Congratulations to Dr. Manuela Alvarado Obando for an amazing PhD defense seminar! Felicidades, and on to more greatness! @CornellMicrobio @ManuelaAlv95 dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.… If you are looking for an exceptional postdoc (and are in the greater NYC area), reach out to her!

And that concludes our workshop in Nepal! Successfully cloned NDM carbapenemases? Check! Isolated bacteria that can eat styrofoam and motor oil from Bagmati River AND fluoresce under UV? Check! @rajbhandari_33 @karmamonima @guavadk @utsavRIBB @AnkitSh03786959

Excited to kick off a bacterial genetics workshop at RIBB Kathmandu! We will be cloning some clinical NDM enzymes. ⁦@rajbhandari_33⁩ ⁦@karmamonima⁩ ⁦@guavadk⁩ ⁦@utsavRIBB⁩ @ankitsh03786959 ⁦@drakarki⁩

I asked AI to draw an image of the bacterial OM. This is what it came up with. My lab better pivot to the new hot field of outer pemmoccan homeostasis! And how is that one otter equally distributed among daughter cells? Lots of cool open questions!

Huge Congratulations to Dr. Megan Renée Keller @MRKmicrobes for successfully and epically defending her PhD today! #proudPI @Cornell_BBS

⁦@FeagaHeather⁩ taking a picture of Portrait of a scientist organizer ⁦@cassidyprints⁩ and recipient Nancy Craig today! ⁦@CornellMicrobio⁩ ⁦@JoePetersLab⁩

Doerr lab star undergrad Ziyu Xue (@ZiyuXue_ on the right, future graduate student @CornellMicrobio) won the Robert Parker award for best Honors thesis for her work with @CornellMicrobio graduate student @nadia_nikulin (left) Congrats!

This is how I feel while the NIH budget is being negotiated...

#BacCell23 afterparty. Great meeting, great people, great science!

Postdoc positions open in Felipe Cava's lab! @CavaLab_MIMS Great lab to work in, and (confidently informed by recent personal experience) a really beautiful part of Sweden!