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...

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...

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....

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