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Alarming ASM Public Policy and Advocacy Update
From: Amalia Corby < ACorby@asmusa.org > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 9:22 AM Subject: 5/14 ASM Public Policy and Advocacy Update ...
Ray Sullivan
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Targeting Parasitic DHFR: Montclair State Students Advance Antifolate Drug Discovery for Lymphatic Filariasis
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, graduate students David Otu-Aboagye and Salma Kwarteng from Nina Goodey’s Lab at...
Ray Sullivan
22 hours ago2 min read
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Phage with a Sixth Sense: Francis Santoriello Reveals How φVP882 Uses Quorum Signals and Surfaces to Decide Its Fate
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, postdoctoral researcher Francis Santoriello of the Bassler Lab at Princeton...
Ray Sullivan
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Iron, RNA, and Adaptation: How Staphylococcus aureus Uses IsrR to Survive Host-Imposed Iron Limitation
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Gustavo Rios-Delgado from Jeff Boyd’s Lab at Rutgers University–New Brunswick...
Ray Sullivan
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How Mycobacterium tuberculosis Disarms Macrophages: Ahri Han Investigates Actin and Migration
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, MD/PhD student Ahri Han from Samantha Bell’s Lab at Rutgers New Jersey Medical...
Ray Sullivan
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New Tools, New Lipids: Joshua Chamberlain Explores Bacterial Sphingolipids for Smarter Drug Delivery
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Joshua Chamberlain, a researcher in the Klein Lab at Rutgers University–Camden,...
Ray Sullivan
3 days ago2 min read
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Building a Better Mouse Model for Mycobacterium abscessus: Julianna Proietto’s Innovations in Chronic Infection Research
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Julianna Proietto, Senior Animal Specialist at the Center for Discovery and...
Ray Sullivan
3 days ago2 min read
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Honoring Innovation and Resilience: Dr. Jason Yang Receives the 2025 Theobald Smith Young Investigator Award
The Theobald Smith Society is proud to present the 14th Young Investigator Award to Dr. Jason H. Yang, Assistant Professor and Chancellor...
Ray Sullivan
3 days ago2 min read
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Is There a Histone Code in Bacteria? Valerie Carabetta’s Search for Epigenetic Regulation in Bacillus subtilis
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Valerie Carabetta —Associate Professor at Cooper Medical School of Rowan...
Ray Sullivan
3 days ago3 min read
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Microbes Below and Above: Donna Fennell’s Legacy of Remediation Science
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, Professor Donna Fennell, Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at...
Ray Sullivan
4 days ago4 min read
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Understanding the Hidden Epidemic: Drug-Resistant Klebsiella in the Community
At the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium, the society president, Jennifer Sun, introduced Professor Barry Kreiswirth , the...
Ray Sullivan
5 days ago5 min read
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Rutgers: Electrospray Coating Microneedles for DNA Vaccine Delivery
Microneedle arrays are a minimally invasive and promising alternative to traditional hypodermic needles for drug and vaccine delivery. ...
Ray Sullivan
May 52 min read
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CDI: Next-Generation Rifamycins for Mycobacterial Infections
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing non-tuberculous Mycobacterium causing severe pulmonary infections, especially in...
Ray Sullivan
May 42 min read
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CDI: C. auris Gcn5: Drug Resistance, Virulence, and Therapy Target
The human infectious fungus Candida auris poses a significant global human health burden. C. auris is classified as an urgent threat...
Ray Sullivan
May 11 min read
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Quest: US Hepatitis Delta Burden
Quest Diagnostics Inc., Secaucus, NJ investigated the prevalence of Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) infection in the United States among...
Ray Sullivan
Apr 302 min read
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Merck: Adult Pneumococcal Vaccine V116: Impact and Coverage
Scientists from Merck, Rahway, NJ, evaluated the potential impact of their novel adult-specific pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, V116, on...
Ray Sullivan
Apr 251 min read
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Princeton: Worm Learns Pathogen Avoidance from Bacteria
Coleen Murphy’s lab at Princeton seeks to find genes that contribute to maintaining the biological processes that exhibit age-related...
Ray Sullivan
Apr 242 min read
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Princeton: Yeast Fermentation Enhanced by Light-Controlled Nanobody Inhibition
Transcriptional control is widely used in dynamic metabolic engineering, but it suffers from inherent time lags because existing...
Ray Sullivan
Apr 192 min read
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Shionogi: US Hospital Burden of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB)
This retrospective cohort study undertaken by Shionogi, Inc., Florham Park, NJ , analyzed data from the PINC AI™ Database between January...
Ray Sullivan
Apr 181 min read
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Merck: HDC-MALS for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Characterization
Invasive pneumococcal diseases remain a major global health concern. Pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides are key immunogenic...
Ray Sullivan
Apr 171 min read
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