Saranac Laboratory dedicated as an American Society Microbiology Milestones in Microbiology Site
Honored to be one of the speakers at the tuberculosis (TB) symposium at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, NY in the stunning Adirondack region. Great talks concluded with Bill Jacobs' poignant summary of Edward Trudeau’s dedication to the study and management of...
Welcome new PhD rotation student McKenzie Burge
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...
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...
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....
Nancy presents at the Northeast Regional Tuberculosis Meeting
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
Eduardo was just awarded his MS degree in Virology in Brazil and will be starting graduate school at Rutgers in the Fall. Welcome!