The Adams Lab at the 2026 GRC Biology of Spirochetes meeting! Presenting NIAID research on gene regulation and cell biology of the Lyme disease pathogen! #NIH 🧬🔬🧫

Halloween fun in the Adams Lab 🎃

Great scientific discussions and community at the Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea Meeting in Strasbourg 🇫🇷, presenting NIAID research on B. burgdorferi sRNAs and single-cell RNA-seq #rna

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Grand Opening: Summer 2025

Adams and Storz Lab trip to Six Flags 🚩🎢 #WorkHardPlayHard

Had a blast presenting our work on spirochete motility at BLAST!

The global RNA-binding protein RbpB is a regulator of polysaccharide utilization in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron - Nature Communications Gut Bacteroides deploy several polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs) to forage diverse dietary and host-derived glycans. Here, the authors identify the RNA-binding protein RbpB and a family of noncod...

Latest from the Westermann lab investigating the RNA biology of the human gut commensal B. thetaiotaomicron -- the RNA-binding protein RbpB regulates polysaccharide utilization through interactions with 14 (?!) paralogous sRNAs 🧪🦠 #RNASky

GFP Treponema pallidum in infected rabbit tissues

Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete, expressing GFP provides visual insights on infectious properties. Neat work from Melissa Caimano and colleagues!

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Adams Research Group The Adams Research Group uses molecular and cellular techniques to manipulate spirochetes, sequence bacterial transcriptomes, characterize cellular processes, map regulatory networks, and study spiroc...

Adams Group webpage is live! #NIAIDNews #IRPatNIH #ResearchingSpirochetes 🔬🧫🧬
(Consider joining our team!!)
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Bethesda, Maryland (US) job with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 668360 NIAID seeks candidates for a postdoctoral fellowship position studying gene regulation and the cell biology of spirochetes.

Join our team studying gene regulation and cell biology of spirochetes @ NIAID, NIH! Work on the dynamic NIH main campus in Bethesda, MD! Apply (email philip.adams@nih.gov) before Feb. 9th. More details @ ScienceCareers:
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Broadly conserved FlgV controls flagellar assembly and Borrelia burgdorferi dissemination in mice - Nature Communications The control of flagellar synthesis and function in the Lyme spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi is poorly understood, as this pathogen lacks the typical flagellar sigma factor and transcriptional regulato...

🚨In the latest pub from the Adams Lab we corrected a gene annotation mistake in B. burdorferi (there is no Hfq) and discovered FlgV — a broadly conserved flagellar assembly factor!

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Dec 1, 2024 🗓️
FIRST OFFICIAL DAY for the Biology of Spirochetes Unit at NIH, NIAID! Follow our research, as we explore the basic biology of pathogens that cause infections like Lyme disease and syphilis 🔬🧫🧬 #AdamsLab @niaidnews.bsky.social