News

15 Jun

Success of our student in the BYSCC competition

Congratulations! Our student Tomáš Chlubna was awarded 2nd shared place in the 42nd Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition (BYSCC) held online in Beijing, China! Tomáš presented his work “Phage therapy of ESKAPE group pathogens”.

Staphylococcus aureus Prophage-Encoded Protein Causes Abortive Infection and Provides Population Immunity against Kayviruses

Kuntová L. & Mašlaňová I. et al., mBio 2023
The first described system of abortive infection in staphylococci

November 2022

Bacteriophages can be highly effective in the treatment of many infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics, says Jiří Doškař

Interview published at Current News Fac. Sci. MU.

27 Sep 2022

Tail proteins of phage SU10 reorganize into the nozzle for genome delivery

Šiborová et al., Nature Communications 2022

Congratulations to Martina for solving the structure of the peculiar phage SU 10 from the genus Kuravirus.

20 Sep 2022

Global Transcriptomic Analysis of Bacteriophage-Host Interactions between a Kayvirus Therapeutic Phage and Staphylococcus aureus

Finstrlová et al. Microbiology Spectrum 2022

20 Sep 2022

Structure and mechanism of DNA delivery of a gene transfer agent

Bárdy et al. Nature Communications 2020

20 Sep 2022

Analysis of Bacteriophage-Host Interaction by Raman Tweezers.

Pilát et al. Analytical Chemisty 2020

20 Sep 2022

Staphylococcus epidermidis Phages Transduce Antimicrobial Resistance Plasmids and Mobilize Chromosomal Islands

Fišarová et al. mSphere 2021