Michelle

How to generate clean deletion mutants in Enterococcus microspacebiologist.com/2026/02/08/how…

Had fun at #MMPC2024 this year!

Calling all Enterococcal researchers & enthusiasts! 🦠We've really appreciated the Enterococcal tools available @Biocyc, especially with upgraded curation, so I'm happy to spread the good word to those who are still out there.

🦠 Antibiotics wiping out gut microbes? Watch out for resistant Enterococci taking over and leading to sepsis. The latest #FEMSmicroBlog by Michelle Hallenbeck @castleanthrax explains how new targets could prevent these infections! #FascinatingMicrobes fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-…

If you're curious about how sugar metabolism can impact pathogenesis and other processes in bacteria, check out my new paper! #FEMSmicroBlog fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-…

A bug with a sweet tooth: the life and times of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium microspacebiologist.com/2024/08/25/a-b…

🦠📷 OUT NOW! Non-canonical start codons in carbohydrate utilisation operons provide context-dependent advantages for commensal E. coli by Yassine Cherrak, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4156…

The oral–gut microbiome axis in health and disease rdcu.be/dOzKm Kunath, Wilmes et al. explore the interaction between the oral and the intestinal microbiota and how they influence each other and the development of different diseases. @wilmeslab @microsyseco

Thank you to the people that aggressively nod during presentations.

Excited to share the first paper to come out of my PhD!🦠👩🏼‍🔬 The role of the universal sugar transport system components PtsI (EI) and PtsH (HPr) in Enterococcus faecium academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes/a…

Writing Deleting 🤝 "We both help contribute to your thesis"

The farther along you are the dumber you’ll feel

Feel free to ask me questions by replying to this thread if you want to learn more about what I do! (🧵5/5) #mySCSimpact

We think they’ve evolved to take advantage of rising sugar levels in the diet, so we’re trying to identify novel targets that we can use to inhibit their growth and reduce the likelihood that they’ll spread to the bloodstream. (🧵4/5)

Hello, science Twitter! I’ve been here for a while, but I thought I’d re-introduce myself in order to kick-start my #SciComm career. I’m entering my fifth year of a PhD program in Microbiology and Immunology at @uofl. (🧵1/5)

Gut-Brain axis: Gut microbial factors, including microbial networks and bidirectional host-microbe interactions, predict severity of multiple sclerosis. Check out our new paper in @NatureMicrobiol nature.com/articles/s4156….