Chicano | Microbiologist | Ph.D. with @BStevensonLab | Postdoc with @GoleyLab | Appreciating the little things in life | Views are my own 🧫🇲🇽🏳️🌈(He/Him)
.@PRSecor’s Laboratory (@montanastate) is hiring a Postdoc Researcher to study interactions between #phages, #bacteria, and the immune system in relation to #Lymedisease, using tick-mouse models, microbial genetics, genomics, and RNA-seq approaches.
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AlphaFold can predict protein, DNA, or RNA complexes.. BUT is it easy to determine the reliable interactions?🤔
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👀Read more: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
ALT The left panel displays the pLDDT of the prediction, while the right panel shows the reliable interfaces
Images created with Blender and Molecular Nodes
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Staphylococcus aureus responds to the host environment by synthesizing a thick peptidoglycan cell wall. What proteins are required for this response? Research in #AACJournal suggests the penicillin-binding protein PBP4 plays a crucial role. Learn more: asm.social/2a4
EF-hand calcium sensor was found to control calcium-dependent iron uptake and self-lysis in human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. #mBiojournals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍
@NIH has released a library of 500 free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations!
all freely available in the public domain.
Retweet and spread the message!
bioart.niaid.nih.gov/
@felixrl_ took on a ~50-yr-old mystery in #Staph aureus cell biology and came out on top! Check out his paper on how #Staphylococcus aureus chooses its cell division plane, how it forms clusters, and why all this matters during infection...
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
PlasmidScope: a comprehensive plasmid database with rich annotations and online analytical tools | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
Out today in @NAR_Open from @cees_dekker lab!!
*DNA supercoiling enhances DNA condensation by ParB proteins*
doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae936
Together with @Aless322 (and @Gruber_Lausanne ) we show the interaction between partition complex proteins (ParB) and supercoiled DNA!