Jéssica Mendonça
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Jéssica Mendonça
@Jesscmendonca
Postdoc at @UTKMicrobiology interested in microbial interactions and vaginal/reproductive health. MS and PhD in Bioscience🔬🇧🇷 #strep #GBS #catmom She/her






Checkout @Bevika2 preprint! She used CRISPRi-seq to determine antibiotic-stress signatures, specifically of pneumococci treated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics. It's a really powerful approach revealing a surprising antibiotic combination therapy. 1/9 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

BWF is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to postdoctoral researchers pursuing careers in biomedical and medical research. buff.ly/RLaqMmd #bwfpdep





Fernanda Torres poses for photos at the #Oscars

The debut paper from the lab is live! Check out the amazing work by @AWiseMitchell and collaborators discovering that mitochondria are not just the 'powerhouse of the cell' but adapted by neutrophils to sense bacterial persistence and trigger NETosis. cell.com/action/showPdf…







Read @Jesscmendonca & @LindseyAtUTK 's latest publication, "Comparison of lateral tail vein and retro-orbital venous sinus as routes of inoculation to study Group B streptococcal systemic infection" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…





