Chris Waters
@WatersLabMSU
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Researchers of cyclic di-nucleotide signaling, biofilms, phage and phage defense, and use of bacterial signaling molecules to manipulate the immune system.
Michigan State Universtiy
Joined May 2011
Compiling all of my grant applications from 10 years as faculty. During this time, I have had 64 unfunded applications! Truth is most of us could wallpaper our offices with rejections. The MOST important key to be successful in science is to don't let "NO" stop you!
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Check out this story by KU JMC student Bella Waters. ⬇️
Lawrence forced everyone out of a homeless camp. Getting them housing was not as simple
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So proud of my daughter Bella! She is a jr journalism student @UnivOfKansas and her @KansanNews school article on a homeless encampment in @lawrenceks was picked up by @KansasCityStar -the biggest paper in Kansas City!
Super excited that The Kansas City Star picked up my article about homelessness in Lawrence!
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Great story and very lucky to have @Jas_B_Gomez in my lab!
Next up in our MGI Micro Biography series is Jasper Gomez, a doctoral student in Chris Waters' lab. Read more about Jasper's background and how he became a microbiologist: https://t.co/VNRsEhYQY8
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A Vibrio cholerae Type IV restriction system targets glucosylated 5-hydroxymethylcytosine to protect against phage infection @JBacteriology by @Jas_B_Gomez and @WatersLabMSU
https://t.co/JhDiQesMl8
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Bacteria are constantly being predated by bacteriophage (phage). To counteract this predation, bacteria have evolved a myriad of defense systems. Some of these systems specifically digest infecting...
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Beautiful story @Aathmaja and very happy to work with Jeremy and @FreddolinoLab on this (with @GeoffreySeverin, @macyEpell, and Meng Hsieh co-authors from my group and Rebecca Hurto from Lyida's team). So important to not just consider biofilm formation, but also dispersal!
Check out my latest work from @WatersLabMSU lab with our amazing collaborators Jeremy Schroeder @FreddolinoLab on how V. cholerae maintains its cyclic di-GMP levels to maintain the balance between motile and sessile forms. (1/3) https://t.co/7v5rKshbal
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Jasper Gomez, an MGI doctoral candidate in Chris Waters' lab, was awarded an NIH Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship. Read more here: https://t.co/t0H3njfazd…
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Very happy to have Micah in the lab as he is always willing to help other with their protein work and share his crazy Alaska stories!
Next up in our @MSUMGI Micro Biography series is Dr. Micah Ferrell. Micah is an MGI postdoctoral fellow who works in Dr. Chris Waters' lab. Read more here about his childhood in Alaska, how he came to join MGI, and his research: https://t.co/tmrg4HR3fb
#spartanresearchers
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Do apply for the two 2 phage defence positions at our lab!
AMBER has now opened its second postdoctoral call! We are looking for 15 postdocs who will work across projects related to biological imaging, across universities and large scale infrastructures! @MAXIVLaboratory @essneutron @embl @ILLGrenoble
https://t.co/Kxsw15cprd
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Great article! We were very fortunate to have Amber in the lab as a BS/MS student and then super lab manager, and I am excited for her in her now role as the new Academic Program Coordinator at MGI where she will be able to help all the grad students of the dept!
Next up in our @MSUMGI Micro Biography series is Amber Bedore. Amber is the Academic Program Coordinator and also an MGI alumna. She earned her BS / MS in our department and was a research tech and lab manager in the @WatersLabMSU ! Read more here: https://t.co/rKlFG4wrOA
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Very happy to have Aathmaja in my group!! Here is a great article about her scientific journey.
The MGI website features "Micro Biographies" of people in our community, and the newest one highlights Dr. Aathmaja Anandhi Rangarajan, a postdoc in Dr. Chris Waters' lab. #womeninSTEM #spartanresearchers Read more here: https://t.co/8Xa4VX99ZP
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If you want a new tune to play at you BBQ or the beach this weekend, check out the new song “All I Know” by my sons group Liminal on Spotify https://t.co/RrHsq4zpMI
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Liminal · single · 2024 · 1 songs
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@MBlokesch and her student Grazia Vizzarro independently discovered this system, and it has been great working together to concurrently submit our two papers! Here is their BioRxiv. Congrats to Jasper Gomez @Jas_B_Gomez and Grazia! https://t.co/yw5FC2RDLK
biorxiv.org
In response to predation by bacteriophages and invasion by other mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, bacteria have evolved specialised defence systems that are often clustered together on...
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Thus there is a really cool ping-pong evolutionary interaction of phage evolving resistance and subsequent sensitivity to different Type IV systems: 3/
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Jasper showed that it restricts T-even phage in E.coli, but resistance mutants can be isolated that lose the glucose modification. Those mutant have a significant tradeoff as they become sensitive to other Type IV restriction systems targeting unglucosylated 5hmc 2/
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Congratulations to @Jas_B_Gomez on his new work in @biorxivpreprint describing a new Type IV restriction system in V. cholerae which is embedded in the middle of a Type I restriction operon. This system targets glucosylated 5 hydrox methyl cytosines 1/ https://t.co/6cD6l7HxRC
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A major challenge faced by Vibrio cholerae is constant predation by bacteriophage (phage) in aquatic reservoirs and during infection of human hosts. To overcome phage predation, V. cholerae has...
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Congratulations Melanie and Grazia on the beautiful study describing a new restriction system in V. cholerae!
Thrilled to share our latest preprint featuring our PhD student Grazia @Vizzarro_Grazia as first author 🥳 Thanks to senior scientist, David W. Adams, for co-supervising the work & to Alexandre Lemopoulos for the bioinformatics support. 🧵below...1/x https://t.co/s9kI74kEhd
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Thrilled to share our latest preprint featuring our PhD student Grazia @Vizzarro_Grazia as first author 🥳 Thanks to senior scientist, David W. Adams, for co-supervising the work & to Alexandre Lemopoulos for the bioinformatics support. 🧵below...1/x https://t.co/s9kI74kEhd
biorxiv.org
In response to predation by bacteriophages and invasion by other mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, bacteria have evolved specialised defence systems that are often clustered together on...
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Hey MI Microbiologists! Registration and abstract submission for the 2024 MI-ASM meeting taking place 4/6 in Ann Arbor is open for one more week. A great meeting-especially for trainees (and UGs!) Please RT! https://t.co/dz7GPf4Pfb
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"We are under-appreciative of plasmid-free bacterial cells that could be confounding the interpretation of our results," says MGI's @ambermbedore , co-author with @WatersLabMSU on a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Read it here: https://t.co/G9WcGV1rAW
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Hey MI, my son's band LIMINAL is booking gigs for bars/restaurants, parties, events, outdoor concerts, etc.. They have ~3 hours of music covering rock songs AND original music that they have composed and recorded. Here is a taste and info. RTs appreciated! https://t.co/Cc79lndqLK
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