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Rutgers: Coronavirus N Gene Isoforms
Andrey Grigoriev’s Lab in the Department of Biology, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University in Camden,...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 26, 20251 min read


Princeton: Diffusion of Ribosome-sized Particles in E. coli
The Shaevitz Lab and the Gitai Lab at Princeton, in collaboration with the Zia Lab at the University of Missouri/Stanford, explored...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 25, 20252 min read


Princeton: Iron Limitation and Membrane Remodeling in Roseobacter
Mo Seyedsayamdost ( Mo LAB ) in Princeton’s Dept. of Chemistry continues to develop the HiTES approach on agar (instead of liquid...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 24, 20251 min read


Rowan: Yeast Mitochondrial mRNA & small subunit rRNA 3'-end processing
Dmitriy Markov The Markov Lab at Rowan University is focused on how mitochondrial gene expression is regulated in pathogenic yeast,...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 24, 20252 min read


Princeton: How Myxococcus xanthus Fruiting Bodies Form
Fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus provides valuable insights into microbial life, its complexities, and its ecological...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 23, 20252 min read


Rutgers: Host & Endophyte Metabolites from Bacillus spp. isolated from Indian snakeroot
Surendra K. Gond Rauwolfia serpentina (Indian snakeroot) is a medicinal shrub producing numerous alkaloids, including reserpine and...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 17, 20252 min read


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 &...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 16, 20252 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 16, 20252 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 15, 20251 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...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 14, 20251 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...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 14, 20251 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 9, 20252 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 8, 20252 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 8, 20252 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 8, 20251 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...

Ray Sullivan
Jan 3, 20254 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...

Ray Sullivan
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
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