Kumaran Ramamurthi
@RamamurthiLab
Sock afficionado and scientist @theNCI @NIH studying protein localization in bacterial cells ( 🟦☁️ @RamamurthiLab) All views are my own.
@felixrl_ took on a ~50-yr-old mystery in #Staph aureus cell biology and came out on top! Check out his paper on how #Staphylococcus aureus chooses its cell division plane, how it forms clusters, and why all this matters during infection... nature.com/articles/s4156…
Busy day in the lab! @JoVEJournal is shooting a video on a methods paper that my trainee (@Sarah_Poirier) and I published a couple of months ago on how to grow a CF-relevant polymicrobial biofilm (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38709077/). Hoping this will be useful to CF labs! @biologieUdeS
See our new (data) preprint on the 121 sporulating Bacillales genomes by Lijie Song and @LasseJDNielsen1 et al a @cemist_dtu project together with @tilmweber Expanding the genome information on Bacillales for biosynthetic gene cluster discovery biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
Extracellular Calcineurin-like phosphoesterases foster and signal altruistic behavior in bacteria This new work with @RamamurthiLab @ProteinVerse and colleagues uncovers a new role for extracellular calcineurin-like phosphoesterases in bacteria. The calcineurin-like…
Excited to share my postdoctoral work on novel aspects of S. aureus skin infection pathogenesis, out as pre-print. This was such! a cool story to have developed @Horswill_Lab.
Collagen binding adhesin restricts Staphylococcus aureus skin infection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio
From anti-invader immunity to the cytoskeleton: the tale of McrB proteins This work with @RamamurthiLab @ProteinVerse shows how a protein involved in bacterial immunity gave rise to a novel lineage-specific cytoskeletal protein. The McrB proteins are AAA+ ATPases that typically…
We are very excited to announce our latest work on how MRSA conquers antibiotics. We show that high-level resistance to methicillin requires S. aureus to utilise an alternative mode of cell division to ensure its survival! @Sheffield_AFM @Olulana4 doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
Since we only had a month to post this, we got permission to extend priority review to Nov 15! So send us your applications! And feel free to ask ?s
We are looking for a new colleague to join my department, the focus is on quantitative or structural biology, let me know if you have any questions! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…
Checkout @Bevika2 preprint! She used CRISPRi-seq to determine antibiotic-stress signatures, specifically of pneumococci treated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics. It's a really powerful approach revealing a surprising antibiotic combination therapy. 1/9 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Every 6 seconds, someone dies from an antibiotic-resistant infection. Today, on day 242 of the year, over 3.2 million people have already been lost to #AMR. That's the equivalent of 85 plane crashes per day every day. Everybody should be talking about this.
Come join a fun group of bacteriologists @IRPatNIH near DC!
I am excited to announce several post-doc positions studying gene regulation and cell biology of spirochetes are available in the @NIH Biology of Spirochetes Unit, opening 2025 in Bethesda, MD @NIAIDNews! Join our team and work on the dynamic NIH campus: training.nih.gov/jobs/pdfi-0128…
I am excited to announce several post-doc positions studying gene regulation and cell biology of spirochetes are available in the @NIH Biology of Spirochetes Unit, opening 2025 in Bethesda, MD @NIAIDNews! Join our team and work on the dynamic NIH campus: training.nih.gov/jobs/pdfi-0128…
🦠➗OUT NOW - PcdA promotes division plane selection in #Staph by @RamamurthiLab @felixrl_ @braf_phd @ProteinVerse @Amany_MI @MissiakasLab @cytomotive @jivarahasya @NCIResearchCtr nature.com/articles/s4156…
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