Tiago Costa
@CostaT_Lab
Associate Professor and Group Leader @CBRB_imperial @imperialcollege. We study the structure and function of bacterial secretion systems.
With @jrpenades, we challenged AI co-scientist @GoogleAI to generate hypotheses. In just 2 days, it recapitulated our unpublished, experimentally confirmed mechanism for how cf-PICIs spread between bacterial species! 🤯 @imperialcollege @FlemingCentre tinyurl.com/3byyaeh2
Great to see our @GoogleDeepMind @GoogleAI AI co-scientist innovations (multi-agent idea generation tournament) ship fast with @googlecloud Agentspace! Incredible shipping momentum at @Google! 🚢 Agentspace -cloud.google.com/products/agent… AI co-scientist - research.google/blog/accelerat…
@jonaszpatkowski and I pinpointed tail piracy as a new mechanism of horizontal gene transfer and explained the wide spread of cf-PICIs among different bacterial species and viromes.
New work from the lab with @jrpenades! We discovered a biological entity that spreads among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. This finding has major translational applications due to its broad host range. More news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE
New study shows how bacteria evolved powered-up propellers imperial.ac.uk/news/265473/ne… ... nature.com/articles/s4156…
Looking for a fully-funded D. Phil. / Ph.D. studentship in structural biology and vaccinology? Come to join our team. Fully and generously funded by a donation from the Kyner-Field family with full fees at overseas level. Join us?? bioch.ox.ac.uk/studentships
Read more about AI co-scientist here, including novel and useful medical insights it has already discovered! Better understanding the universe around us has always been my passion and primary motivation for building AI - a dream that now feels very close. research.google/blog/accelerat…
Does every scientist need an AI co-scientist? We sat down with @jrpenades & @CostaT_Lab, two @imperialcollege professors putting @google's new 'AI co-scientist' tool to the test. How long did it take AI to solve the mystery they'd spent a decade trying to figure out? 🧵
3rd UK MGE Workshop – June 16-17, Southampton Low-cost, science-focused, and full of fresh faces! Great discussions—no hidden agendas, just MGEs. Call for talks– No abstract needed! Just send your title by the end of April. #MGE #UKscience
We are looking for a PhD student/Postdoc to develop methods of cryo-ET and/or study the structure and function of membrane proteins. Great team at the MDC in Berlin. It's a broad call, please apply and share! jobrxiv.org/job/max-delbru…
If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! nature.com/articles/s4157…
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Professor José Penadés and Dr Tiago Dias da Costa co-led the experimental work at Imperial’s @ImperialInfect and @ImperialLifeSci respectively. Professor José Penadés also co-led the validation work with the Fleming Initiative on using Google’s AI co-scientist platform.
@imperialcollege researchers credit the Fleming Initiative's convening power in enabling their unique collaboration with @Google researchers on a novel co-scientist AI. Learn more ⤵️
Researchers working with the Fleming Initiative have collaborated with @Google to create a novel AI co-scientist that can assist with hypothesis generation. For AMR, where R&D costs can be prohibitive, this creates a significant opportunity ⤵️ imperial.ac.uk/news/261293/go…
Researchers working with the Fleming Initiative have collaborated with @Google to create a novel AI co-scientist that can assist with hypothesis generation. For AMR, where R&D costs can be prohibitive, this creates a significant opportunity ⤵️ imperial.ac.uk/news/261293/go…
An unreleased AI system by @Google designed to assist researchers has the potential to "supercharge science." Imperial researchers were among the first to test it and say it replicated ten years of work in just two days... Read more ⤵️ imperial.ac.uk/news/261293/go…
"I wrote an email to google and said, you have access to my computer." Prof José Penadés, chair in microbiology at University College London, tells #R4Today about the moment he realised AI model Google co-scientist explained a study in two days that had taken him 10 years.
New work from the lab with @jrpenades! We discovered a biological entity that spreads among different bacterial species by hijacking tails from various phages. This finding has major translational applications due to its broad host range. More news soon! shorturl.at/kRJqE
If you want to learn more about Imperial’s #AMR research visit our website: imperial.ac.uk/institute-of-i…
@imperialcollege has more than 90 groundbreaking research groups working to combat #AMR. Watch as we & @Grampospath (@CBRB_Imperial) explain how they address this critical threat! youtube.com/watch?v=-kfcCT… #WAAW2024 #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek @FlemingCentre @CAMO_Net1
Meet The Shielded Plasmid🛡️🧬 Our new @Nature paper reveals how plasmids outsmart bacterial defenses during conjugation. It's all about being in the right place at the right time! The positioning of anti-defense genes boosts transfer efficiency🧵(1/7) nature.com/articles/s4158…