Check out this exciting new story by postdoc Norbert "Bisco" Hill just out in bioRxiv, featuring rocketing Mycobacterium marinum bacteria and lipid droplets! "A mycobacterial glycine-rich protein governs actin-based motility" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

WE’RE PUBLISHED!!! Interested in forming a scientific communication network at your own institution? Check out our strategies and workflow in our Nature Biotechnology paper, brought to you by our founding members and current/past Editors-In-Chief! #Scicomm rdcu.be/cy5SB

Looking for a weekend read? Check out the newest structural take on the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease, ApoE4. Headed by ASoranno Melissa Brereton with Greg Bowman Maxwell Zimmerman Upasana Mallimadugula on the sims (and ft. my first ever MD/Folding@home sims!!!)

I am excited to share our work from the Waldor lab. We identified DUF368 and dedA as undecaprenyl flippases, a missing link in PG biosynthesis. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Two years ago today, in desperation, despair and uncertainty of what to do about my postdoc lab, I emailed my former grad school advisor details of what was going on. His response: "Well shit! Get out of there ASAP". This gave me the clarity and courage I needed to leave.

Wahoo! So happy to share a preprint on my research focused on the interplay of the CRC tumor microbiota and chemotherapeutic 5-fluorouracil (up on BioRxiv now) :D Thank you to all who contributed! Andy Kempczynski Susan Bullman CJohnstonLab

An insidious way socioeconomic inequality is impacting science is that many top research institutes are in places (NYC, Boston, Bay area) where real estate & cost of living is out of reach of anyone without family wealth to fall back upon. This is a form of silent gatekeeping.

🚨 Our Latest Virtual Issue is now alive! Mol Micro Editors @wileymicrobio Cell Wall Architecture and Function in Microbial Physiology 🦠🔬🧫 is now available on our website! 👇👇👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111…

This incredible work by @ceeraegee describing a new class of lipid-bounded iron storage organelles in bacteria is finally out. Distinct gene clusters drive formation of ferrosome organelles in bacteria disq.us/t/47rcx6v

Multiple ParA/MinD ATPases coordinate the positioning of disparate cargos in a bacterial cell biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here are some cellular fireworks, with most images collected during @MBLPhys 🎆 contributions by: manuela, Chunzi Liu, Nick Martin, Meg Titus & Amy Crawford, @PetraLevin, & Elizabeth Mueller *sound on*

6+ years of postdoc work in @jacobswagnerlab unveil amazing cell biology of the Lyme disease spirochete's genome! Thanks go to amazing collaborators and mentors from the Jacobs-Wagner, Rosa, and Wang labs. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

George Liu’s team form ⁦CHARM UC San Diego⁩ published in ⁦Cell Press⁩ ⁦Cell Host & Microbe⁩ that failed anti-S. aureus immunization trials could be explained by non-protective imprint from prior #Staph exposure! cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Hi everyone! Check out my first co-first author paper about the helicase operator DciA! Through our awesome collaboration with the Ravi lab Janani Ravi that originated at #MMPC2021, we show that the DciA protein family is quite diverse! @StallingsLab journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

Thrilled to collaborate with my grad school cohort mate and close friend Alex Polino in @thegoldberglab with Soumendranath Bhakat and Greg Bowman to understand the structural features of a potential drug target of world's deadliest parasite!

My first, first author paper from my post doc looking at the ICE TnSmu1 in the oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans! A short 🧵

Happening next week at WUSTL. A great opportunity to network and know more about the opportunities to work in industry. @WUSTLPostdoc #networking #opportunity