A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

I am calling on the federal government to double the funding to the tricouncils. Need your voice and those of all scientists across #Canada to support

Total evidence for 'immutable target': "No spontaneous resistant mutants of S. aureus ATCC29213 were obtained when plating 1.2X10^10 cells on agar media with 4xMIC clovibactin." So one-step high-level resistance is rare - I'm still betting on the bacteria.

Coming up in September! A stimulating Mike Gold Early Career Investigators Webinar by DR. JAUMOUILLÉ "How do Macrophages Decide What to Eat" on Wed September 13th! Register at: csi-sci.ca/Early_Career_I… #Mechanobiology #Immunology

Lough Neagh is just another victim of rising global temperatures. Climate change increases the growth of harmful algae and cyanobacteria in fresh water. Runaway growths of algae strangle water ecosystems and devastate them.

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I am not sure. If I were a PI I would try to preserve my mentee’s writing as much as possible-light edits only. If substantial changes are needed, I leave a comment instead. This is their writing, and they should express their individuality, not mine.

Webinar Alert: October 6, 2:00 PM EST Protein Dynamics - the Key for Biological Function, featuring Dr. Dorothee Kern and Dr. Lewis Kay. TPS webinars are always free. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

For the first time ever, scientists have observed antimatter is affected by gravity. The findings, published in @nature, come from an international team of researchers that includes #SFU's Michael Hayden ow.ly/23MU50PQqkt SFU Physics SFU Science

What ? soon no need for Mass Spec Anymore? Sequencing proteins with Nanopore ?! 🤯🤯🤯 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Join Phyllis Webstad, founder of Orange Shirt Day and #SFU honorary degree recipient, for a special Burnaby campus event Oct. 4. Continue to raise awareness of the legacy and ongoing impacts of Indian Residential School system and honour those impacted. eventbrite.ca/e/10th-anniver…

Well-deserved, but a missed opportunity to also acknowledge the other part of the equation: the development of Lipid Nanoparticles, equally crucial for the mRNA vaccines. Decades of work by Pieter Cullis and colleagues.

A fascinating work is published today nature by Zhang & Zhang et al. on a serendipitous discovery of haemoglobin expression outside the RBC cells--in chondrocytes--and their critical role in keeping our cartilage alive under an oxygen-deprived environment.

A huge congrats to my graduate student Andy Heindel for publishing his work on developing PACCE for global quantification of protein-RNA binding activity in live cells. We thank our collaborators Markus Hafner NIAMS & Thurl Harris UVA Pharmacology. disq.us/t/4jhbf7b

New preprint online! My favorite Streptococcus phage protein is actually an intrinsically disordered protein. The structure of paratox we know is only when its bound to ComR. ManitobaMicrobiology UManitoba Science MiSC U of M U of Manitoba MicroGSA Dr. Laura Cook biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thanks Ryan - it was great to have you and to hear about your amazing work on #glycoRNA

I'm looking for a grad student(s) to start in 2025! Students can gain broad experience in developmental genetics, signal transduction, and disease modeling. Located in beautiful Vancouver. Check out our website for details. verheyenlab.weebly.com Please R/T

The King lab is recruiting two graduate students to join our team of researchers exploring the biochemical basis of CO2 sensing in health and disease. See our website (kinglab.ca) for details on how to apply.