Moraes Lab

ATTENTION!!! Our Family Feud event is scheduled for Thursday, June 23rd at 4pm in MSB 2172. 🍻 and 🍽 will be provided after the game! Registration links 👇 #microbeTO2022

doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… @eLife - the reconstitution of Slam dependent protein translocation. Awesome work by Sang, Yogesh @yogihooda88, Christine, Maciej and Raina is out in eLife.

Paul Emsley just dropped the new version of coot and it’s all of your modelling dreams come true!

An article published in @NatureMedicine reports that changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome profiles are early and late markers for individuals having heart diseases. go.nature.com/3vkp5fs

On behalf of the entire Watts lab, I'd like to say a huge congratulations to Dr. Heather Lau for successfully defending her PhD thesis this morning. Awesome job Heather!

Just received our first set of results back from @plasmidsaurus and I can say that I'm convinced: complete sequence of 8-10 kB plasmids for $15 each. Safe to say we have purchased our last "internal sequencing primer".

The field of bacterial immunity seems well developed enough now to warrant an undergraduate course. Love this SnapShot page to remind us how cool microbial warfare is!

Great article on the rich history and current activity at Canada's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization universityaffairs.ca/features/featu… via @ua_magazine

It’s finally here!! Our Method of the Year 2021 is….Protein Structure Prediction!! nature.com/nmeth/volumes/…

Congratulations to @Dr_Lori_Burrows on this wonderful and deserving recognition of being named a Canadian Academy of Health Sciences fellow from @ASBMB !

New job offer: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry – University of Toronto csmb-scbm.ca/assistant-prof… #sciencejobs

What the ON government should do is strengthen the health care system: increase number of doctors, nurses, hospitals. They should not shut down schools and close down businesses. What this pandemic has clearly shown is how weak is ON's health care system in terms of capacity.

Hamilton monoclonal antibody clinic sees 'incredible results' for high-risk COVID patients, Dr. @zchagla says. cbc.ca/news/canada/ha… #HamOnt

I am still looking for postdocs! If you are interested in bacterial pathogenesis, please contact me.

I see a lot of people - on both "sides" - making simple mistakes about masks. I've studied PPE, taught PPE, and overseen PPE programs, including teams implementing fit testing in hospitals, long before covid. A thread

New chart: rapid drop in protection that 2 vacc. doses currently provide against infection in the presence of Omicron. Protection against hospitalization is still strong, but we need at least 10 days to confirm. #COVID19ON covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashbo…

MoGen faculty members @JulieBrill5 and Andrew Wilde co-wrote a Perspective on Science piece on the impact and role of cytokinesis defects on vision disorders twitter.com/JulieBrill5/st…

Read the full article here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…