Valdir’s Nature Communications paper is out!

by Nancy Woychik | Jul 10, 2019 | Students

Valdir discovered that a single toxin does not slow M. tuberculosis growth by simply inhibiting protein synthesis. Instead, it reprograms M. tuberculosis cells by a novel mechanism. It first reduces the level of a SINGLE rare tRNA species, this leads to ribosome...

Lab members attend the EMBO Workshop on Toxin-Antitoxins Systems in Bacteria

by Nancy Woychik | Apr 15, 2019 | Events, Students

Valdir, Heather and Unnati hit the pub in London after a fantastic meeting with leaders in the field at the historic Cumberland lodge inside Windsor Great Park. Valdir and Nancy tag-teamed on oral presentations; Valdir and Unnati also presented posters.

Mel’s Scientific Reports paper is out!

by Nancy Woychik | Apr 11, 2019 | Students

When identifying toxin RNA targets, in vivo trumps in vitro. We used a battery of approaches to demonstrate that the best way to find the true RNA targets of endoribonuclease toxins is to study their activity in their natural host; here we demonstrate this using an M....

Nancy presents at the Northeast Regional Tuberculosis Meeting

by Nancy Woychik | Mar 26, 2019 | Events

This annual meeting coincides with World TB Day; this year hosted by TB researchers at the David Axelrod Institute at the Wadsworth Center/New York Department of Health. Great chance to hear the latest and greatest research of colleagues in the Northeast!

Eduardo Troian joins the laboratory

by Nancy Woychik | Mar 12, 2019 | Students

Eduardo was just awarded his MS degree in Virology in Brazil and will be starting graduate school at Rutgers in the Fall. Welcome!