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
What’s New?
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
Congratulations, Sarah!!
Congratulations to Sarah on her successful MS Thesis defense today!
Presenting our work at the Experimental Biology meeting
I got to present our work on ceramide synthesis at the Experimental Biology meeting in Philadelphia. A great opportunity to catch up with former high school research intern (and co-author on the paper) Hung Nguyen!
Funky new sphingolipid headgroup!
Our collaboration with Kathleen Ryan (UC Berkeley) led to the discovery of a novel anionic sphingolipid in Caulobacter which aids in survival in the absence of LPS. Check out the work on bioRxiv!
Ceramide synthesis paper published at NCB!
Our paper on the independent evolution of bacterial ceramide synthesis went online today at Nature Chemical Biology! This was a tremendous effort by Gabrielle and our amazing collaborators Ziqiang Guan (Duke) and Dominic Campopiano (U. Edinburgh). Check out the paper at https://rdcu.be/cD6p6