March 25, 2014

Dae Gon Ha, a Ph.D. student in the lab, with the able assistance of a visiting summer undergraduate, recently published a paper in Applied Environmental Microbiology describing a collection of clean deletions of every c-di-GMP diguanylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14.  We hope this collection will be a useful tool kit for our colleagues studying the role of c-di-GMP in the biology of this microbe.

March 02, 2014

Eric Bordeleau is currently a Ph.D. student at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada.  He just found out that he was awarded the Kin Canada award from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the top scoring postdoctoral fellowship application this year.  Eric will be joining my lab in September of 2014 to study the microbiome of CF patients by developing new lab models to study these polymicrobial communities.