Brendan O'Hara
@Hydroxide_ion
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A sometimes bearded Postdoc looking at bacterial sRNA regulation.
Joined July 2013
RT @apbrogan: Angelika Gründling’s work from her sabbatical in the Bernhardt-Rudner labs is out! She came with the goal of finding the miss….
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RT @implosian: My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you….
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RT @shailabshrestha: So excited to finally share this work!!. We found an unexpected repurposing of canonical division enzymes during the e….
biorxiv.org
Current models of bacterial cell division assume that the core synthases of the multiprotein divisome complex, FtsW-FtsI, are the primary drivers of septal peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis. These enzymes...
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RT @nquinoneso: Exciting news! The pre-print for our paper, “Diverse and abundant viruses exploit conjugative plasmids” is finally out! Joi….
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RT @AmeliaMcKitt: Best way to get to know your new bacteria? Infect it with phage! Check out my preprint 👇 where I used tn-seq to find phag….
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Happy to finally have my preprint out in the world! I isolated phage from stool to identify anti-phage systems on conserved V. cholerae genomic islands. The Vibrio cholerae Seventh Pandemic islands act in tandem to defend against a circulating phage
biorxiv.org
The current circulating pandemic El Tor biotype of Vibrio cholerae has persisted for over sixty years and is characterized by its acquisition of two unique genomic islands called the Vibrio Seventh...
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Congrats to @kelseybarrasso ,the rest of the Ng lab folks, and our collaborators for getting this story out! (P.S. the current version gave Barrasso and extra S).Impact of a human gut microbe on Vibrio cholerae host colonization through biofilm enhancement
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A specific gut microbe Paracoccus aminovorans enhances host colonization of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae by forming dual-species biofilm structures.
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RT @DavisLabJHU: Excited to share this new preprint from the lab, hopefully this TIMER variant will be very useful for future studies! http….
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RT @michael_laub8: Hey Micro peeps:: Two grad students in my lab, Chantal Guegler and Peter Culviner, developed a super easy DIY kit for rR….
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The profiling of gene expression by RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has enabled powerful studies of global transcriptional patterns in all organisms, including bacteria. Because the vast majority of RNA in...
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At long last, we're out from the shadow of the Sackler name!.
Tufts University has decided to remove the Sackler name from our school of graduate biomedical sciences, from our medical education building, and from within our medical school programs. Read the full statement:
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RT @michael_laub8: (p)ppApp! It's real - not a typo of (p)ppGpp. Super fun collaboration with John Whitney's lab. Congrats to Sheri Ahmad a….
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Nature - The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa attacks competing bacteria using the toxin Tas1, which pyrophosphorylates adenosine nucleotides to generate (p)ppApp, thereby depleting ATP and...
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RT @AmeliaMcKitt: Calling all phage enthusiasts in the Boston area!🧬🧫🔬 @implosian and I want to organize a meetup with other Boston phage p….
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congratulations Amelia McKitterick PhD. Great science, magnificent person, skilled at sabrage. @AmeliaMcKitt @KimDSeed
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Another great paper from the seed lab showing the latest front in the battle between bacteria and phage! Nice work @AmeliaMcKitt @kristen_legault @KimDSeed.
Newest paper's out! Phage encoded CRISPR-Cas system indirectly interferes with anti-phage island by targeting bacterial host chromosome, requiring Cas2-3 processivity. Plus new CR+ phage from cholera patient 💩! @kristen_legault @KimDSeed .
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RT @ScottAScholz: Does genomic position matter for gene expression in bacteria? Yes! I'm pleased to share our work in @CellSystemsCP on map….
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RT @BostonBacteria: Guess who's turning 25? The 25th Boston Bacterial Meeting will take place June 6-7, 2019 at the Harvard Science Center.….
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RT @HeldweinLab: Congratulations to Katya for being elected into the American Academy of Microbiology! What an awesome achievement! #heldwi….
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RT @BlastMeetings: The #blastxv social media team: Girija Bodhankar @gulabjamun17 Lucy McCully @microMcCully Scott Carlew @TS_Carlew Maria….
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RT @BlastMeetings: The social media team #Blastxv ready for action @microMcCully @LindzyONeal @BacterialTalk @TS_Carlew @Hydroxide_ion @gul….
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