zgitai

Scientist, educator, citizen, and father

[Jenal_lab @JenalLab]

🦠Pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa breaches lung defenses by targeting mucus producing goblet cells! Intracellular P. aeruginosa may evade immune system and antibiotic treatment, thereby driving chronic infections
@NCCR_AntiResist @IHB_Research https://t.co/GDv9ygzI8H

[Michael Fischbach @mfgrp]

How to pick a problem. Today in @CellCellPress. 1/53
https://t.co/Id4YaXWuup

[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

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

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

https://t.co/zSC20CdMn4

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

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

https://t.co/zSC20CdMn4

[Matthias D. Koch @MatthiasDKoch1]

Phages snap TFP to prevent further infection!
Cool collab with labs of Lanying Zeng and Junjie Zhang @TAMUBCBP, Yiruo Lin @TAMU, Yinghao Wu @EinsteinMed, @shaevitz and @zgitai1 @PrincetonMolBio @phybiofunc, and our lab @TAMU_Biology
https://t.co/NaDAF7GVXL

[Britt Adamson @bsadamson]

A big week for the lab! See terrific work by @AnnCirincione and Danny Simpson here 👇

[Joe Bondy-Denomy @joeBondyDenomy]

The phiKZ jumbo phages build a protein based nucleus to protect their DNA(!), but what do they do before the nucleus is built? Led by outstanding post-doc @MozumdarDeepto, here we identify host and phage proteins in an immediate early phage lipid vesicle.
https://t.co/fiDvek0vMv

[Mitchell Lab @mitchell_sysbio]

Why are some non-antibiotic drugs toxic to bacteria 💊☠️🦠? Do they work like standard #antibiotics (ABX)? Our latest work by @MarianaNoto published @ScienceMagazine addresses this fundamental question (1/n)
https://t.co/NACiyx8jnz

[Véronique Taylor @vee_coli]

New prepint alert @themaxwelllab! 📢 📢 📢 Superinfection exclusion (Sie) proteins aren’t just for defence – they also ensure the spread of viral progeny! Prophages that lack Sie proteins devour their young via a process we call the Kronos effect.
https://t.co/uxv42rYPoJ

[zgitai @zgitai1]

@carrie_adler @CurrentBiology Love this!

[carrie adler @carrie_adler]

A cool profile of me in @CurrentBiology https://t.co/hDReEbdy4m
tl;dr: I describe one of my central beliefs – the importance of taking breaks from the lab to allow for creative scientific thought.

[zgitai @zgitai1]

I'm so honored to be elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Thank you so much to my amazing lab members, my fantastic mentors, and all you great role models. I am so lucky and thankful. Here's to our great community and to even more awesome science to come!

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

Join us in congratulating the 65 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Microbiology! Fellows are elected annually through a selective, peer-review process based on their scientific achievements and original contributions. See the full list: https://t.co/RVtXDzt7mO

[Lori L. Burrows @Dr_Lori_Burrows]

New year, new class of antibiotic - but the old model of reimbursement will kill it unless we change course.
A new class of antibiotics is cause for cautious celebration — but the economics must be fixed https://t.co/dAIon7Mnf2

[Nkrumah Grant @NkrumahGrant]

Story time: when I started my postdoc with @WatersLabMSU in August last year, we aimed to use V. cholerae to understand how genetic interactions, including epistasis and pleiotropy, influences its pathogenesis and evolution. 1/18

[Chris Patil @DoNotGoGently]

I had such a blast talking with my old friend and former UCSF colleague @ctmurphy1 about her new book. Congratulations Coleen on this major accomplishment!

[Vivek V Thacker @DrVivekThacker]

Why does Mycobacterium tuberculosis form cords? It's immediately apparent when viewing a bacterial culture growing without detergent under a microscope. Delighted to have led an interdisciplinary study to answer this puzzle (1/8)
https://t.co/vHd7nmqlKY

[zgitai @zgitai1]

Will post a longer thread soon but couldn't wait to share! Happy to chat with anyone about using M3-Seq for all your bacterial single cell sequencing needs! And thanks to our fearless @wang_batman for leading the charge and our amazing collaborators @bsadamson and Ned Wingreen.

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

🔥hot off the press - a new single cell RNA sequencing approach in bacteria reveals rare populations and bet-hedging behaviours by @wang_batman @bsadamson @zgitai1 and Ned Wingreen

https://t.co/dmSNltThkh

[Princeton MolBio @PrincetonMolBio]

Congratulations Sneha Rath *18, who earned her PhD in the lab of @PrincetonMolBio's Alexei Korennykh for her award winning essay about confronting an unanticipated ethical issue in research. Meet Snetha and the other winners here: https://t.co/o5siV5IrXp

[zgitai @zgitai1]

@alexpersat Woohoo! You're on top of the world. Congratulations!

[zgitai @zgitai1]

Congratulations, John!

[Princeton University @Princeton]

Congrats to #PrincetonU professor John Brooks, who has been named one of 22 new Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences by @pewtrusts. 👏 https://t.co/IW1QNEJy7L