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December 2024: Suzana visited the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at East Carolina University
Exciting few days listening to excellent science, meeting great students and postdocs and lots and lots of talking and thinking about one of our favorite bugs: Brucella.
Thank you Marty Roop for hosting.
Online talk at the Portuguese Society of Microbiology (Portugal-Brasil joint conference)
Suzana presented the lab’s work on intracellular Acinetobacter baumannii in this exciting online meeting with lots of student and postdoc talks.
The Salcedo lab enjoying the last summer warmth at the UW-Madison terrasse
September 2024: Lab in full force at the Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Charline and Lison presented posters on Acinetobacter and Brucella, respectively and Suzana gave a talk on a Pseudomonas TIR domain protein!
August 2024: Landon Hodge presents his work at the Veterinary Scholars Symposium in Minneapolis
Well done, Landon! In such a short time, Landon got lots of exciting results with the Acinetobacter baumannii bovine isolates and also succeeded in screening some bacterial genes for their role in adhesion, invasion, and intracellular multiplication of human isolate ABC141. Congratulations on mastering the genetics of our difficult multi-drug resistant strains!
Thank you Boehringer Ingelheim, for funding Landon with a Veterinary Summer Scholars Grant.
June 2024: Welcome to Landon Hodge, Summer Scholar SVM student
Landon has joined our lab for the summer to help identify the bacterial genes involved in intracellular Acinetobacter baumannii and study recent veterinary clinical isolates from Wisconsin. We thank SVM for this excellent program and Boehringer Ingelheim for funding Landon with a Veterinary Summer Scholars Grant.
May 2024: Talk at UIC Chicago and visit of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
First US science trip since arriving here. Thanks to Lauren Palmer for hosting and to all those I met in the department.
January 2024: New publication on the importance of taxonomy: Ochrobactrum Is Not Brucella!
Moreno E et al. (2023) If You’re Not Confused, You’re Not Paying Attention: Ochrobactrum Is Not Brucella. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 61(8): e00438-23. doi: 10.1128/jcm.00438-23
IBA meeting in Oslo, Norway
Suzana participates at the IBA National Graduate School in Infection Biology and Antimicrobials meeting in Oslo, Norway (October 2023). Excellent oral and poster presentations from the graduate students.
Charline participates in the Cold Spring Harbor meeting
Charline Debruyne participates in the Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response Meeting at the Cold Spring Harbor. She presented a poster on the intracellular niche of Acinetobacter baumannii clinical strains.
The Salcedo Lab has moved!
The Salcedo Lab has moved from France to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine!
We are just getting started preparing our lab space to welcome everyone. Charline and Lison will stay a bit longer in the lab of our long-time friend and collaborator Matteo Bonazzi at IRIM in Montpellier.
Time for a new website, lab name and logo…
Congratulations to our collaborators Stephan Göttig et al. for beautiful work showing the impact of Acinetobacter baumannii on mitochondria. We are excited to have contributed to this nice story!
News archive
Goodbye party
July 2023
Goodbye party to close the lab in Lyon! Eleven wonderful years of collaborations, friendships, lots of laughs, and a few tears.
Graduate student dinner
June 2023
Wonderful dinner with all the previous graduate students from the lab: Stephanie Gagne, Jean-Baptiste Luizet, Arthur Louche, Morgane Roussin Lison Cancade-Veyre, Charline Debruyne and Amandine Blanco. Just missing Paul Imbert who is now in London and that I met a couple of weeks after.
Just published, the Nyx effectors targeting nuclear functions
January 2023
Just published! Kudos to Arthur and Amandine for this achievement.
Extensive collaborative work identifying two new Brucella effectors targeting the host nuclear functions. We have named them Nyx, in honor of the Greek goddess of the night, daughter of Chaos, to illustrate the scientific path to their discovery!
We highlight that NyxA and NyxB display a novel nucleomodulatory function that promotes perturbation of the subcellular localization of nucleolar proteins during bacterial infection. Structural studies identified the key interacting domains mediating Nyx targeting of the host de-SUMOylase SENP3, needed for efficient intracellular multiplication of Brucella abortus. Click here for article.