Gao Lab
@gao-lab.bsky.social
Exploring the genetic diversity of Earth's microbiome.
Stanford Biochemistry | Run by lab members | https://gaolab.bio
Stanford Biochemistry | Run by lab members | https://gaolab.bio
Hannah and Simone co-taught a crash course on cryoEM to the 1st year Stanford med students !
September 23, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Hannah and Simone co-taught a crash course on cryoEM to the 1st year Stanford med students !
Congratulations to Pujuan on receiving the Katharine McCormick Advanced Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship!! This fellowship supports exceptional postdocs pursuing faculty careers who have demonstrated a track record of uplifting women in science. We are so excited to see what’s next for you, Pujuan!
September 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Congratulations to Pujuan on receiving the Katharine McCormick Advanced Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship!! This fellowship supports exceptional postdocs pursuing faculty careers who have demonstrated a track record of uplifting women in science. We are so excited to see what’s next for you, Pujuan!
Congratulations to Simone (@simone-alma.bsky.social), Collin, and Max (@maxewilkinson.bsky.social) on their paper - out today - on terminase sensing by Avs2 and Upx (1/4)!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phage terminase recognition by the bacterial immune sensors Avs2 and Upx - Nature Communications
Direct recognition of viral proteins is key to bacterial immunity. Here, Evans et al. uncover the mechanisms used by two distinct defense proteins to detect the phage DNA packaging motor mechanisms: b...
www.nature.com
August 4, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Congratulations to Simone (@simone-alma.bsky.social), Collin, and Max (@maxewilkinson.bsky.social) on their paper - out today - on terminase sensing by Avs2 and Upx (1/4)!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Gao Lab
We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)
Nature research paper: Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome
go.nature.com/45fpXCZ
go.nature.com/45fpXCZ
Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome - Nature
Systematic analysis of prokaryotic STAND NTPases — relatives of animal and plant immune receptors — uncovers diverse antiviral sensors that detect most of the core structural and replicative proteins of bacteriophages.
go.nature.com
July 29, 2026 at 11:10 PM
We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)
Reposted by Gao Lab
🦠🧬Immune recognition is far more universal than we thought! Our new Nature paper uncovers ≥ 90 families of bacterial immune receptors that senses conserved phage proteins—and reveals how Avs7 repurposes abundant, essential protein EF-Tu to assemble an antiviral immune complex.
Nature research paper: Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome
go.nature.com/45fpXCZ
go.nature.com/45fpXCZ
Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome - Nature
Systematic analysis of prokaryotic STAND NTPases — relatives of animal and plant immune receptors — uncovers diverse antiviral sensors that detect most of the core structural and replicative proteins of bacteriophages.
go.nature.com
July 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
🦠🧬Immune recognition is far more universal than we thought! Our new Nature paper uncovers ≥ 90 families of bacterial immune receptors that senses conserved phage proteins—and reveals how Avs7 repurposes abundant, essential protein EF-Tu to assemble an antiviral immune complex.