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LinkedIn: Sarah Wettstadt
BlueSky: Dr Sarah Wettstadt
LinkedIn Newsletter: Science, Travel & Communication
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Twitter: BacterialWorld
Facebook: BacterialWorldblog
Instagram: BacterialWorld
Pinterest: BacterialWorld
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LinkedIn: SciComm-Society
Instagram: SciComm Society
Pinterest: The Engaging Scientist
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LinkedIn: SPRPN
LinkedIn Newsletter: Plant Nutrition for a Healthy Planet
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LinkedIn: IPNC
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Practical guide “How to Write Online Science Articles”. 2025
How Emotions Make Science Stories Engaging and Memorable. The Engaging Scientist. 2025
Why you need a consistent SciComm Strategy to make an impact. The Engaging Scientist. 2025
Practical guide “The SciComm Strategy Guide”. 2024
Practical guide “Using Storytelling In Science Communication”. 2024
Why a Science Blog is a Great Way to Share Your Research Widely. The Engaging Scientist. 2024
How communication fosters relationships and belonging in the scientific community. The Engaging Scientist. 2024
Why core values matter to realize your science communication goals. The Engaging Scientist. 2024
Practical guide “How to Efficiently Write About Science”. 2023
Practical guide “Engaging Different Audiences with Your Research”. 2023
E-Mail course “Making An Impact”. 2022
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Which microbes are in your cider? 2024
New bacteria discovered in 2023. 2023
New viruses discovered in 2023. 2023
Microbes degrade plastics even in the cold. 2023
What you can do at FEMS2023 in Hamburg. 2023
Five new environmental viruses discovered in 2022. 2022
Five new bacteria discovered in 2022. 2022
Searching for the missing parent of the lager yeast in Europe. 2022
Does the Omicron variant force us to start all over again? 2022
Welcome to the new bacteria discovered in 2021. 2021
World AIDS Day and HIV vaccines – Learning from an epidemic for an epidemic. 2021
How does the climate change affect microbial communities. 2021
Celebrating how your gut microbiome keeps you mentally healthy. 2021
Perspectives: Listening to Women and Girls in Science – where are we? 2021
Social media in times of social distancing (for microbiologists). 2020
Preventing COVID-19 Misinformation: A Guide for Scientists. 2020
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Dihydroceramide. 2024
Case Study: Metabolic profiling in large-cohort study identified genetic variants associated with metabolic diseases. 2024
Case Study: Characterizing Novel Variants Associated with Blood Pressure Regulation Through a Meta-Analysis of 1.3 Million Individuals. 2023
Triglycerides. 2023
Cholesterol. 2023
Cortisol. 2023
Chenodeoxycholic acid. 2023
Carnithine. 2023
Arachidic acid. 2023
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Working together to fighting the bad guys. 2023
Unravelling evolution one nucleotide at a time. 2023
Dear Listeria, what is your preferred niche? 2023
Bacteria without their phages are just not competitive. 2022
It is a matter of whether we allow microbes to enter the food chain. 2022
Living a bacterial lifestyle as an academic researcher. 2022
A microbiologist can’t let their sourdough die. 2022
Microbes live in a society, just like us. 2022
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Painting a SciComm Picture of Your Research. 2023
How science communication can boost your research. 2023
Bringing Your Science Story to Life with Powerful Action Verbs. 2022
Using Emotions to Convey Scientific Knowledge. 2022
How to identify and talk to your target audience. 2022
How to tell an engaging science story from your research project. 2022
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How hibernation and pesticides disturb the bee gut microbiome. QIAGEN blog. 2022
Benefits of complimentary methods in gene expression profiling. Bio-rad blog. 2022
A glimpse into the microbial world. QIAGEN blog. 2022
Spectrophotometer selection and troubleshooting guide. BIOCOMPARE. 2022
10 Reasons to Promote Your Research Through Videos. Inside higher Ed. 2022
Research reveals bacteria sense heat to learn about their location. UCALGARY NEWS. 2021
Metabolic cross-feeding relationship gains probiotic status. The Microbiologist. 2021
Why we would have no vaccines without bacteria. On BacterialWorld via Science Journalist Research Grant by the Berlin Science Week. 2020
How starting a science blog changed my life. The female scientist. 2020
Some have it all: multicellularity, magnetotaxis and photokinesis in one bacterium. Environmental Microbiology. 2020
The “smaller than the eye can see” Microbial World. lifeology.io. 2020
Protect thy host: Pf4 phages shield Pseudomonas aeruginosa from antibiotics. Environmental Microbiology. 2020
The many facets of the type VI secretion system spike. The Microbiologist. 2020
Death in a sphere: Chromobacterium violaceum secretes OMVs filled with antibiotics. Environmental Microbiology. 2020
How social media is keeping me sane throughout isolation. lifeology.io. 2020
The danger in the bat: a novel tool to detect Sarbecoviruses. The Microbiologist. 2020
Breaking free from home: biofilm dispersal by a glycosidase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris. Environmental Microbiology. 2020
Should I kill or should I go: T6SS regulation networks in Vibrio. Environmental Microbiology. 2019
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Sarah Wettstadt, Marcos-Torres FJ, Otero-Asman JR, García-Puente A, Ortega Á, Llamas MA. 2024. Bacterial TonB-dependent transducers interact with the anti-σ factor in absence of the inducing signal protecting it from proteolysis. PLoS Biol. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002920
Joaquín R. Otero-Asman, Ana Sánchez-Jiménez, Karlijn C. Bastiaansen, Sarah Wettstadt, Cristina Civantos, Alicia García-Puente, Wilbert Bitter, María A. Llamas. 2023. The Prc and CtpA proteases modulate cell-surface signaling activity and virulence in *Pseudomonas aeruginosa. iScience.* doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107216
Sarah Wettstadt, María A. Llamas. 2020. Role of Regulated Proteolysis in the Communication of Bacteria with the Environment. Front. Mol. Biosci. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.586497
Sarah Wettstadt, Erh-Min Lai, Alain Filloux. 2020. Solving the puzzle: connecting a heterologous Agrobacterium tumefaciens T6SS effector to a Pseudomonas aeruginosa spike complex. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00291
Sarah Wettstadt, Alain Filloux. 2020. Manipulating the type VI secretion system spike to shuttle passenger proteins. PLoS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228941
Thomas E. Wood, Sophie A. Howard Sarah Wettstadt, Alain Filloux. 2019. PAAR proteins act as the “sorting hat” of the type VI secretion system. Microbiology. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000842
Sarah Wettstadt, Thomas E. Wood, Selina Fecht, Alain Filloux. 2019. Delivery of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa phospholipase effectors PldA and PldB in a VgrG- and H2-T6SS-dependent manner. Front Microbiol. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01718
Sarah Wettstadt (joint first author), Joaquín R. Otero‐Asman (joint first author), Patricia Bernal, María A. Llamas. 2019. Diversity of extracytoplasmic function sigma (σECF) factor‐dependent signaling in *Pseudomonas. Molec Microbiol MicroReview*. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14331
Panayiota Pissaridou, Luke P. Allsopp, Sarah Wettstadt, Despoina A.I. Mavridou and Alain Filloux. 2018. *Pseudomonas aeruginosa* tops the T6SS-VgrG1b spike with an evolved PAAR eliciting DNA damage in bacterial competitors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1814181115
Luke P. Allsopp, Thomas E. Wood, Sophie A. Howard, Federica Maggiorelli, Laura M. Nolan, Sarah Wettstadt, Alain Filloux**.** 2017. RsmA and AmrZ orchestrate the assembly of all three type VI secretion systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700286114
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