Jessica Zhang
@heyjzhang.bsky.social
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very late to the party soon to be PhD
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Jessica Zhang
Takacs Lab
12 months ago
Our latest paper is out: with
@heyjzhang.bsky.social
and
@wachterjenny.bsky.social
, we characterized stationary phase Lyme spirochetes and contrasted their behavior in culture and ticks. Work done in the Jacobs-Wagner and Rosa labs. Check it out at
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Borrelia burgdorferi loses essential genetic elements and cell proliferative potential during stationary phase in culture but not in the tick vector | Journal of Bacteriology
Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme disease, a prevalent tick-borne illness. B. burgdorferi must survive long periods (months to a year) of apparent dormancy in the midgut of the tick vector between bloo...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb.00457-24
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obligatory I have a preprint post! (2 months later...) in collaboration with
@takacslab.bsky.social
@wachterjenny.bsky.social
(and many others - but I don't know if they have blusky...)
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Borrelia burgdorferi loses essential genetic elements and cell proliferative potential during stationary phase in culture but not in the tick vector
The Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi is a polyploid bacterium with a segmented genome in which both the chromosome and over 20 distinct plasmids are present in multiple copies per cell. This pa...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.28.620338v1
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