AI and synthetic biology are revolutionizing bioengineering. We're now in a time when these technologies are synergizing to create "living" drug delivery vehicles. @bashorlab.bsky.social and I discuss this at Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share that my research center at Rutgers NJMS is hiring tenure-track faculty at all ranks! We are broadly interested in infectious disease research from experimental to computational. Please ask questions and join our community! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/139...

Very happy to share some more good news. Our collaboration with Jeffrey Boyd's lab is now published at J Inorganic Biochemistry! Here, Jeff found that iron limitation reprograms S. aureus metabolism towards fermentation. We're grateful to be part of this study. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share that our collaboration with Christina @stallingslab.bsky.social at WUSTL is out at @pnas.org ! Led by Erin Wang, they found that routing carbon away from peptidoglycans sensitizes Mtb to INH, even in DR-Mtb! Grateful to be part of this project! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in microbial ecology, evolution, and systems biology for fall 2026. Please share! Details: qevomicrolab.org/Documents/Gr... Apply by October 1 here: forms.gle/38pPS1Ky84HB...

I'm pleased to share that the preprint for our collaboration study on MIS-C in pediatric COVID-19 patients is now available on medRxiv. In this study led by Marila Gennaro at Rutgers NJMS, we report that antibody repertories vary with clinical presentation of COVID-19 in children.

It's nearing the end of the summer and our undergrads have been presenting on their research at their respective summer research symposia. Terrific work by Jonah Simone at the Rutgers Health BMIHAI Symposium and Gianna Elie at the NJMS URSE Symposium!

I'm excited to share that we've received a NIBIB Trailblazer Award to advance our work on engineering therapeutic macrophages! Grateful for our team and excited to launch this collaboration with the Caleb @bashorlab.bsky.social at Rice!

Many thanks to ScienceNews.dk for highlighting our work!

Thank you @njmicrobe.bsky.social for this really nice writeup about our work!

A study in Nature Communications shows that constitutive hydrolysis of ATP and NADH, or ‘bioenergetic stress,’ potentiates the evolution of antibiotic resistance and persistence in E. coli. #medsky 🧪

@rutgersu.bsky.social published a very nice article about our work! www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers... @njms-mdphd.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to share the newest paper from the Yang Lab! Ever wonder how bacterial metabolism affects antibiotic resistance #AMR? In this study, Barry Li, a former MD/PhD student in the lab, took on this question using a systems and #synthetic_biology approach. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Honored to receive this year's Young Investigator Award from our local ASM branch!

Yang Lab had a terrific time at Rutgers' Biomedical Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Symposium yesterday. Great jobs by Yiqi Yan, Oliver Gu, and Reuven Rosen who presented on their work!

Our undergraduate machine learning maestro Edson Petry gave a terrific research presentation this afternoon at the Rutgers Pathways for Junior Scientists Research Program! #Rutgers #NJMS

I'm so proud of my technician Lia Goodwin who presented a poster at her first conference at the CSHL Systems Immunology meeting yesterday!

Ever wonder how Mycobacterium #tuberculosis deals with stressful environments? I'm pleased to share that in a second piece of good news this week, our recent work in collaboration with Shuyi Ma (Seattle Children's) was published at Frontiers in Tuberculosis. 1/n www.frontiersin.org/journals/tub...

I am thrilled to share that our rock star MD/PhD student Barry Li successfully defended his PhD today entitled "Bioenergetic stress potentiates antimicrobial resistance evolution and persistence"! Barry is our first student to finish his PhD and I am so incredibly proud of him!

Pleased to share our papers are highlighted by the editors at Nature Communications: www.nature.com/collections/...

Rutgers published a very nice story on our recent work! www.rutgers.edu/news/researc...

Thrilled to share that we have 2 new manuscripts on drug-resistant #tuberculosis out at @NatureComms ! In this pair of manuscripts, we investigated changes in #mtb physiology associated with INH resistance. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...