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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 261 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...

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Mar 221 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...

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Mar 211 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...

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Mar 194 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...

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Mar 191 min read


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

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Mar 183 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...

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Mar 121 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...

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Mar 111 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 101 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...

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Mar 101 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...

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Mar 103 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...

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Mar 73 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...

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Mar 51 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...

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Mar 51 min read


ASM Expresses Concern on Ongoing NIH Funding Disruption
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Ave SW Washington, D.C. 20201 Dr. Matthew...

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Mar 42 min read


Rutgers: Chikungunya and O'nyong-nyong Virus Seroprevalence in Senegal
Postdoc Prince Baffour Tonto in the Herrera Lab at the Rutgers Global Health Institute along with Senegalese colleagues investigated the...

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Mar 41 min read


Rutgers: Congratulations Dr Zoe Narvaez!
On Thursday, February 27, 2025, Zoe Narvaez successfully defended her PhD thesis in the Department of Entomology at Rutgers University....

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Mar 23 min read


ASM Statement on Overhead Cost Cuts
" ASM is greatly concerned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcement that it is immediately capping facilities and...

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Feb 271 min read


ASM Appalled by Fed Firings
" ASM is appalled by the systematic attempts by the Trump Administration to destroy the research infrastructure of the United States and...

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Feb 271 min read


‘We are a target’: ASM under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown.
The American Society for Microbiology temporarily removed or altered content on its website related to diversity, equity, and inclusion...

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Feb 261 min read
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