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Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbial Genetics or Genomics, UTHealth Houston Souvik Bhattacharyya Join us in our multidisciplinary research #genetics, #genomics, #molbio, #evolution, #systems, #bigdata, & #mathematicalmodeling jobrxiv.org/job/university… #antibiot... jobrxiv.org/job/university…

Our work @NCIResearchCtr on how interspecies surfactants facilitate emergent surface spreading in #Paeruginosa by Delayna Warrell and @zanyzarr is now out in JBacteriology Eds ASM ! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…

My take on sobering new projections of deaths due to #AMR & what we can do to avert them. #superbugs #phage #phagetherapy #vaccines #WASH #antibiotics cnn.com/2024/09/16/hea…

Clustering of rRNA operons in E. coli is disrupted by σH biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

We are excited to share our new study led by @SarSarela (now GL ITQB NOVA) & Michael Kuhn! By comparing the effects of 30 drugs on a 32-species synthetic community and community members in isolation, communal behaviors emerged in 26% of all cases! Link: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Latest preprint from our lab led by grad student Cassidy Prince and her undergrad mentee Bella Lin. She examines conservation and features of the programmed ribosomal frameshift in prfB. Presented by Cassidy at #GRC stress! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our latest manuscript in which we analyzed 10,000 Salmonella genomes, identifying 128 T6SS effectors, including 45 new toxin domains (STox). We also characterized STox15, a lipid-targeting NlpC/P60 member. #Salmonella #T6SS biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Souvik Bhattacharyya PNASNews HarsheyLab Cool. We found motility was required for IS5 mutations that activate flhDC )(nature.com/articles/ismej…).

Building and operating flagella consumes ~10% of cellular energy in E. coli. Our work shows there is a mutational cost to high energy consumption and begs the question: did the innovation of a functional flagellum impact the rate of bacterial evolution? doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Finally, the preprint on my postdoc work from the past 3 years! With mentorship from Paul Turner Lab and Emonet Lab, I developed a microscopic technique to measure attachment of viruses #phages to bacterial cells Yale Phage Center Yale QBio . biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you are interested in a graduate degree in Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, come visit us during our zoom session with our program directors, Monday November 11, 6-7pm. Scan below or register here: forms.gle/UcNyAkuS4tYW7c…

New Preprint Alert! We uncovered how Mg²⁺ depletion by fungi drives P. aeruginosa to evolve novel colistin resistance mechanisms! Check out the details here 👉 [biorxiv.org/content/10.110…]

This story started 5y ago with my lab. Spearheaded by fearless 1st authors theopi and Olivia Leland. Theopi is now a PhD student at Brown University. Olivia is a physics PhD student at Brandeis University, a self-taught biologist, and made us love soft matter. A (very long) thread (1/24)

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

Happy MicroBOOology 2! MID continued the Halloween spirit with a lab door decorating contest. The theme was "creepy crawlies". Congrats to the Lee lab for winning with the effects of a deadly parasitic infection. Jayhun Lee

🚨New preprint from our lab! We map the RNA interactions in E. coli infected by lambda, revealing an RNA-driven regulatory layer in phage-host dynamics. We find a phage-encoded sRNA hijacking host replication machinery, impacting the phage cycle.#microbiology #phages Regulating with RNAs in Bacteria and Archaea

AnnotIEM: novel tool for microbiome species-level annotation of 16S gene based microbial sequencing biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Here is my critical review of this preprint: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/pre…