Dr. Izzy Taylor (@LabRatIz) profile picture

Assistant Professor @wmchemistry studying quorum sensing in P. aeruginosa. Former Bassler Lab postdoc, @GestwickiLab grad student. #BardTeamChem for life.

Joined July 2019
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Justin Silpe awarded the 2024 Tiger Entrepreneur Award for entrepreneurial achievement. While a postdoc in the Bassler lab, Silpe co-founded the company PumpKin pumpforourkin.com to extend the shelf life of human breast milk. princeton.edu/news/2024/11/0…
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These laureates are VERY deserving. But an important addendum—no model could be trained without 40 years of Helen Berman and others’ work at the PDB, and we would not be certain of AF’s success without 30 years of John Moult and others’ work on CASP. Hats off to them as well 🥂
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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This #MicroscopyMonday shows millions of Vibrio cholerae bacteria. These #bacteria have a mutation that makes them constantly produce biofilm-a sticky substance made of sugars & proteins which helps bacteria stick to surfaces. (@MashruwalaAmeya Lab)
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BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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Tomorrow is #InternationalMicroorganismDay. Aimed at raising awareness about the importance of microorganisms, this year, to celebrate these tiny organisms, a group of Society Champions have shared quotes and images, illustrated by Champion @eliza_coli. microb.io/4gpYwuo🦠
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Welcome to the #Pseudomonas2024! We're looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen. Over the next five days, the conference will cover the various Pseudomonas species and their role in fundamental and applied research. View the full programme online: microb.io/49478lR
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People 👏 want 👏 trains
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Exploring science with a SPLASH! From CRISPR to cancer, we've got it all covered in our local outreach events this year! 🧬 We explore the evolution of biological diversity in our courses and decode the secrets of the central dogma through our thrilling escape room experience! 💦
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Congratulations to our 2024 Award Winners! We are incredibly proud to recognize their contributions to the field of Protein Science! Carl Brändén Award - Professor Tamir Gonen (University of California, Los Angeles) Christian B. Anfinsen Award - Professor Neil Kelleher (Northwestern University) Marie Maynard Daly Award - Professor Alexandra C. Newton (University of California, San Diego) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award - Professor Margaret Sunde (University of Sydney) Emil Thomas Kaiser Award - Professor David Craik (The University of Queensland) Hans Neurath Award - Professor David Cortez (Vanderbilt University Stein & Moore Award - Professor Jeffery W. Kelly (The Scripps Research Institute) Protein Science Young Investigator Award Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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New preprint from my postdoc with Bonnie Bassler! We show that phage VP882 responds to different host factors depending on the environmental context of the infected host, highlighting the need to study phage-bacteria interactions in relevant contexts to get the full picture.
The LuxO-OpaR quorum-sensing cascade differentially controls Vibriophage VP882 lysis-lysogeny decision making in liquid and on surfaces biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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Confronting a long-ignored problem, @PrincetonIdeas IP Accelerator funding awarded to Bassler and Silpe to advance a breast milk preservation formulation that prevents freezer-stored breast milk from becoming rancid and losing vital nutrients. research.princeton.edu/news/…
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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It's not that complicated. We can and should simultaneously celebrate Dr. Kariko for her ideas and persistence in the face of adversity, while acknowledging that she succeeded in spite of us, and realize it is our duty to do whatever we can to never let it happen again.
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Summer reading: in this editorial together with @Biolluminator Julia Van Kessel and @Tufts_NgLab Wai-Leung we wrote our thoughts about Bonnie’s @Qsense career and our amazing journal through her lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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As a part of the excitement, the newly formed Speight Research Group will be a part of the CMCC’s phase 2 team! Cannot wait to join this amazing group of researchers and reveal the mysteries of mechanochemistry. 🙌🏽🙌🏽
We're pleased to announce that the @NSF_CMCC has been selected for expansion and Phase II funding! So much more exciting mechanochemistry to come from the CMCC! #sustainability #chemistryrocks new.nsf.gov/news/crushing-ch…
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What’s up #BlackInChem. I’m Prof. Isaiah Speight, I join @wmchemistry on Thursday. My Ph.D. is in organometallic mechanochemistry. Our group at W&M will focus on organic mechanochem and 3D printing for new m-Chem tools. I’m also West Region Chair for @NOBCChE #blackinchemrollcall
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Academics when they realize it’s August.
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We are thrilled to recognize our 2023 Award Winners: Dr. Arthur Lesk, Dr. Mei Hong, Dr. Patricia Clark, Dr. Polly Fordyce, Dr. Jason Gestwicki, Dr. Renã Robinson, Dr. Kevin Gardner and Dr. Elena Conti. See you in Boston! proteinsociety.org/protein-s…
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Thrilled to share that our group @wmchemistry has received the @NSF CAREER award! Special thanks to all my mentors, collaborators, and students! @williamandmary Link to award: nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar…
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Some thoughts on Carolyn's deep influence on her field & (IMO, as importantly) on the scientific community and how that translated into so much unbridled joy over her win yesterday: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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