Excited that the second paper from my PhD work is finally out. Many thanks to my former rotation student Kara.

Our c-di-GMP sensor story is finally out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/dHsEh. Including new data demonstrating cdGreen2 as a convenient tool to study DGC and PDE activity in vitro. Great collaboration with @simon_vanvliet and Maier Lab!

Excited about our new minireview in JB from Chris Geiger, a recently minted PhD student from the lab, with help from Gerard Wong. Chris proposes a new model for T4P talking to the cAMP signaling machinery. Check it out! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11… ASM JBacteriology Eds

And just like that, my time at Dartmouth has come to a close.

I had the opportunity to hood three of my recent PhD students at the annual Graduate School Investiture on Saturday: Chris Geiger, Alexander Pastora and graduate student marshall Rebecca Valls (left->right). Plus I got to wear my fancy Wisconsin robes! M2P2 at Dartmouth Dartmouth CF Research Center

Want to work on polymicrobial infections? Looking for motivated postdocs to join our team!  Apply here: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job… Please RT.

Do you have any talented biology/microbiology students who just graduated and need a job? Send them my way please. The Burton Lab is hiring a research tech. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Amazing lab! Amazing mentor!

Twin Drs. Lucinda Pastora

I had the opportunity to give the keynote lecture at the Phage meeting this week - the first meeting I went to as a PhD student 25 years ago! And my student Alex Fu gave a talk. It's a great meeting! conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/program… M2P2 at Dartmouth

Celebratating the very first publication for our lab here with the co-first authors! Congratulations, Courtney and Roman!

Type IV pili (T4P) are important virulence factors in many bacterial pathogens. This #JBacteriology review explores the mechanisms regulating T4p motor function, which could be harnessed to disable the pili in pathogenic bacteria. Get the full story: asm.social/2bR

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is at it again! Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-Ass… careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-Ass…

Plant health is essential to global food security, yet pathogens continue to threaten crops worldwide. To better understand how disease takes hold—and how to stop them—HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shanice Webster is exploring the dynamic relationships among plants, microbes, and

Join us at #ASMicrobe 2025 for an eye-opening in-depth symposium: “To Compete or Collaborate: Polymicrobial Infections" featuring #JBacteriology EIC George O'Toole, Ph.D., Dartmouth.🔗 Register now: asm.social/2p7 #Biofilms #Microbiome #CysticFibrosis #Polymicrobial

Congratulations to Dr. Lucinda Pastora and Dr. Taylor Sheehy!

We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at LeidenBiology within our MicroClockERC #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis please share these with your network! 🙏 links below👇 [1/3]

Excited to share our latest publication in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Big congrats to all co-authors on this highly collaborative effort – especially to first author Blaise Kimmel, PhD for his dedication to this project! Check out the paper (open access) here: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Researchers uncover a new class of retropepsin-like proteases in P. aeruginosa that are required for biofilm formation & bacterial survival under stress conditions, including antibiotic exposure, making them appealing therapeutic targets. #mBio: asm.social/2sq