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Dennis Wu
@denniswu02.bsky.social
Biological Engineering student @ Cornell 🧬🧪🔬
Undergrad researcher @ Feaga Lab 🧫👨‍🔬
Thrilled and proud to be part of this exciting discovery with the amazing Feaga Lab team! Grateful for everyone’s unwavering support throughout this journey! ❤️💙
April 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Dennis Wu
Latest work from the lab - we identify a translation factor, YebC2, that reduces ribosome stalling in B. subtilis!

Congrats to co-first authors: grad students Hye-Rim Hong & Cassidy Prince & undergrad Dennis Wu @denniswu02.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
YebC2 resolves ribosome stalling and increases fitness of cells lacking EF-P and the ABCF ATPase YfmR
Author summary Polyproline motifs are essential structural features of many proteins but are difficult for the ribosome to synthesize. EF-P reduces ribosome pausing at polyproline motifs. Here, we sho...
journals.plos.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reposted by Dennis Wu
We are so proud of Dennis Wu @denniswu02.bsky.social who is off to Harvard for grad school this fall! Keep your eyes peeled for a first-author paper from Dennis to be posted soon. Congrats Dennis! 🥳 ⚽️ 🦠
March 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM