Rahme Lab@RahmeLab

Lab of Dr. Laurence G. Rahme: Professor of Surgery, Microbiology, and Immunobiology @HarvardMed & Director of the Molecular Surgical Laboratory @MassGeneral

 Boston, MA
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Joined March 2019
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Linoleic acid is the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid in the Western-style diet and has been implicated in promoting inflammation and cancer. In Science, researchers report a mechanism by which linoleic acid can activate the mTORC1 protein kinase, which coordinates growth and nutrient signals. Learn more: scim.ag/4bxxLSN #SciencePerspective
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The L-lactate dehydrogenases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are conditionally regulated but both contribute to survival during macrophage infection | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128… Thank you for the great collaboration on cool insights about lactate dehydrogenases. #pseudomonas

The L-lactate dehydrogenases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are conditionally regulated but both...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major cause of lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis, of hospital-acquired infections, and of wound infections. It consumes L-lactate, which is found at substan...

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AND Also! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128… #Quorumsensing #MvfR #pseudomonasaeruginosa #infection @MGH_RI @MGHSurgery@HarvardMicro

Skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction mediated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing...

Skeletal muscle, pivotal for many functions in the human body, including breathing and protecting internal organs, contains abundant mitochondria essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis during...

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We might have been silent, but @RahmeLab has been very productive, making sure we also had a lot of fun! @elife: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97568.… #Quorumsensing #MvfR #pseudomonasaeruginosa #infection @MGH_RI @MGHSurgery @HarvardMicro
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We are excited about our new paper on QS regulator MvfR and the therapeutic potential of MvfR inhibitors against mitochondrial dysfunction caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in skeletal muscle.journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction mediated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing...

Skeletal muscle, pivotal for many functions in the human body, including breathing and protecting internal organs, contains abundant mitochondria essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis during...

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"One Woman" song to celebrate International Women's Day (March 8th)

From China to Costa Rica, from Mali to Malaysia acclaimed singers a...

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Happy International Women’s Day to ALL of US!!
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Fantastic news! Big Congrats to our own #Maryam Abdel-Azim for her #RegeneronScienceTalent Award on #Quorumsensing #Multidrug Resistance project @#RahmeLab It's always inspiring to see young scientists making significant contributions to their fields. 🎉👏
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Please join us in person to celebrate International Women's Day with Dr. Madani
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We are profoundly grateful that Dr. Ruth Gottesman, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at @EinsteinMed, has made a transformational gift to #MontefioreEinstein—the largest to any medical school in the country—that ensures no student has to pay tuition again. bit.ly/3wvBj7y
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Rahme Lab retweeted
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Come work with us! New tenure-track faculty position now open in microbiology / biotechnology at INRS (Quebec, Canada). Please share broadly! inrs.ca/en/jobs/professeure-…
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Who would have thought? Bacterial flagella hijack type IV pili proteins to control motility | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…

Bacterial flagella hijack type IV pili proteins to control motility | PNAS

Bacterial flagella and type IV pili (TFP) are surface appendages that enable motility and mechanosensing through distinct mechanisms. These structu...

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Pseudomonas biennial conference scheduled for Sept 1-5, 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark! More details here: microbiologysociety.org/even…

International Biennial Pseudomonas Conference

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Happy New Year to all!

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The Nobel Prize
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6 Oct 2023
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. #NobelPrize
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Academic medicine is hard. Being a woman in academic medicine is harder. Being a URM in academic medicine is even harder. Find your people. Lean on them. And disrupt like mad. #DiversityMatters #RepresentationMatters @ATSPeds
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Massachusetts will be home for ARPA-H new federal health research agency. Very exciting for MA! www-wcvb-com.cdn.ampproject.…
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Post-doctoral Fellow positions are available in The Rahme Lab to study anti-virulence therapeutics, Quorum Sensing, epigenetic and immunometabolic mechanisms, & predictive diagnostics. For more info, please visit rahmelaboratory.org or email rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.

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What an inspiring event hosted last week by Boston Children's Hospital. A group of 16 fearless women lead by Nancy Hopkins were major actors in the fight for equal recognition of women scientists at MIT in 1999. We are so grateful for them and should continue their work!
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I enjoyed the follow up dinner celebrations with Dr. Nancy Hopkins and Dr. Nancy Andrews, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Boston Children's Hospital…
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... along with Dr. Sally Kornbluth, MIT President and Dr. Cindy Barnhart, MIT Provost. What a wonderful celebration of powerful Women in Science wonderfully depicted in the book of Kate Zernike @kzernike, “The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science".
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