Pedro Escudeiro

The paper shows that endogenous viral elements in brown algae can reactivate, replicate, and transmit viruses, challenging the view of EVEs as inert.

This study shows mechanical compression induces tissue-like multicellularity in haloarchaea, forming structures with distinct molecular and mechanical features similar to eukaryotic tissues.

This study identifies and characterizes two new families of archaeal bactofilins, HalA and HalB, showing their roles in shaping cell morphology and curvature in Haloferax volcanii.

This study investigates the DNA-binding properties of bacterial histone HBb in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, revealing its ability to bend DNA in a sequence-independent manner, similar to archaeal and eukaryotic histones.

The paper finds a correlation between antibiotic resistance and virulence genes in human gut and environmental microbiomes, with stronger correlations in less antibiotic-exposed populations.