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2/2 Dr. Abdul-Mutakabbir was recognized for her research in mitigating AMR by ECCMID as one of 30 under 30 outstanding young scientists. Among many other honors, she was also the 2023 recipient of the IDSA's Clinical Practice Innovation Award. MORE: tuftscimar.org/event/the-inte…

Happy holidays! Super fun making this fully edible gingerbread waterbath for our dept holiday party with this amazing group of people! ⁦⁦Qiwen Dong⁩ ⁦Jacob Bouchier⁩ ⁦⁦Greg Harrison⁩

Call out to this incredible creation by the ⁦Wai-Leung Ng⁩ for the dept holiday party. A merphage in the wild! The detail is mind-blowing!

Excited that @twistedbacteria, Editor Nature Communications, highlighted Shailab Shrestha's finding that C. difficile (and other clostridial organisms?) mediate division in the absence of FtsW-FtsI homologs. In collaboration with @sgribaldo and Najwa Taib nature.com/collections/je…

If there was only one scientific practice I could teach to every scientist regardless of stage or field I think it would be: look at the data. Spot check it. Find a few data points and trace them through to see if they make sense. Look at the raw data. Don't just do analyses.

I am still looking for postdocs to join my lab. I have several NIH-funded positions to work either on Acinetobacter pathogenesis or OMV biogenesis in Bacteroides. Please RT.

We have a new story out at BiorXiv! Amazing work led by Zachary Curtis (Bisson), Pedro Escudeiro (Alva) and John Mallon (Bisson). Great collaboration with Vikram Alva (Max Planck) and Mechthild Pohlschroder (UPenn). A summary of our findings in the thread (1/22) shorturl.at/fLPR1

BrrRRrr! ❄️☃️It's cold out! Even COOLER news: SAVE THE DATE 🗓️📢 BBM 2024 will be held June 3-4th, 2024 at the Boston University campus! This year will be the 30th anniversary🔥 feat. keynote speaker Joe Bondy-Denomy🇨🇦of UCSF who studies the coolest phages😎❄️ around!

Happy Feb 1st!💞 Join us burst 💥with excitement like a phage in lysis cuz 😁: BBM 2024 is now open for registration! It's the 30th bday of BBM 🎂 🎈 🎉! Where were you in 1994? (I was a newborn with the 🎁 of a microbiome 🦠 😝) bostonbacterial.org/registration/ See you all there!😎

Identification of a new family of peptidoglycan transpeptidases reveals atypical crosslinking is essential for viability in Clostridioides difficile biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does a progenitor cell differentially express genes in daughter cells after asymmetric division? @Sylvia_Char 's fancy microscopy in her paper PNASNews says the division machinery itself positions a transcription activator asymmetrically! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

What a thread from Michael Fischbach . I can go into all the ways I have fallen short here, and also (luckily) where serendipity helps and can be an important driver of project choice.

We have a new paper out in The ISME Journal ! Linking methanotroph phenotypes to genotypes using a simple spatially resolved model ecosystem academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Following up our Cell Reports paper, an avirulent C. difficle clinical isolate out-competes virulent strains in mice via quickly depleting multiple amino acids, and protects mice from developing colitis!

A phosphorylation signal activates genome-wide transcriptional control by BfmR, the global regulator of Acinetobacter resistance and virulence. dlvr.it/T8QKDF

Excited to share our recent pre-print! The Vibrio cholerae encoded Nezha anti-phage system (SIR2-HerA) restricts virulent vibriophages ICP1, ICP2, and ICP3 by depleting NAD+ (Abi💀). However, an ICP1 isolate can overcome this by encoding putative NAD+ regenerating proteins! ⚡️

The Tufts 3rd Annual Summer Symposium @ Pipeline Programs is rapidly approaching. Don't miss the chance to hear inspiring stories from our amazing pipeline program alumni and keynote speaker Dr. Cornelius Taabazing building diversity and excellence in the biomedical sciences.

Registration deadline is July 25! So looking forward to hearing from our distinguished alumni and Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing at this inspiring event!

Our 2024 #S2P2 #symposium at @tuftsgsbs last week was a tremendous #success! Seeing so many familiar faces and learning about their #career journeys was truly inspiring. We look forward to seeing you next year! #s2p2 #keynotespeaker #careerpanel #deiinstem #alumni #oraltalks

Félix Ramos-León took on a ~50-yr-old mystery in #Staph aureus cell biology and came out on top! Check out his paper on how #Staphylococcus aureus chooses its cell division plane, how it forms clusters, and why all this matters during infection... nature.com/articles/s4156…