Starting 2023 with the first preprint from the Adams lab @NICHD_NIH!! We comprehensively characterized transcription termination, finding hundreds of truncated transcripts and potential regulators in the Lyme pathogen B. burgdorferi!! with storzlab NIH biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our first foray into #cancer research is published in Cell Reports, describing artificial bacterial spores ("SSHELs") that deliver drugs to specific cell types. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Check out Mimmo D'Atri's 2 min video explaining our technology:

Cultural mentorship training is needed in academia. Anecdotally, I’ve heard of/witnessed countless PI’s assume their Black mentees are angry (when that mentee is really depressed) then work to punish said mentee for not acting how they think they should… journals.lww.com/nursingresearc…

Here we show the effect of translation stress on sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Sporulation is delayed when cells lack EF-P. Expression of Spo0A, the first sporulation transcription factor, is delayed. #translation #ribosomes journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

This story is finally out in eLife - the journal ! Excited to share the core of my post-doc work where I built a clinically relevant polymicrobial system of interest to chronic CF lung infection to define the community mechanisms driving shifts in antimicrobial susceptibility of P. aeruginosa

Documenting the beginning of an era. Wonder how many decades it will take to finish the roll...

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"The willingness to cast the failure of white people to effectively confront and contain the manifestations of violent white supremacy as Black civil rights failure, deserves a strong response"

Tech inspired by #Bacillus spores ("SSHELs") on the cover today! Nautical interpretation of SSHELs plunging into a wave (surface of target ovarian cancer cell doing macropinocytosis). SSHELs then unleash doxorubicin cargo (red) into the oceanic cytosol. #microbiology #cancer

@CantlonLab It seems to be the goal of all the accounts and the overall PR campaign. To pretend it’s all about one woman’s relationship and then discredit her, to distract from the chorus of others. Otherwise they have to argue that we are all liars. Or we’re offended by a few profanities.

She Helped Unlock Science of Covid Vaccine “I try to make sure that my lab and the people I hire come from diverse backgrounds so that our thoughts and the way that we do our science shakes the table a little bit,” she said.” Keep shaking it KizzyPhD nytimes.com/2023/02/09/sci…

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I got to hear about this super cool work from Saria @Saria McKeithen-Mead, PhD at the Stress conference this past summer. So nice to see it officially published. Congratulations!! 🎉🎉 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Curious about what leads to this dramatic phenotype in Bacillus subtilis? In some my graduate work, I investigate the importance of regulating the timing of integration for a class of integrative mobile genetic elements here: doi.org/10.1371/journa… #hgt #microbiology

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!

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