Brendan O'Hara

Angelika Gründling’s work from her sabbatical in the Bernhardt-Rudner labs is out! She came with the goal of finding the missing G+ phosphatidylglycerol phosphate phosphatase and found it with time to spare. I can also highly recommend her as a bay mate! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

My lab is up and running and just needs enthusiastic phage biologists to populate it! Contact me or apply in the link if you are interested in a postdoc exploring plasmid-dependent phage biology in beautiful (and super affordable!) upstate New York🍎healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Care… 1/3

So excited to finally share this work!! We found an unexpected repurposing of canonical division enzymes during the evolution of endospore formation and some surprisingly unique aspects of cell division in C. difficile. Check out our preprint: rb.gy/j5uvc

Exciting news! The pre-print for our paper, “Diverse and abundant viruses exploit conjugative plasmids” is finally out! Join me on this thread to hear more about this mysterious group of phages with rather unique lifestyle preferences. 1/ biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

@Anasta_CoA @TuftsUniversity I need to check twitter more often! Thank you for the kind words and for bearing through those practice talks!

@Hydroxide_ion representing @TuftsUniversity gave a great talk on phage defense in Vibrio cholerae at #phages2022 #Phages2022 ! I have seen this talk several times and I love hearing this story every time ! Really exciting stuff.

Best way to get to know your new bacteria? Infect it with phage! Check out my preprint 👇 where I used tn-seq to find phage resistance in Corynebacteria and ID'd new genes involved in mycolata envelope assembly

Happy to finally have my preprint out in the world! I isolated phage from stool to identify anti-phage systems on conserved V. cholerae genomic islands The Vibrio cholerae Seventh Pandemic islands act in tandem to defend against a circulating phage biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to @kelseybarrasso ,the rest of the Ng lab folks, and our collaborators for getting this story out! (P.S. the current version gave Barrasso and extra S) Impact of a human gut microbe on Vibrio cholerae host colonization through biofilm enhancement doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Excited to share this new preprint from the lab, hopefully this TIMER variant will be very useful for future studies!

Hey Micro peeps:: Two grad students in my lab, Chantal Guegler and Peter Culviner, developed a super easy DIY kit for rRNA depletion for RNA-seq. Works like the RiboZero kit that @illumina inexplicably stopped selling - ours is as good and way cheaper! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At long last, we're out from the shadow of the Sackler name!

(p)ppApp! It's real - not a typo of (p)ppGpp. Super fun collaboration with John Whitney's lab. Congrats to Sheri Ahmad and Boyuan Wang on their fabulous work! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Calling all phage enthusiasts in the Boston area!🧬🧫🔬 @implosian and I want to organize a meetup with other Boston phage peeps to share ideas and network etc. Trying to gauge interest, so let us know if you would want to participate! 👇👇👇 Pls RT!

congratulations Amelia McKitterick PhD. Great science, magnificent person, skilled at sabrage. @AmeliaMcKitt @KimDSeed

Lots of hashtags below, but I'm a big fan of all the tournament art from @fsantoriello

Another great paper from the seed lab showing the latest front in the battle between bacteria and phage! Nice work @AmeliaMcKitt @kristen_legault @KimDSeed

Does genomic position matter for gene expression in bacteria? Yes! I'm pleased to share our work in @CellSystemsCP on mapping transcriptional propensity in E. coli at a high resolution cell.com/cell-systems/f…

Guess who's turning 25? The 25th Boston Bacterial Meeting will take place June 6-7, 2019 at the Harvard Science Center. Mark your calendars for Boston's (Best) Bacterial Meeting! #BBM2019

Congratulations to Katya for being elected into the American Academy of Microbiology! What an awesome achievement! #heldwinner @ASMicrobiology asm.org/Press-Releases…

The #blastxv social media team: Girija Bodhankar @gulabjamun17 Lucy McCully @microMcCully Scott Carlew @TS_Carlew Maria Hadjifrangiskou @BacterialTalk LindsayO’Neal @LindzyONeal and Brendan O’Hara @Hydroxide_ion