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The Ocean's Greenhouse Gas Puzzle: Unraveling Nitrous Oxide Emissions in the Northern Indian Ocean
Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) might not be as famous as CO 2 , but it's a powerful greenhouse gas. It's also an ozone-depleting substance. While...
Ray Sullivan
Jun 64 min read
6/2/2025 ASM Public Policy and Advocacy Update - President's budget proposal
From: Amalia Corby < ACorby@asmusa.org > Sent: Monday, June 2, 2025 1:55 PM Subject: 6/2/2025 ASM Public Policy and Advocacy Update -...
Ray Sullivan
Jun 55 min read
Decoding the Enigma: First Look at a Chapparvovirus Capsid Reveals a New Chapter in Viral Evolution
Parvoviruses, a vast and diverse family of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses, are known for infecting a wide range of animals, from...
Ray Sullivan
Jun 53 min read
Unmasking TB’s Secret Weapon: How Mycobacterium tuberculosis Uses Tiny Packages to Outsmart Our Immune System
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases, claiming over a million...
Ray Sullivan
Jun 43 min read
Unraveling the Oxygen Secrets of Nitrogen Removal in Estuaries: Insights from Chesapeake Bay
Nitrogen is vital for marine life, but excessive human inputs have caused coastal problems like eutrophication and hypoxia, low oxygen...
Ray Sullivan
Jun 23 min read
The Mitochondria-Cytosol Fe-S Connection: Grx5 is the Traffic Controller
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are essential molecular workhorses in our cells, powering processes from energy production to DNA repair....
Ray Sullivan
May 312 min read
Unlocking lignocellulose: how the extreme thermophile Anaerocellum bescii grabs its sugars.
Converting renewable plant biomass, or lignocellulose, into valuable fuels and chemicals using microbial processes is an attractive,...
Ray Sullivan
May 303 min read
Weak Alone, Lethal Together: Exploiting Synthetic Lethality to Beat Antibiotic Resistance
Professor Mohammad R. “Mo” Seyedsayamdost’s Lab at the Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, Princeton University, explores a new...
Ray Sullivan
May 262 min read
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Ray Sullivan
May 251 min read
From Yeast to Human Health: How Understanding a Common Fungus Unlocks Secrets of Lipid Disorders and Brain Tumors
Often, the key to understanding complex human diseases lies in studying a simpler organism. Recent research into baker's yeast,...
Ray Sullivan
May 244 min read
Full Proceedings from the 2025 TSS Spring Symposium Now Available
The complete Proceedings from the 2025 Theobald Smith Society Spring Symposium are now available for download! Held on May 9, 2025, at...
Ray Sullivan
May 211 min read
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
May 178 min read
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
May 162 min read
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
May 152 min read
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
May 152 min read
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
May 152 min read
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
May 142 min read
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
May 142 min read
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
May 142 min read
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
May 143 min read
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