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Vincent de Bakker

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Postdoc @Bernhardt Lab, Harvard Medical School | Microbiologist | Statistician

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Checkout our latest preprint which is a real lab-wide effort to map antibiotic stress signatures across the pneumococcal pangenome. All findings have also been incorporated in PneumoBrowse 2.0.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

27.02.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology

Join us as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) / @leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social

Application deadline on 15 March 2026
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careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

26.02.2026 10:52 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The @dmf-unil.bsky.social is supporting the application of a candidate for the SNSF/ERC Starting Grant (deadline 5th of May). Reach out to me if you are interested. We are collecting CV’s until the 8th of Feb. We can offer a stimulating scientific environment and help with the application/interview.

20.01.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is better than one? Two connected papers!

#NewResearch

S protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae activates PBP1a and coordinates with a wider GpsB-associated multi-protein complex to regulate peptidoglycan remodelling and cell division.

#MicroSky 🦠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.12.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Now online @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.12.2025 10:30 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Microbiology and infectious diseases This page highlights recent articles on all aspects of bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and virology, covering the biology of pathogens, host-pathogen ...

Very pleased to share that our recent article with
@veeninglab.com in @natcomms.nature.com
was selected for the Editor's Highlights, which aims to showcase the 50 best papers recently published in the area of #microbiology & infectious diseases!

www.nature.com/collections/...

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Multi-omics profiling reveals atypical sugar utilization and a key membrane composition regulator in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Nature Communications The pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae can adapt to diverse microenvironments in the human body. Here, De Bakker et al. study these adaptation responses, showing unusual sugar utilization and identifyi...

Great to see that our recent paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) got picked to be featured among the Editors’ Highlights: www.nature.com/collections/...

17.12.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Identification of sporulation genes in Bacillus anthracis highlights similarities and significant differences with Bacillus subtilis How good is Bacillus subtilis as a model for the spore-forming pathogen Bacillus anthracis? Using high throughput genetics to identify B. anthracis sporulation genes and cytological analysis of the mu...

Fer’s tour de force in B. anthracis is out! Fer got Tn-seq running, built an ordered knockout library, defined all essential sporulation genes, and found a peptidoglycan deacetylase inhibitor critical for engulfment. Including our first one-by-all Alphafold screen! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

13.12.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A great Baker & Baker production!

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Happy and proud to see this one published!

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