FINALLY

Before people start praising Mitt Romney for doing the ABSOLUTE BARE MINIMUM as a GOP senator, don't forget that he is still a giant hypocrite and voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett.

Workers in NYC found quite a surprise when beginning to set up this year's Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center: A little saw-whet owl was found nestled inside it! 1/3

Stellar stuff. Tim Klein and Co. making more headway into T7-secretion - this time taking a swing at the T7SSb structural component, EsaA. Congrats all.

Today's #FacultyFriday feature is Brenda Lee, a physics lecturer and the undergraduate advisor for Life Science students! This term she is teaching introductory biophysics (BIOL/PHYS 280), and also teaches intro physics courses to both physics and engineering students.

You ever find a movie on netflix that you wanted to see but sorta forgot about and then feel a little offended that the algorithm didn't recommend it - like do your job???

is there anything more PURE than pre-seminar small talk.

I’m glad to share our latest work in Coombes lab to study the fitness of AIEC in vivo. Using tnseq/rnaseq,we identified a role for T4SS in the gut. The bioinformatics part was a fun learning experience for me and I’m excited to use this further in my lab. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Why does Ontario's vaccination roll out feel more like a sneaker drop?

Dear Doug Ford and Stephen Lecce - Ontario Graduate Scholarships fund the backbone of Ontario’s R&D. The value has been stuck at $15k since I was a graduate student. It’s time to increase the value. Investing in graduate students is good for everyone

Congratulations to the 2021 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease recipients.

Big week for the Whitney lab. Dr. @sasheriahmad defended his PhD and John Whitney joined Twitter. Not sure who I’m more happy for.

The Little Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF) to do some Protein Biochemistry and Microbiology. Please RT. thelittlelab.ca/postdoc-positi… #postdocjobs #postdoc #postdocposition

Watched one of my closest friends earn his PhD today and couldn't be more happy. Congrats Timothy Klein, I love ya buddy!!!! (Pinks?)

A fun collaboration with Michael Laub Gemma C Atkinson and Abel Garcia-Pino labs, spearheaded by Tong Zhang. Discovery of fused CapRel toxSAS TA as an anti-phage defence system is out in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our work on bacterial NLR-related proteins is out in its final form! See thread by Emily Kibby for a few updates and see below for more highlights.

I'm very excited to present the latest type VII secretion system research from the John Whitney which is out now at bioRxiv Microbiology. In this work, we look deeper into how toxins are recognized and secreted by this Gram +ve secretion system. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our surprising discovery of a highly novel photosynthetic bacterium from #Boreal #Shield #lakes in Canada! Now published in nature , over six years after our first enrichment culture A long thread 🧵 ⬇️ 1/ nature.com/articles/s4158…