Ivan Erill

Really happy to see Julia Lopez-Perez's dissertation work on #phage defense systems in print: mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/1… 🦠🔬 Check out a novel mechanism for #salmonella plasmid-mediated abortive infection @MDPIOpenAccess

Exciting for the next #iVoM3 session, happening tomorrow at 5pm CEST! Join us for the second last series of talks on “#VirusLikeElements and their interactions with microbes.” #VirusesOfMicrobes Link to register: ivom.phage.directory @phagedirectory @VirusOfMicrobes

@loyndsview Probably just the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately, the increasing reliance of programmers on AI coding assistants makes injection of malicious code into mainstream code ever more likely. blog.devgenius.io/weaponizing-ai…

"Last week, one of those programmers may have saved the #internet from huge trouble. His name is Andres Freund. He’s a 38-year-old software engineer who lives in San Francisco & works at Microsoft." nytimes.com/2024/04/03/tec… #cybersecurity

Pheaturing #phage work from @UMBCPhageHunter @ivanerill @EliaMascolo & team as well as the @JeremyJBarr lab on the #TWiV #podcast plus a shoutout to @dsgoodsell #sciart

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses to replicate themselves − and may hold the key to new antiviral therapies theconversation.com/vampire-viruse… via @ConversationUS

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses to replicate themselves − and may hold the key to new antiviral therapies theconversation.com/vampire-viruse… via @ConversationUS

What's better for Halloween than a vampire story! We're excited to showcase for the first time, the life cycle of an extracellular #predator that drains the contents out of its prey through the S-layer ! RT and feedback are appreciated! (1/5) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out this article about our latest @UMBC -led discovery. What #Halloween science story could be better than a #vampire virus that bites its prey-viruses in the neck? Thanks to all co-authors from @UMBCBiology @UMBCCNMS @UABBarcelona @WUSTL for a fun and exciting work

Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomycesspecies @ISMEJournal from @ivanerill nature.com/articles/s4139…

UMBC team makes first-ever observation of a virus attaching to another virus umbc.edu/stories/first-…

Just in time for a spooky #Halloween . It's great to see this story by Tagide deCarvalho and @EliaMascolo in print. Click on the link to see a virus preying on another virus by latching onto its neck, Dracula-style. nature.com/articles/s4139…

Turning #AI into a weapon: link.medium.com/eTck3zlgMBb

Darwin and the medical school admissions dilemma link.medium.com/LkHGiRbGbBb

Very happy to see this beautiful work led by the @ucsc Fitnat lab published #PLOSPathogens! Wonderful detective work on the role of V. cholerae TCS in virulence by @GiordanKitts, with comparative genomics analyses by @UMBCBiology Isaac Chaudry @ErillLab dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Agraïda i emocionada per aquest bonic i emotiu record del pare. Agradecida y emocionada por este bonito y emotivo recuerdo de mi padre. youtu.be/BAzufVndzwo

Happy to see the latest work by Miquel Sanchez-Osuna with the @ErillLab published in @antibioticsmdpi . Amazing how simple computational approaches can yield powerful insights into the spread of #resistance to #antibiotics . Check it out! mdpi.com/2106794 .

@JWVeening Sweet!

How cool is that, a prophage, upon insertion in the pneumococcal genome, modifies a small RNA to make it a better repressor of competence thereby reducing the chance that this phage gets kicked out via transformation 🤯 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Viruses are watching you! theconversation.com/viruses-may-be…

Proud to see our work on #phages highjacking #cell sensing machinery finally out. Excellent work by @EliaMascolo describing how pilitropic phages can listen in on cell development conversations, potentially maximizing their yield in 'lytic deferment'. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Lytic deferment from @EliaMascolo neat idea and cool project from lab to computer and back again. #Phages2022