Jorge Peña
@jorgepena9
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Postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zürich at the Bokulich lab | PhD from @FinlayLab | Microbial Interactions, Microbial ecology, Bioinformatics 🦠🧬🖥️ | 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇨🇭
Zürich, Switzerland
Joined February 2009
Excited to share my latest preprint! 🎉 Here we show that Quorum Sensing plays a critical role in regulating bacterial virulence during infection and also that QS signals accumulate dynamically across the gut, enabling behavior regulation based on infection stage and location! 🦠.
Quorum Sensing Modulates Bacterial Virulence and Colonization Dynamics During an Enteric Infection #biorxiv_micrbio.
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RT @BSingletons: Experienced #ASMicrobe folx!For the first time this year we’re a little behind on our target mentor:singleton ratio. Help….
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RT @swoodww: Dr. (!) Zakhar Krekhno & I are excited to share our work investigating the role of the type II secretion system in enteric pat….
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Infectious diarrheal diseases are the third leading cause of mortality in young children, many of which are driven by Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. To establish successful host infections thes...
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RT @KCBSkope: Excited to share our @BioRxiv preprint 👩🔬, “The Gut Microbiome Controls Liver Tumors via the Vagus Nerve” from @TimGreten @N….
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Excited to share our preprint on bacterial adaptation to pH 🦠! Excellent work team! @swoodww @LaurelMNeufeld @WennyFeng @_AntonioSerapio @FinlayLab.
Latest preprint from @FinlayLab on pH adaptation in Citrobacter rodentium feat. surprising host pH responses post-infection. Huge shoutout to stellar undergrad researchers @LaurelMNeufeld and @WennyFeng and of course, our whole team (@jorgepena9 @_AntonioSerapio & Isabel Tarrant).
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RT @rosanabferreira: We are hiring! We are looking for a postdoc with experience in Staph genetics. If you are interested in bacterial int….
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RT @swoodww: Huge congratulations to @Sistainscience on this exciting new story out in @NatureMicrobiol! She identified that combined defic….
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RT @Linder_surprise: This is a huge problem - researchers who are driving innovation should not be barely surviving or going into personal….
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RT @CTropini: Really excited to share our latest review on how gut microbes change the systemic levels of active hormones and affect host p….
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RT @erdogananisan: So excited to get to share the preprint of our work (also my very first research article!) at the @tokuriki_lab demonstr….
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RT @AnnaBlakney: #ISupportGradStudents #ISupportPostdocs–#Budget2023 means that our bright, motivated trainees use their valuable brain ene….
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RT @CTropini: #ISupportGradStudents #ISupportPostdocs–#Budget2023 means that our brightest minds will go train outside of Canada @cafreelan….
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RT @_AntonioSerapio: Dr. Stefanie Vogt (@StefanieVogt) and I are excited to share our latest research that explores the fascinating world o….
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Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a major cause of severe bloody diarrhea, with potentially lethal complications, such as hemolytic uremic syndrome. In humans, EHEC colonizes the colon, ...
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RT @swoodww: Congrats to @jorgepena9 on this preprint of his PhD work! He investigated the role of AHL-mediated quorum sensing during enter….
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Quorum Sensing (QS) is a form of cell-to-cell communication that enables bacteria to modify behaviour according to their population density. While QS has been proposed as a potential intervention...
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This project wouldn’t have been possible without the help of @swoodww, Anna, @_AntonioSerapio, Deng and everyone at the @FinlayLab! I'm immensely grateful to all of you! 🙏. #PhDresearch #Microbiology #QuorumSensing #InfectiousDisease #Virulence.@ubcmsl @UBCMicroImmuno.
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RT @DrLARey: We are looking for a junior Lab Tech to join our growing team! Info about the position can be found on our lab website. This p….
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RT @J_A_Alexander: I am ecstatic to finally share our work in @Nature where we investigated BlaR1, a signalling protein that controls resis….
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Nature - Cryo-electron microscopy structures of Staphylococcus aureus BlaR1 reveal dynamic signalling states regulating broad spectrum β-lactam antibiotic resistance through cleavage of the...
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RT @ubcmsl: 🥳Congratulations to the @FinlayLab's 4 newest Drs. Andrew Santos (@assantos88), Mihai Cirstea (@Mihai_Cirstea_), Dr. Sarah Wood….
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