François Mayer
Senior Editor at Nature Microbiology 💻📄 | handling mycology, parasitology, AMR and phage therapy | nature.com/nmicrobiol/
- Reposted by François MayerOur Fabulous February issue is out now! 🌊Promoting marine C sequestration 💊Drug targets in Babesia 🦠Giant virus of amoeba ⚕️Autobrewery syndrome 🍄Commensal gut fungi 💉Polio vaccine success and much more! #MicroSky www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerNow published: our work using phylodynamics from surveillance data to quantify and experimentally validate the fitness impact of antibiotic resistance determinants & how this changes with patterns of antibiotic use: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New preprint! How much does antibiotic use shape bacterial lineage dynamics, and how does that relate to the fitness costs/benefits of resistance determinants? All sorts of fun findings and a method that we hope will be broadly useful. See @dhelekal.bsky.social's thread and the preprint!
- Reposted by François MayerOUT NOW! Parasex generates highly recombinant progeny in Candida albicans with increased virulence By Robert Fillinger, Scott Filler, Anna Selmecki, Richard Bennett, Matthew Anderson & colleagues. #microsky @annaselmecki.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François Mayer🎄The best Christmas gift ever 🎁 🚀 Out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 🔖 I am delighted to share that a major part of my PhD thesis has now been published in Nature Microbiology. 🔍 Check it out: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Out Now! Candida auris skin tropism and antifungal resistance are mediated by carbonic anhydrase Nce103 #CandidaAuris #AntifungalResistance #Microbiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerA big thanks to all the authors, reviewers, and readers of Nature Microbiology for their love and support throughout the year. We are on a break & will be back on Jan 2nd, in what will be a very special year for us! In the meantime, enjoy a collage made by @francoismayer.bsky.social #MicroSky 🦠
- Reposted by François Mayer👉Excited to share our latest work @natmicrobiol.nature.com, revealing a decrease in cytoplasmic crowding during filamentous growth in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Furthermore we found that inhibition of ribosome biogenesis can trigger filamentous growth in this pathogen rdcu.be/eT1Su
- Out now! Decreased cytoplasmic crowding via inhibition of ribosome biogenesis can trigger Candida albicans filamentous growth @robertarkowitz.bsky.social Read it here: rdcu.be/eT3CP www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Like last year, I compiled a little collage of all our monthly issue covers published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com Another year full of new discoveries, stunning advances and marvelous #microbiology. Thanks to all our authors for all their hard work in pushing the field of microbiology forward.
- Our December issue is out! www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v... The image shows a female Asian tiger mosquito cadaver covered by mycelium (white) following infection with spores of an engineered Metarhizium strain. Parts of the mycelium produce spores (green) that can again attract and kill mosquitoes.
- Reposted by François MayerOur final issue of 2025 has gone live! 🫁pertussis prevention 🏭pollutants and gut bacteria 🕳️porins and resistance in E. coli 🧬many flavours of CRISPR 🦟fatal fungal attraction ...and more 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François Mayer🚀 New journal alert! We are Communications AI and Computing: an open access space from @natureportfolio.nature.com for research in AI, ML, and computational science. Now open for submissions! www.nature.com/commsaicomp/ #AI #ML #OpenAccess #ComputationalScience #NaturePortfolio #Research
- Out now in Nature Microbiology 👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Out recently in Nature Microbiology👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our November issue is out now: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerOUT NOW! - Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes 🍄🧲🦟☠️ By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerVery excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
- Reposted by François MayerIsolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut Out now in Nature, by Sofia Dahlman, Jeremy Barr & colleagues. @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerDiscovery and artificial intelligence-guided mechanistic elucidation of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic By Denise Catacutan, Jon Stokes & colleagues. #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerA generative artificial intelligence approach for the discovery of antimicrobial peptides against multidrug-resistant bacteria By Yihui Wang, Guoping Zhao, Lei Zhang & colleagues. #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerToxoplasma gondii VIP1 mediates parasitophorous vacuole–host endoplasmic reticulum interactions to facilitate parasite development By Julia Romano, Isabelle Coppens & colleagues. #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our October issue is out now! The images are negatively stained electron micrographs taken from archaella bundles isolated from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Check the issue out here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerOUT NOW: Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections By Dinesh Subedi, Jeremy Barr & colleagues @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerExcited 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...
- Reposted by François MayerDeep-mining the archaeal proteome for antibiotics News & Views by Rafael Laso-Pérez @gecko1990.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social Read it here: rdcu.be/eHNwa
- Reposted by François MayerDelighted to review the latest findings on how malaria parasites get into our blood cells and how we might stop it!
- September issue out now: Read it here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerAspergillus fumigatus reference strain Af293 carries a mycovirus that boosts heat+oxidative stress resistance and infection fitness. 😲💥 I encourage you to check out Neta's thread and I'm delighted my group could play a small role in this exciting study!!
- 🚨 Fungi + viruses + mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
- Reposted by François Mayer🚨 Fungi + viruses + mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
- Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host Out now in Nature Microbiology, by Marina Rocha, Vanda Lerer, John Adeyemi Adeoye, Amelia Barber, Neta Shlezinger & colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our August issue is now live - a special focus issue on ‚Strategies to overcome infectious disease‘ Read it here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François Mayer#NewResearch 'The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments' by @nmquijada.bsky.social and co-workers. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerA little holiday news: Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41... This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.
- Reposted by François MayerThrilled to see our Kiwa story out today! A membrane-associated supercomplex that senses infection and blocks replication and transcription. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Huge congratulations to Yi and Zhiying for bringing it home, to Thomas for starting us off, and to all the collaborators.
- Reposted by François MayerFighting malaria as a patient and scientist – new Microbe Matters by Fitsum Tadesse out now! #malaria #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerA potent bacterium in the human gut can supercharge the effects of some cancer drugs go.nature.com/4lqaBBI
- Reposted by François MayerThis is quite astonishing - Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review Read this to find out how much you can fit into a single space after a full stop (if you use a very small font) 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by François Mayer#NewResearch out now! Giardia-induced Type 2 mucosal immunity attenuates intestinal inflammation in mice #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerVery happy to share our new paper on how machine learning predicts gene family expansions which contribute to oxidative stress resistance across diverse yeast species: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Straight from Antarctica: our new July issue has arrived! Sample it here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerJune was a productive month: brought two things into this world, both of which were great collaborative efforts and about nine months in the making. Check out where we map P. falciparum genome architecture at high resolution with Micro-C here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerCheck out the latest Amplifying Diverse Voices journal club article written by BMA members Oluwatosin Orababa and Dr. Raphael P. Galleh! www.nature.com/artic... #BlackInMicro #AMR #antibiotics #JournalClub
- Reposted by François MayerSuper excited for this study. Congratulations to other authors and grateful to the reviewers for their constructive comments. Great collaboration with Jacques Serizay, @ju-couble.bsky.social, @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social under the stellar supervision of @jessmbryant.bsky.social
- New study provides insight into the organizational machinery used by the malaria parasite to spatially coordinate genes and regulate transcription. @jessmbryant.bsky.social sky.social @singh-parul.bsky.social @ju-couble.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerHow does the malaria parasite regulate co-expression of genes? By recruiting them into transcription factories, courtesy of MORC et al. A fantastic team effort led by @jessmbryant.bsky.social with Jacques Serizay @singh-parul.bsky.social, @ju-couble.bsky.social @rkoszul.bsky.social
- OUT NOW: High resolution map of the Plasmodium falciparum genome reveals MORC/ApiAP2-mediated links between distant, functionally related genes @jessmbryant.bsky.social sky.social @singh-parul.bsky.social @ju-couble.bsky.social #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New study provides insight into the organizational machinery used by the malaria parasite to spatially coordinate genes and regulate transcription. @jessmbryant.bsky.social sky.social @singh-parul.bsky.social @ju-couble.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerOUT NOW: High resolution map of the Plasmodium falciparum genome reveals MORC/ApiAP2-mediated links between distant, functionally related genes @jessmbryant.bsky.social sky.social @singh-parul.bsky.social @ju-couble.bsky.social #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerExcited for New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology 2025 with sessions on Bacterial systems biology, Bacterial cell biology & protein machines, Microbiomes, Environment & evolution, Pathogenesis & phage, Antibiotic discovery, mechanisms, and resistance. #EESMicrobiology
- I‘ll be attending the EMBO | EMBL Symposium „New approaches and concepts in microbiology“ - looking forward to cool science and to meeting researchers and authors #EESMicrobiology @events.embl.org www.embl.org/about/info/c...
