Joseph P Sheehan

Lab Manager in the Gitai Lab at Princeton University

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

I never experienced the feeling of training someone and seeing them succeed until I was tasked with teaching @dsvalverdem basic microbiology techniques. Seeing her take this project to whole another level in the 3D realm was amazing, and I am humbled to be a part of this paper.

[Diana Valverde Mendez @dsvalverdem]

Our paper is out on PNAS! Read to learn about the dynamic 3D world inside live bacterial cells.
Macromolecular interactions and geometrical confinement determine the 3D diffusion of ribosome-sized particles in live Escherichia coli cells | PNAS https://t.co/dF9wcJOpbZ

[Thomas M Bartlett @ThomasMBartlett]

The Bartlett Lab is open for business at the Wadsworth Center! We study pathogens with "unusual" shapes (balls & corkscrews) to find vulnerabilities in their growth plans, and learn how bacterial shape impacts infection. We are hiring... join us!
https://t.co/zNLe43FnAD

[Courtney Ellison @C__Ellison]

Excited to share my lab’s first preprint! We found that increasing DNA binding by type IV pili in an Acinetobacter pathogen can boost its natural transformation rates by ~100-fold, demonstrating that DNA binding is rate-limiting for natural transformation. https://t.co/yagYpLeV0w

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

I get so excited to prove someone wrong via email. A Fisher rep was trying to say our PO wasn't formatted correctly. So I cracked my knuckles and attached previous POs with the same formatting that were processed without issue. Today is gonna be a good day.

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

OUT NOW 📢: A folate inhibitor exploits metabolic differences in Pseudomonas aeruginosa for narrow-spectrum targeting @zgitai1

https://t.co/zSC20CdMn4

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

Super proud to be a part of the latest publication from @zgitai1 's lab. Connor Chain and I discovered a narrow spectrum folate inhibitor that can specifically target the pathogen P. aeruginosa while leaving your gut microbiome untouched

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

OUT NOW 📢: A folate inhibitor exploits metabolic differences in Pseudomonas aeruginosa for narrow-spectrum targeting @zgitai1

https://t.co/zSC20CdMn4

[zgitai @zgitai1]

So excited for our latest story on a tunable-spectrum antibiotic to be published. We desperately need microbiome-sparing strategies to treat P. aeruginosa. Amazing effort led by the fantastic @ConnorChain

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

Combination of wife returning to work plus our 5 month old teething. 0/10. Would not recommend.

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

Hey Everyone, as you may know my wife Erin is kindergarten teacher at a low income school in Camden, NJ. Her students can’t afford some of the basic necessities for learning. Buying anything off of this list would be a huge help.

https://t.co/QtJyf5VNSN

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

Irony is when an antibiotics researcher ends up getting a staph infection from a bug bite

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

Absolutely nothing in this world is better than morning snuggles with my baby girl. I’m gonna miss her so much when I go back to work in two weeks.

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

Hello Science Twitter, I would like to introduce everyone to my daughter, Evelyn Elizabeth Sheehan.

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

I can now personally attest to the grip strength of woman in labor. My pipeting hand is gonna need rehab

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

PRINCETON KNOCKS OFF 2-SEED ARIZONA 🤯

#MarchMadness

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

How you know your baby’s upcoming birth is becoming more real: weekly doctor appointments

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

This the greatest tweet I’ve ever seen

[Anthony Berndt @anthony_berndt]

If there's a "soft skill" I suggest any grad student, and definitely postdoc, get good at if they plan to continue wetlab work, it's learning to pick up the fracking phone and just call a Product Rep/Field Scientist and get them to help you solve an equipment or reagent problem

[zgitai @zgitai1]

Proud of Princeton for this important step! All the more reason to come join us. Postdoc positions are available in my lab to study host-microbe cell biology, mechanics, antibiotics, and single-cell behaviors.
https://t.co/JDkm3RcIDt

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

Sitting in lecture hall for a Python programming course. Feels weird since I haven’t been in a class for over a decade.

[Joseph P Sheehan @JosephSheehanPU]

@zgitai1 @hitenmadhani @UCSF I don’t think anyone is using the greenhouses on top of LTL . . .