Forrest C. Walker, PhD @ForrestCWalker
Postdoctoral researcher with @michele__leroux studying phage defense Former postdoc @IsabelleDerre PhD @baldridge_lab MS @crisprcas10 he/him 🧫🧬🏳️🌈 Joined January 2020-
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@MotaherH2020 @crisprcas10 Congrats! Happy to see it out there. Great work!
Phages carry orphan antitoxin-like enzymes to neutralize the DarTG1 toxin-antitoxin defense system biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio
Thanks to Current Opinion in Microbiology and editor @StallingsLab for working with us on this!
Check out my newest review, on models for Chlamydia infections, with @IsabelleDerre! We discuss how different models have provided distinct insights into Chlamydia-host interactions and where we go from here. tinyurl.com/3b3w66px
Check out our latest paper led by postdoc María Eugenia Cortina in @mSphereJ @ASMicrobiology #ThePowerOfChlamydiaGenetics #InclusionMembraneProteins #IncS #MembraneContactSites #STIM1 #InclusionLysis #SpeciesSpecificity #LotsOfOpenQuestions
Homologues of the Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia muridarum inclusion membrane protein IncS are interchangeable for early development but not for inclusion stability in the late developmental cycle journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… #mSphere @ASMicrobiology
@Notorious_MHC @baldridge_lab This is adorable! Sad that @EA_Kennedy left before this could happen.
#NIH is seeking input on challenges affecting retention in the postdoctoral trainee community. Better understanding of these challenges will help NIH support competitiveness & innovation within biomedical research & its workforce. RFI deadline is 4/14: bit.ly/3E8fRGz
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Homologues of the Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia muridarum inclusion membrane protein IncS are interchangeable for early development but not for inclusion stability in the late developmental cycle journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… #mSphere @ASMicrobiology
@NirDrayman Excellent point! Hopefully we're starting to get past vague survival-based CRISPR KO screens as the majority of what we see. They're great for certain purposes, but we really need careful consideration of design to get at more specific (and maybe more interesting) questions.
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@AnnaCliffe1 That's unfortunate, but I really appreciate you openly sharing this! It helps remove stigma around funding challenges and it's encouraging to see that even successful PIs have those moments too. I'm sure it'll turn around next cycle!
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@ShaunTCross That's the one! Thank you!!
I had seen a list of postdoc fellowship opportunities being shared a few months ago on here, but can't find it now- anyone happen to have it (or any other resources re: postdoc fellowships) handy?
@arnavm1 @rfriedman22 Thank you!! This was exactly the one I was looking for.
Congratulations to the newly-minted Dr. Walker @ForrestCWalker, who gave a brilliant thesis defense yesterday!!! Somehow managed to simultaneously study the involvement of IFNs in both regulation of viral dissemination and microbiota-mediated maintenance of hematopoiesis
I'm only a week late on this, but I'm very happy to be able to update my Twitter name and announce that I successfully defended my PhD! I'm eternally grateful to @baldridge_lab for the past 5 years, and can't wait for what's coming next.
@drdeannasanter @baldridge_lab Just wanted to send a quick update- we were able to get this corrected! The current version has changed the sentence to reflect that the effects were more potent in patients with higher viral load, rather than higher severity. Thank you again for bringing it to our attention!
Looking for a primer on what interferons do, why there are three types of them, and how they act differently in the context of mucosal viral infections? Check out this review I wrote with an excellent undergrad and @baldridge_lab! authors.elsevier.com/c/1dtJE5Eb0RmL…
@drdeannasanter @baldridge_lab They should really be everyone's favorite cytokines, I think! And thank you for the correction- that's certainly an important distinction and we're currently working to see if we can rectify that in the review.
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