In mid-MI and want to hear some talented teens rock? Come check out my son Luke’s (guy on the right) band Liminal tomorrow night at the Wildlife Pub. They play a collection of groups like Nirvana, Green Day, RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins, and Pink Floyd- aka the best stuff!!

I am so excited to announce that @MSU_MMG (MGI soon!) is hiring one or more TT professors in an open-rank search focused on Evolution and Ecology in systems involving microbes. See here for details: careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…

Thank you Akos T. Kovacs! This was a fun project from my lab manager Amber Bedore that came from her observation of a heterogenous colony phenotype with a #cdiGMP biosensor!

Hey MI, my son's band LIMINAL is booking gigs for bars/restaurants, parties, events, outdoor concerts, etc.. They have ~3 hours of music covering rock songs AND original music that they have composed and recorded. Here is a taste and info. RTs appreciated! youtube.com/watch?v=2Gf0rM…

"We are under-appreciative of plasmid-free bacterial cells that could be confounding the interpretation of our results," says MGI's Amber Bedore , co-author with Chris Waters on a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Read it here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

Hey MI Microbiologists! Registration and abstract submission for the 2024 MI-ASM meeting taking place 4/6 in Ann Arbor is open for one more week. A great meeting-especially for trainees (and UGs!) Please RT! mi-asm.org/currentmeeting…

Thrilled to share our latest preprint featuring our PhD student Grazia Grazia Vizzarro as first author 🥳 Thanks to senior scientist, David W. Adams, for co-supervising the work & to Alexandre Lemopoulos for the bioinformatics support. 🧵below...1/x biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations Melanie and Grazia on the beautiful study describing a new restriction system in V. cholerae!

If you want a new tune to play at you BBQ or the beach this weekend, check out the new song “All I Know” by my sons group Liminal on Spotify open.spotify.com/album/6LVnlDiP…

Very happy to have Aathmaja in my group!! Here is a great article about her scientific journey.

Great article! We were very fortunate to have Amber in the lab as a BS/MS student and then super lab manager, and I am excited for her in her now role as the new Academic Program Coordinator at MGI where she will be able to help all the grad students of the dept!

Do apply for the two 2 phage defence positions at our lab!

Very happy to have Micah in the lab as he is always willing to help other with their protein work and share his crazy Alaska stories!

Jasper Gomez, an MGI doctoral candidate in Chris Waters' lab, was awarded an NIH Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship. Read more here: mgi.natsci.msu.edu/news-and-event……

Beautiful story Dr. Aathmaja Anandhi Rangarajan and very happy to work with Jeremy and Freddolino Lab on this (with Geoff Severin, Macy Pell, PhD, and Meng Hsieh co-authors from my group and Rebecca Hurto from Lyida's team). So important to not just consider biofilm formation, but also dispersal!

A Vibrio cholerae Type IV restriction system targets glucosylated 5-hydroxymethylcytosine to protect against phage infection JBacteriology Eds by Jasper and Chris Waters journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb…