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Extended Shine-Dalgarno motifs govern translation initiation in Staphylococcus aureus www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦠

Extended Shine-Dalgarno motifs govern translation initiation in Staphylococcus aureus - Nature Communications

Kohl et al. combine high-resolution Ribo-seq and cryo electron microscopy to show that the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus uses extended Shine-Dalgarno motifs to initiate translation, which can make…

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Wonderful write-up about my colleague Nick Mantis at the Wadsworth Center and his fantastic MS and PhD students @albany.edu: www.albany.edu/cihs/news/20... It's tick season. Be on the look out in your garden and on your nature walks!

Immune Response to Lyme Disease: Research at the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center

Spread by the blacklegged tick, Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and can lead to fever, rash, facial paralysis, irregular heartbeat, arthritis and other symptoms. UAlbany s...

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Tremendous scholarship on display by our students @albany.edu, including Hannah from the Ciota Lab in our Department of Biomedical Sciences! www.albany.edu/news-center/...

Five UAlbany Graduate Researchers Receive SUNY GREAT Awards for Research Excellence

Five graduate students from the University at Albany have been named recipients of the State University of New York’s Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) Award. The recognitio...

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Out now in @science.org Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape

Bacteria, like eukaryotes, use conserved cytoskeletal systems for intracellular organization. The plasmid-encoded ParMRC system forms actin-like filaments that segregate low–copy number plasmids. In m...

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For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

New in JB: In the CF airway, P. aeruginosa transitions from an acute to chronic pathogen. Roxana Flores-Vega, Roberto Rosales-Reyes et al. review the role of 2-component systems in this crucial adaptation. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Caleb is so deserving of this fellowship, as are many of our trainees across the country. We are grateful for the support and I am so incredibly proud of him. Here's to many more publications on the proteolytic targeting of quorum-sensing receptors.

@calebmallery.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In other exciting news, I am beyond excited to share that I officially received a notice of award for my F31 fellowship! Really grateful for the support from my mentor and look forward to continuing this work.

A true labor of love for @calebmallery.bsky.social is out now in PLOS Pathogens: a review article where we highlight current and emerging examples of key protein-protein interactions with LuxR-type receptors that control community behaviors and pathogenesis. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Expanding the LuxR-type receptor functional repertoire: Protein-protein interactions in quorum sensing regulation

Quorum sensing (QS) enables bacteria to coordinate gene expression in response to population density, with LuxR-type transcription factors playing a central role in this process for many Gram-negative...

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Two post-doctoral positions open in our lab. We're looking for people with expertise in molecular microbiology and/or genome-scale tools. Initially 3 yrs, posts could be extended for upto 8 yrs. If you'd like to know more about us take a look at www.graingerlab.com www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY475/r...

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

rince & JB Editor's Choice: Lin, Prince & Feaga identified sporulation genes via analyzing almost 1500 genomes. They show that that an unusual membrane-localized variant of Spo0B is found throughout Paenibacillaceae. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

First paper of my PhD @doerrlab.bsky.social is up! We characterized meropenem tolerance in Enterobacterales species, and then further dissected tolerance mechanisms in Klebsiella pneumoniae. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Prevalence and mechanisms of high-level carbapenem antibiotic tolerance in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae

Author summary Bacteria can survive exposure to antibiotics by constantly repairing cellular damage induced by the drug. This “antibiotic tolerance” enables diverse bacteria to survive long enough to ...

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My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!

Former mentee @ksimanek.bsky.social is not only a great scientist, they're also a tremendous advocate for equity in science. I am very proud of Kayla and of this piece they put together. Check it out. asm.org/articles/202...

Please help spread the word about this tremendous undergraduate research opportunity taking place in Albany this summer! www.albany.edu/rna/reu-in-rna

Tremendous work by Swati, @calebmallery.bsky.social, and @nilesh-banavali.bsky.social, partially from Caleb's rotation in Nilesh's lab!

Nilesh Banavali@nilesh-banavali.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/ Our new preprint is out on biorxiv on how antibiotics bind to bacterial 30S subunits, please repost. #ribosome #antibiotics #microsky #rnasky doi.org/10.64898/202...

This dino’s in mint condition! Seasonally striped for optimal performance.

For students and early career professionals with an interest in public health, but don't know where to start: the NYS DOH has several internship opportunities. Mentors, please spread the word. These opportunities are open and set to begin in Spring 2026 (February 2-May 8). #publichealth

You buy one protocols book for your lab and Springer thinks they have you all figured out.

Petition for a NY Biomedical Institute. This is a no-brainer to support science in NY, similar to programs in CA/TX. www.change.org/p/support-a-...

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RhlR quorum-sensing receptor ligand sensitivity regulates the differential expression of phenazine genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692981v1

What started out as a structure-function project for an undergraduate researcher morphed into something bigger w/ @popea.bsky.social leading the way. Check out how RhlR fine tunes its response to its autoinducer to avoid producing too much pyocyanin. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RhlR quorum-sensing receptor ligand sensitivity regulates the differential expression of phenazine genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Bacteria control individualistic and group behaviors using a form of cell-cell communication called quorum sensing. Quorum sensing relies on the production of chemical signals called autoinducers and ...

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The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... #infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence

It is rare as an editor to get to take on an article so uniquely in your wheelhouse. Sharing some wonderful work by Guarnaccia et al. from the Perez, Ng, and Neiditch labs. #structuralbiology of #pathogens @plos.org dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Structure-function studies of Vibrio cholerae quorum-sensing receptor CqsR signal recognition

Author summary Quorum sensing, a form of bacterial cell-cell communication, regulates diverse developmental behaviors. This study investigates CqsR, a transmembrane receptor in Vibrio cholerae, the ga...

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I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay! Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis

The partnership between corals and their intracellular algal symbionts has long been a textbook example of mutually beneficial association. In this essay, Mikhail Matz argues for an updated view in which the coral acts more as a farmer of algal cells to support its own growth.

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I have an R56 that will pay for 1 year of a postdoc that will hopefully bridge us to a 4-year R01. It's not without risk but uh...everything in science feels like a major risk right now. We're in need of a #postdoc w/ #nmr experience. DM or email me for project details.

Jon Paczkowski🌹@paczkowskilab.bsky.social · last yr.

I am (optimistically) looking for a postdoc with solution state biomolecular NMR expertise to join our group. I can provide access to high-end instrumentation and technical assistance via our membership at the New York Structural Biology Center. #nmr #academicsky #postdoc

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...