François Mayer
@francoismayer.bsky.social
Senior Editor at Nature Microbiology 💻📄 | handling mycology, parasitology, AMR and phage therapy | https://www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/
Pinned
Our December issue is out!
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
The image shows a female Asian tiger mosquito cadaver covered by mycelium (white) following infection with spores of an engineered Metarhizium strain. Parts of the mycelium produce spores (green) that can again attract and kill mosquitoes.
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The image shows a female Asian tiger mosquito cadaver covered by mycelium (white) following infection with spores of an engineered Metarhizium strain. Parts of the mycelium produce spores (green) that can again attract and kill mosquitoes.
Our December issue is out!
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
The image shows a female Asian tiger mosquito cadaver covered by mycelium (white) following infection with spores of an engineered Metarhizium strain. Parts of the mycelium produce spores (green) that can again attract and kill mosquitoes.
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
The image shows a female Asian tiger mosquito cadaver covered by mycelium (white) following infection with spores of an engineered Metarhizium strain. Parts of the mycelium produce spores (green) that can again attract and kill mosquitoes.
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Our December issue is out!
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
The image shows a female Asian tiger mosquito cadaver covered by mycelium (white) following infection with spores of an engineered Metarhizium strain. Parts of the mycelium produce spores (green) that can again attract and kill mosquitoes.
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
The image shows a female Asian tiger mosquito cadaver covered by mycelium (white) following infection with spores of an engineered Metarhizium strain. Parts of the mycelium produce spores (green) that can again attract and kill mosquitoes.
Reposted by François Mayer
Our final issue of 2025 has gone live!
🫁pertussis prevention
🏭pollutants and gut bacteria
🕳️porins and resistance in E. coli
🧬many flavours of CRISPR
🦟fatal fungal attraction
...and more 👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
🫁pertussis prevention
🏭pollutants and gut bacteria
🕳️porins and resistance in E. coli
🧬many flavours of CRISPR
🦟fatal fungal attraction
...and more 👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Our final issue of 2025 has gone live!
🫁pertussis prevention
🏭pollutants and gut bacteria
🕳️porins and resistance in E. coli
🧬many flavours of CRISPR
🦟fatal fungal attraction
...and more 👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
🫁pertussis prevention
🏭pollutants and gut bacteria
🕳️porins and resistance in E. coli
🧬many flavours of CRISPR
🦟fatal fungal attraction
...and more 👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
Reposted by François Mayer
🚀 New journal alert!
We are Communications AI and Computing: an open access space from @natureportfolio.nature.com for research in AI, ML, and computational science.
Now open for submissions!
www.nature.com/commsaicomp/
#AI #ML #OpenAccess #ComputationalScience #NaturePortfolio #Research
We are Communications AI and Computing: an open access space from @natureportfolio.nature.com for research in AI, ML, and computational science.
Now open for submissions!
www.nature.com/commsaicomp/
#AI #ML #OpenAccess #ComputationalScience #NaturePortfolio #Research
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🚀 New journal alert!
We are Communications AI and Computing: an open access space from @natureportfolio.nature.com for research in AI, ML, and computational science.
Now open for submissions!
www.nature.com/commsaicomp/
#AI #ML #OpenAccess #ComputationalScience #NaturePortfolio #Research
We are Communications AI and Computing: an open access space from @natureportfolio.nature.com for research in AI, ML, and computational science.
Now open for submissions!
www.nature.com/commsaicomp/
#AI #ML #OpenAccess #ComputationalScience #NaturePortfolio #Research
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by François Mayer
OUT NOW! - Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes 🍄🧲🦟☠️
By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes - Nature Microbiology
Insects colonized with Metarhizium fungi emit longifolene to lure new hosts for infection to disperse spores. A fungal strain was engineered to emit longifolene to attract and eliminate mosquitoes.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
OUT NOW! - Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes 🍄🧲🦟☠️
By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by François Mayer
Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
Reposted by François Mayer
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut
Out now in Nature, by Sofia Dahlman, Jeremy Barr & colleagues. @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out now in Nature, by Sofia Dahlman, Jeremy Barr & colleagues. @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut
Out now in Nature, by Sofia Dahlman, Jeremy Barr & colleagues. @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out now in Nature, by Sofia Dahlman, Jeremy Barr & colleagues. @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by François Mayer
Discovery and artificial intelligence-guided mechanistic elucidation of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic
By Denise Catacutan, Jon Stokes & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Denise Catacutan, Jon Stokes & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Discovery and artificial intelligence-guided mechanistic elucidation of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic - Nature Microbiology
Enterololin is a narrow-spectrum antibiotic that selectively kills Enterobacteriaceae in vitro and in a mouse model of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli gut infection. AI-guided mechanism-of-action s...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Discovery and artificial intelligence-guided mechanistic elucidation of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic
By Denise Catacutan, Jon Stokes & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Denise Catacutan, Jon Stokes & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A generative artificial intelligence approach for the discovery of antimicrobial peptides against multidrug-resistant bacteria
By Yihui Wang, Guoping Zhao, Lei Zhang & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Yihui Wang, Guoping Zhao, Lei Zhang & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A generative artificial intelligence approach for the discovery of antimicrobial peptides against multidrug-resistant bacteria - Nature Microbiology
This study presents a generative artificial intelligence approach for the high-throughput discovery of antimicrobials against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A generative artificial intelligence approach for the discovery of antimicrobial peptides against multidrug-resistant bacteria
By Yihui Wang, Guoping Zhao, Lei Zhang & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Yihui Wang, Guoping Zhao, Lei Zhang & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by François Mayer
Toxoplasma gondii VIP1 mediates parasitophorous vacuole–host endoplasmic reticulum interactions to facilitate parasite development
By Julia Romano, Isabelle Coppens & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Julia Romano, Isabelle Coppens & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Toxoplasma gondii VIP1 mediates parasitophorous vacuole–host endoplasmic reticulum interactions to facilitate parasite development - Nature Microbiology
Toxoplasma gondii forms membrane contact sites with the endoplasmic reticulum of the host cell to facilitate the transfer of biomolecules to its vacuole.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Toxoplasma gondii VIP1 mediates parasitophorous vacuole–host endoplasmic reticulum interactions to facilitate parasite development
By Julia Romano, Isabelle Coppens & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Julia Romano, Isabelle Coppens & colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our October issue is out now!
