Lunch on day 1 of #ASR2023 🥰

Nothing truly humbles you like trying to pour a protein gel…

off to the trenches (the tissue culture room)

Nothing like waiting 17 minutes for the BART on a Friday evening 🙄

The #Rickettsia genus contains pathogenic tick-borne bacteria, but it's difficult to study live Rickettsia within a host. New work led by Wanda Figueroa (@goleylab) presents a set of quantitative methods to characterize the growth/division of R. parkeri. molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb…

Headed to #cellbio2023? Make sure to check out the latest work from the Lamason lab on Sunday. Start off with our 4 posters (P1683, P1694, P1700, P1702) from Brandon Sit, Allen, Allison, and Cassandra, and follow it up with an evening session talk featuring grad student Yami!

Briefly on this cursed website to advertise that Meghan and I will be presenting posters on rickettsia and actin based motility at #cellbio2023 tomorrow (Sunday) from 1:45-3:00 PM. Meghan’s poster is B96 and mine is B732! Hope to see y’all there :)

A video of rickettsia doing everything BUT cell-to-cell spread 🙄

I love waiting for the BART 🙄

Thrilled to share our preprint on inducible expression and CRISPRi tools for Rickettsia from authors Jon McGinn, Annie Wen, David Brinkley, and Desmond Edwards! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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The Tortured Immuno Department

🧵Excited to share my first author preprint detailing much of my dissertation work! Here we used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… /1

Writing “but this remains poorly understood” in the abstract

Life lately (it’s almost done!)

Image: Interactions between R. parkeri and the ER are dependent on VAPA and VAPB. Acevedo-Sánchez et al. Becky Lamason MIT Biology characterize a novel interkingdom contact site between the ER and a cytosolic bacterial pathogen. hubs.la/Q031sryG0 #ER_literature #Microbiology