Laura Milena Forero Junco

Danish profile of soft rot Pectobacteriaceae; A three-year field sampling study proving several clonal clades of soft rot isolates across diverse locations implicating a common origin

The paper uses whole genome sequencing of soft rot Pectobacteriaceae isolates from Danish potato farms to trace disease spread and identify potential phage-based biocontrol strategies.

Binning meets taxonomy: TaxVAMB improves metagenome binning using bi-modal variational autoencoder

TaxVAMB improves metagenome binning by combining tetranucleotide frequencies and co-abundances with taxonomic annotations, outperforming existing methods on benchmark and real datasets.

Novel bacteriophages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria carry DNA modifications and single-strand breaks

The paper isolates and characterizes novel bacteriophages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria, identifies DNA modifications and single-strand breaks, and finds widespread distribution of similar phages in public metagenomes.