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The 6th Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea Meeting is in St. Petersburg, FL, Sept. 7-10, 2020 at the Hilton Bayfront. Co-sponsored by The RNA Society, it will convene microbiologists (ASM FEMS Microbiology Society) studying #RNAs. More at microbialrnameeting.com!

I am guest editor for a special issue of Pathogens focused on microbial interactions during infection. Such an interesting topic (in my opinion)! Can't wait to see what types of submissions we get!

Congratulations to Cordelia Weiss for her lead authorship of a chapter entitled, "Cyclic di-GMP Signaling in Bacillus subtilis," which is featured in the new Springer Press book on Microbial Cyclic Di-Nucleotide Signaling!

Looking forward to doing this with my kids this week. Might add a few pages on RNA though...

Congratulations to Jonathan Goodson (Jonathan Goodson) and coauthors on their research on the small RNA-binding domain, ANTAR An Autoinhibitory Mechanism Controls RNA Binding Activity of the Nitrate‐Sensing Protein NasR onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Such an interesting paper on taste-independent sensing of gut glucose, transmitted to the brain via the vagus nerve

DNA doesn’t provide all the info needed for life, and heredity means much more than just DNA sequence, as strikingly outlined in these papers. Not too often you read manuscripts about ideas and about helping to formalize ways to think about grand concepts like heredity. Congrats!

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We are deeply concerned about insufficient police accountability across the country, systemic racism, and inequities that have led to protests born of despair, anger, and hope. #UMD supports the many peaceful demonstrations for justice nationwide: go.umd.edu/5iD

Congratulations to Cordelia Weiss for accepting a fantastic postdoc position at Imperial College London with Angelika Gründling! You will be missed!

In Lab 025 we are holding up a mirror to the scientific community, unpacking the history of science and racism. You don’t want to miss this episode! Listen for free on @spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/6TGNnr…

Our new paper is online. Congrats Amr Elghondakly! In this paper, we show that the NusG paralog LoaP binds a small RNA hairpin and that this ribonucleoprotein complex is important for LoaP's antitermination activity. authors.elsevier.com/a/1dFyX54HFK6-l

Had fun tonight in Wade Winkler's Teaching Science and Professional Development grad class as an "academic careers" guest panelist with Mona Wu Orr and Vincent Lee!

Congratulations Daniel Trettel for successfully defending your dissertation research. Your creativity and innovative ideas helped create a unique dissertation. You have a fantastic scientific career ahead of you!

Congratulations to Daniel Trettel et al (Daniel Trettel) for your latest publication - out today - which describes new approaches for assessing microcompartment structure and discovers a network of protein-protein interactions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1eeR-3SNvc2z…

⏳Register today (deadline March 15)!⌛️ 21st International Conference on Bacilli and Gram-Positive Bacteria | Prague | June 14-17, 2022 gram-pos-2022.org

Congratulations to Cordelia Weiss and Tanner Myers for their latest work on B subtilis RNases that act on short RNAs! NrnA is a 5′-3′ exonuclease that processes short RNA substrates in vivo and in vitro academic.oup.com/nar/article/50…

Congrats to Daniel Trettel (Daniel Trettel) for demonstrating the usefulness of laser scanning confocal microscopy in studying native microcompartments (BMC) and the superstructures that can be formed by BMC shell proteins! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

Congrats to Tanner Myers and coauthors for publishing their research on B subtilis NrnB, which turns out to be a rather strange RNase! track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=Uh…