Tag Archives: Elze Hesse

Paper Out: Using the wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens

Posted on January 4, 2019 by

A good start of the year by having a paper published. I blogged about the bioarxiv* version a while back so will keep it short this time: we injected environmental (water and sediment) samples in the Galleria caterpillar and, where … Continue reading →

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Paper Out: Prokaryote genome fluidity is dependent on effective population size

Posted on April 6, 2017 by

Last year, I had the pleasure to host (now Dr.) Nadia Andreani from the University of Padua in Italy for a six-month visit in 2015. She did lab work on blue, food-spoiling Pseudomonas but we also did a population genomics … Continue reading →

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Paper out: No effect of natural transformation on the evolution of resistance to bacteriophages in the Acinetobacter baylyi model system

Posted on November 21, 2016 by

A long time coming, but the results obtained in NERC-funded research on evolutionary benefits (or lack thereof) of bacterial transformation have now been published. The work was carried out mainly by research tech Amy McLeman, who has since started her … Continue reading →

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