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Rutgers: TRIM7 ubiquitinates SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein to limit apoptosis and viral replication.

Professor Ricardo Rajsbaum moved his lab from the University of Texas Medical Branch to Rutgers Health Institute for Infectious &...

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Jan 162 min read

Rutgers: Catalase activity deficiency sensitizes multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the ATP synthase inhibitor bedaquiline.

The growing threat of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health concern. Tuberculosis still ranks among the...

Ray Sullivan

Jan 162 min read

NJIT: Enriching fluorotelomer carboxylic acids-degrading consortia from sludges and soils.

Mengyan “Ian” Li’s lab at NJIT continues to develop remediation techniques using microbes to degrade organic pollutants. Fluorotelomer...

Ray Sullivan

Jan 151 min read

Theobald Smith Society 2024 Fall Meeting Recap

Professor Sean Crosson and Professor Srujana "Sam" Yadavalli Check out our just-published Minireview in mShpere summarizing our Fall...

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Jan 141 min read

Rutgers: Inactivation of Foodborne Pathogens in Salad Dressing

Don Schaffner & Cliff Baldwin Rutgers Professor Don Schaffner and Stockton University data scientist Clifton Baldwin continue their...

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Jan 141 min read

Princeton: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Jan 92 min read

Princeton: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Jan 82 min read

Pfizer: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Jan 82 min read

Princeton: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Jan 81 min read

Rutgers: 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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Jan 34 min read

Princeton: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 22, 20241 min read

Princeton: OmpA controls order in the outer membrane and shares the mechanical load

Professor Tom Silhavy The Silhavy Lab at Princeton investigated the importance of the outer membrane in Gram-negative bacteria, its...

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Dec 21, 20242 min read

Rutgers: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 20, 20244 min read

Rutgers: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 19, 20241 min read

Merck: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 18, 20241 min read

Princeton: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 18, 20241 min read

Rutgers: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 18, 20241 min read

Princeton: 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,...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 18, 20241 min read

Rutgers: 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 ,...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 16, 20241 min read

Rutgers: 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...

Ray Sullivan

Dec 15, 20241 min read