Thank you One Health Microbiome Center for this opportunity

*Free* intro-level course on "Bioinformatics for Biologists" from @WellcomeGenome Campus -- a good way to learn about Linux & gain some fluency w/ command-line scripts: futurelearn.com/courses/linux-…

The influence of copper homeostasis genes copA and copB on Xylella fastidiosa virulence is affected by sap copper concentration apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH…

We're hiring! Looking for a research assistant to work with us on phage microbiology and phage therapy research projects. Position is for 1 year, possibility of renewal for a 2nd. Please RT! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Finally, our work on phage-tail like bacteriocin (aka tailocin or pyocin) mediated killing and resistance to self-intoxication paper is online at The ISME Journal rdcu.be/cf04f Awesome work by Sean Carim AsHLi Alexey Kazakov more here 👇

Congrats to Ravi Ravi Patel on final acceptance of his lead author "pandemic project" in mBio! (Coauthors Prem Kandel, PhD, Kevin Hockett, and Eboni Traverso.) In place of a celebratory lunch out, I got him a celebratory project-themed facemask.

Our project linking cell wall to the stringent response and translational fidelity in pneumococcus is out in PNASNews! Very productive collaboration with Surya Dev Aggarwal, Sergio R Filipe, Warwick AMR Lab, and Sai Yerneni. pnas.org/content/118/14…

If you have a few hundred bacterial genomes to compare and want to infer a distance matrix without doing all pairwise ANI computations, try LINflow code.vt.edu/linbaseproject… peerj.com/articles/10906/ and let us know how it works for you.

Epiphytic strains of Pseudomonas syringae kill diverse aphid species. aem.asm.org/content/early/…

Very excited to announce our first paper on toxin-antitoxin systems in phage defense. Entirely the work of a supremely talented student, Chantal Guegler! It's been mind blowing to explore the amazing world of phage biology... cell.com/molecular-cell…

Our new paper is out in mBio! Ravi Patel's work in collaboration with Kevin Hockett, Prem Kandel, PhD, and ugrad Eboni Traverso. It investigates the physiological states that help path. populations survive antimicrobials and cause recurring infection. (1/5) mbio.asm.org/content/mbio/1…

While I was out of the lab during the pandemic, Drs. Wende Liu (CAAS) and Xiao-Lin Chen (Huazong Agricultural University) gave me a fun opportunity to collaborate on an Annual Review. I learned a lot about PTMs in regulating bacterial and fungal pathogens! annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

We just updated our extensive list of funding opportunities for early-career faculty. We now list 553 funding opportunities, w/ topic, eligibility, deadline, amount, and link for each. Download the searchable list here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

The highly conserved chaperonin GroESL is linked to the bacterial cell division machinery via interactions with FzIA and FtsA. @mBioJournal skyw.io/klHLIs

Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.

I really appreciate Penn State taking the time to write about me. This post isn't about self praising, I hope this serves as an example (hopefully a good one) to many hardworking immigrants out there who had to constantly battle and work their way up despite systemic barriers.

The mycobacterial DnaK system of chaperones associates with many drug targets and can itself serve as a potential target for drugs to overcome antimicrobial resistance in mycobacteria. @mBioJournal skyw.io/vt80WG

Excited to announce that we have a position open for an Assistant Professor in Global Change Pathology psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Acad… contact Paul Esker or @Buckhout_Bull for more information! APS Graduate Student Committee Association of Plant Pathology Scholars Open Plant Pathology Plant Pathogens (APPS) The American Phytopathological Society please retweet