Courtney Ellison

Very honored to be part of this community. Thanks so much to @BhayaDevaki for all your support!

Expression of A. baylyi FimT significantly boosts A. nosocomialis natural transformation and suggests that expression of a single gene may be sufficient to make less tractable organisms more genetically malleable.

We wondered why the species Acinetobacter baylyi is so highly naturally transformable, and we found that its DNA-binding minor pilin FimT contains multiple DNA-binding residues that additively contribute to increased DNA binding.

Excited to share my lab’s first preprint! We found that increasing DNA binding by type IV pili in an Acinetobacter pathogen can boost its natural transformation rates by ~100-fold, demonstrating that DNA binding is rate-limiting for natural transformation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@Aisha_Burton We have tip box recycling in my lab - we have a green initiative office on campus that helped us figure out a system, perhaps Cornell has a similar office? A con for us is we have to physically drive them somewhere ourselves off campus

Anyone incorporate tip or tip box recycling in their labs? I went to a vendor show at the NIH and I'm interested. Please give me pros, cons, and/or suggested companies?

WANT A JOB: I have more than one postdoc position open. Let’s do some fun science in easy living Athens. Pay is above NIH guidelines. Email strent@uga.edu. PLEASE RETWEET

@Aisha_Burton @CornellMicrobio Congrats Aisha!! You’re amazing and I am excited to see what will come out of your lab!!

I’m happy to announce that I will join the faculty ranks at Cornell University as a Provost Faculty Fellow on Jan. 1, 2024! Super excited to continue small protein research and look forward to working with my @CornellMicrobio colleagues!

@HummelsKate @UGAMicroGrad I am so excited you’re coming!!

My lab is hiring! We are looking for a full time lab tech for 1-2 years who is interested in getting more scientific research experience. Please reach out if you have any questions, and please forward to anyone you think may be interested! ugajobsearch.com/postings/310782

@BrunLabCaulo I’m so sorry Yves :( such a sweet girl

We had to say goodbye to our dear Chassagne this morning. 🐱🥰😭💔

@MBlokesch @vesel_nina This looks super cool! Nice work!!

Extremely happy to announce the preprint of our Acinetobacter baumannii competence paper spearheaded by Nina @vesel_nina who also did almost all wet-lab experiments....🧵below .... 1/n

I am very honored to be part of this amazing group of scientists and so grateful for this opportunity from @DamonRunyon

JOB! Come join us @universityofga Our Microbiology dept is seeking a tenure-track Ass Prof in bio ed research. For details and to apply: ugajobsearch.com/postings/296643 It is a fantastic environment and community for #DBER and #STEMeducation

WE ARE HIRING--postdoc positions available. Please retweet. Athens is a fun and easy place to live!

Excited to share my last postdoc paper with @zgitai1, @shaevitz, the Dalia lab, Ned Wingreen, and Chenyi Fei! We found Acinetobacter baylyi cells localize their type IV pili in a line to interact with each other and regulate biofilm structure formation: rdcu.be/cYeln

The University of Georgia is hiring two assistant profs in Biochemistry and Microbiology as part of a cluster hire of 5 microbial-focused professors! We’re looking for good people doing cool science on broad topics, please reach out with any questions! tinyurl.com/yeceyr6j

@m_strent @UGA Thanks Stephen! I am super stoked to be here in one of the best departments with such amazing colleagues! Also pretty happy about the football team 😁

I realized I never officially welcomed @C__Ellison to UGA. Courtney is a new Microbiology Assistant Professor @UGA and is a fantastic scientist!! Courtney did her undergrad @UGA. GO DAWGS!

@shanice_web Very much deserved! Congrats!!

This came as a surprise but what an honor!!! Looking forward to meet current and former fellows!! 😊

@christo71213435 @STCmicrobeblog @goleylab @adernburg Haha I love it!

@STCmicrobeblog @goleylab @adernburg @christo71213435 Exactly this!