I am a four hundred foot tall Emory graduate student with pink horns and silver wings. he/him/his
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GFP carnivorous plants 🤤
From endangered to engineered: in vitro conservation and transformation of Drosera regia
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The first time you clone GFP into E. coli
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Nonnodulating Fagales retain the functional NODULE INCEPTION gene
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In antibiotic pharmacology, the MIC (minimum inhibitory concentration) is often front and center. But there are limitations to describing such a dynamic system with one metric. This is one of my all-time favorite papers which describes *why* @BrandonBerryh
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What's the matter with MICs? This @JournalSpectrum study shows MICs are an incomplete measure of how an infection will interact with an antibiotic. Understanding the critiques of MIC is one of many steps needed to improve infectious disease treatment. asm.social/1b5
ALT Predicted changes in density of antibiotic-exposed bacteria. To illustrate the properties of this model, we explore only the strong bactericidal antibiotic condition (Condition III). Condition III represents a strong bactericidal antibiotic with vMIN = 5.0. Parameters used for these simulations are e?=?5?�?10?7??g/per cell, vMAX = 1.2 per cell per hour, ??=?1, k?=?1, MIC?=?1.0. Changes in the viable density of bacteria anticipated from the Hill function model for different concentrations of the antibiotic, respectively, 0 to 1.2 times MIC. In these numerical solutions to equations 2 to 4, we assume the concentration of the limiting resource (r) is 1,000 when the bacteria are first introduced to the antibiotic and the concentration of the antibiotic does not decay, da?=?0.
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Here, we employ precise termination site mapping on a massively parallel scale to reveal the HUB (hairpin, U-tract, & bubble-edge sequences) as the defining element of intrinsic terminators, across diverse bacterial phyla.
@MITBiology @hhmi_science (2/2)
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New paper from the lab- Microbial diversity loss constrains plastic degradation in marine sediments.
Led by Alba Benito-Kaesbach
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Growing a plant you cannot see : ex situ propagation of the endoparasite Rafflesia speciosa to strengthen in situ conservation
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never forget when rand paul sat on the senate floor and railed against federal funding to study the screwworm’s reproductive cycle as wasteful 😌
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NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals
Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf
Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966
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Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest
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NEW: state Rep. Don McLaughlin says New World Screwworm within 1 mile of Texas border and urged state leaders to set up response modeled after Operation Lone Star.
Says the federal government is "failing to take seriously a threat that could devastate our livestock industry."
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Optimizing methods for virome analysis based on studies of a synthetic viral community
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For most graduate students in science, a teaching assistantship is mainly a way to pay the bills as they pursue a research career. But for Jasmine Clark, that role allowed her to find her true calling.
“Being a science educator really, really spoke to me,” says Clark, who in 2013 received her Ph.D. in microbiology from Emory University. “I found that my niche was in the classroom, helping people to better understand science.”
Clark’s audience has only grown since then. For more than a decade she has been an instructor at Emory’s nursing school. In 2018, she was elected to the Georgia state legislature, where she has been an advocate for improving health care access and services.
And come January 2027, Clark expects to begin to educate the other 434 members of the U.S. House of Representatives about the importance of using science to set policy after winning a Democratic primary last week in a deep-blue suburban Atlanta district. When seated, she will be the first Black woman in Congress to hold a science Ph.D.
Clark spoke with Science about her background, the roots of her political activism, and what she hopes to accomplish in Washington, D.C. scim.ag/49wIr4d
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Biologically immortal sea cucumber tissues may provide new opportunities for ethical aging research in regenerative biology, biomedical research, and tissue engineering.
Learn more in @ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/4uGpEw3
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Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters @pnas pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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"Synthetic biology as an empirical tool for evolutionary theory" doi.org/10.32942/X23Q15
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"The holobiont is not a useful model for most host-microbiome interactions" doi.org/10.32942/X2W661
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Genome degradation in plant tissue culture | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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Measurements about 10 years ago reported that mitochondrial-DNA, packaged into nucleoids, is regularly spaced. It was amazing to see mitochondria pearl to move those copies around! Kind of like a shimmy in my eyes
Our paper is now out in Science! Super excited to share our discovery that #mitochondria #pearling is the elusive mechanism driving the regular distribution and inheritance of #mtDNA nucleoids 🧬 [1/6]
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Opinion piece: We need to demystify invasivorism as a management strategy.
Marketing invasive species as products will not save threatened ecosystems. In PNAS Front Matter: ow.ly/SBtV50YLcLo
ALT A lionfish navigating the water, highlighting its unique appearance with long, flowing fins and bold coloration.
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We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student @SohamBasu13! @EMBL #nematostella #morphogenesis biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Metabolic inequality in microbial communities biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_ecology
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