Happy to share this protocol that myself and my Ph.D student @SarahP4464 work on! This in vitro polymicrobial model is at the core of my postdoctoral work during my time in George O'Toole (he/him/his) lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… See link 👇🏾 for details!

Another class of phage-based elements found in marine bacteria! 🦠 🌊 Phage-inducible chromosomal minimalist islands (PICMIs), a novel family of small marine satellites of virulent phag… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38253718/

Can't wait to read this Tracy Palmer!

Amazing study over 75,000 generations across in 12 different lineages of E. coli! Gene essentiality is contextual and changing over time. 🧫⌛️ Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Love this! An in vitro medium for modeling gut dysbiosis associated with cystic fibrosis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38169295/

This is an interesting concept - could it help us solve the still illusive problem of determining the signals sensed by bacterial histidine kinases?? A bacterial sensor taxonomy across earth ecosystems for machine learning applications pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38078749/

Interesting story about a bacterial anti-toxin ATPase that has been adapted to serve as an infection sensor that induces dormancy upon phage infection 💤 🦠 Architecture and infection-sensing mechanism of the bacterial PARIS defense system pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38260510/

Trimming the abstract to 150 words x.com/videospvcagado…

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New paper out: "Shaping scientists: How faculty values influence graduate student recruitment and diversity, equity, and inclusion" Lots to unpack about what faculty prioritize when hiring, and suggestions on how to make grad recruitment more inclusive. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…