Jutras Lab
@jutraslab.bsky.social
Associate Professor studying the biology and pathogenesis of spirochetes (#Lymedisease #STI) @NorthwesternU @NUFeinbergMed. Opinions=me. 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 #Microsky
Kristin Rose Jutras 38m Devastated to share that my husband, @jutraslab.bsky.social, passed away. People are writing fake obituaries online/sharing on social media that Brandon died of Lyme disease. This is not true and is an affront to everything Brandon stood for as a scientist: the truth.
Four different seminar requests in one day, WTF? 😳 There must be some kind of seminar date vortex centered around Hemingway’s bday…
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Membrane binding controls the ATPase cycle and localization of MinD in <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>
Membrane binding controls the ATPase cycle and localization of MinD in Bacillus subtilis
Dynamic relocalization of MinD in Bacillus subtilis arises from membrane binding of monomers and dimers with membrane-triggered ATP hydrolysis, suggesting MinE-like activators are unnecessary for Min...
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We're hiring an enthusiastic and ambitious technician to unravel the mysteries of spirochetes (#Lyme #syphilis). Come be a part of a wonderful team and working enviro in beautiful Chicago! Looking for training micro, molec, cell, or glycobiology of pathogens?👇 myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
Interested in joining our group in Oxford? We are looking for a PDRA with single particle Cryo-EM experience to help us figure out how sphingolipids are transported to the cell surface of Gram-negative bacteria. The deadline is 31st July. Informal enquires are welcome. Please share!
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Great to see this out, congrats!
Paula Navarro@navarropaula.bsky.social · last mo.🚨 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We reveal how the antibiotic target PBP1b fortifies the E.coli division site against osmotic rupture. Proud this was completed in our independent labs @dmf-unil.bsky.social, with @avettiger.bsky.social. Congratulations to all authors! 🦠❄️🔬 #teamtomo bit.ly/3SCbOg1 👇
Happy 159th Canada Day to all my fellow Canucks out there! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 May your papers be reviewed rapidly, your grants received favorably, and your science continue to motivate and inspire all nations; wherever it takes place 💪
The Dillard Lab is looking to hire a research technician to study the mechanisms by which Neisseria gonorrhoeae damages human Fallopian tubes during pelvic inflammatory disease. Lab website: www.dillardlab.mmi.wisc.edu View the job posting: shorturl.at/YO2sE
💯 correct. Studied these gals for a while and those two variables are 90% of their existence, including fecundity.
Sue@cameratrapsue.bsky.social · last mo.I think it's all due to temp and humidity to keep the eggs then developing spiderlings safe and healthy before they finally emerging from the egg sac. If they get too hot or cold they'll die.
A multilayered cell envelope of a member of the Chloroflexota offers an anchoring platform for the archaellum #microbiology #archaea #bacteria #MicroSky doi.org/10.3389/fmic...
Highly recommend npj antimicrobials and resistance! It was an excellent experience and a transparent process. The future is bright! Well done 👏
Jessica Blair@jessicamablair.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday npj Antimicrobials and Resistance has received its first impact factor. Now, we all know that impact factors don't tell the whole story and aren't a standalone mark of quality. That said, we are hugely proud of the success of the journal so far....
How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Honored to have many projects and members of the lab’s research highlighted in the most recent issue of NU magazine @feinberg.northwestern.edu. Check out how folks in our lab are tackling the many challenges associated with Lyme disease! #microsky magazine.northwestern.edu/discovery/ne...
Fighting the Uptick in Lyme Disease
Brandon Jutras, associate professor of microbiology-immunology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, has been studying Borrelia burgdorferi — the bacterium that causes Lyme disease — for over a decade. ...
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Sub-cellular chemical mapping using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging online @natmethods.nature.com, led by Hannah Ochner, collaboration with @catfranco.bsky.social and @kiranrpatil.bsky.social labs doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Good story from Stephanie Lee at the Chronicle of Higher Education on dealing with funding uncertainty with very highly rated grant proposals. www.chronicle.com/article/they... 1/2
They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.
The NIH’s spending on new medical research is significantly slower than in previous years, leaving confused scientists in the lurch.
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Congrats to Julia Van Riel—current research technician in the lab—for her hard work, dedication, AND admissions into the MD/PhD program at Case Western! 🎉 You’re lucky @casewestern.bsky.social! Her smile this morning was a reminder of why I do this 🥹 B on the lookout for new search info to share
We are hiring! Focus is on colleagues interested in protein homeostasis and human disease. Priority reviewing starts mid-June and will continue on a rolling basis. Here is the ad, hit me up if you have questions! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Work Locati...
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The start of a new tradition-day game at Wrigley for our spring lab outing! Thanks @cubsbot.bsky.social for putting on a show 💪
A direct, urine-based test to diagnose acute Lyme disease using actively secreted peptidoglycan as a biomarker https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.26352475v1
Excited to share a 6 yr long journey to develop & validate a biomarker-based acute #Lyme disease diagnostic test using urine. Herculean effort by Osas and Saadman, which wouldn’t have be possible w/o outstanding collabs @harvard.edu, @tuftslyme.bsky.social, @pireschembio.bsky.social #Microsky
📜The final version of our paper on eCIS firing is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to @xujwet.bsky.social @chipericson.bsky.social #cryoEM #CIS
Stepwise firing mechanism of an extracellular contractile injection system - Nature Communications
Bacterial contractile injection systems (CIS) mediates cell-cell contacts, but the firing mechanism is unclear. Here, the authors employ a multimodal cryoEM approach and structure guided engineering t...
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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬@pilhoferlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Finally published. Many thanks to a wonderful collaborative team and scientific platforms!!! And thanks to editors and reviewers for enthusiasm and a great review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A bacterial CARD–NLR-like immune system controls the release of gene transfer agents - Nature Microbiology
An immunity-like system functions as a lysis control hub to promote gene transfer agent particle release from host bacterial cells, suggesting that bacterial immune systems may be co-opted to promote ...
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Tung Le@tunglejic.bsky.social · last yr.1/ Excited to share our latest work on gene transfer agents (GTAs) in Caulobacter crescentus, led by Emma Banks in collaboration with Pavol Bardy and Mai Nguyen from York!!! See a brief thread below. shorturl.at/o6S1w
Congrats Erin, super exciting for you and your amazing team 🎉
Erin Goley@goleylab.bsky.social · 4mo agoNoA on April Fool’s Day… let’s hope it’s for real. 🎉🎉🎉 Very excited to advance our studies on the cell biology of the tick-borne obligate intracellular pathogen Rickettsia parkeri!!
After 7 yrs in the books, the lab turns 8 today! So thankful and proud of all the fabulous trainees who have gone to fantastic positions in industry and academia, including one that will open the doors to their own lab in the fall.
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#Taiwan reports third incidence of #SFTS #tick-borne #disease ... | #thrombocytopenia | #virus | #bunyavirus | #infections | #publichealth | #Asia | Via taipeitimes .com
Taiwan reports third case of SFTS tick-borne disease - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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Today was an inspirational reminder of why I love biology, physics, & the scientist that do both so well. Thanks so much to friend and colleague @fleshball.bsky.social for sharing and potentially changing how biomed folks think about bacteria. Exhausted, & yet don’t recall feeling more invigorated 💪
