New dropbox has been set up at University of Missouri – Columbia Mizzou! Pickups are every other Tuesday at 12pm, located in Rm116 Tucker Hall. Thanks to Robert Kazmierczak Robert Kazmierczak for hosting the new box! 🦖

Better late than never. Big thanks to Cara Boutte for the thoughtful highlight of Emily Melzer paper on cell wall damage in M. smegmatis. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

Teaching the lab how to use Alphafold! What a fun way to start off the morning! #AlphaFold

Congrats to Wanda Figueroa! Her paper in AppEnvMicro journal has been selected by the Editor in Chief @GemmaReguera of AEM for inclusion in the “Spotlight,” a feature that highlights research articles of significant interest in the current issue.

This was my first in-person meeting since the start of the pandemic. What a great group of scientists to learn from and network with!

Peptidoglycan recycling mediated by an ABC transporter in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens dlvr.it/SfvvYW

NEWS: Anthony Edwards Named 2023 NBA All-Star Edwards will be playing in his first NBA All-Star Game and he is the eighth player in Minnesota Timberwolves history to be named an NBA All-Star. Full release: nba.com/timberwolves/n…

After missing 51 straight games with a Grade 3 calf strain, Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns will return tonight vs. Atlanta Hawks barring setback in pregame, sources tell The Athletic Stadium. Nine games remaining as T'Wolves battle for playoff positioning.

Postdoc positions open in Felipe Cava's lab! CavaLab Great lab to work in, and (confidently informed by recent personal experience) a really beautiful part of Sweden!

Analyses of cell wall synthesis in Clostridioides difficile reveal a diversification in cell division mechanisms in endospore-forming bacteria dlvr.it/Sv4Gzx

Really happy to have this officially published! Thanks to Shen Lab, Simonetta Gribaldo, and Najwa for their amazing support! Give it a read if you’re interested in bacterial cell division, spore formation, and the evolution of PG synthases that drive them: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy holidays! Super fun making this fully edible gingerbread waterbath for our dept holiday party with this amazing group of people! ⁦⁦Qiwen Dong⁩ ⁦Jacob Bouchier⁩ ⁦⁦Greg Harrison⁩