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Navish Wadhwa @WadhwaLab
Joined November 2009
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Glad to see this out. Introducing "swashing," a flagella-independent form of bacterial surface migration.
ASM
@ASMicrobiology
10 Nov 2025
#MicrobiologyMonday: Bacteria swarm, but DYK they also "swash"? This flagella-independent movement is tied to fermentation: as cells ferment sugars, they create local osmolarity gradients, which generate a wave of fluid driving expansion. #JBacteriology: asm.social/2Gh
Propulsion-independent surface migration in S. enterica LT2 and E. coli.

ALT Propulsion-independent surface migration in S. enterica LT2 and E. coli.

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BLAST Meetings@BlastMeetings
22 Jan 2025
A mind-blowing presentation by Eric Dudebout from @WadhwaLab at @ASU, unraveling SWASHING MOTILITY, a propulsion-independent mechanism for bacterial surface migration. WadhwaLab.com @DNAmanipulation @UUtah biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #blastmeeting2025 #motility
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Ryota IINO 飯野亮太
@ryotaiino
2 Dec 2024
Molecule of the Month: Flagellar Motor pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/300
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Somewhat delayed, but thanks to the feedback from many folks, including @EvolvedBiofilm, @AnuKhareLab, and others, we revised our recent bioRxiv pre-print. Most importantly, we re-christened this bacterial motility mechanism to 'Swashing Motility.' 🧵-> x.com/WadhwaLab/status/18267…
Navish Wadhwa@WadhwaLab
22 Aug 2024
🎉 It’s the 2-year anniversary of the Wadhwa lab! Perfect time to share our lab’s first preprint. Read on for a surprising new discovery about bacterial motility. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/
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🎉 It’s the 2-year anniversary of the Wadhwa lab! Perfect time to share our lab’s first preprint. Read on for a surprising new discovery about bacterial motility. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/

Surfing Motility: A Novel Propulsion-Independent Mechanism for Surface Migration in Salmonella and...

Bacteria migrate on surfaces using diverse mechanisms. Many flagellated species move on agar using a form of collective motility termed swarming. Swarming has been thought to require flagellar...

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This work is a close collaboration with David Blair’s group at @UUtah. Big kudos to Dave’s former grad student @DNAmanipulation and our own star undergrad-turned-master’s student, Eric Dudebout, for leading these efforts beautifully. 8/
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Finally, we’d love to hear your feedback! Feel free to DM or email me with any thoughts, especially critiques of the manuscript. 9/9
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Looking forward to hosting @DrPrasanthM from Ry Young's group in our lab and looking at phage-bacteria interactions in real time. Exciting two weeks ahead 🙌
Prasanth Manohar, PhD ‘Phagelogist’@DrPrasanthM
26 May 2024
Will be visiting Arizona State University, Tempe for couple of weeks #phagebiology
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Glad to have played a very small part in this awesome work by @ptbrown1729 and @doug
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Flagellar motor is a gift that keeps giving 😍
Prash Singh
@prash_singh
17 Apr 2024
My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in @NatureMicrobiol #MolecularNodes #Discovery nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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This piece brought up some very painful memories. On 3 separate occasions, I spent ~4 months 'stuck', waiting for a US visa approval. Imagine spending a year of your life in limbo. Not knowing whether you'll make it in time to start your phd or postdoc. It is terrible. 1/2
Mayank Chugh (he/him)@mayank_mchugh
15 Apr 2024
📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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It doesn't have to be this way. Academics must press congress to pass legislation that makes US more attractive for global talent. And that starts with fixing the immigration system. 2/2
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Susan Lea@S_M_Lea
8 Mar 2024
Published today @SJohnsonDPhil and @justindeme85 story finally revealing the molecular basis for transmission of uni-directional ion flow into bi-directional rotation of the bacterial flagellum doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-0…

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"You have to focus on things that you can change." Wonderful interview! And a well-deserved recognition.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
2 Oct 2023
“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (@kkariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her experiments by hand but today she has been awarded the medicine prize for her research on mRNA, which led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Listen now:
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