Congratulations, Robert, Yimo, and CC! Our paper has been selected as a VIP Paper by Angewandte Chemie—a wonderful recognition.
@angewandtechemie.bsky.social @ribbehulab.bsky.social b.bsky.social @ucibiosci.bsky.social
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Amazing piece from @science.org and @richardastone.bsky.social on our field and the growing connection between human and bacterial immunity!
#microsky #virosky #immunosky
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Now published in Cell Reports! @cellpress.bsky.social
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My postdoc Dr. Maria de la Paz Gutierrez led this work showing that cholera toxin drives epithelial L-lactate production in the small intestine, creating a nutrient that Vibrio cholerae exploits during disease
(1/6) Thrilled to share this story! In our preprint from my PhD in the @kranzuschlab.bsky.social, with help from the Hatfull lab and @soreklab.bsky.social, we discover RyDEP, a phage-encoded RyR-domain glycosidase that allows phages to evade Thoeris defense. Highlights below! doi.org/10.64898/202...
Highly deserved. Congrats Cornelius!
Feeling incredibly grateful to join this amazing cohort of scientists! Thanks to all my mentors that have helped get me this far.
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Incredibly proud of undergrad Anny Wang! Just announced as a Goldwater Scholar here at UC Irvine and showing no signs of slowing down. Ph.D. programs better be applying to get her to join them this fall.
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My very first grad student @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social defended her dissertation today. She is that girl. Set the bar so high for a PhD from the #Nicholaslab I am beyond proud of her and the work she has done. Congratulations Dr. Ujagar !!
Check out our new review with @mfarjo.bsky.social on what we know about the functional and evolutionary consequences of virus-virus interactions within viral populations, out now in @annualreviews.bsky.social:
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Hope you like it!
A better understanding of battles between bacteria and viruses could inspire new medicines
DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) awards, recognizing assistant professor-leve...
I'm excited to share our recent working using forward genetics to identify virulence determinants in Rickettsia. Check it out!
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Steve Salinas, left, and Anny Wang, right, undergraduate students in the Dunlop School, were named 2026 Goldwater Scholars in recognition of their outstanding promise as future research leaders. Two u...
The existence of viruses as obligate intracellular parasites with high mutation rates sets them apart from other forms of life in fundamental ways. Frequent errors in replication and assembly processe...
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Gutierrez et al. show that cholera toxin induces epithelial LDHA-dependent L-lactate
production in the small intestine, creating a nutrient niche that Vibrio cholerae
exploits through LldD-mediated L-...
Feeling incredibly grateful to join this amazing cohort of scientists! Thanks to all my mentors that have helped get me this far.
www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann...
Fabian Rivera-Chávez
Ben Morehouse
Ben Morehouse
Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing
Dequina Nicholas
Chris Brooke
DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) awards, recognizing assistant professor-leve...
1/ Excited to share the first preprint from my lab! 🎉
My postdoc Paz asked how cholera toxin (CT) helps Vibrio cholerae thrive in the gut.
Turns out, CT rewires epithelial metabolism toward L-lactate production—fueling pathogen growth in the small intestine during disease
Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing
Thomas P200 Burke
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is highly immunostimulatory, yet it is evolutionarily conserved among many obligate intracellular bacteria for unknown reasons. We report a forward genetic screen to identify ...www.biorxiv.org
Cholera toxin (CT) promotes Vibrio cholerae colonization by altering gut metabolism to favor pathogen growth. We have previously found that CT-induced disease leads to increased concentrations of L-la...
