Eduardo passed his written PhD qualifying exam and received the Hachnasarian Award through the SEBS Dean’s office for excellence in his qualifying exam scores and first year course grades. Cheers!
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Valdir defends his PhD
He will be starting his postdoc at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in mid-September. Congratulations and good luck — we’ll miss you!
Dual awards for Valdir Barth
Valdir was awarded the 2019-20 Shatkin Scholarship for academic and scholarly accomplishments in graduate school. The award will be presented at the Annual Aaron Shatkin Lecture on Monday October 21. This summer, Valdir was also awarded a University and Louis Bevier Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year. This highly selective, Rutgers-wide fellowship rewards excellence by providing full support during a doctoral Read More
Valdir’s Nature Communications paper is out!
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 stalling at the mRNA codon requiring the depleted tRNA, which in turn reduces Read More
Lab members attend the EMBO Workshop on Toxin-Antitoxins Systems in Bacteria
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!
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. tuberculosis toxin and host.