Samantha Wellington Miranda

Read the latest Microbial Primer from the Microbiology Society on Bacterial Growth Kinetics www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Adaptive Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Human Airways Shows Phenotypic Convergence Despite Diverse Patterns of Genomic Changes Abstract. Selective forces in the environment drive bacterial adaptation to novel niches, choosing the fitter variants in the population. However, in dynamic an

Adaptive Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Human Airways Shows Phenotypic Convergence Despite Diverse Patterns of Genomic Changes academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #MicroSky

Basic science is not just a foundation - Nature Cell Biology Intellectual freedom for scientists, unconstrained by commercial interests and direct application, fuels unexpected discoveries. Curiosity-driven, basic science has yielded a deeper understanding of h...

“Curiosity-driven, basic science has yielded a deeper understanding of how life forms develop and function in their environment and has had wide implications for health and our planet. Investing in this is vital for scientific progress and is worth protecting in a democracy.” —Ruth Lehmann

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The ASM Peggy Cotter Travel Award Program provides funds for outstanding early career Branch members to attend ASM Microbe.

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SOCfinder: a genomic tool for identifying social genes in bacteria Bacteria cooperate by working collaboratively to defend their colonies, share nutrients, and resist antibiotics. Nevertheless, our understanding of these remarkable behaviours primarily comes from stu...

Our new tool 'SOCfinder' to find social genes in bacteria is out now, in Microbial Genomics 🦠

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New biosurfactant alert! We report that some Burkholderia species can produce methylated rhamnolipids, which are thus nonionic. Lack of charge of these methyl esters might have major implications for their biological functions, and future applications www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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These two types of competition (kin and interspecies) may work together to tune signal sensitivity.

Using quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruignosa, we find signal sensitivity impacts the timing and level of gene activation. Signal hypersensitivity results in a defect in kin competition while hyposensitivity reduces fitness during interspecies competition.

A balancing act: investigations on the impact of altered signal sensitivity in bacterial quorum sens... Quorum sensing (QS) is a widespread form of cell-cell signaling that regulates group behaviors important for competition and cooperation within bacterial communities. The QS systems from different bac...

I'm thrilled to share our latest paper out in the Journal of Bacteriology! We asked the question: Which evolutionary pressures tune sensitivity in cell signaling?

doi.org/10.1128/jb.0...

Widespread fungal-bacterial competition for magnesium enhances antibiotic resistance bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Excited to share this manuscript by @hsiehyp.bsky.social, describing how Candida albicans sequesters magnesium from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, reducing bacterial fitness. But this competition has the effect of conferring colistin resistance on P. aeruginosa! /1

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis colonies [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis]

Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections
by Roberto
A quarter of the world's population – that's two billion people – is estimated to be latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This staggering number is often presented in scientific pub...
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Funded PhD position in my group: Evolution of resistance to novel antibiotics. Academic/industrial project in collaboration with Bactobio. Excellent opportunity to do interesting fundamental science and learn from academic and commercial settings.
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Tracking down why what’s supposed to be the same bacterial growth medium can give such different results: an unexpected impurity!

Starting now-ish in the IDWeek poster hall!