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Ashley Wilkins, PhD
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IRTA Postdoc @ Rocky Mountain Labs || PhD in Microbiology and Immunology (Ivanov Lab) || 2025 ASM Young Ambassador for MT || passionate about bacterial pathogens || views are my own
Check out the latest preprint from the Groshong Lab that discusses an amino acid acquisition pathway in Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dissection of amino acid acquisition pathways in Borrelia burgdorferi uncovers unique physiological responses
Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is well known for its unique morphology, physiology, and enzootic lifecycle. Building on previous work that showed peptide transport is essen...
www.biorxiv.org
March 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I got to attend the ASM Northwest Branch meeting this weekend in Seattle and present - for the first time - what I've been working on in my postdoc. Best parts - my awesome labmates AND Sam and I are going home with poster prizes!
November 11, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Officially, Dr. Ashley Ann Wilkins!🎉🎉🥳🥂
April 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
🥳Just got back from the GRC Biology of Acute Respiratory Infection🫁 and brought home a 🏅Best Poster Award!🏅All the data comes from my recently published paper - www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
March 6, 2024 at 1:34 PM
My paper was officially accepted!!!
January 24, 2024 at 3:54 AM
That's my paper, y'all!!!

Thanks for the shout out, @macroliter.bsky.social !
🧪 Psssst, microbiology faculty, the lead author of this excellent Legionella preprint (Ashley Wilkins) is graduating from Stan Ivanov’s lab in May & is on the job market for a postdoc gig studying intracellular bacterial pathogens 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The intracellular growth of the vacuolar pathogen Legionella pneumophila is dependent on the acyl ch...
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December 19, 2023 at 4:55 AM