Inspiring little article.
How I learned to teach like a scientist
Recently retired, this professor emeritus reflects on how she challenged students to think beyond facts. #AcademicChatter bit.ly/4bseH91
ALT An illustration accompanying the article "How I learned to teach like a scientist." It depicts several people interacting with oversized open journals. One person is on a ladder, another is peering over the edge of a platform, and a third is diving headfirst into a journal surrounded by scientific symbols and equations.
Our next paper on #AMR mechanisms has been published in @ACSPublications (ACS Infectious Diseases)! The enzyme Cfr confers multi-drug resistance to important bacterial pathogens. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… 🧵
We found one amino acid in particular that it’s important for the particular RNA methylation necessary for multi-drug resistance. We still have a lot more to learn about this enzyme, including experimental structure determination of a Cfr-RNA complex.
Thanks to Michael Fruci @AAFC_Canada, @FujimoriLabUCSF, @UCalgary, the Center for Structural Biology of Infectious Diseases @microprofmom @NIAIDNews and @argonne! 🧵
Interesting twist. It has long been known that addition of rRNA modifications can lead to AMR, it’s interesting to see the opposite is also true. I wonder if there are rRNA methylhydrolases out there that are undiscovered.
Antibiotic Resistance Can Emerge If Bacteria Lose rRNA Modifications
Antibiotic resistance study explores a recently identified mechanism in bacteria: the shedding of methylation marks from ribosomal RNA.
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I’m looking forward to convening the session “New Insights into Molecular Mechanisms of AMR” and presenting my research at #ASMicrobe tomorrow morning! Closing out the meeting with a “bang” 😉
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"#UTIs can have a huge impact of people's health and quality of life, so it's important that challenges like #antibiotic resistance are addressed," @UNSW's Alex Young says. medicalxpress.com/news/2024-…
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I enjoy meetings a lot more if no one can see what I'm doodling 🐍
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I love writing meeting plans, I just wish they had more dragons in like other fantasy stories
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"Interesting presentation but how do you think your imprinted polymer nanoparticles could be applied to the study of 1300s agrarian land use in Latvia?"
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We are working with @GoogleDeepMind to use #AI to do advanced modelling and analysis of several proteins identified as promising but unrealised targets for new #antibiotics 💊
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I would love to know what percentage of my life is spent pressing “Report Spam” as I receive countless spam “conference invitations” and “journal invitations”. No I’m not interested in chairing a conference on a field of science I have never participated in any way ever.
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Cyanobacteria invented photosynthesis billions of years ago. Now, scientists have fossil evidence of the structures needed to turn sunlight into chemical energy in some ancient cyanobacteria. sciencenews.org/article/bact…
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Nature research paper: A new antibiotic traps lipopolysaccharide in its intermembrane transporter go.nature.com/3H7hrKc
Congratulations! Yet another example of how basic science research is essential for development of products that benefit humanity—even when the researchers don’t know it at the time and exploring their curiosity—that’s how the best science works.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
@DanielGriffinMD could I get your help with my experience with Paxlovid? I got symptomatic COVID, tested positive on rapid test, immediately started taking Paxlovid. After 6 days test was negative and my symptoms were gone. I felt good, tested negative two days in a row. Cont’d