Christian Beck

We discovered that S. epidermidis attaches glucose to its wall teichoic acids, which determines the binding behaviour of several bacteriophages. Now in @mbiojournal: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb… Thanks to @AndreasPeschel1 @JanesKrusche, Cristina De Castro, Christoph Mayer and others.

Are you interested in bacteriophage-host interactions? - Please have a look at our recently published review on S. epidermidis phages: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Thanks to @JanesKrusche @XinDu17, Ahmed Elsherbini and @AndreasPeschel1

Great to meet all these current and previous members of the Tubingen Staphylococcus crowd at #GRCStaph! @SimonHeilbronn1 @AndreaSalz91125 @MinhThuNguyen3 @Lau_cms @XinDu17 @Sook_Ha_Fan @maicotto @DoroKretschmer @Chris_R_Beck @wolzce @WYuLab

If you are interested in phages interacting with wall teichoic acid of Staphylococci, check out our new preprint from the @AndreasPeschel1 lab on S. epidermidis GroP wall teichoic acid glycosylation with glucose. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

@JanesKrusche and @Chris_R_Beck talking about Staphylococcal phage-host interactions at the @SPP2330 meeting! @AndreasPeschel1

did a phage write this

Prior #Saureus exposure—a pitfall to vaccine success. New work finds that prior #Staphylococcus aureus infection preprograms the host immune system to respond poorly to vaccines, with antibody competition further reducing efficacy #sectitle0030a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Smashing of an immunological dogma...neutrophils can act as powerful antigen presenting cells ! nature.com/articles/s4146…

PlasmidMaker is a versatile, automated, and high throughput end-to-end platform for plasmid construction. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Fresh from the paper mill - excited to present our new paper on the incredible activity of linker-modified endolysins against #Staphylococcus on skin - many thanks to #FritzEichenseher, #MathiasSchmelcher, many other co-authors, and support from @Micreos ! doi.org/10.1128/aac.02…

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Our work on SmdA - a new protein affecting cell division in staphylococci - has now been published in @mbiojournal. @OlgaShapaval @DanStreamer journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Really exciting study from the Otto and Li labs. Investigating the novel mechanism of micrococcin P1 release/activity from Staphylococcus hominis

Paper by Pawel Markwitz (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and colleagues in @ISMEJournal: Genome-driven elucidation of #phage-host interplay and impact of phage resistance evolution on #bacterial fitness buff.ly/3JsuAgc

Fresh from the press ! Cool work by Leandra Knecht and colleagues from the Lars Fieseler lab @ZHAW shows that #Erwinia #amylovora #phage S6 requires bacterial #cellulose for infection and encodes a #cellulase to degrade it - recycling done the phage way ! doi.org/10.1111/1462-2…

We are pleased to see the growing interest in attending VoM2022. However taking into account this time of extreme uncertainties and sadness for Europe and the World we have been able to extend the abstract submission deadline please check the new dates: vom2022.org

In #StPetersburg, #Russia, the police detained a well-known survivor of the Siege of Leningrad Yelena Osipova at an anti-war #protest: