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How do bacteria🦠polymerize sugars at the IM, but then get them out of the cell?
Answer: OPX proteins in the periplasm interfacing with OM and IM components!
Check out our latest @IslaMyxoLab and Calmettes lab team effort in @NatureComms!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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18 Dec 2025
Found a printed copy at home of one of my recent grant proposals, figured I could use it as tinder to light the wood stove. Worked like a charm! Although, there's something very "à propos" about watching your proposed research project go up in flames... 🔥🔥🔥
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21 Oct 2025
More "not science": THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE HEADING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!⚾️🧢💙😃
If You're Reading This The Blue Jays Are Heading To The World Series
ALT George Springer jumps in the air with his arms out after hitting a go-ahead home run. The crowd goes wild in the background.
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29 Sep 2025
Even better than science!
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Our group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus as a model organism (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…) made the cover of the Journal of Bacteriology!!!
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22 Jun 2025
It's here! Celebrating 50 y of the MyxoMeeting, we myxologists teamed up & wrote a JBac group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus & how it became the coolest model bacterium ever 🦠🧫. Really proud of this 1, check it out for tons of useful info! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10…
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22 Jun 2025
It's here! Celebrating 50 y of the MyxoMeeting, we myxologists teamed up & wrote a JBac group review on the history of #Myxococcus xanthus & how it became the coolest model bacterium ever 🦠🧫. Really proud of this 1, check it out for tons of useful info! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10…
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1 Apr 2025
Sometimes I have too much fun working on review articles😁! Hmmm, how to end off a group review on the history of Myxococcus xanthus as a model 🦠?
"The remarkable research journey of M. xanthus can thus be summed up as follows: from a pile of poop to getting shit done!"
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Our Resource Allocation grant for computing 💻 allotment was approved, at double the amount from last year! 😃 Thnx @Alliance_Can! Time for some even cooler #moleculardynamics simulations!!! Stay tuned... 😉
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Salim T. Islam Research Group retweeted
12 Mar 2025
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Salim T. Islam Research Group retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Good to have you back.
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Salim T. Islam Research Group retweeted
31 Jan 2025
Our recently work shedding light on the reason why most OAg in E. coli favoured the initial sugar with GlcNAc same to ECA structure is out! It is like a plumbing solution to ensure efficient recycling of the essential cell envelope building block, UndP
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Salim T. Islam Research Group retweeted
31 Jan 2025
We shown the very first quantitative evidence to localise the sequestration of C55 oligosaccharide intermediates to the cytosolic face of the cytoplasmic membrane. Thanks
@MicrobioSoc for giving the concise story a good home.
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Salim T. Islam Research Group retweeted
30 Jan 2025
Delighted to share our bTB in bison story. Great partnership between Parks Canada and @VIDOInterVac with exceptional assistance from VIDO veterinary services team.
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11 Jan 2025
Excited to announce: I'll be joining the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bacteriology! 🦠🧫🔬 @JBacteriology, published by @ASMicrobiology since 1916, has long been a home for solid bacteriology research. It has been a pleasure to review for them over the years!
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4 Dec 2024
Shhhhhhh.... 🤫 *whispers* Nobody tell @InnovationCA or @NSERC_CRSNG RTI, ok?...🙊
yankodesign.com/2024/12/02/l…
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19 Oct 2024
So true & prescient! For shits & giggles, I've long planned to write up 1 of our stories currently in the pipeline using the leftside format (at least for the preprint), detailing the actual sequence of events that led to the final conclusion. Brace yourselves for an epic Fig.1🤓
18 Oct 2024
How we present the project is the opposite of how we actually do the project
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Not science-related, but this is just too perfect not to re-post. If you know, you know... #Shatkins
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It has arrived!😃🤓 Even our librarian couldn't track down an e-copy, so I ordered one from the UK. Has an excellent summary of early myxobacterial research, especially re: #motility🦠🔬 Discovered new (old!) references that show how ideas from 1951 turn out to be true after all!
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Salim T. Islam Research Group retweeted
23 Sep 2024
Sharing a very short paper that I wanted to write up for many years which showed biochemical evidence that UndP sequestered with altered sugar structures are trapped at the cystosolic face of the membrane due to ineffective Wzx activity.
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