@ritamdas_

PhD candidate @MPI_MolGen @FU_Berlin at Wahl Lab 🇩🇪 Exploring bacterial immunity against phages 🧫🔬

 Berlin, Germany
Joined July 2012
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A little late, but I'm delighted to share that I received the Best Talk Award at the 28th Heart of Europe Bio-Crystallography Meeting (HEC28) in Blansko, Czech Republic! 🥳🥳 It was a pleasure to present our cryo-EM and functional analyses of bacterial defense systems #antiphage
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Excited to share my first sole-author publication: “Optimizing Phage Therapy with Antidefense Proteins Acquired from the Environment” 🥳 Here I explore how the evolutionary arms race between bacteria and phages can be leveraged to improve phage therapy shorturl.at/DasfY
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Phages in the clouds!!🧫🌥️⛈️ We performed metagenomic analyses of iron-flocculated cloud water alongside genome analyses of bacterial isolates and metagenome-assembled genomes to discover >400 vOTUs. Diversity and virus-host interactions, in cloud events were also investigated
Tominaga K. (tomiken)@pacyc1841May 18
Virus-host interactions and viral population dynamics across atmospheric cloud events | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Excited to be @VAAM_Microbes 2026 and presenting my poster (P-MC-018) today! If you’re curious about what’s hiding above you in the clouds ☁️🦠 from phages to host–bacterial interactions and the fascinating world of bacterial defense systems and cryoEM come by and say hi 😊
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If you are @ #FEMSMicro 2025 join me for my talk & poster (345.15S) featuring microbial dynamics straight from Cape Verde skies! ⛅ @FEMSmicro Session: Metabolic & Community Interactions 🗓️ Date: 15 July 2025 🕒 Time: 15:10 📍 Location: Amber 1&2 🪧 Poster: 345.15S (Area E)
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☁️ Are you floating into #FEMSMicro2025? Curious how defense & antidefense systems battle it out… in the clouds? Join me for my talk & poster (345.15S) featuring microbial dynamics straight from Cape Verde skies! ⛅ #phagedefense #cloudmicrobiome @FEMSmicro @phagedirectory
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Excited to share my first-author publication from my #PhD work at @Helmholtz_HIRI! 🎉 We established mudRapp-seq, a spatial transcriptomic technique that combines direct RNA padlock probes and in-situ sequencing. academic.oup.com/nar/article…

Visualizing the transcription and replication of influenza A viral RNAs in cells by multiple direct...

Abstract. Influenza A viruses (IAVs) contain eight negative-sense single-stranded viral RNA (vRNA) molecules, which are transcribed into messenger RNA (mRN

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Interested in anti-bacteriophage defense systems? We have an open PhD position in cell biology of bacteria and bacteriophages: nature.com/naturecareers/job…
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A prophage-encoded anti-phage defense system that prevents phage DNA packaging by targeting the terminase complex biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_micrbio

A prophage-encoded anti-phage defense system that prevents phage DNA packaging by targeting the...

A unique feature of temperate phages is the ability to protect their host bacteria from a second phage infection. Such protection is granted at the lysogenic state, where the phages persist as...

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Anti-phage systems never cease to amaze – check out our new findings on Kiwa🦠🛡️! A short 🧵1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Kiwa is a bacterial membrane-embedded defence supercomplex activated by phage-induced membrane...

Bacteria and archaea deploy diverse, sophisticated defence systems to counter virus infection, yet many immunity mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we characterise the Kiwa defence system as...

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I'm thrilled to announce our latest work is now published in Cell! Viruses encode numerous proteins that inhibit host defenses, but identifying immune-modulatory proteins among millions of viral sequences has been nearly impossible - until now! cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Welcome week for our new PhD candidates: An exciting program of talks and networking to help them get started. All the best for your research! By the way, the #IMPRS-BAC call is currently open until January! Interested candidates can apply here 👉 molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS
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Interested in applying to the #IMPRSBAC graduate program? Here are ten tips for a successful application! @FU_Berlin @DRS_FU
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Join us in Paris on April 8th-10th for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria 🥖🍷🦠🧬. Excited to welcome these amazing speakers at @institutpasteur . Registration will open beginning of November. Abstract deadline February 28. Stay tuned.
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This was a wonderful meeting @SPP2330 again! Great kick-off of our second funding period! Amazing science going on in the phage field and great to see students/postdocs from the first funding period starting their independent labs. @dfg_public, @fz_juelich, @HHU_de
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Call open: We are looking for motivated #PhD students who want to work at the interface between molecular life sciences and computational sciences. #IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @maxplanckpress @FU_Berlin @DRS_FU Check out our projects and apply until Jan 7th, 2025! molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applicat…
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The #third session of the "Journey of a Researcher from India to Germany" series, focusing on #Biosciences, was a great success, with more than 50 students joining remotely from various Indian Institutes of higher education. #JOAR #UoCIndia #FUBIndia #InternationalAffairs
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When Earth says Phages, we listen!
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‘Love is in the air’—and so are phages! Our new preprint explores airborne viral communities in sub-Antarctic South Georgia. We highlight the intricate interplay between virus-host dynamics in remote regions through viral metagenomics @UniJena @phageconsortium @phagedirectory
bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv_micrbio24 Aug 2024
Spatio-temporal variability of airborne viruses over sub-Antarctic South Georgia: Effects of sampling device and proximity of the ocean biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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Happy to announce that our @urmibajpai picture of mycobacteriophages made it to the cover of Journal of Basic Microbiology! 🥳 @wileymicrobio @WileyGlobal Proud to showcase our research. Take a look! #phages @ANDCollegeDU @phageconsortium @ICMRDELHI @phagedirectory @PhageIndia
Ritam Das@ritamdas_15 Apr 2024
A little late but we are excited to let you know the publication of our article ‘Insights into the genomic features and lifestyle of B1 subcluster mycobacteriophages’ 🥳🎉 tiny.cc/t3asxz @urmibajpai @ANDCollegeDU @ICMRDELHI @UniJena @RituArora1391 @KanikaNadar @_Saroj__
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