🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 to all of my fellow hosers out there! Just hangin' out and takin' it easy this long weekend... #OhCanada #hammocklife #LandShark

The cobra chicken is not to be trifled with! You don't know fear until you turn around on the 4th fairway to see one gliding at you from 10ft away, 5ft off the ground, making a beeline for your head, and all you have to defend yourself with is the 7-iron you have in your hand...

Sharing a very short paper that I wanted to write up for many years which showed biochemical evidence that UndP sequestered with altered sugar structures are trapped at the cystosolic face of the membrane due to ineffective Wzx activity. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It has arrived!😃🤓 Even our librarian couldn't track down an e-copy, so I ordered one from the UK. Has an excellent summary of early myxobacterial research, especially re: #motility🦠🔬 Discovered new (old!) references that show how ideas from 1951 turn out to be true after all!

Not science-related, but this is just too perfect not to re-post. If you know, you know... #Shatkins

So true & prescient! For shits & giggles, I've long planned to write up 1 of our stories currently in the pipeline using the leftside format (at least for the preprint), detailing the actual sequence of events that led to the final conclusion. Brace yourselves for an epic Fig.1🤓

Shhhhhhh.... 🤫 *whispers* Nobody tell CFI / FCI or NSERC / CRSNG RTI, ok?...🙊 yankodesign.com/2024/12/02/leg…

Excited to announce: I'll be joining the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bacteriology! 🦠🧫🔬 JBacteriology Eds, published by ASM since 1916, has long been a home for solid bacteriology research. It has been a pleasure to review for them over the years!

Delighted to share our bTB in bison story. Great partnership between Parks Canada and VIDO with exceptional assistance from VIDO veterinary services team. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our recently work shedding light on the reason why most OAg in E. coli favoured the initial sugar with GlcNAc same to ECA structure is out! It is like a plumbing solution to ensure efficient recycling of the essential cell envelope building block, UndP journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

We shown the very first quantitative evidence to localise the sequestration of C55 oligosaccharide intermediates to the cytosolic face of the cytoplasmic membrane. Thanks Microbiology Society for giving the concise story a good home. microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Good to have you back.

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a multidisciplinary project w. high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization Université de Montréal Faculté de médecine Mila - Institut québécois d'IA IRIC. Apply @ [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s

Our Resource Allocation grant for computing 💻 allotment was approved, at double the amount from last year! 😃 Thnx The Alliance | L’Alliance! Time for some even cooler #moleculardynamics simulations!!! Stay tuned... 😉

Sometimes I have too much fun working on review articles😁! Hmmm, how to end off a group review on the history of Myxococcus xanthus as a model 🦠? "The remarkable research journey of M. xanthus can thus be summed up as follows: from a pile of poop to getting shit done!"

It's here! Celebrating 50 y of the MyxoMeeting, we myxologists teamed up & wrote a JBac group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus & how it became the coolest model bacterium ever 🦠🧫. Really proud of this 1, check it out for tons of useful info! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

It's here! Celebrating 50 y of the MyxoMeeting, we myxologists teamed up & wrote a JBac group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus & how it became the coolest model bacterium ever 🦠🧫. Really proud of this 1, check it out for tons of useful info! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

Our group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus as a model organism (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…) made the cover of the Journal of Bacteriology!!!

Even better than science!

More "not science": THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE HEADING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!⚾️🧢💙😃