Bacterial aggregation triggered by low-level antibiotic-mediated lysis NPJ Biofilms and Microbiome by Sharareh Tavaddod et al from Rosalind Allen www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bacterial aggregation triggered by low-level antibiotic-mediated lysis - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Bacterial aggregation triggered by low-level antibiotic-mediated lysis

I realize the ship has sailed on this, but back in the day, preliminary data was preliminary. Also, it feels so dumb to propose experiments to answer a question and then show them you already have the answer.

Criticizing an application as lacking rigor if any preliminary data presented is not a complemeted experiment with all the repeats and stats and ready for publication.

It’s out ! Our review on antibacterial responses in macrophages in @NatRevImmunol . We tried to cover as many pathways as we can, macrophages always astonish me by their immense arsenal. Very happy to have collaborated on that paper ! Version online FREE: rdcu.be/dUlUZ

Inducible antibacterial responses in macrophages

Nature Reviews Immunology - Macrophages are innate immune sentinels providing frontline defence against infection. This Review describes the inducible mechanisms used by macrophages to kill...

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I just heard that Alexander Tomasz died on Monday. I didn't know him, but I met him once while I was a graduate student working on pneumococci. He did pioneering work on pneumococcal competence, discovering competence factor. His work on autolysins and penicillin binding proteins was tremendous.

New Microbial Primer on ‘Phase Variation’ out now www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

ICYMI: 3 new preprints from the lab: 1) Make-or-Break Prime editing: the most elegant bacterial genome editing tech to date 2) PneumoBrowse2.0: Revamped pneumococcal genome browser 3) Dual CRISPRi-seq: One of the most comprehensive genetic interaction study in bacteria ever #MicroSky

This is a preprint under review, but bacteria can really move around (and do a lot of damage while doing so) 🧪 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

The phase variation work was a collaboration with Kim Jefferson's lab at VCU and Caitlin Pepperell's lab @csp.bsky.social here at UW. Erin Garcia in the Jefferson lab and Amy Klimowicz in my lab discovered the phase varriation at the same time, and we decided to work and publish together.