Aravind Natarajan
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Aravind Natarajan
@_AravindNat
Scientist, Educator, Public Speaker, STEM equity & inclusion| Postdoc @Stanford w/ Ami Bhatt| PhD @Cornell w/ @DeLisaGroup Founder @ScienceBlender podcast

It was a pleasure working with @PopoMicro on this review of CRISPR-Cas associated transposons (CAST). Hopefully it gives a sense for the diversity of Tn7-like transposons and CRISPR systems that independently combined.go.shr.lc/444PwFh

My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in @NatureMicrobiol #MolecularNodes #Discovery nature.com/articles/s4156…



We are excited to share our preprint titled "Analysis and culturing of the prototypic crAssphage reveals a phage-plasmid lifestyle" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A big thanks to my coauthors:@Angela_Hickey98 @ivanliachko @gsherloc and Ami Bhatt








The FULL program with abstracts for #MVIF #20 is OUT microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/future…



Our healthtech expertise helps drive the WastewaterSCAN.org collaboration, a free effort by scientists at @Stanford, @MarleneKWolfe @EmoryRollins & Verily to scale a natl. wastewater monitoring system that helps mitigate #COVID. More via @LuzPenaABC7: abc7ne.ws/3xT9RPe




ONLINE NOW: Natarajan et al show that patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 can shed RNA for up to 7 months after infection, shedding is associated with gastrointestinal symptoms, and the gastrointestinal tract may be infected even after the respiratory infection has cleared.





