Nature – Pathogens- Harnessing light-activated gallium porphyrins to combat intracellular Staphylococcus aureus using an in vitro keratinocyte infection model January 8, 2025
- Disruption of seasonal influenza circulation and evolution during the 2009 H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics in Southeastern Asia January 8, 2025
- Privacy protection of sexually transmitted infections information from Chinese electronic medical records January 8, 2025
- β-Glucan reprograms neutrophils to promote disease tolerance against influenza A virus January 8, 2025
- Phenazine biosynthesis-like domain-containing protein (PBLD) and Cedrelone promote antiviral immune response by activating NF-ĸB January 8, 2025
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- Biochar filtration of drug-resistant bacteria and active pharmaceutical ingredients to combat antimicrobial resistance January 8, 2025
- Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Mycoplasma hyosynoviae strains isolated from five European countries between 2018 and 2023 January 7, 2025
- Longitudinal monitoring of sewershed resistomes in socioeconomically diverse urban neighborhoods January 7, 2025
- Aztreonam-avibactam: a new combination with activity against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae complex January 7, 2025
- Methionine-driven methylation modification overcomes plasmid-mediated high-level tigecycline resistance January 6, 2025
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- Expanded Recommendations for Use of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Among Adults Aged ≥50 Years: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2024 January 8, 2025
- Occupational Exposure to Mercury at an Electronics Waste and Lamp Recycling Facility — Ohio, 2023 January 8, 2025
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- CDC declares Salmonella outbreak over; more than 100 sickened by cucumbers January 9, 2025
- Pickled eggs linked to Chinese botulism cases January 9, 2025
Author Archives: WeimerMicroLab
Post ASM Conference reflections
Contributed by Darwin Bandoy, DVM I participated in the 2018 ASM Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines, September 23–26, 2018, in Tysons, Virginia and presented my work in the lab using next-generation sequencing of Campylobacter hyointestinalis. … Continue reading
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Pan-Genome Analysis with Roary
Contributed by Shawn Higdon Microbial Genomics involves the isolation of microbes from environmental samples, often times with the intent of generating a pure culture comprised by an organism of a single type of strain. While many isolation events lead to … Continue reading
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Diabetes and Gut Microbiome Study
Contributed by Carol Huang Metabolic disease diabetes and obesity have impacted quite some percentage of the population, over 600 million people in the world are obese, and over 400 million have diabetes. Type I diabetes often involves the loss of … Continue reading
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Reproducible Bioinformatic Workflows with Snakemake
Contributed by Shawn Higdon As I begin the newest chapter of my PhD journey – a cross-college internship at UC Davis with the Weimer lab in School of Veterinary Medicine – I am faced with new computational tasks that demand … Continue reading
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Non-mammals and mammal gut defense
Contributed by Nguyet Kong Chitin is a fibrous substance containing polysaccharides and form the exoskeleton of arthropods such as insects and crustaceans and are commonly found on the cell walls of fungi. Non- mammals protect their gut walls with a … Continue reading
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Is there only one way to fix atmospheric nitrogen?
Contributed by Shawn Higdon Biological Nitrogen fixation energy-intensive process carried out by Bacteria and Archaebacteria that have been classified across many phyla. While there is an overwhelming amount of research that describes and characterizes the process of biological nitrogen fixation … Continue reading
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Day Zero for Bacterial Comparative Genomics
Contributed by Darwin Bandoy DVM Learning microbiology is hard, learning genomics is hard and the learning curve is not simply exponential but factorial for learning bacterial genomics. I had the advantage of being a veterinarian with a training in microbiology … Continue reading
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Listeria Outbreak in Frozen Vegetables in Europe
Contributed by Nguyet Kong A recent Listeria outbreak in Europe has been reported due to the insufficient cooking of frozen vegetables, which led to the question if frozen vegetables even safe to eat at all. The European Food Agency is reminding people … Continue reading
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NGS Library Construction for Microbiome Studies
Contributed by Carol Huang Studying the population composition of microbes within a particular environmental community has drawn more and more attention for understanding functions and interactions of microbial communities. Meta-RNA-Sequencing and Meta-Genomic-sequencing have been playing big roles in these studies. As … Continue reading
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Rapid Analysis of Microbial Growth Curve Data in R
Contributed by Shawn Higdon As a graduate student at the interface of plant biology and microbiology working with pure isolates, analyzing microbial growth curve data is unavoidable. I was recently in a situation where I needed to calculate the slope … Continue reading
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