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Just published in mSphere! Images from our manuscript show below. Modeling of amotosalen efflux from the A. baumannii AdeB efflux pump. Ref: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00673-22  
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A Versatile Nanoluciferase Reporter Reveals Structural Properties Associated with a Highly Efficient, N-Terminal Legionella pneumophila Type IV Secretion Translocation Signal just published in Microbiology Spectrum. Figure below is from supplementary data, native alpha-helical N-terminus is a potent T4SS-translocation signal; unstructured N-terminus is not. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02338-22   Kirby and Brennan-Krohn Lab Members (left to right): Kat Truelson, James Kirby, Anusha Shukla, Michelle Naegeli, Thea Brennan-Krohn, Jessie Ross, and Yanqin Huang  Kat Truelson, Jessie Ross, and Yanqin Huang showing off the classics: Lambda II and Experiments with Gene Fusions - We still use them!!!! She will be describing the labs collaborative efforts with our transfusion medicine colleaguges to understand the effects of multidrug efflux pumps in major gram-negative pathogens on pathogen inactivation activity of the psoralen, amotosalen.
It is official - Kat (soon to be Dr. Truelson) will be headed off to graduate school in the biology/microbiology department of Boston College (aka Graduate School of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences (GSMCAS)) at the end of the summer. Fortunately, she will be close by and can visit often!.
We are delighted to welcome our newest lab members.
Jessica Ross, PhD, will be joining the lab in June having recently successfully defended her PhD thesis at the University of Notre Dame in the laboratory of Shaun Lee on the development of novel bacteriocin-like antimicrobial peptides active against both prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens of great interest. to us She is the ASM Young Ambassador to Norway and on the side has been surveying antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador. Nithya Sastry, a freshman at Northeastern University, will join in late April as part of our awesome group of undergraduates. Yanqin will be joining the laboratory in January moving from the laboratory of Zackery Bulman at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She comes with great experience in antimicrobial development at MicuRx.
Just posted to MedRXiv. Our collaborative study (Harvard School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) supports the use of SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests for identifying individuals who are infectious at the time of testing.
We are grateful to the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center which provided funding for the investigation through an Accelerating Coronavirus Testing Solutions Grant |
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