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Zhaomin Yang @T4PVT
Joined April 2014
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Postdoc position in Dr. Birgit Scharf's lab at Virginia Tech to study bacterial motility and chemotaxis, see here: jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postd…
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Virginia Tech News@vtnews
5 Sep 2024
As antibiotic resistance grows, treating infections becomes tougher. 🦠 #VirginiaTech’s Megan O'Hara, guided by Prof. Zhaomin Yang, discovered how surface properties affect bacterial movement—key for combating infections. news.vt.edu/articles/2024/08…

New research illuminates the impact of surface properties on bacteria movement

As an undergraduate student, Megan O'Hara had a unique opportunity to study how bacteria move across surfaces — a process known as twitching motility. The findings led to the surprising discovery of...

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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
11 Sep 2024
Twitching motility favors hydrophilic surfaces. The effect of bile salts is physiochemical, instead of or in addition to physiological. | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/full/10…

Surface hydrophilicity promotes bacterial twitching motility | mSphere

The bacterial type IV pilus (T4P) is a critical virulence factor for many medically important pathogens, some of which are prioritized by the World Health Organization for their high levels of...

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Astropierre@astropierre
16 Jan 2024
Toutes ces photos et bien d'autres encore peuvent être admirées sur le site du concours "Close-Up Photographer of the Year" ici : cupoty.com/winners-5

The best close-up, macro and micro photographs of the year (2023)

See The Top 100 pictures from Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY 5).

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Blacksburg Middle School@BruinsBMS
10 Nov 2023
BMS Girls Basketball defeated Hidden Valley in an epic overtime game!!! Thanks for all the support from the best Cheerleaders Ever!!!!
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
2 Oct 2023
Learn more about the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine Press release: bit.ly/3LyuN4s Advanced information: bit.ly/450V7uZ
A blue background with COVID-19 virus and a yellow strand of modified mRNA. Also shown is the chemical structure of pseudouridine, an RNA base that was important in the prize-awarded discovery. The graphic represents the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karinkó and Drew Weissman who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

ALT A blue background with COVID-19 virus and a yellow strand of modified mRNA. Also shown is the chemical structure of pseudouridine, an RNA base that was important in the prize-awarded discovery. The graphic represents the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karinkó and Drew Weissman who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
30 Sep 2023
20% of my undergrad class this fall requires disability/accessibility accommodations. I am burned out. How is it on your campus?
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Webster Santos@santoslabVT
6 Aug 2023
Be my colleague! I’m chairing this search. Please RT.
ProfAMo@amorri28
5 Aug 2023
Virginia Tech is hiring! We are searching for an assistant professor in organic chemistry with expertise in synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, and/or catalysis. careers.pageuppeople.com/968… #chemjobs #chemtwitter @BlackInChem @LatinXChem
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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
27 May 2023
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Knut Drescher@knutdrescher
27 May 2023
Angstrom resolution fluorescence microscopy - quite simply amazing! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Lori L. Burrows@Dr_Lori_Burrows
15 May 2023
#Pseudomonas: "Should I stay or should I go?" Type-IV pili tune an adhesion-migration trade-off during surface colonization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Type-IV pili tune an adhesion-migration trade-off during surface colonization of Pseudomonas...

Bacterial pathogenicity relies on both firm surface adhesion and cell dissemination. How twitching bacteria resolve the fundamental contradiction between adhesion and migration is unknown. To address...

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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
10 May 2023
Prof. Zhaomin Yang (Biological Sciences) and Prof. Webster Santos (Chemistry) at Virginia Tech are jointly recruiting a Postdoctoral or Research Associate to conduct translational and basic research on bacterial type IV pilus. see here careers.pageuppeople.com/968…. Please distribute.
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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
30 Apr 2023
Discovery of phage determinants that confer sensitivity to bacterial immune systems cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…

Discovery of phage determinants that confer sensitivity to bacterial immune systems

A tour de force analysis provides fresh insights into the ways in which bacterial immune systems sense phage invaders and how the latter escape the defense mechanism.

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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
28 Apr 2023
The moral of the story is that all the structures of proteins/biomolecules in perfectly formed crystals are artifacts 😃
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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
16 Dec 2022
gardp.org/2022-a-year-in-rev…

2022: A Year in Review

We live in a world in which nearly 1.3 million people die every year to antibiotic resistance, more than HIV and malaria deaths combined. One ... 2022: A Year in Review

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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
25 Nov 2022
medicalxpress.com/news/2022-…

Bacterial infections the 'second leading cause of death worldwide'

Bacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first global estimate of their lethality revealed on Tuesday.

medicalxpress.com
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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
21 Nov 2022
I am excited to share our work on antivirulence targeting T4P as a bacterial virulence factor. Two Parkinson's drugs, levodopa & benserazide, inhibit T4P assembly ATPase PilB and impact T4P-dependent processes in bacteria with different PilB variants. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Discovery of Two Inhibitors of the Type IV Pilus Assembly ATPase PilB as Potential Antivirulence...

Many bacterial pathogens use their type IV pilus (T4P) to facilitate and maintain an infection in a human host. Small-molecule inhibitors of the production or assembly of the T4P are promising for...

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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
31 Oct 2022
Beautiful work!
Courtney Ellison@C__Ellison
25 Oct 2022
Excited to share my last postdoc paper with @zgitai1, @shaevitz, the Dalia lab, Ned Wingreen, and Chenyi Fei! We found Acinetobacter baylyi cells localize their type IV pili in a line to interact with each other and regulate biofilm structure formation: rdcu.be/cYeln
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Lori L. Burrows@Dr_Lori_Burrows
18 Mar 2022
.@McMasterU is committed to increasing faculty #diversity - our students want to see more profs that look like them. As part of this effort, we’re are hiring 12 Black scholars across all faculties; please see the pics for details on how to apply. Join us! #AcademicTwitter
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Zhaomin Yang@T4PVT
20 Sep 2021
Pfizer, BioNTech to seek emergency authorization in the U.S. for use of their vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years as soon as possible wsj.com/articles/pfizer-bion… via @WSJ

Pfizer, BioNTech Say Covid-19 Vaccine Is Safe for Children Aged 5 to 11

The companies said the Covid-19 vaccine generated levels of antibodies that were similar to those of younger adults. Pfizer will seek emergency use authorization in the U.S. as early as the end of...

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Dr. Melanie Brouillard@Mel_Brouillard
15 Jul 2021
I can finally share exciting news: I am a Vanier Scholar! But I don’t want this to be just another “I am proud to announce” tweet. Here’s my story. 1/n 🧵
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