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Ray Sullivan
1 day ago2 min read
Discovery of Cryptic Natural Products Using High-Throughput Elicitor Screening on Agar Media
Professor Mo Seyedsayamdost Professor Mohammad R. “Mo” Seyedsayamdost runs the Mo LAB in Princeton’s Dept. of Chemistry. Ten years ago...
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Ray Sullivan
2 days ago2 min read
The role of vector population variation and climate in Zika virus transmission patterns in Africa: a modelling study.
Dr. Jamie Calwell Jamie Calwell , Associate Research Scholar in Gabriel Vecchi’s group at The High Meadows Environmental Institute at...
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Ray Sullivan
2 days ago2 min read
Annaliesa Anderson Accepts Pfizer's National Medal of Technology Award
Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), awards Pfizer Inc. representatives...
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Ray Sullivan
2 days ago1 min read
Bonnie Bassler Awarded the National Medal of Science
Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), awards Bonnie L. Bassler the National...
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Ray Sullivan
7 days ago4 min read
Congratulations Alanna Cohen, PhD!
Alanna Cohen successfully defended her PhD thesis “Genomic resources for the study of Anisogramma anomala and the Eastern Filbert Blight...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 22, 20241 min read
Quorum sensing orchestrates parallel cell death pathways in Vibrio cholerae via Type 6 secretion-dependent and -independent mechanisms
Simplified model of V. cholerae 2740-80 QS regulation of t6ss, vps, and vca0646-0649, and consequently, the HCD-specific cell death...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 21, 20242 min read
OmpA controls order in the outer membrane and shares the mechanical load
Only full-length OmpA contributes to cell strength. OmpA orders the OMP lattice and connects the OM and CW to form a mechanically strong...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 20, 20244 min read
Professor Alan D. Antoine 1939-2024
Left: Alan and daughter Cara getting her doctorate. Right: Alan getting his doctorate with daughter Cara. Alan Antoine was the former...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 19, 20241 min read
Nutrient colimitation is a quantitative, dynamic property of microbial populations
Michael Manhart’s Lab at Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine at Rutgers Piscataway, NJ developed a quantitative framework for...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Cytomegalovirus Antiviral Resistance Among Kidney Transplant Recipients in a Phase 3 Trial of Letermovir vs Valganciclovir Prophylaxis
Barbara Haber's group at Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ completed this study. The standard of care for CMV infection...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Predicting the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 on Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the United States
Bryan Grenfell’s Lab at Princeton used mathematical models to predict the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on the...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Age-specific dynamics of neutralizing antibodies, cytokines, and chemokines in response to La Crosse virus infection in mice.
La Crosse virus (LACV) is a primary cause of pediatric arboviral encephalitis in the United States, particularly affecting children aged...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Quantification of influenza virus mini viral RNAs using Cas13
Influenza A virus (IAV) infection produces a variety of aberrant RNA molecules, including defective viral genomes and mini viral RNAs,...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 16, 20241 min read
Fpa (YlaN) is an iron(II) binding protein that functions to relieve Fur-mediated repression of gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus.
Iron (Fe) is a trace nutrient required by nearly all organisms, thus the importance of Fe homeostasis in bacteria. Jeff Boyd’s Lab ,...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 15, 20241 min read
Discovery of A-967079 as an Enterovirus D68 Antiviral by Targeting the Viral 2C Protein.
Jun Wang Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is a virus that can cause severe respiratory illness and neurological complications, particularly in...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 15, 20241 min read
A multidimensional assessment of in-host fitness costs of drug resistance in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida glabrata
David Perlin David Perlin’s Lab at Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation, Nutley, NJ found that while...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 15, 20241 min read
Mathematical modeling suggests heterogeneous replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in rabbits
Selvakumar Subian Our colleagues in the Subbian Lab at Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University,...
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Ray Sullivan
Jun 27, 20232 min read
This phage will not assuage!
Congratulations to Theobald Smith Society members Taylor Andrews and J. Steen Hoyer as well as TSS past presidents Siobain Duffy and Jeff...
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Ray Sullivan
Jun 20, 20231 min read
Congratulations Dr. Deshpande!
Theobald Smith Society member Aishwarya Santosh Deshpande successfully defended her thesis last week! Her work improves our...
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Ray Sullivan
Jun 17, 20231 min read
Killer Copper
Congratulations to the Boyd and Parker Labs! Theobald Smith Society past president Jeff Boyd in association with 2022 TSS Young...
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