"#NEC has always been an emergency condition, with care teams only able to respond once it's already out of control. With the necessary insight, preventing NEC & avoiding a life-threatening crisis may require relatively simple interventions." #preventNEC necsociety.org/2022/07/29/res…

Thank you for highlighting our study NEC Society #preventNEC

Attending marvelous streptococcal biology GRC. Terrific talk on group B Strep in the neonatal intestine by Tara Randis #StrepYourGameUp

Current and past Ratner lab scientists at the streptococcal biology GRC, moments after hearing some great presentations and moments before housing some fresh Maine lobsters. Adam Ratner MD MPH Tara Randis #StrepYourGameUp

Check out this new episode of UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's "That's Pediatrics" podcast where Tom Hooven discusses bacterial infections in newborns and our lab's efforts to find new ways to treat/prevent them. chp.edu/health-care-pr…

Congratulations to hoovenlab postdoc Kathy Gopalakrishna Kathyayini Gopalakrishna MBBS PhD (she/her) who gave a terrific platform presentation at #PAS2023 on a group B Streptococcus protein that contributes to neonatal disease. Bravo, Kathy!

New paper from our lab in Communications Biology. A detailed look at the GBS CRISPR-Cas system and a roadmap for using it for rapid repression of GBS gene expression. #GroupBStrep rdcu.be/dd8oW