Exciting work from Kim Lewis & col! They looked for antibiotics in a nematode symbiont and found a compound that is not expressed in lab conditions and targets BamA A new antibiotic selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens ⁦@nature⁩ nature.com/articles/s4158…

The human body is home to trillions of microorganisms that have direct and indirect impacts on health and disease. Our Nature Milestone in Human Microbiota Research provides a historical perspective of the breakthroughs in the field: go.nature.com/2NEOooq

Always learn a ton at NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology all-hands meetings! UMN Department of Chemistry Stephanie Mitchell @SustainableNano @NSF_MPS

Thrilled to share our most recent paper in Laura Kiessling with the Prof_Goodpaster group examining histidine kinase phosphorylation with ATP analogs! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… UMN Department of Chemistry

Welp. Minnesota confirms first case of COVID-19 virus mprnews.org/story/2020/03/… via @mprnews

Great advice for PhD students (and postdocs) feeling isolated when locked out of the lab for social distancing. Thank you to @zjayres for this!

A simple expression of why physical distancing is crucial & urgent & will help you & your loved ones & the loved ones of your loved ones, etc - AND lift the load on our medical pros. Share, repost, republish; it's creative commons. 🙏 Dr Siouxsie Wiles & Toby Morris thespinoff.co.nz/politics/22-03…

I have a postdoc position in my lab in the area of bacterial pathogenesis, drug development, and immunotherapy. If you'd like to work at the interface of cell biology & immunology and motivated & passionate about #TBresearch, do apply! The last date is April 30.

Exciting tour of our lab 😎😀🙂🎉

Remembering Lab celebrations... Life before lockdown... *picture clicked just 5 days prior to lockdown*

The science is clear – fighting #antibioticresistance demands an ongoing supply of novel #antibiotics. But every approved #antibiotic in use today is based on discoveries from before 1985. pew.org/2Hft2Jk

I have a joke about microscope but I need good objective lens to see it...

While I may be the first, I won’t be the last.

Hiring a postdoc with interests in bacterial signaling and cell wall construction! Do you love synthesis, mass spectrometry, biochemistry, microbiology and more? Apply by 2/15! Please RT! UMN Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota Medicinal Chemistry carlson.chem.umn.edu

Experiencing virtual biology virtually 🧬 👩‍💻

Postdoc position available in my group focusing on enzyme design, bio-inorganic chemistry and structural biology. Interested applicants, please email me your CV, cover letter and references at [email protected] U.S. National Science Foundation NIH funded. Chemjobber RT appreciated.

Amazing opportunity to work on cutting edge projects and with amazing co-workers!! #postdocposition

In their paper, Deepti Sharan and Erin Carlson study the selectivity of several β-lactam antibiotics for individual penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) in Streptococcus pneumoniae and report different selectivities of the different β-lactams. (10/11) doi.org/10.1515/hsz-20…

Pleased to share that our lab was recently featured in a great piece, highlighting our work on understanding the gut microbiome. Huge thanks to the Inside the Lab team for putting this together and for capturing the essence of what drives our research.

1/ New preprint! We discovered that Bacteroidales in the gut microbiome can metabolize exogenous DNA 🧬 —turning genetic material into usable nutrients. “DNA-utilization loci enable exogenous DNA metabolism in gut Bacteroidales” 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…