What started out as a structure-function project for an undergraduate researcher morphed into something bigger w/ @popea.bsky.social leading the way. Check out how RhlR fine tunes its response to its autoinducer to avoid producing too much pyocyanin.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
RhlR quorum-sensing receptor ligand sensitivity regulates the differential expression of phenazine genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692981v1
Check out the latest preprint from our lab on the characterization of the Multikinase network in P. aeruginosa! Shout out to our students @withornjason.bsky.social, @ramcharankarishma.bsky.social, and many more on their hard work and tremendous efforts in generating exciting data for this paper!
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Too much physics
“Write a brief paragraph about yourself” might be the hardest question of my academic career
The histidine kinase NahK regulates pyocyanin production through the PQS system
#Pseudomonasaeruginosa
-in J Bacteriology from Elizabeth M. Boon
with @laahrs.bsky.social
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Today I taught my PI that “og” means original
The HPLC is the best piece of lab equipment, change my mind
Toxin or substrate? That depends on where you are in the biofilm. Check out our latest paper on cross-regulation between P. aeruginosa subpopulations! Great work by Chris Evans, Marina Smiley, and collaborators. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
