Marta Lourenço
Microbiologist |microbial ecology | microbiome | phage-bacteria interactions
phages rule the world👀
Postdoc at Evolutionary Biology lab, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - Oeiras
- Reposted by Marta LourençoRegistration fee is only 175€, some of the invited speakers: Charles Rice, Yasmine Belkaid, Bonnie Bassler, Daniel Mucida, Joy Bergelson, Matthew Chang, Carolina Lucas, Jeff Barrick, Carolina Tropini, Roy Kishony and more... Save the date now!
- Reposted by Marta LourençoGIMM Fest returns September 17–19 with three days dedicated to the future of science and health, this year focusing on microbes. 🦠 Join researchers and innovators for a programme designed to promote scientific exchange and collaboration.
- Reposted by Marta LourençoInterested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages?? Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧵 (1/10)
- Reposted by Marta LourençoNew #BehindThePaper for our latest paper in @natcomms.nature.com (rdcu.be/e2qMK) Secret Invasion: Strain Fate Across Microbiomes Cover illustration by Helena Klein (@illuzation.bsky.social). communities.springernature.com/posts/secret...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoAmazing findings in geometry-based immune activation! Two bacterial defence systems detect phage-encoded ring oligomers, assemble high-order molecular complexes, and trigger abortive infection. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoPassioned by #bioenergetics? Do not miss our new article on the evolutionary history of oxidoreductases with G. Borrel and @sgribaldo.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
- Reposted by Marta LourençoNow with the final graphic ✨ Beautiful artwork by Sonia Monti (scientific-visualization-solutions.com). Design by @embo.org 🧬 The Rules of the Game 📍 @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, Oeiras (PT) | June 2–5, 2026 🗓️ Register by March 1st 👉 meetings.embo.org/event/26-cel...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoUn poste de Maître de Conférence est ouvert pour rejoindre notre unité à Lyon ! Possibilité de rejoindre mon équipe pour travailler sur: - caractérisation des mécanismes de défense anti-phage - transfert horizontal et interactions entre éléments génétiques mobiles N'hésitez pas à me contacter
- 📢 Recrutement d’un(e) Maître(sses) de conférence en Biochimie générale, spécialité bactériologie moléculaire à MMSB 🔬Recherche *Immunité anti-phages *Réponse au stress, modulation de la croissance bactérienne ✉️ christophe.grangeasse@cnrs.fr 📚Enseignement : Université Lyon I ✉️ patrice.gouet@ibcp.fr
- Reposted by Marta LourençoMy first paper from my undergraduate work is out today :)
- Chemical inhibition of a bacterial immune system Small molecules inhibit type II Thoeris anti-phage systems from diverse bacteria. One compound, IP6C, improves phage-therapy against P. aeruginosa & is effective against Thoeris in polymicrobial communities www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço📢 Join us in sunny Lisbon 🇵🇹 2-5 June for the @embo.org workshop ☀️ “The rules of the game: biophysical & molecular principles in cellular evolution” Apply by March 1st! Please repost to help spread the word! meetings.embo.org/event/26-cel... #EMBORulesOfTheGame @gimmfoundation.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marta LourençoNew paper out in PNAS!!! 🎉 Do more plasmid copies mean faster evolution? 🧵 Dive into the story www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoIf you have been dreaming of moving to France as an ECR looking to build a long-term research career, now is your chance: @inrae-france.bsky.social yearly hiring for permanent research scientist positions is open: deadline March 5! jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp...
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoWe are looking for new editors for Microbiology, the flagship journal of @microbiologysociety.org Deadline for applications is 16 Feb 2026 microbiologysociety.org/who-we-are/j...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoWe are looking for a junior group leader in RNA biology to join us in Würzburg at the @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social ! A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :) Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🧫 Our publication,“Global perspectives on Klebsiella epidemiology and biology: conference report on the KLEBS 2024 symposium,” is now out! 📄 Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @kelwyres.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social @pasteur.fr
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- Reposted by Marta LourençoPhD studentships available through our BBSRC-funded doctoral programme. 🦠🧫💻 Contact me if you're interested in using bioinformatics/lab-based approaches with cultivated and uncultivated bacteria of the human microbiome, to identify and characterize novel enzymes with potential biotech applications.
