Periodic Reporting for period 4 - PhageResist (Beyond CRISPR: Systematic characterization of novel anti-phage defense systems in the microbial pan-genome)

To survive in the face of perpetual phage attacks, bacteria and archaea have developed a variety of anti-phage defense systems, commonly known as the microbial “immune system”. The purpose of the project was to systematically discover and characterize new, yet unknown...