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!

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Check out our contribution to JBacteriology Eds's 'Special Series on the History of Microbial Model Systems' with a fantastic review by postdoc Brandon Sit Brandon Sit journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

First graduate student defended this week! Congrats on a spectacular defense Dr. Allen Sanderlin!! 🍾 🥂

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…

Congrats to Yami Acevedo-Sánchez on her phenomenal defense! She presented a great story and even showed some surprise new data for the audience. Way to go!!

Congrats to postdoc Patrick Woida on a wonderful talk at BBM2024 exploring the host proteins interacting with Listeria!

The final version of our paper pioneering the use of inducible expression and CRISPRi tools for rickettsia is online JBacteriology Eds! Thanks to the reviewers and editor for their helpful feedback and effort. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

New preprint is out detailing the discovery of a novel interaction between Sca4 and clathrin. Great work from authors Cassandra and Brandon Brandon Sit and our collaborators Nam and Kevin from the Macaluso lab!

Ever wonder how to engineer Mtb to deliver heterologous cargo to the phagosome? Look no further!!! After trying many strategies over 6 years, we figured out a strategy. (1/10)

Amazing job by Hannah Kurka Margolis! She gave a stellar talk at the ASR 2024 annual meeting today.

More publication alerts from the lab! The final version (+ some new data) of our paper using BONCAT to identify novel Rickettsia parkeri secreted effectors is out Nature Communications. nature.com/articles/s4146…

The enemy within: new research from the Becky Lamason reveals insights into the arsenal Rickettsia parkeri uses against its host. biology.mit.edu/news-brief-lam…

Great job Dr. Vondrak on a beautifully defended thesis!

Editor's Pick: Advancing new models is often tied to technical advances. Lamason et al. add to the toolkit for studying Rickettsia parkeri with new expression and gene silencing approaches. ASM JBacteriology Eds journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

Thanks Lillian W Eden for the excellent write-up about our work!

Cytosolic companionship: Rickettsia connects with the endoplasmic reticulum. Stacey Gilk (Dr. Stacey Gilk) UNMC College of Medicine discusses new study from Acevedo-Sánchez et al. Becky Lamason (hubs.la/Q036bFcH0) rin Spotlight: hubs.la/Q036bQTN0 #Microbiology #ER_literature