This work is the result of a fantastic ongoing collaboration between the Racki, Deniz, Park, and Grotjahn Labs at Scripps. Beautiful work from Ravi (Racki Lab), Jenna (Deniz Lab), Tumara (Park and Grotjahn Labs), Nick (Racki Lab) and Tanxi (Racki Lab).
Blocking long phosphate molecules could eventually help treat chronic infections in which slow-growing bacteria evade typical antibiotics.
Publication: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313004121
Press Release: https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2024/20240411-racki-bacteria.html
The lab got together to celebrate recent additions, publication, and grad school offers at Piazza, La Jolla.
After her visit and Seminar on December 14th, Tanxi decides to join the lab with a start date of February 21st!
Racki Lab Welcomes a new Research Technician, Joseph Agha, on January 2nd
Catherine Li
Yukiye Koide
Siyi Shu
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Michael Fallon, a rising Junior at Williams College, got a lot done in the lab in just 10 weeks - congrats Michael on your intriguing results!
Ravi gave a seminar at the Microbial Stress Response GRS this summer!
Congrats to Ravi for receiving this prestigious fellowship from the American Heart Association!
https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20201006-newinnovator.html
We are excited to announce that Ravi Chawla just joined as as the lab’s first postdoc!
Ravi comes to us from Pushkar Lele’s group (http://pushkarlelelab.org/) at Texas A&M, where he received his PhD in chemical engineering. Check out his latest paper from his PhD work on bacterial chemotaxis: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916974117
Ravi will be working collaboratively with Ashok Deniz’s group here at Scripps (https://www.scripps.edu/deniz/).