The Hector RCD award was awarded to Tessa and will fund the position of a PhD student to work on archaeal mechanisms to escape viral infection. She will officially receive the award during the ceremony of the Hector Academy in July.
Paper about the host of halophilic virus HFTV1 is now published
Colin and Sabines publication on H. gibbonsii LR2-5 is now published in Frontiers in Microbiology. Check it out here
Two new papers by the lab published
Two new papers of the lab were published this week:
Schwarzer S, Rodriguez-Franco M, Oksanen H.M., Quax T.E.F. (2021) Growth phase dependent cell shape of Haloarcula. Microorganisms. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/2/231
And a review paper on how viruses use filamentous surface structures of bacteria and archaea was published in ‚Viruses‘
Tittes C, Schwarzer S, Quax T.E.F. (2021) Viral hijack of filamentous surface structures in Archaea and Bacteria. Viruses. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/2/164
Publication about the role of archaeal MinD now online
The joint publication with the Albers and Duggin labs on the role of archaeal MinD in motility is now officially published in Current Biology.
Paper about the archaeal switch complex now online
The recent paper from Zhengqun is now online at Molecular Microbiology. In this paper we show that ArlCDE are important to transfer signals from the chemotaxis system to the archaeal motility structure. Read more here.
Colin joined our group
Colin Tittes has joined the archaeal virus group as a PhD student at the beginning of November.
Sabine joined the lab!
Sabine started this week as a PhD student in the lab. She will be involved in the development of a model virus-host system for haloarchaea
Post-doc position available
We are looking for a talented post-doc to study infection mechanisms of archaeal viruses. More more information check out the job description.