Thrilled to share our latest paper on antibiotic treatment failure of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscesses
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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First paper of my PhD @doerrlab.bsky.social is up! We characterized meropenem tolerance in Enterobacterales species, and then further dissected tolerance mechanisms in Klebsiella pneumoniae. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Tn7 family bacterial transposons known for tightly controlled target site selection are distributed across Asgard and archaeal groups https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.667033v1
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology should apply by April 14, 2025. Please repost! wicmb.cornell.edu/emerging-sch...
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."
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The prettiest sunset tonight π
Does anyone have any experience using Halo in Gran-negative bacteria for live cell imaging? I am having mixed results
Are these health interventions evil too, according to anti-vaccine activists?
Scientific progress doesnβt stand still. And it definitely isnβt a conspiracy.
Read more about this at ImmunoLogic β¬οΈβ¬οΈ
news.immunologic.org/p/more-vacci...
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
A clear gel illuminated by UV light so it is a purple-pink color with bright pink-orange single bands of DNA and standard visible.
I had a rich GC region I was trying to amplify. Q5 and Phusion failed repeatedly. OneTaq FTW! π₯³π§¬
Really informative. Like a Bluesky version of a review article! Thank you for sharing
Beautiful study-
Making it stronger, permeable and more compressive:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Backside of a petri dish containing pink colored agar, with 4 roundish big colonies growing
Side view of a Petri dish showing round fluffy white colonies growing
Top view of a Petri dish showing big fluffy white colonies growing on the surface of agar colored pink
Found the cutest contaminant today! The agar was LB so the pink is from whatever this microorganism is secreting #microbiology #contaminant
Wing Hall is spectacular! I have always loved the exterior. Hopefully the interior improves soon
Another great explanation! This time about the importance of Vitamin K. Vitamin K injections after birth have reduced the incidences of devastating brain bleeds in newborns
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We no longer have a beautiful view π©
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Floofy paws for #Caturday
Another reason to get the HPV vaccines
@scientistswanda.bsky.social is an amazing scientific communicator. Check out his video on all things polio
Please add me @nadianikulin.bsky.social
Iβd love to be added!
NIH research funding supported 412,000 jobs in 2023 & doubled economic returns www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep... #NIH #research #funding
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My introductory post: I am a PhD Candidate and will be on the job market for a postdoc or research scientist position sometime in 2025. I currently study Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens and their responses to antibiotics and the host innate immune system. Glad to be here!
Come work at Cornell! We have an amazing interdisciplinary environment
Another fully funded 4 year PhD in our group. Understanding the role of the conserved WblA protein in coordinating antibiotic production with sporulation in Streptomyces bacteria. Please RB.
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ant...
I really liked this paper! Check it out if you have any interest in AMR ESKAPE pathogen infection biology and utilizing alternatives to animal models
I loved this paper! Beautiful work. I am also interested in studying the lesser-known opportunistic AMR pathogens. And I appreciated the use of engineering to study pathogenesis without the use of mice. Well done!
First bluesky post needs to be a cat π±. This is Whiskers, ironically named since hers blend into her fur
