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ASM Expands Open Access
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has achieved its sustainability target for the 2025 subscription year under the Subscribe to...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 11, 20251 min read


Princeton: Pathogen Immune-Escape Dynamics
Bjarke F. Nielsen and colleagues at Princeton introduce a mathematical framework to understand how pathogen evolution, specifically...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 3, 20251 min read


Merck: Pneumococcal Vaccination, a US Dynamic Transmission Model
Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ, developed a dynamic transmission model to assess the impact of pneumococcal vaccination strategies in the United...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 3, 20251 min read


Merck: Ebola Vaccine with Durable Protection in Nonhuman Primates
Merck & Co. Rahway, NJ and colleagues at US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, MD...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 1, 20252 min read


Rowan: Postbiotic Metabolites Against Pseudomonas Infection
Treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound infections are challenging due to biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance. This motivated...

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Mar 31, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Pgp2: A Unique Replication Initiator
The function of the Pgp2 protein encoded by the Chlamydia virulence plasmid remains unknown, despite the functions of most other...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 26, 20251 min read


Princeton: Host-Microbe Dynamics
Treatment options for human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) remain limited, and host telomerase has been implicated in the pathogenesis and...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 26, 20251 min read


St. Joe’s UMC: Pasteurella! Duck!
Pasteurella multocida is a gram-negative bacterium that commonly infects animals like cats, dogs, and birds and can spread to humans...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 22, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Fungicide Impact on Soil Microbiome and Disease Suppressiveness
Rutgers professor Ming-Yi Chou, with colleagues from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University, investigated the...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 21, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Congratulations to Geordan Stukey, PhD!
We congratulate Geordan Stukey on successfully defending his PhD dissertation at Rutgers University on March 18, 2025! His research has...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 19, 20254 min read


Rutgers & HMH-CDI: Inhibitors of Tuberculosis Menaquinone Biosynthesis
New drugs are needed to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. A large group of researchers from Rutgers Medical School and...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 19, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Congratulations Bill Errickson, PhD!
On March 17, 2025, Bill Errickson successfully defended his PhD dissertation, Physiological, Metabolic, and Molecular Regulation of...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 18, 20253 min read


HMH-CDI: Luminescence Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitors
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for efficient drug screening methods against live pathogenic viruses requiring high...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 12, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Basil Bacterial Leaf Spot Resistance Screening
Basil is an important crop – an almost $3 billion US export market. The increasing prevalence and severity of bacterial leaf spot...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 11, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Ice Worm ATP6 Extension Enhances Bacterial ATP Synthesis
Glacier ice worms, such as Mesenchytraeus solifugus , are the only known macroscopic organisms that reside permanently in ice, and they...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 10, 20251 min read


Hackensack Meridian CDI: Caseum Surrogate Model for Nonreplicating M. tuberculosis
Jansy Sarathy’s Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation lab developed a novel in vitro model that mimics the...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 10, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Congratulations to Kyle Skalenko, PhD!
Kyle S. Skalenko successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Thursday, March 6, 2025. He delivered an insightful and rigorous defense...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 10, 20253 min read


Rutgers: Congratulations to Lauren Hall, PhD!
We congratulate our member and frequent symposium presenter, Lauren Hall, on successfully defending her PhD thesis at Rutgers University...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 7, 20253 min read


Rutgers: Optimizing Tongue Swab Testing for TB
David Alland’s group at Rutgers Medical School identified the optimal tongue swab processing method for detecting Mycobacterium...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 5, 20251 min read


Rutgers: Regulation of TCA Cycle by IsrR in Staphylococcus aureus
An eclectic group of scientists from Rutgers, University of Kansas, Ohio University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Université...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 5, 20251 min read
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