Check out Tanisha’s new paper which identifies CpgD as the enzyme which makes CDP-glycerate, a key substrate for the production of ceramide diphosphoglycerate in Caulobacter. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.09.632243v1
What’s New?
Lauren’s paper on Pseudomonas resistance to sphingosine is posted to bioRxiv!
Lauren’s work, in collaboration with Matt Wargo’s lab at the University of Vermont, identified three genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that are key for sphingolipid resistance. Check out the paper on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.03.611043v1
Chioma and Patrick won poster awards!!
Congratulations to Chioma (2nd place, postqualifying PhD) and Patrick (3rd place, MS) for winning poster awards at the CCIB Research Showcase!!
Chioma’s paper on enzyme localization is online at JBC!
Chioma’s new paper on the spatial organization of sphingolipid synthesis proteins is accepted and in press at JBC! You can check it out at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107276
Genome of Pseudomonas olympii published!
Dan Shain and I just published the genome of Pseudomonas olympii, a glacer bacterium, in Microbial Resource Announcements. Dan gets to travel the world and visit the glaciers and I get to sequence some genomes. Seems like fair arrangement :( Check out the paper at https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00125-24
ASM Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship
Congratulations to Chioma on being selected for an ASM Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship!