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Sara Alexander (she/her)

@saraalexander.bsky.social

microbiology phd candidate, F31 fellow in Mark Goulian’s lab @Penn. First-gen πŸŽ“ (microbiosara on twitter)

494 Followers  |  101 Following  |  11 Posts  |  Joined: 27.07.2023  |  1.6331

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If you'll be at ASM Microbe this year, please come see me at my posters:

Thesis: Saturday - #3845 MBP02 - "The Phosphorelay PTS Ntr Modulates E. coli Survival in Methylglyoxal"

Clinical: Friday - #4200 CPHM05 - "Evaluating Inducible Macrolide Resistance in M. chelonae Clinical Isolates"

16.06.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

:,( I bet some people will be reselling at a reasonable price later on!

18.11.2024 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of my Ticketmaster showing tickets for two my chemical romance shows next August

Screenshot of my Ticketmaster showing tickets for two my chemical romance shows next August

In personal news:

16.11.2024 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

hi everyone how are we holding up?

12.11.2024 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

New preprint from our lab! We found that Staph aureus evolves tolerance to pyocyanin produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa via CodY mutations. Project was started by @saraalexander.bsky.social and then led by @tmartini.bsky.social who tested so many possibilities to pin down the mechanism!

05.07.2024 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for seeing this project through, Tony! For all your hard work, ideas, and support. I’m so proud of how it turned out :)

05.07.2024 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mutations in the Staphylococcus aureus Global Regulator CodY Confer Tolerance to an Interspecies Redox-Active Antimicrobial bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Happy to share our newest preprint from @anukharelab.bsky.social and my first postdoc project: biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Here, we characterized how S. aureus adapts to pyocyanin, an antimicrobial produced by P. aeruginosa. This project was started by...

05.07.2024 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Check out our preprint from @anukharelab.bsky.social at NIH about how the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa co-opts interkingdom secreted public goods for flagellar-based motility!

04.01.2024 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
A tall man standing next to a much shorter man in the front of an auditorium. They are talking to each other while an audience waits for a seminar to begin.

A tall man standing next to a much shorter man in the front of an auditorium. They are talking to each other while an audience waits for a seminar to begin.

Why doesn’t the bigger one simply eat the smaller one?

13.12.2023 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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big fan of Kevin Mears here

12.10.2023 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A group of scientists smiling outside

A group of scientists smiling outside

Enjoying phages 2023 with my faves

09.08.2023 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

mrow

06.08.2023 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I put my bluesky @ on my Phage conference poster so that’s something!

05.08.2023 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

can I just repeat all of my popular tweets on this app?

27.07.2023 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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