Marie Touchon

The paper identifies and characterizes defence hotspots in P2-like phages and P4-like satellites, revealing rapid modular evolution of antiviral systems through gene swapping and recombination.

The paper identifies novel origins of transfer (oriTs) in Genomic Islands, revealing their role as hitchhikers on conjugative elements and their contribution to bacterial genetic adaptation.

This study sequences and analyzes genetic diversity in SGG isolates associated with colorectal cancer, revealing no specific pathogenicity island and highlighting surface proteins and other factors involved in host colonization.

The paper quantifies the role of natural transformation in gene acquisition in bacteria, finding it contributes to a small percentage of novel genes but potentially includes high-impact antibiotic resistance genes.

This study examines how antibiotic treatment affects the gut phageome, finding reduced diversity and increased virulent phage blooms, which may help restore bacterial diversity through kill-the-winner dynamics.

The paper identifies that XerCD recombination is used by large plasmids and chromids for dimer resolution, similar to chromosomes, and shows this is required for their faithful inheritance.

The paper identifies anti-phage defence systems encoded by sedentary chromosomal integron cassettes in Vibrio cholerae, showing 16 cassettes provide phage resistance.

MacSyFinder v2 improves molecular system detection in microbial genomes with enhanced modeling, search engine, and updated models.

The paper identifies 780 phage-plasmids across diverse bacterial phyla, groups them into 8 families based on gene repertoire similarity, and highlights their conserved phage genes and variable plasmid-like genes.

This study characterizes the epigenome of C. difficile and identifies a conserved DNA methyltransferase that impacts sporulation and other biological processes.

The paper investigates epistatic interactions between CRISPR and Cas clusters in prokaryotes, finding that multiple CRISPRs can co-occur to enhance immune system effectiveness.

The paper characterizes integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) across bacterial genomes, revealing their functional organization and distribution.

The paper identifies integrons and cassette arrays in bacterial genomes, revealing their distribution patterns and evolutionary implications.

The paper develops models to identify protein secretion systems in bacterial genomes, finding T1SS and T5SS are most common, while T6SSiii and T9SS are restricted to Bacteroidetes.