So deeply thankful for the privilege of having a home lab. Without it, given my spinal injury + no formal degree of any kind, I would not be able to work and pay bills. Big huge shout-out to all who hired my services and continue to support my efforts. My little CRO saved me.

Thank you Mark O. Martin for the wonderful knitted moss piglet! He's so happy with his E. coli and B. burgdorferi friends

I am so excited to finally share "I'm a Neutrino"! Featuring modern physics experiments beautifully illustrated by my mother, Ilze Lemesis. She inspired me to pursue my #STEM dreams growing up, now I aspire to encourage kids to do the same. Cute neutrino story time, here we come!

I am very excited to announce that my first, first-author review has just been published in The Royal Society Open Biology with Ariane Briegel and The Claessen Lab 🎉 doi.org/10.1098/rsob.2…

Day 3 of #microber2021 “No worries, StreptoMike, I can give you a ride!” - said the Bacillus #Flagella (Motivated by… )

Intermicrobial Hitchhiking: How Nonmotile Microbes Leverage Communal Motility Trends in Microbiology #transport Ariane Briegel Alise Muok hubs.ly/H0Zln_w0

You might already know "fungal highway" for motile soil bacteria ( pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es… ), but how about phages? Can they also be co-transported (or hitchhike, as suggested by Alise Muok Ariane Briegel doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.… ) on the fungal highway? (2/8)

Happy to share my newest preprint on spirochete chemosensing! Did you know that an alternative chemotaxis protein also alters biofilm and persister formation? Well you can read more about it here! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mutations are NOT random. Check out our discoveries published today in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Feeling super lucky to work with an amazing group of scientists on this unexpected and exciting line of research 🙏

Suicidal chemotaxis in bacteria! Now officially published! We found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa crawls towards lethal antibiotcs. This was a super cool project to work on and I'm stoked to see it out! Check out the preprint thread for details! nature.com/articles/s4146…

A new insight into the chemosensory signaling complex machinery by Keith Cassidy and Oxford and Salt Lake City teams! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hitchhiking Phage -by Roberto schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/202…

Such a cool article about microbial hitchhiking from Small Things Considered--and they used my paintings!

Een passie voor videogames, beeld en wetenschap: het lijkt bijna onmogelijk samen te brengen. Toch heeft wetenschappelijk animator Vera Williams die droomcombinatie gevonden bij het microscopielab van NeCEN 🖥️🎨🔬edu.nl/e3m49

Bacterial chemoreceptor signaling complexes control kinase activity by stabilizing the catalytic domain of CheA | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Having this work published is a symbol of perseverance. From getting married, taking a leave for health, and moving to a different country, this work was there the whole way through! Thank you Ariane Briegel C. Keith Cassidy Flory Davi Ortega journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

How does a pathogenic bacterium search for food? Ariane Briegel and Alise Muok studied the Treponema denticola, a bacterium that lives in dental plaque 🦷 Their results could have direct medical implications to treat diseases such as Lyme and syphilis edu.nl/b783g

My name is Alise Muok and I just published my first fiction book! Six Fantasy/SciFi/Horror tales with illustrations and music included. Curious? You can take a look here: barnesandnoble.com/w/books/114400…

CheA histidine kinase, the "brain" of bacterial chemosensory systems, is a five-domain protein, as seen in E. coli and B. subtilis. Well, more often than not, this is not true! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Don’t miss the new podcast about squids and vibrios! Matters Microbial #12: Shedding light on symbiosis with Ruth Isenberg - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=oovPHV…