9 mins from lab (subtle ad for postdoc applicants)

Beautiful hike with Rickettsia colleagues in Asheville NC this week

"Oh noooo it's the consequences of my own actions!!"

UCI Anteaters standing up for science today!

Some amazing mushrooms in Irvine

counterpoint

slides 9-10

slides 5-8

These are the slides I used, happy to just send anyone the PPT if that's easier:
slides 1-4

Found this massive lobster carcass washed up in a Laguna tide pool last week - did not realize there were lobsters here at all!

that combining bacterial pathogens with small molecule STING agonists elicits profound, synergistic anti-tumor responses. Seriously, look at these datums!!

We propose this as a framework for designing improved microbial cancer therapies, by engineering strains that co-activate STING and TLRs.

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I may be addicted to spicing up my bacterial pathogenesis lectures with AI image generation....
Chat GPT's version of actin-based motility:

Not the award I thought we were going to win in the lab ornament competition but that’s ok

Pic of the day - super-resolution image of a certain cell killing some unhappy Rickettsia - can you guess who?

Carrying on the grad school trilab Halloween traditions. Happy Halloween!

I’m going to get my grant done with a week to spare