Les Shaw

Assistant Professor - Molecular Biosciences Department Name / Number: Molecular Biosciences / 0-1210-000 College: College of Arts and Sciences Hiring Salary: Negotiable Appointment Start Date: August 7, 2026 The Department of Molecular Bioscien...

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Bacterial Pathogenesis

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We are a vibrantly growing department with friendly colleagues and supportive environment. Bonus: year-round sunshine in Tampa, FL 🌤🌴

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That’s @rachel-washburn.bsky.social!

Congratulations to our own @claudiaezc.bsky.social for her best presentation award at the recent Florida ASM meeting!

In the green room waiting to hood Dr Jessica Jackson!

SSR42 is a Novel Regulator of Cytolytic Activity in Staphylococcus aureus SSR42 is the longest noncoding RNA in the S. aureus cell and the second-most abundant transcript in the stationary phase transcriptome, second only to RNAIII. It is highly conserved across strains and...

Our recent preprint on the regulatory RNA SSR42 in Staph. Wonderful to see the arc of this story, starting out with past lab members Andy Weiss & Brooke Tomlinson before @mejobson.bsky.social came along and made it her own. Hope to have this one over the line soon.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Alas, I spend more time teaching graduate students now, and have less opportunity for squirrels stories. I hope to rectify that in the near future though. Great to hear from you!

Development of a New N-Terminomic Method to Study the Pathodegradome of the Staphylococcus aureus V8 Protease in Human Neutrophils Staphylococcus aureus is a notorious human pathogen that relies on an array of virulence factors to engender infection and evade the host-immune system. Among these are the secreted proteases, which p...

Our latest preprint, this one developing a new method for N-Terminomics.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...