Ritam Das

☁️ Are you floating into #FEMSMicro2025? Curious how defense & antidefense systems battle it out… in the clouds? Join me for my talk & poster (345.15S) featuring microbial dynamics straight from Cape Verde skies! ⛅ #phagedefense #cloudmicrobiome @FEMSmicro @phagedirectory

Excited to be @VAAM_Microbes 2026 and presenting my poster (P-MC-018) today! If you’re curious about what’s hiding above you in the clouds ☁️🦠 from phages to host–bacterial interactions and the fascinating world of bacterial defense systems and cryoEM come by and say hi 😊

If you are @ #FEMSMicro 2025 join me for my talk & poster (345.15S) featuring microbial dynamics straight from Cape Verde skies! ⛅ @FEMSmicro Session: Metabolic & Community Interactions 🗓️ Date: 15 July 2025 🕒 Time: 15:10 📍 Location: Amber 1&2 🪧 Poster: 345.15S (Area E)

Excited to share my first-author publication from my #PhD work at @Helmholtz_HIRI! 🎉 We established mudRapp-seq, a spatial transcriptomic technique that combines direct RNA padlock probes and in-situ sequencing. academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Interested in anti-bacteriophage defense systems? We have an open PhD position in cell biology of bacteria and bacteriophages: nature.com/naturecareers/…

A prophage-encoded anti-phage defense system that prevents phage DNA packaging by targeting the terminase complex biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

Anti-phage systems never cease to amaze – check out our new findings on Kiwa🦠🛡️! A short 🧵1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm thrilled to announce our latest work is now published in Cell! Viruses encode numerous proteins that inhibit host defenses, but identifying immune-modulatory proteins among millions of viral sequences has been nearly impossible - until now! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Welcome week for our new PhD candidates: An exciting program of talks and networking to help them get started. All the best for your research! By the way, the #IMPRS-BAC call is currently open until January! Interested candidates can apply here 👉 molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS

Interested in applying to the #IMPRSBAC graduate program? Here are ten tips for a successful application! @FU_Berlin @DRS_FU

Join us in Paris on April 8th-10th for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria 🥖🍷🦠🧬. Excited to welcome these amazing speakers at @institutpasteur . Registration will open beginning of November. Abstract deadline February 28. Stay tuned.

This was a wonderful meeting @SPP2330 again! Great kick-off of our second funding period! Amazing science going on in the phage field and great to see students/postdocs from the first funding period starting their independent labs. @dfg_public, @fz_juelich, @HHU_de

Call open: We are looking for motivated #PhD students who want to work at the interface between molecular life sciences and computational sciences. #IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @maxplanckpress @FU_Berlin @DRS_FU Check out our projects and apply until Jan 7th, 2025! molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applicat…

The #third session of the "Journey of a Researcher from India to Germany" series, focusing on #Biosciences, was a great success, with more than 50 students joining remotely from various Indian Institutes of higher education. #JOAR #UoCIndia #FUBIndia #InternationalAffairs

When Earth says Phages, we listen!

‘Love is in the air’—and so are phages! Our new preprint explores airborne viral communities in sub-Antarctic South Georgia. We highlight the intricate interplay between virus-host dynamics in remote regions through viral metagenomics @UniJena @phageconsortium @phagedirectory

@Ella_Maru @urmibajpai @wileymicrobio @WileyGlobal @ANDCollegeDU @phageconsortium @ICMRDELHI @phagedirectory @PhageIndia Thank you!! ☺️

@ritamdas_ @urmibajpai @wileymicrobio @WileyGlobal @ANDCollegeDU @phageconsortium @ICMRDELHI @phagedirectory @PhageIndia Congratulations, Ritam!!

Happy to announce that our @urmibajpai picture of mycobacteriophages made it to the cover of Journal of Basic Microbiology! 🥳 @wileymicrobio @WileyGlobal Proud to showcase our research. Take a look! #phages @ANDCollegeDU @phageconsortium @ICMRDELHI @phagedirectory @PhageIndia

In a new preprint, @ritamdas_ and Janina Rahlff (@UniJena, Germany) describe a positive correlation between the number of structural genes and above-average guanine-cytosine (GC) content in #phage genomes. buff.ly/4eucElu

A phage lysin that battles MRSA in the nasal cavity has reached the first clinical trial phase in Germany. the-microbiologist.com/news/innovativ… @DZIF_ @uni_greifswald @TU_Muenchen