Very happy to see this work led by Kevin Gozzi published in PLOS Biology! GTAs are weird, amazing entities... Also represents end of an era for me- last Caulobacter paper from my lab after working on this bug since I was in grad school. 1/2

Hi all, we are very excited to share the work from Dr. Saria (@Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD)! When an Integrative Element moves to a new host, the timing of its integration is *critical* for the sake of the element and its new host! Read all about Saria’s discoveries here! More coming soon!! 😉

Happy to see the final version of this paper out in nature. Led by the incredible Tong Zhang and fantastic collaborators Gemma C Atkinson Vasili Hauryliuk and Abel Garcia-Pino. Started after serving as outside examiner for a student of Gem and Vasili's. 1/6 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Dear all, happy new year! We’re excited to start this 2023 with awesome news! Olivia Orlik has joined our lab. She is an undergrad that will be working on phage biology 🧬 Welcome Olivia!

Timing of integration into the chromosome is critical for the fitness of an integrative and conjugative element and its bacterial host PLOS Genetics from Grossman Lab journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Postdoctoral position available!!! Gram-negative bacterial infectious disease pathogenesis and innate immune responses. [email protected]

Congratulations to our BBM2023 Co-chair Alam García Heredia on this "hot off the press" review discussing the intricate interplay between the bacterial cell wall and plasma membrane! MIT Biology Grossman Lab SloanSiegristPalmore journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

#PLOSGenetics: Timing of integration into the chromosome is critical for the fitness of an integrative and conjugative element and its bacterial host dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… by Grossman Lab #ICEBs1

Hi all! Dr. Saria McKeithen-Mead (@Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD) found that premature integration of an Integrative and Conjugative Element is harmful for its host and therefore is carefully regulated. Saria is now at Stanford in the Huang and Sonnenburg groups, stay tuned for her upcoming endeavors!

That’s our Saria! Stay tuned for more news soon! @Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD

Clamp Loader Processing Is Important during DNA Replication Stress | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

Today we honor Dr. Wilmore Webley, an Associate Professor of Microbiology at UMass Amherst, with expertise in infectious diseases and Immunology. He hails from Jamaica 🇯🇲 and completed his graduate training UMass Amherst. He is a strong DEI advocate Wilmore Webley #BHM #DEI #STEM

Today we celebrate Dr. Selam Woldemeskel Selam A. Dr. Woldemeskel is originally from Ethiopia and completed her PhD @hopkinsmedicine, then pursued postdoctoral training MIT Biology, and is now a life science consultant strategist

That’s out Dr. McLellan presenting her cool science over there! 😎 Stay tuned!! We have big and excited news coming soon!! 🧬

Hi all! We are excited to share Saria’s (@Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD) work in collaboration with the Stavans group. We found that an Integrative and Conjugative Element can be highly mobile when looking for its integration site once it enters a new cell. Fantastic Saria! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

We are very thrilled and proud to announce that our postdoc Lisa McLellan will open her research group at Purdue University Fort Wayne!! We wish you all the best and cannot wait to see your research develop! Hooray Lisa!! 🍾🎊

For International Women's Day we would like to recognize a remarkable member of our microbiology community: Dr. Lisa McLellan who is a postdoctoral fellow MIT Biology and will be starting her independent career at Purdue University Fort Wayne Lisa McLellan #WomenInSTEM #WomensDay

Current and former Grossman Lab members at #Phages2023! It was a great time and we look forward to being back next year!

Review on ICE-host relationships out now! Check it out :) kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

A phage-encoded counter-defense inhibits an NAD-degrading anti-phage defense system biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio