@castleanthrax

PhD candidate in Microbiology and Immunology🧫🧬 bacteria enthusiast and aspiring science writer👩🏼‍🔬👩🏼‍💻

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Joined February 2015
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I successfully defended my PhD dissertation this week🎉👩🏼‍🎓
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How to generate clean deletion mutants in Enterococcus microspacebiologist.com/2026…

How to generate clean deletion mutants in Enterococcus

Greetings, fellow scientists! This article will walk through the method we use in my lab for knocking out genes in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis. Briefly, we use a plasmid with a f…

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Had fun at #MMPC2024 this year!
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Calling all Enterococcal researchers & enthusiasts! 🦠We've really appreciated the Enterococcal tools available @Biocyc, especially with upgraded curation, so I'm happy to spread the good word to those who are still out there.
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Check out the recent @BioCyc release, which also includes newly curated Tier 2 databases for Enterococcus faecalis V583 and OG1RF. A big shoutout to @KimInGeneva and @josealemos for their guidance in navigating enterococcal research!
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🦠 Antibiotics wiping out gut microbes? Watch out for resistant Enterococci taking over and leading to sepsis. The latest #FEMSmicroBlog by Michelle Hallenbeck @castleanthrax explains how new targets could prevent these infections! #FascinatingMicrobes fems-microbiology.org/femsmi…

#FEMSmicroBlog: Finding the sweet spot – inhibiting sugar transporters to combat pathogens

A new study in FEMS Microbes looked at the role of two sugar transport system components in Enterococcus faecium to prevent blood infections.

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If you're curious about how sugar metabolism can impact pathogenesis and other processes in bacteria, check out my new paper! #FEMSmicroBlog fems-microbiology.org/femsmi…

#FEMSmicroBlog: Finding the sweet spot – inhibiting sugar transporters to combat pathogens

A new study in FEMS Microbes looked at the role of two sugar transport system components in Enterococcus faecium to prevent blood infections.

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A bug with a sweet tooth: the life and times of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium microspacebiologist.com/2024…

A bug with a sweet tooth: the life and times of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

*looks at calendar* Wow, it’s been a while since the last time I was here. I have a good excuse- I’ve been busy working on my PhD! I just started my fifth year, so although I still have…

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🦠📷 OUT NOW! Non-canonical start codons in carbohydrate utilisation operons provide context-dependent advantages for commensal E. coli by Yassine Cherrak, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt and colleagues nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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The oral–gut microbiome axis in health and disease rdcu.be/dOzKm Kunath, Wilmes et al. explore the interaction between the oral and the intestinal microbiota and how they influence each other and the development of different diseases. @wilmeslab @microsyseco
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Thank you to the people that aggressively nod during presentations.
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Excited to share the first paper to come out of my PhD!🦠👩🏼‍🔬 The role of the universal sugar transport system components PtsI (EI) and PtsH (HPr) in Enterococcus faecium academic.oup.com/femsmicrobe…

The role of the universal sugar transport system components PtsI (EI) and PtsH (HPr) in Enterococ...

The universal sugar transport system (PtsIH) in E. faecium plays a major role in carbohydrate metabolism and competitive fitness as well as biofilm formati

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Writing Deleting 🤝 "We both help contribute to your thesis"
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The farther along you are the dumber you’ll feel
The PhD Place
@ThePhDPlace21 Jul 2024
What’s something only people doing a PhD will understand?
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Hello, science Twitter! I’ve been here for a while, but I thought I’d re-introduce myself in order to kick-start my #SciComm career. I’m entering my fifth year of a PhD program in Microbiology and Immunology at @uofl. (🧵1/5)
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We think they’ve evolved to take advantage of rising sugar levels in the diet, so we’re trying to identify novel targets that we can use to inhibit their growth and reduce the likelihood that they’ll spread to the bloodstream. (🧵4/5)
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Feel free to ask me questions by replying to this thread if you want to learn more about what I do! (🧵5/5) #mySCSimpact
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Excited to share the first paper to come out of my PhD!🦠👩🏼‍🔬 The role of the universal sugar transport system components PtsI (EI) and PtsH (HPr) in Enterococcus faecium academic.oup.com/femsmicrobe…

The role of the universal sugar transport system components PtsI (EI) and PtsH (HPr) in Enterococ...

The universal sugar transport system (PtsIH) in E. faecium plays a major role in carbohydrate metabolism and competitive fitness as well as biofilm formati

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