The images are negatively stained electron micrographs taken from archaella bundles isolated from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
Check the issue out here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
The images are negatively stained electron micrographs taken from archaella bundles isolated from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
Check the issue out here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Our October issue is out now!
The images are negatively stained electron micrographs taken from archaella bundles isolated from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
Check the issue out here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
The images are negatively stained electron micrographs taken from archaella bundles isolated from the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
Check the issue out here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
Reposted by François Mayer
OUT NOW: Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections
By Dinesh Subedi, Jeremy Barr & colleagues @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Dinesh Subedi, Jeremy Barr & colleagues @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections - Nature Microbiology
The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
OUT NOW: Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections
By Dinesh Subedi, Jeremy Barr & colleagues @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Dinesh Subedi, Jeremy Barr & colleagues @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by François Mayer
Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections - Nature Microbiology
The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by François Mayer
Deep-mining the archaeal proteome for antibiotics
News & Views by Rafael Laso-Pérez
@gecko1990.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social
Read it here: rdcu.be/eHNwa
News & Views by Rafael Laso-Pérez
@gecko1990.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social
Read it here: rdcu.be/eHNwa
Deep-mining the archaeal proteome for antibiotics
Nature Microbiology - A deep-learning algorithm unravels a collection of archaeasins, peptides from the archaeal proteome with potential antimicrobial activity and implications for the development...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Deep-mining the archaeal proteome for antibiotics
News & Views by Rafael Laso-Pérez
@gecko1990.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social
Read it here: rdcu.be/eHNwa
News & Views by Rafael Laso-Pérez
@gecko1990.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social
Read it here: rdcu.be/eHNwa
Reposted by François Mayer
Delighted to review the latest findings on how malaria parasites get into our blood cells and how we might stop it!
New online! Erythrocyte invasion in malaria: from molecular mechanisms to rational vaccines
Erythrocyte invasion in malaria: from molecular mechanisms to rational vaccines
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 15 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01235-1If erythrocyte invasion is blocked during the blood stage of infection by Plasmodium parasites, malaria can be prevented. In this Review, structural insights on erythrocyte invasion by the merozoite form of Plasmodium are discussed in the context of rational design of a blood-stage malaria vaccine.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Delighted to review the latest findings on how malaria parasites get into our blood cells and how we might stop it!
September 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reposted by François Mayer
Aspergillus fumigatus reference strain Af293 carries a mycovirus that boosts heat+oxidative stress resistance and infection fitness. 😲💥
I encourage you to check out Neta's thread and I'm delighted my group could play a small role in this exciting study!!
I encourage you to check out Neta's thread and I'm delighted my group could play a small role in this exciting study!!
🚨 Fungi + viruses + mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host - Nature Microbiology
A mycovirus infecting the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus enhances its stress tolerance and virulence in mice.
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Aspergillus fumigatus reference strain Af293 carries a mycovirus that boosts heat+oxidative stress resistance and infection fitness. 😲💥
I encourage you to check out Neta's thread and I'm delighted my group could play a small role in this exciting study!!
I encourage you to check out Neta's thread and I'm delighted my group could play a small role in this exciting study!!
Reposted by François Mayer
🚨 Fungi + viruses + mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host - Nature Microbiology
A mycovirus infecting the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus enhances its stress tolerance and virulence in mice.
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🚨 Fungi + viruses + mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host
Out now in Nature Microbiology, by Marina Rocha, Vanda Lerer, John Adeyemi Adeoye, Amelia Barber, Neta Shlezinger & colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out now in Nature Microbiology, by Marina Rocha, Vanda Lerer, John Adeyemi Adeoye, Amelia Barber, Neta Shlezinger & colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host - Nature Microbiology
A mycovirus infecting the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus enhances its stress tolerance and virulence in mice.
www.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host
Out now in Nature Microbiology, by Marina Rocha, Vanda Lerer, John Adeyemi Adeoye, Amelia Barber, Neta Shlezinger & colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out now in Nature Microbiology, by Marina Rocha, Vanda Lerer, John Adeyemi Adeoye, Amelia Barber, Neta Shlezinger & colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our August issue is now live - a special focus issue on ‚Strategies to overcome infectious disease‘
Read it here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
Read it here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
July 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Our August issue is now live - a special focus issue on ‚Strategies to overcome infectious disease‘
Read it here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
Read it here:
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
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#NewResearch
'The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments' by @nmquijada.bsky.social and co-workers.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments' by @nmquijada.bsky.social and co-workers.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments - Nature Microbiology
Whole-metagenome sequencing of 1,780 raw-material, end-product and surface samples from 113 food processing facilities reveals the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance determinants in foods and thei...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#NewResearch
'The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments' by @nmquijada.bsky.social and co-workers.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'The food-associated resistome is shaped by processing and production environments' by @nmquijada.bsky.social and co-workers.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com
Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com
Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
Nature Microbiology - This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.
rdcu.be
July 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com
Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com
Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by François Mayer
A little holiday news:
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment - Nature Microbiology
This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A little holiday news:
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.