Angela Mitchell and Anna Konovalova🇺🇦 envelope biogenesis supergroup meetings are always so much fun!

For today's #FridayFacultySpotlight, we'll highlight Dr. James Smith 💡 Dr. Smith is a Professor and Founder of Sano Chemicals!! 👨‍🔬 His research interests include Structural & Functional Characterization of Natural Products from Microorganisms!! 🦠👍

For much of her career, Esther Lederberg did not receive the professional recognition bestowed upon men whose achievements were intermixed with her own. Recognizing her work is key to bringing her legacy out of the shadows. Learn about her story: asm.org/Articles/2023/… (2/2)

Congratulations to Dr. Mark J. Zoran on being named the dean of Texas A&M Arts & Sciences 🎉 Dr. Zoran has been a professor of biology and a neuroscientist at Texas A&M University since 1991 👍 Read more about the appointment here 🔗: bit.ly/3NAYJ0T

Unlike Boeings, LolCDE is built tough. Took a lot to break this lipoprotein transporter! See the latest from the lab in mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Are you an undergraduate student thinking of a research career in microbiology? Consider our MICROBIOLOGY Summer Undergraduate Research Program (MicroSURP) in Houston. Deadline is soon: Feb. 1st! Contact [email protected] with questions. med.uth.edu/mmg/education/…

New in JB: The lysine:cadaverine antiporter CadB can aid in peptidoglycan recycling M. Stephen Trent journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb… ASM JBacteriology Eds

🧪Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

Today is #FridayFacultySpotlight, and we're highlighting Dr. Christine Merlin! Dr. Merlin is a Center for Biological Clocks Research member and a 2020 Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow recipient. We're so thankful to have Dr. Merlin as part of our awesome staff! 👍 🍎

We're so excited to share Dr. Thomas D. McKnight is one of six faculty members earning a 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award! 🏆 The award recognizes exemplary efforts in a variety of categories crucial to campus-wide excellence. Congrats Dr. McKnight! 👍 tx.ag/ArtSciDAA2024

Congratulations to Dr Julianna Marotta, Ph.D. for awesome an PhD defense today!! Emory Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Emory Microbiology and Immunology Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center

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!

World Health Organization (WHO) just releases the 2024 Bacterial Priority Pathogens List of public health importance to guide R&D, and investments in #AMR prevention and control in measures to address emerging public health threats. Full report: who.int/publications/i…

Congratulations to TAMU Biology’s Dr. Kayla Goforth, who was selected as a 2024 Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, the first Texas A&M University recipient in the 41-year history of the prestigious award! Read more about Dr. Goforth & her research: tx.ag/KaylaGoforth

New pub from the lab! Hailee did a bang up job on this! #PLOSPathogens: The small acid-soluble proteins of Clostridioides difficile regulate sporulation in a SpoIVB2 ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Pls share: Microbiology faculty position available at Texas A&M University.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position at Texas A&M University! Apps open: 9/5/24 Fields: microbiology (e.g., bacteriology, virology, microbial pathogenesis, environmental microbiology, microbial ecology/microbiome Info here: faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?JobI…

In eLife - the journal: A lytic transglycosylase connects bacterial focal adhesion complexes to the peptidoglycan cell wall doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…