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Ray Sullivan
Jan 162 min read
Rutgers: TRIM7 ubiquitinates SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein to limit apoptosis and viral replication.
Professor Ricardo Rajsbaum moved his lab from the University of Texas Medical Branch to Rutgers Health Institute for Infectious &...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 162 min read
Rutgers: Catalase activity deficiency sensitizes multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the ATP synthase inhibitor bedaquiline.
The growing threat of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health concern. Tuberculosis still ranks among the...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 151 min read
NJIT: Enriching fluorotelomer carboxylic acids-degrading consortia from sludges and soils.
Mengyan “Ian” Li’s lab at NJIT continues to develop remediation techniques using microbes to degrade organic pollutants. Fluorotelomer...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 141 min read
Theobald Smith Society 2024 Fall Meeting Recap
Professor Sean Crosson and Professor Srujana "Sam" Yadavalli Check out our just-published Minireview in mShpere summarizing our Fall...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 141 min read
Rutgers: Inactivation of Foodborne Pathogens in Salad Dressing
Don Schaffner & Cliff Baldwin Rutgers Professor Don Schaffner and Stockton University data scientist Clifton Baldwin continue their...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 92 min read
Princeton: Discovery of Cryptic Natural Products Using High-Throughput Elicitor Screening on Agar Media
Professor Mo Seyedsayamdost Professor Mohammad R. “Mo” Seyedsayamdost runs the Mo LAB in Princeton’s Dept. of Chemistry. Ten years ago...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 82 min read
Princeton: The role of vector population variation and climate in Zika virus transmission patterns in Africa: a modelling study.
Dr. Jamie Calwell Jamie Calwell , Associate Research Scholar in Gabriel Vecchi’s group at The High Meadows Environmental Institute at...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 82 min read
Pfizer: Annaliesa Anderson Accepts Pfizer's National Medal of Technology Award
Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), awards Pfizer Inc. representatives...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 81 min read
Princeton: Bonnie Bassler Awarded the National Medal of Science
Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), awards Bonnie L. Bassler the National...
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Ray Sullivan
Jan 34 min read
Rutgers: Congratulations Alanna Cohen, PhD!
Alanna Cohen successfully defended her PhD thesis “Genomic resources for the study of Anisogramma anomala and the Eastern Filbert Blight...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 22, 20241 min read
Princeton: Quorum sensing orchestrates parallel cell death pathways in Vibrio cholerae via Type 6 secretion-dependent and -independent mechanisms
Simplified model of V. cholerae 2740-80 QS regulation of t6ss, vps, and vca0646-0649, and consequently, the HCD-specific cell death...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 21, 20242 min read
Princeton: OmpA controls order in the outer membrane and shares the mechanical load
Professor Tom Silhavy The Silhavy Lab at Princeton investigated the importance of the outer membrane in Gram-negative bacteria, its...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 20, 20244 min read
Rutgers: Professor Alan D. Antoine 1939-2024
Left: Alan and daughter Cara getting her doctorate. Right: Alan getting his doctorate with daughter Cara. Alan Antoine was the former...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 19, 20241 min read
Rutgers: Nutrient colimitation is a quantitative, dynamic property of microbial populations
Michael Manhart’s Lab at Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine at Rutgers Piscataway, NJ developed a quantitative framework for...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Merck: Cytomegalovirus Antiviral Resistance Among Kidney Transplant Recipients in a Phase 3 Trial of Letermovir vs Valganciclovir Prophylaxis
Barbara Haber's group at Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ completed this study. The standard of care for CMV infection...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Princeton: Predicting the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 on Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the United States
Bryan Grenfell’s Lab at Princeton used mathematical models to predict the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on the...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Rutgers: Age-specific dynamics of neutralizing antibodies, cytokines, and chemokines in response to La Crosse virus infection in mice.
La Crosse virus (LACV) is a primary cause of pediatric arboviral encephalitis in the United States, particularly affecting children aged...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Princeton: Quantification of influenza virus mini viral RNAs using Cas13
Influenza A virus (IAV) infection produces a variety of aberrant RNA molecules, including defective viral genomes and mini viral RNAs,...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 16, 20241 min read
Rutgers: Fpa (YlaN) is an iron(II) binding protein that functions to relieve Fur-mediated repression of gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus.
Iron (Fe) is a trace nutrient required by nearly all organisms, thus the importance of Fe homeostasis in bacteria. Jeff Boyd’s Lab ,...
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Ray Sullivan
Dec 15, 20241 min read
Rutgers: Discovery of A-967079 as an Enterovirus D68 Antiviral by Targeting the Viral 2C Protein.
Jun Wang Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is a virus that can cause severe respiratory illness and neurological complications, particularly in...
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