EEM-Lab

Congratulations to Helena and Tania, for their publication on the development and usage of a new (easy) single cell tracking tool. Thanks as well to the various group members for their help in manual curation of many time-lapse images!

Congratulations to Marian and everyone for the publication of her work in mSystems to analyze the importance of Pseudomonas veronii gene functions for growth and survival in soils under toluene stress, by means of transposon library sequencing. A long and tedious work! Thanks in particular to Vladimir, Dominique, Senka and Nico, to complement and finalize all the necessary experiments.

A warm welcome to Bouke Entvelsen and Davide Ciccarese who have joined our group this week! Bouke will work as junior scientist on a project to study community behaviour in real time with time-lapse microscopy. Davide is senior postdoc who will work on droplet sequencing methods. So happy to have you around!

Congratulations to Andrea and Valentina for their amazing paper in Nucleic Acids Research describing the conjugative system of ICEclc! Wonderful and very hard work!

Happy to say that after a lot of collaborative efforts, our work characterizing the transfer competence regulon of ICEclc was published in PLOS Genetics. Thank you, Sandra, Andrea, Roxane, Nico, Vladimir, François and Veronica! This was an amazing journey with lots of images, time-lapses, qqplots, RNAseq and clonings; and a fascinating discovery on the life of mobile DNAs.