Dr. Seema Mattoo

Wonderful, congratulations to you and all the awardees!!

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Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment

Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

A masterpiece!

"Our observations should prompt an essential re-evaluation of the literature concerning astrocyte-neuron mitochondrial transfer" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have an open engineer position to work on type IX secretion (T9SS), under the supervision of @doan_thierry (collab with HP Fierobe & A. Tolonen). 1-year contract, renewable up to 3.5 years. Please apply here or forward to anyone potentially interested:

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program This program is an early career educational and training opportunity. It is designed to engage its Fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy.

Any grad students interested in a career in science policy? Check out this opportunity: mirzayanfellow.nas.edu?utm_source=N...

The new open access policy of NIH will take effect next week (July 1st). All NIH funded research 🔬🧪🧬accepted after July 1st must be open access upon publication. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology

Definitely missed you, @copperbae.bsky.social, and not just for entertaining comments like this one 😀 Look forward to hanging out & sharing new science in DC!

N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants

New York Times article on the end (at least for the moment) of NIH grant terminations...

[Gift link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Enjoyed presenting our work & latest collab w/ @rtsolis.bsky.social at #ASMicrobe! Great sharing the stage w/ @delafuentelab.bsky.social, @laahrs.bsky.social & @heran.bsky.social.
A drawback speaking at a Plenary Session is how prominent your pimples & wrinkles are on the jumbo screen🤣😬

Was great to see you, Jon!

Thank you so much, @jamietijerina.com! Glad you enjoyed it. And thank you for making time to attend.

This was a great session!

I like to bring #MicrobialCentrism swag to #ASMicrobe. I ask folks to post about their swag on social media. Some do, some do not. But right here, proof that a #QualityQuorum exists around me. Thank you, Seema Mattoo and Irene Newton. @mattoolab.bsky.social @chicascientifica.bsky.social

Those attending #ASMicrobe, hope to see you at our Plenary Session:
“Biology across scales: From Discovery to Mechanism”
SUNDAY, June 22
8:15-10:15am
Concourse Hall
@heran.bsky.social @laahrs.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social

Always a treat to see you, Mark! I’ll start posting again!

Spring 2025 wrap up!
-Ben Watson PhD thesis defense!
-UGs Rahul Saproo & Rishal Misra graduate. Rishal, grad school at UC Berkeley next!
-UG Khushi Patel heads to Cleveland Clinic for Med Lab rotations.
-Welcome new grad student Reed Smith & UGs Nina O’Tain. Laney Shafer, Jingxi Ma, & Grace Reiser.

Ugh, so sorry! Hope it was a false alarm and all is safe.

Proud of Rahul Saproo, undergrad researcher in my lab, who presented his work on Fic-mediated GMPylation at the @asbmb.bsky.social Annual Meeting! Thx to @hypothesisfund.bsky.social for funding this work.

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hydrogenase-driven ATP synthesis from air All cells require a continuous supply of the universal energy currency, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to drive countless cellular reactions. The universally conserved F1Fo-ATP synthase regenerates ATP...

Energy from air? No problem! In our new preprint, we reconstitute the machinery that allows microbes to endure starvation. By using the trace amounts of hydrogen in air alone, they produce plenty of chemical energy (2 ATP) to get by. The only byproduct? Water. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Science is an investment that pays enormous dividends. So if you’re business-minded, it’s an offer you can’t refuse!
Here's my full speech from the Stand Up For Science rally in DC today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemj...

Thanks to your earlier teaser, was waiting for this - simply beautiful! Truly delineating the building blocks of an otherwise complex system. What a great paper to cover in Immunology class/journal club! Love the analogy with Picasso’s drawing too. Congratulations to all of you!

What do Pablo Picasso and Charles Janeway have in common? Both were interested in patterns of life. Janeway was focused on pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) that are detected by our immune system. But what are these patterns he refers to?

More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025

NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen integrity The proposed approach is expected to save more than $65 million annually.

NIH just posted this news announcement.

"Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"

Fun times in lab! Former undergrad researcher, Diego Boluda, stopped by to introduce his pet sand boa, Hydra!

Makes sense now!