Dr. Alexander Pastora

Researchers uncover a new class of retropepsin-like proteases in P. aeruginosa that are required for biofilm formation & bacterial survival under stress conditions, including antibiotic exposure, making them appealing therapeutic targets. #mBio: asm.social/2sq

Excited to share our latest publication in @natBME! Big congrats to all co-authors on this highly collaborative effort – especially to first author @BlaiseKimmel for his dedication to this project! Check out the paper (open access) here: nature.com/articles/s4155…

We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at @LeidenBiology within our @MicroClockERC #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis please share these with your network! 🙏 links below👇 [1/3]

Congratulations to Dr. Lucinda Pastora and Dr. Taylor Sheehy!

Join us at #ASMicrobe 2025 for an eye-opening in-depth symposium: “To Compete or Collaborate: Polymicrobial Infections" featuring #JBacteriology EIC George O'Toole, Ph.D., Dartmouth.🔗 Register now: asm.social/2p7 #Biofilms #Microbiome #CysticFibrosis #Polymicrobial

Plant health is essential to global food security, yet pathogens continue to threaten crops worldwide. To better understand how disease takes hold—and how to stop them—HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shanice Webster is exploring the dynamic relationships among plants, microbes, and disease-causing agents. At Duke University, Shanice aims to uncover general principles and mechanistic underpinnings of how pathogens and the microbiome influence each other in plant pathogenesis. Her work could ultimately inform new strategies to detect, prevent, or treat plant diseases—advancing basic science with real-world applications in agriculture.

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is at it again! Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-Ass… careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-Ass…

Type IV pili (T4P) are important virulence factors in many bacterial pathogens. This #JBacteriology review explores the mechanisms regulating T4p motor function, which could be harnessed to disable the pili in pathogenic bacteria. Get the full story: asm.social/2bR

@BTsengLab @CassinMicro Congrats Erin!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I had the opportunity to give the keynote lecture at the Phage meeting this week - the first meeting I went to as a PhD student 25 years ago! And my student Alex Fu gave a talk. It's a great meeting! conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/program… @m2p2_dartmouth

Twin Drs. @LucindaPastora

Do you have any talented biology/microbiology students who just graduated and need a job? Send them my way please. The Burton Lab is hiring a research tech. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Amazing lab! Amazing mentor!

Want to work on polymicrobial infections? Looking for motivated postdocs to join our team!  Apply here: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job… Please RT.

I had the opportunity to hood three of my recent PhD students at the annual Graduate School Investiture on Saturday: Chris Geiger, Alexander Pastora and graduate student marshall Rebecca Valls (left->right). Plus I got to wear my fancy Wisconsin robes! @m2p2_dartmouth @DartCF

And just like that, my time at Dartmouth has come to a close.

Excited about our new minireview in JB from @MICROtopher, a recently minted PhD student from the lab, with help from Gerard Wong. Chris proposes a new model for T4P talking to the cAMP signaling machinery. Check it out! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11… @ASMicrobiology @JBacteriology

Our c-di-GMP sensor story is finally out in @NatureComms: rdcu.be/dHsEh. Including new data demonstrating cdGreen2 as a convenient tool to study DGC and PDE activity in vitro. Great collaboration with @simon_vanvliet and @MaierLab!

Excited that the second paper from my PhD work is finally out. Many thanks to my former rotation student Kara.