- Reposted by Marta LourençoHappy to share our recent preprint: "DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de @hhu.de @fzj.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marta LourençoBacteria chromosomes contain Genomic Islands that provide virulence, antibiotic resistance, MGE-defence,... They transfer between cells, but the mechanism of most remains elusive. Here we explore the conjugative capacity of these mysterious Genomic Islands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoDear #AMR #genomics and big data community: please be informed that the programme of the Wellcome AMR conference in Hinxton on March 23-26th is now online: coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimi... - please register before Feb 24th for onsite participation
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- Reposted by Marta Lourenço[1/3] Is your favorite bacterial isolate hiding a surprise lytic virus with a VERY different lifestyle? Finally I can proudly say that our paper on persistent phages is out in Nature Microbiology. rdcu.be/eWJEp. Well done @peterdoug.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🚨 New paper from our lab in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, led by Clara Douadi! We show that bacteriophages can cross the intestinal barrier, with increased translocation in Crohn's disease. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports... Many thanks to all the authors!
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly. rdcu.be/eVtXT
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Reposted by Marta LourençoPreprint alert📢! Ever wondered how much bacterial parasites influence evolutionary outcomes of their host? ➡️ We co-evolved two bacterial strains in conditions in which the costs and benefits of prophage carriage varied Here is what we found. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #MicroSky #PhageSky 🧵
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- Reposted by Marta LourençoBacterial genomes encode a rich repertoire of antiphage systems, but we still know surprisingly little about when these systems are actually expressed. In this preprint, Lucas Paoli et al, ask what shapes antiphage systems expression in native contexts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoOur story on plasmid streamlining is now published in PLoS Biology! With @andrewmatthews.bsky.social and @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social #MicroSky #Mevosky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🚀New preprint from our lab! I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡 Continue reading (🧵)
- Podcast com Isabel Gordo, Group Leader no Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (@gimmfoundation.bsky.social): "Como é que um medicamento mata bactérias?" YouTube: youtu.be/wRyYYa2D5i0 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1AqQ...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoOur new paper is out in @narjournal.bsky.social We show that natural transformation enables bacteria to shuffle integron cassettes, boosting their phenotypic diversity. academic.oup.com/nar/article/... 1/5
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🚨 Excited to share our new paper is out! 🎉 We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut. Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🚨New preprint out! We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Marta Lourenço📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!
- Reposted by Marta LourençoDo you like microbes and insects, and would like to get your favourites printed on articles or clothing? check out my art prints on Redbubble: www.redbubble.com/people/Chaii... Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :) #sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects
- Reposted by Marta LourençoJOB OFFER #PhageSky We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions ! We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social Contact me for more info ! >> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoExcited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Marta LourençoNew pre-print www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Plasmid-dependent phage (PDPs) are ubiquitous, but the selective pressures that they impose on plasmids are not well understood. Project led by Daniel Cazares in collaboration with @brockhurstlab.bsky.social! #phagesky#microsky
- Reposted by Marta Lourenço🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoExcited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Marta LourençoHappy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
- Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n
- Reposted by Marta LourençoIn our new article, we show how P. aeruginosa, a major cause of chronic respiratory infections in #cysticfibrosis (CF), uses the Type VI Secretion System #T6SS and specific #toxins to eliminate competing bacteria www.cell.com/cell-reports... #cryoEM @dshatskiy.bsky.social @jakecolautti.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marta LourençoThrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Marta LourençoHow complex functions, with important physiological and evolutionary impacts get repeatedly and efficiently transferred across genomes? That’s what we explored using one of the fastest-evolving loci in Bacteria: the capsule locus. The paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread👇
