2025" dives into Germany's current #PhageTherapy landscape. rdcu.be/emZhD At the @FraunhoferIZI we innovate to solve the #AntibioticResistance crisis. tinyurl.com/mpf5u8sf @BelindaLoh3
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To get 2025 off to a good start, I'm delighted to share with you our study published today in Aquaculture international 🎉 search.app/8sfVd8VorDmgg64f7
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Curious about #Phage research in Germany? 🌍 The latest article from the Fraunhofer Society highlights groundbreaking work from discovery to therapy, also featuring the Antimicrobial Biotechnology Unit @FraunhoferIZI, led by Belinda Loh (@BelindaLoh3)
Fraunhofer IZI@FraunhoferIZI10 Dec 2024
Reinschauen lohnt sich. Vorgestellt werden u.a. Dr. @BelindaLoh3 und die Forschungsarbeiten ihrer #FraunhoferIZI-Arbeitsgruppe Antimikrobielle Biotechnologie. #Phagen #Bakteriophagen #Antibiotika #Antibiotikaresistenz #Biotechnologie
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We share with our new research. Complete genome sequence of Vibrio diabolicus bacteriophage vB_Vc_SrVc... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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In Texas, we learned how well organized and structured the processes are for phage therapy in the US, while also being thorough AND fast! We have a lot of catching up to do in Germany... @oliverdd @biosaxony @DZIF_TransPhage
Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD@MotherOfPhage17 Oct 2024
Phage phriend from Germany I met in Georgia 🇬🇪 visiting Houston @BCMTailorLabs. Phage around the world! @LeptihnLab
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Saying bye to Oxford - what a wonderful time we had during the Phage conference here! #PhgOx24
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Met my former postdoc Prasanth again - this time many thousand miles away from where we last worked together! We visited the @TAMU_CPT - it was great @DrPrasanthM is such a kind person, a gifted and great scientist and a friend!
Prasanth Manohar, PhD ‘Phagelogist’@DrPrasanthM12 Jun 2024
Excited! 🇺🇸Meeting @LeptihnLab after a while #advisor during his visit to Center for Phage Technology @TAMU #phagetherapy #discussion
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Thanks for coming! We had a great time, too! Looking forward to many more meetings and collaborations!
Bartłomiej Grygorcewicz@b_grygorcewicz3 May 2024
I had an incredible time with the @BelindaLoh3 team and @LeptihnLab at @FraunhoferIZI. A lot of #phage and molecular microbiology stuff! Such open-minded and kind folks. I am grateful for the hospitality, and I can't wait for future collaborations!
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I would like to thank the team, especially my former Postdoc Prasanth Manohar @DrPrasanthM for the hard work! Looking forward to future joint research! Phage-antibiotic combinations to control Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Candida two-species biofilms dlvr.it/SWvHgL #phage
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I of course linked the preprint, not the paper that got published today... (no comment 🙄). The final version can be found here: nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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