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TODAY is Deadline for Late Registration for Boston Bacteria Meeting 2024!

Join us June 3 + 4th at BU -- you will make lifelong friends and learn about cool molecular mechanisms! ✏️👭👬🧑‍🤝‍🧑😎🔥

Come cry over your system 😭 and laugh 😆over genetic mutant phenotypes🦠😁!

Roney (Ian Roney) & Rudner uncovered how bacteria prioritize the use of their lipid carrier for peptidoglycan synthesis.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38683856/

A phage nucleus-associated RNA-binding protein is required for jumbo phage infection doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Call for early registration for BBM2024!
Register/Submit your abstracts by April 3rd!

30th year birthday 🎂😎bash of bacterial genetics🧬🦠, physiology, host pathogen interx, & phage! Keynote speaker is one of 🇨🇦 finest phage biologists Joe Bondy-Denomy ! 🔥

Reminder that this year's Early Registration/Abstract Submission deadline is April 3rd! This Wednesday!

Also quench your bacterial genetics thirst! and try this delicious new offering at a media kitchen near you. bostonbacterial.org/registration/

Happy International Women's Day! some of the most amazing microbiologists in the Boston area are women trainees and PIs I admire and appreciate! :-) 🦠😎🙌

Dr. Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir (Dr.JAM) PharmD MPH gave a fantastic talk today at Tufts! So great to hear about interventions to address healthcare disparities in BIPOC communities - Bench science/translational work regarding AMR pathogens and vaccines can only be as effective as public health measures reach!

Highlights from, Novel mechanisms of diversity generation in Acinetobacter baumannii resistance islands driven by Tn7-like elements academic.oup.com/nar/article/do… 1/12

Scholarship applications due March 1st!
BBM2024 is going to be awesome for trainees at every level!

Welcoming a diverse community of researchers only makes microbiology better!!

bostonbacterial.org/registration/
Check out lodging info in link above! Affordable overnight stays available since BBM2024 is at BU!

Boston accent voted #1 most annoying!
'Hey kehd --- I heard BU's got affahdable housing for this year's BBM2024! '
'Sick dude, that's wicked pissah'

Spread the word and smash that repost!🔥

Until March 1st:
Scholarships for registration are available to help make this bacteria meeting more accessible for URG trainees & undergrad researcher! 🧑‍🎓😎
bostonbacterial.org/scholarships/
Present your work or learn about microbiology! 🦠

Now's the time to register for BBM2024 for the 30th anniversary Meeting! bostonbacterial.org/registration/

But you won't have to worry about those Carbon emissions since you're probably local and carpooling🚗/taking public transit🚂🚃🚃🚃! 😉😎

Happy Feb 1st!💞
Join us burst 💥with excitement like a phage in lysis cuz 😁:

BBM 2024 is now open for registration!

It's the 30th bday of BBM 🎂 🎈 🎉! Where were you in 1994? (I was a newborn with the 🎁 of a microbiome 🦠 😝)

bostonbacterial.org/registration/

See you all there!😎