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phagemorgan.bsky.social

MD/PhD student. Harm Reductionist. Here for the phages. All views my own.

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Flashy words like "revolutionize" are thrown around quite liberally in our field. In this case though, I can't think of a more appropriate word. This stuff is 🔥🔥🔥.

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𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝟏𝟖𝟓𝟎𝐬 Tuberculosis Dysentery Cholera Malaria Typhoid Pneumonia/Flu Diphtheria Scarlet fever Meningitis Whooping cough 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣/𝙑𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨/𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘 Heart disease Cancer Accidents COPD Stroke Alzheimer’s Diabetes Pneumonia/Flu Kidney disease Suicide

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

When I started my PhD, we knew exactly zero about the phage nucleus protein import pathway. Out today in Nature, parallel work by Claire Kokontis picking apart this pathway. PicA vs. Imp1, let the games begin. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amazing story of a young cancer patient's resilience, a scary infection with MDR 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘢 expressing NDM-1, and successful application of phage therapy Care coordinated by Peds ID specialist and UCI Asst Prof Chulie Ulloa, MD—friend and former PSDP, K08, and UCPPFP mentee in the lab

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

In honor of Black History Month - The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Me: If this experiment works the first time, I'm throwing a party. Experiment: Did somebody say party?

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I prefer shameful self-promotion by re-posting, but Pew and UCSD Biosciences have not migrated to this new utopia, so... Exciting news! I get to play with one of my besties @thevillalab.bsky.social today.ucsd.edu/story/kimber...

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Excited to share our new study with the Müller and @SchullerJm labs, online @nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04971-z This is T. kivui, an anaerobic bacterium. It uses hydrogen energy to store #CO2. How does it do it? #CryoET revealed membrane-anchored bundles of...

submitted 958 days ago • 8 comments

Structural diversity and oligomerization of bacterial ubiquitin-like proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.623966v1

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Trying to be more active here and get away from that toxic other place. If you want to know what I do, check out this paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments