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Frederic Bertels

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Evolutionary biologist mostly interested in the evolution of replicative genetic elements, bacteria and phages

Joined August 2009
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Frederic Bertels
1 year
Check out our preprint about insertion sequences repairing double strand breaks (and duplicating without target site duplications):.
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I nsertion S equences (ISs) are mobile pieces of DNA that are widespread in bacterial genomes. IS movements typically involve (i) excision of the IS element, (ii) cutting of the target site DNA, and...
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @colombi_elena: 🦠🧬New paper🧬🦠. A family of ICEs infiltrated the P. syringae species complex! PsICEs are highly recombinogenic but conser….
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Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are self-transmissible mobile elements that transfer functional genetic units across broad phylogenetic...
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @PaulHoskisson: This is a very cool piece of work from @gallie_jenna et al Large-scale duplication events underpin population-level flex….
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Frederic Bertels
2 years
RT @GokhaleCS: Building a solid research profile takes time. We want to support exactly that in #theoreticalbiology and offer *two* long-te….
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Frederic Bertels
2 years
Our manuscript is finally out in Molecular Biology and Evolution:
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Abstract. Phage therapy is a promising method for the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. However, its long-term efficacy depends on und
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Frederic Bertels
3 years
We just submitted our first phage paper to biorxiv (. This was a mammoth effort by Jordan Romeyer Dherbey with help from Lavisha (@lavisha_parab) and Jenna (@gallie_jenna).
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RT @PeterALind: We have a 2-year postdoc fellowship available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and guiding experiment….
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The Lind lab at Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University seeks a highly motivated postdoc with interest in evolutionary biology and microbiology.
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @DaganLab: Open group leader position in #prokaryote #phylogenetics! Join our vibrant community of evolutionary biologists in @_K_E_C. I….
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @PeterALind: Peer-reviewed version in @NatureComms of our (@yashraj_chavhan @SutirthDey).paper on experimental evolution of bacterial mu….
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @gallie_jenna: Looking forward to reading lots of intersting papers with @JEvBio !!.
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @andydfarr: Lovely to see our study out in mBio! The short read : don't assume higher antibiotic resistance cau….
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Frederic Bertels
2 years
RT @NATO: Putin's intentions are clear for the world to see. No one should be fooled by Russia's litany of lies
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @JeremyJBarr: See our final lineup for Phage Bites symposium! . Six talks from PhDs/ECRS followed by an expert discussion on synthetic b….
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @PCIgenomics: Frederic Bertels @fredeBio and collaborators from @MPI_EvolBio have a recommended #preprint in @PeerCommunityIn: RAREFAN:….
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Frederic Bertels
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RT @loukesio: We have a new preprint with @andydfarr and @RaineyLab. If you are interested in barcoding a microbial species, have a look at….
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Frederic Bertels
3 years
Potentially making PhiX174 a powerful model to produce custom therapies for E. coli infections.
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Frederic Bertels
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However, by simply evolving phages to overcome E. coli C resistance, we have already managed to increase the host range of PhiX174 and we believe that these kinds of evolution experiments can be used to evolve PhiX174 to target any given E. coli strain.
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