- Awesome malaria study out now in Nature Microbiology: An atypical Arp2/3 complex is required for Plasmodium DNA segregation and malaria transmission By Franziska Hentzschel, Matthias Marti, Freddy Frischknecht & colleagues! @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- What a beauty on our June issue cover! Read it here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerHang in there, our June issue has just flown in! Read about… 🦇Virus evolution in bats 👶Probiotics for neonates 🧠Typhoid toxin targeting the brain 🛡️Phage defense systems in V. cholerae 🍔An anti-obesogenic gut bacterium …and more👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerExciting news!! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @natmicrobiol.nature.com We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerSo proud of this work finally out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We examined antigenic variation in malaria parasites at single-cell level and found a surprising level of diversity. Make sure to check it out and don’t miss my talk on Thursday to hear about this story! #malaria #scRNA-Seq #EMBLMalaria
- Very happy to congratulate @fra-florini.bsky.social and Joe Visone for the publication of their recent work on antigenic variation by malaria parasites: rdcu.be/emjbn and an earlier version here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Francesca will present some of this work next week at BioMalPar 2025.
- Our marvelous May issue 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerOn this day, 10 years ago, my lab published the @nature.com paper reporting the discovery of the Asgard archaea (Lokiarchaeota at the time), revealing the archaeal nature of eukaryotic cells, and reshaping the Tree of Life. What a ride it has been since then... www.nature.com/articles/nat...
- Out now 👉 Communicating the promise of phage therapy By Sabrina Green @motherofphage.bsky.social Read it here: rdcu.be/eiWDJ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François Mayer🚨 Out now! Toxoplasma gondii ISWI remodeller TgSNF2h forms a complex that insulates active genes, regulates MORC-driven sexual commitment and ensures precise gene expression, safeguarding the parasite’s developmental program. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerThrilled to share my first paper, now out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! Huge thanks to my amazing supervisor @hakimi.bsky.social and everyone who contributed to this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- It‘s time for our April issue! Check it out here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerThis is our April issue, oh yeah... 🐦H5N1 antiviral outcomes 💊Abx against N. gonorrhoeae 🌱P. syringae plant infection 🦟Circadian rhythms in malaria ...and more 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerOUT NOW: Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission #microsky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission 🕓🦟 New study by Inês Bento, Brianna Parrington, Rushlenne Pascual, Filipa Rijo-Ferreira & colleagues out now! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerCharacterizing extracellular vesicles of human fungal pathogens - new PERSPECTIVE by Rodrigues & colleagues out now @neil-gow.bsky.social @josh-nosanchuk.bsky.social Read it here: rdcu.be/efmxx www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerCombining antibiotics remains a promising approach to treat patients and to prevent the emergence of antimicrobial resistance – new COMMENT out now. Read it here: rdcu.be/efaKQ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Out now in Nature: A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- News & Views out now - Malaria vectors with leaky guts www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- See also the associated paper: Targeting the mosquito prefoldin–chaperonin complex blocks Plasmodium transmission www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- I‘ll be attending the EMBO | EMBL Symposium „Mechanisms of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, fungi, and cancer“ - looking forward to cool science and to meeting authors #EESDrugresistance @embl.org www.embl.org/about/info/c...
- Reposted by François MayerNature research paper: A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry go.nature.com/3Fvubg8
- Reposted by François MayerOut now! Drug-Fc Conjugate CD388 targets influenza virus neuraminidase and is broadly protective in mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by François MayerNature research paper: Structure and mechanism of the plastid/parasite ATP/ADP translocator go.nature.com/4hwZFzq
- Reposted by François MayerNature research paper: TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children go.nature.com/43HJ4pu
- Reposted by François Mayer🦟 🦠 OUT NOW: Targeting the mosquito prefoldin chaperonin complex blocks Plasmodium transmission www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- March issue out now! Check it out here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
- Reposted by François MayerOUT NOW: Upcycling of polyamides through chemical hydrolysis and engineered Pseudomonas putida Nick Wierckx & co @fz-juelich.de @hhu.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...
