Catherine Robert

TL;DR: The size and complexity of the Mimivirus genome challenge the established frontier between viruses and parasitic cellular organisms and this new sequence data might help shed a new light on the origin of DNA viruses and their role in the early evolution of eukaryotes.

TL;DR: Culturomics complements metagenomics by overcoming the depth bias inherent in metagenomic approaches, and identifies 174 species never described previously in the human gut.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a comparative genomic approach to identify the complete repertoire of resistance genes exhibited by the multidrug-resistant A. baumannii strain AYE, which is epidemic in France, as well as investigate the mechanisms of their acquisition by comparison with the fully susceptible A. bayannii species SDF, associated with human body lice.

TL;DR: During a study following a pneumonia outbreak in 1992, a microorganism growing in amoebae and resembling a small Gram-positive coccus was isolated from the water of a cooling tower in Bradford, England.

TL;DR: It is shown that the use of culturomics allows the culture of organisms corresponding to sequences previously not assigned, which doubles the number of species isolated at least once from the human gut.