Dr. Xiao‘s editorial with Drs. Maria Filippa Addis and Ilana Kolodkin-Gal: “Women in microbial physiology and metabolism” is published in Front. Microbiol.! This editorial is part of the Research Topic “Women in Microbial Physiology and Metabolism: 2023″.

Dr. Amilcar Perez and Dr. Xiao‘s new review on Stay on track — revelations of bacterial cell wall synthesis enzymes and things that go by single-molecule imaging” is now available in Curr. Opin Micro!

Dr. Jason Lyu‘s new manuscript on a “third sPG degradation track” FtsN coordinates septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation through self-interaction of SPOR in E. coli is now on bioRxiv!

Congrats to undergraduate student Boaz Goldberg for receiving PURA (Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award) for the upcoming summer research!

Congrats to graduate student Martin Yepes for receiving the Student Research Achievement Award from the 2024 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting!

Congrats to Dr. Brooke Britton and graduate student Martin Yepes for receiving the 2024 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Travel Awards!

Dr. Xiao, Dr. Brooke Britton, and graduate students Fran Harris, Nico Yehya, and Martin Yepes attended the 2024 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in Philadelphia and had fun!

Collaborative work between the Xiao lab and the Liu Lab on FtsZ-mediated spatial-temporal control over septal cell wall synthesis is now on BioRxiv!