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Promoting ribosomal incorporation of backbone-modifying nonproteinogenic amino acids into nascent peptides by ATP-binding cassette family-F proteins and EF-P url:https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/53/10/gkaf446/8140454

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"What movie traumatized you as a child" All of them. It was 1985, there were no non-traumatic movies to watch as a child

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First podcast recording of the day. Guest is Dr. Tory Hendry of Cornell University, chatting about interactions between fluorescent Pseudomonas and aphids!

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Marie Curie fellowship, post-doc hosting oppotunity in my lab. MSCA Post-doctoral Fellowship at IBPC Paris on RNA modifications in bacteria (FRANCE) 🦠💫 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

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Important public service reporting from @statnews.com on how people are getting their NIH grants reinstated www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/r...

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Just got news that @hhmi.org decided to not review Hanna Gray fellowship applications. I am sorry but that’s fucked up. People spent months working in those. So now you disadvantaged these candidates even more. They could have used the time to advance their research instead.

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Here's one to add to your Friday reading list! 🚨Just in press in J. Mol. Biol.🚨: a beautiful review on the structures, mechanisms, regulation, and open questions of aminoacyl-tRNA-protein transferases by Misti and Rajat who work on amino acid transferases! Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/mr386wsn

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🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕒𝕝 𝕊𝕦𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕝 𝕊𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠 𝔹𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕦𝕤 𝕤𝕦𝕓𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝕤𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕤—𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕧𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟, 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤, 𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤—𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕖𝕣 (𝕡)𝕡𝕡𝔾𝕡𝕡 𝕓𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕕𝕦𝕡, 𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔾𝕋ℙ 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕗𝕝𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕪 𝔽𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕁𝕦𝕖 𝕎𝕒𝕟𝕘 𝕃𝕒𝕓 (𝕌𝕎–𝕄𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕠𝕟) ℕ𝕒𝕥 𝕄𝕚𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕝

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This should be included in the lawsuits. Blatant discrimination is occurring.

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Please share this letter written in collaboration with other NOAA Davidson Fellows. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) is a precious resource which directly benefits coastal communities. Projected budget cuts would destroy this system - please don't let it die in silence!

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Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀

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It’s been a golden era of outstanding undergraduates in the lab with these three receiving recognition for their Honors Theses today. On to grad school at UW Madison, and Harvard x2. Congratulations @isabellalin.bsky.social and @denniswu02.bsky.social and Michael!

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“Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.” In a powerful new piece, my colleague Daphna Shohamy explains how canceled grants are driving young scientists out of science—and out of the country. 🔗 www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...

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In our newly published study we show that the proline-rich antimicrobial peptide (PrAMP) Bac5 has a distinct mode of interaction with the ribosome compared to other PrAMPs…https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/53/8/gkaf324/8126264

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New preprint alert 🚨: We found that Steno maltophila senses a quorum sensing molecule from the co-infecting pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and switches to multicellular aggregates as a protective mechanism. #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Modulation of protein activity by small RNA base pairing internal to coding sequences: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

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New blog post from the Schmidt Lab! Play around with environmental and microbial data from Lake Ontario, and make some pretty maps! marschmilab.github.io/blog/microbe... #rstats #microbiology #ecology #limnology #shiny

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NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

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Day 1 of photoshopping John Oliver onto/into fossils in the hopes that he saves my old museum, the Paleontological Research Institution I think he makes a great snail! Fossil is the Murex shilhoensis type, a junior synonym of Favartia shilohensis, comedian is H. sapiens #savepri #Museumofthearth

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Cell division in rod-shaped bacteria is well studied (think "Min system"), but how do round bacteria find their middle? @felixrl.bsky.social 's new review article covers how #Staph aureus, Streptococci, and others figure out how to perform binary fission. portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr...

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“During the pandemic, among the first to receive the COVID vaccine was our current president, who also received Dexamethasone, Remdesivir, and monoclonal antibody therapy REGN-COV2. Every one of these drugs is based on fundamental scientific discoveries made in American research laboratories.”

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Congratulations to newest PhD candidate in the lab Daniel Tetreault! 🍾🥂

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A really important op-ed from my colleague, Matt Connelly, in our History Department. He sets the record straight on several important facts about Columbia’s response to the Trump administration that have been misreported and mischaracterized. 1/5 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

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In B. subtilis, TerC proteins function in Mn export to support the metalation of exoenzymes. MeeY is also required (directly or indirectly) for production of surfactin, a lipopeptide required for swarming motility! (collab. with Dan Kearns' lab @IU). #MicroSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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My lab and Chuck Farah's at the University of São Paulo (USP) are seeking a postdoc to join an exciting project focused on applying structural biology to novel and unexplored targets in antibiotic discovery.

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The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

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Thrilled and proud to be part of this exciting discovery with the amazing Feaga Lab team! Grateful for everyone’s unwavering support throughout this journey! ❤️💙

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Latest work from the lab - we identify a translation factor, YebC2, that reduces ribosome stalling in B. subtilis! Congrats to co-first authors: grad students Hye-Rim Hong & Cassidy Prince & undergrad Dennis Wu @denniswu02.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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0. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit. They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of a calling.

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Excited to share this new preprint from the lab, where postdoc Pavan Silva @kptsilva.bsky.social found pathways that control gene amplifications, and thus antibiotic resistance, in Staph aureus! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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My students that are nearing graduation and trying to find jobs right now are the same students who started the lab with me in 2020.

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I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

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doing bacterial genetics rn is rearranging base pairs on the titanic. is this anything

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We and the funders learnt from the news, another demoralizing day in academia #AcademySky 🧪 www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/u...

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Making sure to schedule in time each day to stare into space and dissociate for an hour

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