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Linoleic acid is the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid in the Western-style diet and has been implicated in promoting inflammation and cancer. In Science, researchers report a mechanism by which linoleic acid can activate the mTORC1 protein kinase, which coordinates growth and nutrient signals. Learn more: scim.ag/4bxxLSN #SciencePerspective

The L-lactate dehydrogenases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are conditionally regulated but both contribute to survival during macrophage infection | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb… Thank you for the great collaboration on cool insights about lactate dehydrogenases. #pseudomonas

AND Also! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb… #Quorumsensing #MvfR #pseudomonasaeruginosa #infection @MGH_RI @MGHSurgery@HarvardMicro

We might have been silent, but @RahmeLab has been very productive, making sure we also had a lot of fun! @elife: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… #Quorumsensing #MvfR #pseudomonasaeruginosa #infection @MGH_RI @MGHSurgery @HarvardMicro

We are excited about our new paper on QS regulator MvfR and the therapeutic potential of MvfR inhibitors against mitochondrial dysfunction caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in skeletal muscle.journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

@asel_kabashi We believe in you! You came long way and you will get there. I'm proud of you!!

Happy International Women’s Day to ALL of US!!

Fantastic news! Big Congrats to our own #Maryam Abdel-Azim for her #RegeneronScienceTalent Award on #Quorumsensing #Multidrug Resistance project @#RahmeLab It's always inspiring to see young scientists making significant contributions to their fields. 🎉👏

Please join us in person to celebrate International Women's Day with Dr. Madani

We are profoundly grateful that Dr. Ruth Gottesman, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at @EinsteinMed, has made a transformational gift to #MontefioreEinstein—the largest to any medical school in the country—that ensures no student has to pay tuition again. bit.ly/3wvBj7y

Come work with us! New tenure-track faculty position now open in microbiology / biotechnology at INRS (Quebec, Canada). Please share broadly! inrs.ca/en/jobs/profes…

Who would have thought? Bacterial flagella hijack type IV pili proteins to control motility | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Pseudomonas biennial conference scheduled for Sept 1-5, 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark! More details here: microbiologysociety.org/event/full-eve…

Happy New Year to all!

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. #NobelPrize

Academic medicine is hard. Being a woman in academic medicine is harder. Being a URM in academic medicine is even harder. Find your people. Lean on them. And disrupt like mad. #DiversityMatters #RepresentationMatters @ATSPeds

Massachusetts will be home for ARPA-H new federal health research agency. Very exciting for MA! www-wcvb-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.wcvb.c…

Post-doctoral Fellow positions are available in The Rahme Lab to study anti-virulence therapeutics, Quorum Sensing, epigenetic and immunometabolic mechanisms, & predictive diagnostics. For more info, please visit rahmelaboratory.org or email rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.