The Klein and Brannigan labs (RUC-Physics) were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the synthesis and physiological functions of bacterial sphingolipids. This work will entail a combination of experiemental methods and Molecular Dynamics simulation.
What’s New?
Gitai Lab Reunion at Bacterial Surfaces GRC
Just came back from the Gordon Research Conference on Bacterial Cell Surfaces. Learned a ton and had a great time with a bunch of Gitai Lab alumni!
Congratulations to Josh on passing his qualifying exam!
Congratulations to Josh who passed his PhD qualifying exam!! He will be studying the effects of various sphingolipids on the properties of synthetic lipid vesicles.
Exciting new collaboration!
Our lab was awarded seed funding for a collaboration with Marien Solesio (Biology) and Michelle Carlin (Chemistry) to study the effects of bacterial infection on mitochondrial function. Thank you to the Provost’s office for supporting research at Rutgers-Camden!
New sphingolipids enables Caulobacter growth without LPS!
Our paper with Kathleen Ryan went online today at Cell Reports! We showed that Caulobacter can survive without LPS as long as they produce a novel sphingolipid, ceramide phosphoglycerate, and inactive the iron-sensing transcription factor Fur. What can’t Caulobacter do?? Check out the paper at: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)00663-5
Sphingolipid webinar
Eric and Dominic Campopiano were invited to give back-to-back webinars for the Sphingolipid Biology series. Check out the video at https://youtu.be/-LWUl4hQ1r8