In the spirit of the New Year and new beginning, here some news☀️: 1. Some updates about my next professional adventure (spoiler alert: I left academia) 2. I have decided to leave Twitter ! More on these points below 👇 If you wanna keep in touch:

2. On leaving this platform

1. On my new professional adventure

Two years ago we published the discovery of hotspots of novel anti-phage defense systems in the genome of P4 phage satellites, including a mysterious Phage Anti-Restriction Induced System (PARIS). We have now published the mechanism in @Nature

AMAZING ! Well deserved!!!! David and Demis have been my personal Beyonce and Rihanna for years 🤩🤩🤩

Me !!!! 🙋‍♀️

My cat Shouka came to the lab for his monthly meeting to help us with BGC refactoring #NaturalProductsCat

After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a

1/ 🧵 Thrilled to share work of @EligoBio just published in @Nature ! We show proof of principle results of efficient base editing performed on E. coli directly in the mouse gut 🦠💡 #Microbiome #SyntheticBiology https://t.co/efTztuluN9

Scientists in France have expressed relief that the right-wing party National Rally was defeated in yesterday’s parliamentary elections

Together with @AudeBer we wrote a research briefing: "Evolutionary history of an immune protein conserved across all domains of life" https://t.co/LFcKK1uetz Link PDF: https://t.co/vW8MOy3Uj7 We describe our findings recently published in @NatureEcoEvo : https://t.co/7xGSXETP2S

Yasmine Belkaid, directrice générale de l’Institut Pasteur : « Aujourd’hui, j’ai peur de perdre ce qui m’a fait choisir la France » https://t.co/6Nf5vbVKO7 via @lemondefr

What a week!🥳 Our work describing the functional and evolutionary history of viperins is finally out! We describe how this ancient immune gene was conserved and diversified across the tree of life ! Hope you enjoy the final version of the manuscript 😀

Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold https://t.co/ENup6dRsUQ

Paper out today: “RNA-guided RNA Silencing by an Asgard archaeal Argonaute”. A wonderful, multidisciplinary project co-led with @DCSwarts @ChirlminJoo_Lab, spearheaded by @C_Bastiaanssen @pilar_bobadilla @k1jun_ @FinocchioGiada & Yanlei Feng. https://t.co/Yh3wXAYFc3 @NatureComms

A new kid on the block of "chemical defense" against phage infection. @HelenaShomar reports on the antiphage activity of lanthipeptides. Remembering early discussion in Portugal and now looking forward to reading your beautiful work! @SPP2330

Modified peptides produced by bacteria protect from phage infection - congrats @HelenaShomar and @AudeBer for this fantastic discovery! Can these new antiviral molecules also inhibit viruses that infect humans? 🤔

Bacteria produce chemical compounds that humans harness as drugs (ex antibiotic). We hypothesize that a major biological role of these compounds have been overlooked: antiviral defense. 👇Discovery of lantiphages, a large BGC family wt antiphage function https://t.co/G1jeujZXQh

3 years ago we started this very risky project with @AudeBer, when her lab was just starting ! I am still processing all the cool science we did together and with the help of many great collaborators. I hope you like this manuscript as much as we do ! 😃🍾

Looking forward to discovering more anti-phage compounds! This work was an awesome collaborative effort with F Tesson, M Guillaume @MDMlab_Paris & @VeroniqueO5 @ClaessenLAB @BriegelAriane Daniel Rozen @GillesvanWezel @LeidenBiology & @SeverineZirah Yanyan Li @MNHN_recherche