Ana Fernández Galliano

Cornell Microbio | UWaterloo Biochem '23 | 🇨🇺🇨🇦

[Cornell Research & Innovation @CornellRsrch]

Bacteria may carry the seeds of their own destruction.
@CornellCALS biologists found that sugar-phosphate buildup weakens cell walls, a discovery that could open new paths to fight antibiotic resistance.

Read more: https://t.co/MGwuEGYZqq

[Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology @weillinstitute]

Research led by @weillinstitute postdoctoral fellow Megan Keller in @DoerrLab reveals how sugar-phosphate buildup disrupts cell wall synthesis, offering clues to fight drug resistance. https://t.co/6OFTOE8fve

[mBio @mbiojournal]

Molecular mechanism revealed for bacterial sugar overload. https://t.co/vMRQOXKwUW @MRKmicrobes @DoerrLab

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

A call for the U.S. to continue investing in science: #ASMJournals Editors in Chief discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments the ASM community can use to advocate for science. Read the editorial: https://t.co/DD6P3Pbz0e

[Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology @weillinstitute]

Some good news: applications are open for the Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium @ Cornell! Senior PhD students and, now, postdocs interested in networking & presenting their work in cell & molecular biology should apply by Apr 14. https://t.co/Vb6M9BSVss Please repost!

[NHL @NHL]

CANADA ARE #4NATIONS FACE-OFF CHAMPIONS! 🇨🇦

[David Sychantha @davesychantha]

Attention Biochemists‼️UWaterloo is hiring TWO tenure-track Assistant Professors in Biochemistry from any field. Details available here: https://t.co/s1wqBqAO1I

[bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio]

Telomeric transposons are pervasive in linear bacterial genomes https://t.co/2F0CEXiL7b #biorxiv_micrbio

[Expanding Your Horizons at Cornell @CornellEYH]

Meet Mary Engle Pennington! As the first female lab chief in the US Food and Drug Administration, she pioneered safe handling of perishable foods, like milk!
Thanks to her, we can safely enjoy treats at the #CornellDairyBar! #WomenInScience #microbiology #engineering #EYH2025

[Canadian Soc. Micro. @CSM_SCM]

Former CSM President, Dr. Ayush Kumar, on the potential loss of the UAMH Centre for Global Microfungal Biodiversity at the University of Toronto: https://t.co/4TZXOoJbJs.

[Doerr Lab @DoerrLab]

Congratulations to Dr. Manuela Alvarado Obando for an amazing PhD defense seminar! Felicidades, and on to more greatness! @CornellMicrobio @ManuelaAlv95 https://t.co/c9oi3ugwkQ If you are looking for an exceptional postdoc (and are in the greater NYC area), reach out to her!

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

Out now in @NatureComms:

Control of bacterial cell wall autolysins by peptidoglycan crosslinking mode

@CavaLab_MIMS @FelipecavaM @DoerrLab

https://t.co/ZTx6Z7Bkam

[Ana Fernández Galliano @_aferdez]

me giving my lab meeting updates 😌

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is 'ultra-crepidate' (19th century): to comment at length on a subject you know virtually nothing about.

[Ana Fernández Galliano @_aferdez]

YAY DR. KELLER! 🥳❤️🦠

[Doerr Lab @DoerrLab]

Huge Congratulations to Dr. Megan Renée Keller @MRKmicrobes for successfully and epically defending her PhD today! #proudPI @Cornell_BBS

[Doerr Lab @DoerrLab]

Doerr lab star undergrad Ziyu Xue (@ZiyuXue_ on the right, future graduate student @CornellMicrobio) won the Robert Parker award for best Honors thesis for her work with @CornellMicrobio graduate student @nadia_nikulin (left) Congrats!

[Sarah Laframboise @SLaframboise14]

#GradStudent scholarships and #Postdoc fellowships got a raise today for the first time in 21 years🙌

Immensely grateful to all those who have been pushing for this. It truly takes a village!

Still processing and will have more thoughts soon! But overall this👇 is great news!

[Doerr Lab @DoerrLab]

Our new paper out in @PLOSGenetics today! Beautiful work by graduate student @ManuelaAlv95 in another fruitful and enjoyable collaboration with @CavaLab_MIMS! Want to know what peptidoglycan carboxypeptidases do? We lift the veil a little further. https://t.co/I0ax5CNNjs

[Jackson Makoto Tsuji @J_Mako_Tsuji]

Excited to share our surprising discovery of a highly novel photosynthetic bacterium from #Boreal #Shield #lakes in Canada! Now published in @Nature , over six years after our first enrichment culture
A long thread 🧵 ⬇️ 1/
https://t.co/FJKlL7j2Hc

[Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology @weillinstitute]

🚨The Weill Institute is hiring a new faculty member!🚨

Assistant Professor position is now open in @weillinstitute, joint with @CornellMBG. This is an open search in all areas of molecular and cell biology; application deadline is 3/20.
More info: https://t.co/8EWawI3NEq

[Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology @weillinstitute]

🎃👻💀And the winner of our Dörr-decorating contest is...

wait for it...

the @DoerrLab!

Happy Halloween from the Weill Institute! 🎃👻💀