Dr. Rita Colwell. Truly inspiring in every way. And a #Boilermaker to boot! Happy birthday, Rita!

Fun kickoff to #150PurdueBIO celebrating 150 years of #Purdue Biological Sciences, w/ special guests Doug Robinson @jhu.edu & Jack Johnson @scripps.edu, & colleagues Janice Evans, Nick Noinaj.
Thanks to Dept Head Perry Paschou!

www.bio.purdue.edu/150/index.html

When you break your leg, and THIS is the conversation you have with your friends! 🤣Makes my recovery so much more manageable :)
Hope my like-minded dad joke lovers are aptly entertained!

Enjoyed presenting our work & latest collab w/ @rtsolis.bsky.social at #ASMicrobe! Great sharing the stage w/ @delafuentelab.bsky.social, @laahrs.bsky.social & @heran.bsky.social.
A drawback speaking at a Plenary Session is how prominent your pimples & wrinkles are on the jumbo screen🤣😬

Those attending #ASMicrobe, hope to see you at our Plenary Session:
“Biology across scales: From Discovery to Mechanism”
SUNDAY, June 22
8:15-10:15am
Concourse Hall
@heran.bsky.social @laahrs.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social

Spring 2025 wrap up!
-Ben Watson PhD thesis defense!
-UGs Rahul Saproo & Rishal Misra graduate. Rishal, grad school at UC Berkeley next!
-UG Khushi Patel heads to Cleveland Clinic for Med Lab rotations.
-Welcome new grad student Reed Smith & UGs Nina O’Tain. Laney Shafer, Jingxi Ma, & Grace Reiser.

Proud of Rahul Saproo, undergrad researcher in my lab, who presented his work on Fic-mediated GMPylation at the @asbmb.bsky.social Annual Meeting! Thx to @hypothesisfund.bsky.social for funding this work.

Fun times in lab! Former undergrad researcher, Diego Boluda, stopped by to introduce his pet sand boa, Hydra!

As part of #PurdueOneHealth Series, here’s coverage of my lab’s collaborative project focused on protein misfolding and disease.

www.purdue.edu/research/fea...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone! I ended the work year fighting a bad cold, with a cough that lingered on forever… so much so that my family gave me the gift of lozenges this Xmas 🤣
Gives a whole new meaning to Deck the “Halls”!

Wishing you all good health, peace and prosperity!

Mattoo lab closing out the semester with our holiday party. Thank you to this amazing group of trainees, and all our supporters/well wishers who make lab and research so meaningful & fun!

Excellent - Jon Kagan is now on BSKY! @jkagan1.bsky.social

My #Purdue BIOL 53300 Medical Microbiology class did an outstanding job on their posters today!

Students were assigned articles extending from content covered in class. They also designed a "next experiment" based on their journal club article & evaluated if #AI helped refine their experiment.

Our lab continuing its long-standing tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving with the Mesecar lab.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of you, from the Andrew Mesecar and Seema Mattoo labs at Purdue University!

Goodbye, Maryland! Had a wonderful seminar visit to @johnshopkins.bsky.social. Excellent science & colleagues. Was excited to finally meet @goleylab.bsky.social in person!
Many thx to Doug Robinson for the invitation.

Off to deliver a seminar at @johnshopkins.bsky.social. Excited & hoping to connect w/ friends & new colleagues!
Thanks to Doug Robinson for the invitation.

I love my lab & job! ❤️
It was a crazy busy day today with multiple seminars & big experiments - but my lab still managed to organize a surprise birthday lunch for me, complete with delicious homemade chocolate cake! How lucky am I?
It was such a wonderful surprise! I’m ever so grateful.