Interested in Motility, cell wall and morphogenesis. Favorite pet - Myxococcus.
College Station, TX
Joined October 2018
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I came back to the United States, hearing about a very sad news: Craig Venter passed away today. He is a pioneer, successfully sequenced the first Human genome, and tried to create Synthetic Cells. We lost a giant in Science. RIP.
@JCVenterInst
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Biologists have been unpacking the mystery of the flagellar motor for decades. It wasn’t until this year that the final pieces of its dynamic puzzle finally fell into place. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled,” said Mike Manson, a professor emeritus of biophysics at Texas A&M University who started studying the flagellar motor in the 1970s. “I finally understand how this thing I’ve been studying for 50 years actually works. That’s about as satisfying as can be.” quantamagazine.org/what-phys…
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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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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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Researchers identified a previously unrecognized antimicrobial peptide produced by human platelets (dermcidin), which impedes proliferation of MRSA and promotes the antibacterial effect of platelets on the pathogen. Explore the study in #JournalSpectrum: asm.social/2rA
ALT Dermcidin promoted the inhibitory effect of platelets against MRSA
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Beta-lactams covalently bind to Penicillin Binding Proteins and have been the mainstay of antimicrobial chemotherapy for decades.
In this new paper with colleagues @Bicycle_tx we show a new way to hit old targets: rdcu.be/eoaRI
How do Gram-negative bacteria divide their outer membranes (OMs)? E. coli does so by attaching its OM to the peptidoglycan (PG). But how about the organisms with weaker PG-OM connections? M. xanthus does this in an easy way, by simply snapping its OM!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Do you know that US was not a super power before WWII, despite that her GDP was already #1 in the whole world? So what made US a super power? Science and technology. If you’d like to make America great again, even greater, at least keep the science and technology great in US.
He was mad and disappointed. Long story short, he became the mastermind of China’s nuclear bombs. You don’t have to care about this. China’s bombs have not threatened the US ever since.
Instead, because of the bomb, the communist government of China turned the whole country into a prison and slavery camp for most of the Chinese people. Now we worry about the threats from China. The seed was planted in the 1950s.
Recently I’ve been thinking about the proposed NIH cut and the hostility towards foreign researchers in the US.
There was a Chinese scientist named Qian Xuesen. He was a professor at Cal Tech in the 1950s and a major leader in the JPL.
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📣 New MicroBites!
Bioheist: A tale of intranuclear bacteria 🦠
Researchers study how a parasitic bacteria infects the nuclei of deep-sea mussels 🌊
micro-bites.org/2025/02/14/b…
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Funding from the @NIH contributed to the development of 354 out of 356 (99.4%) of the new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2019, and 🚨 100% 🚨 of FDA approved drugs btw 2010-2016. @NIH funding is the backbone of American biomedical innovation. #protecttheNIH
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There are no paintings inside Saint Peter’s Basilica. There are just countless mosaics made up of millions of hand placed tiles that look like paintings. It took hundreds of craftsmen hundreds of years. It is the ultimate masterpiece.
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@TAMU_Biology is thrilled Dr. Susan Alberts is joining us as a Hagler Fellow for the Fall 2024-2025 class! Please read more about Dr. Alberts' work and collaborations with the TAMU Biology department! tx.ag/alberts2024
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Joe Biden didn’t just pardon Hunter for the gun crimes for which he was convicted. He pardoned Hunter for *EVERY SINGLE FEDERAL CRIME HE COMMITTED* over the last decade—including several years during which Joe Biden was VP and the entirety of Joe Biden’s presidency.
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New Review Alert from our lab ! 🚨 Explore Bacterial Peptidoglycan Recycling 🦠🔄—a deep dive into the latest discoveries on PG transport and reuse, featuring insights from @GilmoreMichaelC
📖 Chek it out here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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It's Thursday, so here is a new episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Jolene Ramsey joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how bacteriophages escape their host cells, and why it is fascinating. #MicrobeTV @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology Please share!
youtu.be/YAl1BmF3CdA?si=mMsZ…
