Tom Denes

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Evergreen 2025 is happening, and for the first time in its 50-year history, we're taking it on the road!🎉🎉 Save the date for the 26th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting, which will be held August 3-8, 2025, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville!

We're hiring! For Fall 2025, Assistant/Associate Professor in the area of Microbe-Plant Interactions.

20y of dedication/perseverance by @PaulPirnay , @mmerabish & team to make #phagetherapy a reality. A good moment to say thank you for our 30th joint publication.

Thrilled to announce our latest publication @CMKhursigara led by our outstanding student Stevan Cucic (soon-to-be Dr. Cucic — keep an eye out for an excellent phage biologist joining us) 🙏 @Dozois_CM & ALL reviewers for invaluable comments&feedback(1/4) journals.asm.org/eprint/8SMXDB3…

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Close up of the newly-infected bacterial cell from "Bacteriophage T4 Infection." I drew the illustration in Photoshop at a scale of 1 pixel/nanometer.

In Runan Yan’s latest study we found that the prevalence of #ciprofloxacin #resistance was significantly higher among #Campylobacter isolates from human clinical compared to poultry meat samples in Pennsylvania (193 isolates from >8,000 samples analyzed): authors.elsevier.com/a/1hai72eGSbji…

@TomDenes resistance & abiotic factor influence on Listeria phage applications in food safety; & use of directed evolution; starts with data from pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25888172/ #EvergreenPhage2023

#EvergreenPhage2023 Illuminating breakfast chat… with Betty Kutter, Sarah Kuhl, Paul Hyman & @TomDenes

#Phages are used to control bacterial pathogens at every stage of food production, from promoting livestock & crop health to killing pathogens on ready-to-eat foods. What are the benefits & challenges associated with deploying phages in the food industry? asm.social/1f8

A very well written News & Views from @TomDenes about our recent paper on L-form escape as a mechanism for endolysin-mediated phage resistance in Gram-positive bacteria nature.com/articles/s4156…. Seminal work by @jan_wohlfarth, @miki_hannah, and others ! nature.com/articles/s4156…

@MartinLoessner @jan_wohlfarth @miki_hannah Congratulations to all involved on this fascinating study! It was a pleasure to write about in this News and Views piece.

Public Service announcement: Do NOT use raw cow or goat milk to make your own infant formula; raw milk carries a substantial risk of containing pathogens that can cause serious illness or even death in a baby!

Excited to share an interdisciplinary collaborative effort: Analysis of Derivatized Wall Teichoic Acids Confirms that a Mutation in Phage-Resistant Listeria monocytogenes Impacts Rhamnose Decoration pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Vaccine trifecta complete! JJ boosted with Pfizer boosted with Moderna. Enjoying pandemic stress respite. Now if only my kids were eligible…

@traceyleepeters @MotherOfPhage No… noooo… I guess we’ll be drawing straws for that task

@TomDenes @MotherOfPhage 🤣🤣🤣 “No Wren, when I said shaking water bath I meant…”

Anyone have experience with #bird #extractions… as far as I know we don’t have an #SOP for this one.

@traceyleepeters @MotherOfPhage That bird needs to work on its aseptic technique

@MotherOfPhage Oh drat…I should have thought of that before I cleaned up all those droppings…there goes my next paper… “Characterization of phages isolated from feces of Thryomanes bewickii”

Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Source Attribution Patterns for Campylobacter spp. in Tennessee and Pennsylvania mdpi.com/1346486 #Canpylobacter #sourceattribution @TomDenes @Lauren_Hudson08

@kovac_lab Thank you @Lauren_Hudson08, @jasna_kovac, et al. for the collaboration!