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Karen Maxwell

@theMaxwellLab

Phage biologist focused on virus-host interactions and bacterial pathogenesis.
Toronto, Ontario themaxwelllab.com Joined January 2016
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Karen Maxwell @theMaxwellLab
There are people that submit their grants more than 8 minutes ahead of the deadline???
Itai Yanai Verified account @ItaiYanai Nov 28, 2024
If you submit your grants last minute, you're in good company. Half of the applications were submitted in the last two days, in the 2005 NIH Pioneer grant cycle. The red bars indicate the awardees; one of them submitted just 8 minutes before the deadline.
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Karen Maxwell @theMaxwellLab
This is definitely one of the longest running projects in the lab b/c we were stuck in a trap of thinking about Sie proteins blocking competing phages. But wasn't a satisfying answer to fit the biology we observed - kudos to @vee_coli for persevering and figuring it out!
New prepint alert @themaxwelllab! 📢 📢 📢 Superinfection exclusion (Sie) proteins aren’t just for defence – they also ensure the spread of viral progeny! Prophages that lack Sie proteins devour their young via a process we call the Kronos effect.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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