@DannyJamesWard

🇬🇧 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Biozentrum, University of Basel 🇨🇭 #T6SS #T3SS

 Basel, Switzerland
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Joined October 2009
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I passed my PhD viva/defence! 🎓🎉 Thank you to my examiners Prof. Sarah Coulthurst and Dr. Dianne Saunders. Thank you to JIC and UEA for being an excellent place to work and learn for the past few years, and a big thank you to everyone who supported me along the way! 👨‍🔬🎓🦠
Viva celebrations

ALT Viva celebrations

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Basel Museum Night 🌖🌃🌌 – at Basel-City, Switzerland
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Inside the Basel town hall. Interesting to see where decisions on running both the city and the canton are discussed, and to learn more about the history of the area 🇨🇭📜⚖️ – at Basel-City, Switzerland
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Really pleased to see this work published in PLOS Pathogens. Thanks to all authors for their help with this. Here we show how cyclic-di-GMP regulates type III effector export in Pseudomonas syringae using genetics, infection assays, and biochemistry. journals.plos.org/plospathog…

Cyclic-di-GMP controls Type III effector export and symptom development in Pseudomonas syringae...

Author summary Pseudomonas syringae is a bacterial plant pathogen that uses a molecular needle; the type 3 injectisome (T3I), to secrete specialised effector proteins into plant cells. Effector...

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Dr. Danny Ward retweeted
Basler Lab@Basler_Lab9 Dec 2025
Thank you, Katrin (@biozentrum) for a great summary of our paper! You can also check out this "Behind the Paper" written by @ATejadaArranz: communities.springernature.c…

Mechanisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistance to type VI secretion system attacks

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Biozentrum, University of Basel@biozentrum8 Dec 2025
New research by @Basler_Lab reveals a surprising microbial trade-off: The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa activates a general defense program to survive “speargun” attacks from rival bacteria, but this defense makes it more vulnerable to antibiotics. 👇biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/de…

How bacteria resist hostile attacks

Some bacteria use a kind of molecular “speargun” to eliminate their rivals, injecting them with a lethal cocktail. Researchers led by Prof. Marek Basler at the Biozentrum have now discovered that...

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New online! The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins nature.com/articles/s41579-0…
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Microbiology blockcourse teaching 🦠🔬🧫 – at Basel, Switzerland
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Interested in the T6SS and its effector proteins? Check out the new review from our lab!
Nature Reviews Microbiology@NatureRevMicro14 Nov 2025
New online! The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins nature.com/articles/s41579-0…
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Basler Lab@Basler_Lab14 Nov 2025
Happy to share our latest T6SS review: nature.com/articles/s41579-0… Thank you, @jan_wohlfarth, @DannyJamesWard, and @Joana_MPereira as well as reviewers and editors @NatureRevMicro!
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Basel Herbstmesse 🍁🍂 – at Basel-City, Switzerland
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Department hike - out and about in Baselland 🏞️ – at Laufen, Switzerland
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First Rhine swim of the year 🏊 – at Basel-City, Switzerland
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Biozentrum Symposium 2025 - great to see and hear all the current research going on at our institute 🔬🧪🦠 – at Arlesheim, Schweiz
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Visiting the Palais des Nations at UN Geneva 🇺🇳🕊️ #UNOG
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Visiting the European parliament in Strasbourg. Interesting to learn more about the inner workings and history of the EU 🇪🇺🇫🇷 – at Strasbourg, France
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❄️Winter time in Basel!❄️Let it snow...
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Snow in Basel 🇨🇭❄️☃️ – at Basel, Switzerland
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Departmental cheese fondue dinner - when in Switzerland 🫕🧀 – at Basel-City, Switzerland
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Microbio blockcourse teaching starts again 🦠🔬 – at Basel-City, Switzerland
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Lab lunch at the Basel Herbstmesse 🍁🍂🇨🇭 – at Basel-City, Switzerland
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Einstein House in Bern. Interesting to see where he lived during an earlier point in his life and where he wrote his theory of relativity paper ⚛️ – at Berne, Switzerland
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