Our review covering bacterial RNP-body (BR-body) phase separation and its role in mRNA decay is online now! Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews #WIREsRNA Childers Lab Dylan Tomares @WSUbiosci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm looking to hire a postdoc for an awesome project spanning thermal fluids and control systems. More info at: pangborn.bss.design/join.html.

Everything you ever wanted to know about - The Sponge RNAs of bacteria – How to find them and their role in regulating the post-transcriptional network sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #RNArules

Now out for E. coli: Global profiles of in vivo complexes of protein, RNA. Determined by Grad-seq and easy to browse. Check out your favourite molecule! Congrats to first author Jens Hör academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

My latest In Brief for The Plant Cell features a recent study by Wang, Nan et al. that links SUVH7 to salinity-induced expression of a sodium transporter HKT1;5 buff.ly/344iQgs

History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.

Don't be like @JGI and open other people's data without their permission. But be a champion of open science by opening your data and do it without expectations. Use open data when you find it without shame. Cite it's creators, and treat it as yours. merenlab.org/2019/02/24/fan…

Big congrats to #ILLINOIS professor Cari Vanderpool, Cari Vanderpool, newly-elected fellow of ASM! 🥳👏🙌 bit.ly/2N9dLzb She studies gene regulatory networks in bacteria, linking mechanisms at the molecular level to impacts on bacterial growth and metabolism.

Growing up in India, the 'use it until completely broken' was deeply ingrained in our minds. Sadly, this culture is eroding fast in India as well, as incomes rise. I still find it very hard to adapt to disposable culture. Need laws against unreasonable disposable items.

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A protein A based Staphylococcus aureus vaccine with improved safety sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

During his PhD, myCHOICE UChicago intern Matt Reyer studied gene expression regulation in E. coli - in his first story, he explains how he used math to better understand cell biology: uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/rese…

UChicago BSD Postdoctoral Symposium - keynote by Florian Krammer on how postdocs can apply their research & talk by Randall Ribaudo on advice on how to move forward with your career. Awards for flash talks & poster session! Register & submit abstract bit.ly/3zJqL1x

Small RNAs activate Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 by modulating mRNA stability through the hilD mRNA 3' UTR biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

So grateful that our very own Derek Eli and Dominique Missiakas could be a part of this amazing nature paper. Great job to Tauras Vilgalys and Jennifer Klunk on the amazing work 👏🏽

#SayHello to our Postdoc, Miaomiao Shi. Currently she works on the mechanisms whereby Protein A mediates B cell activation but was also integral in our vaccine 💉 development. Outside of lab, Miaomiao is super into rock climbing and bouldering 🧗‍♀️ because she's just the coolest!

It's always a thrill to receive an acceptance email from JBacteriology Eds - congrats to Sabrina Abdulla ! Will share the final version when it's ready, but in the meantime, check out her preprint on small RNA regulation in a 3' UTR! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Second that! Max is a superstar postdoc and a great mentor

Max is on the job market this year and I can personally attest to his talent and high-quality training! He's also a genuinely nice guy and would make a great colleague and mentor!

Our lab is excited to share our latest preprint describing the BR-body proteome with huge help from Seth Childers Julie Biteen @ChampionNd and Elaine Zhu's lab James and Patricia Anderson College of Engineering Wayne State University Biological Sciences biorxiv.org/content/10.110…