Jessica Zhang

Borrelia burgdorferi loses essential genetic elements and cell proliferative potential during stationary phase in culture but not in the tick vector | Journal of Bacteriology Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme disease, a prevalent tick-borne illness. B. burgdorferi must survive long periods (months to a year) of apparent dormancy in the midgut of the tick vector between bloo...

Our latest paper is out: with @heyjzhang.bsky.social and @wachterjenny.bsky.social, we characterized stationary phase Lyme spirochetes and contrasted their behavior in culture and ticks. Work done in the Jacobs-Wagner and Rosa labs. Check it out at journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...!

Borrelia burgdorferi loses essential genetic elements and cell proliferative potential during stationary phase in culture but not in the tick vector The Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi is a polyploid bacterium with a segmented genome in which both the chromosome and over 20 distinct plasmids are present in multiple copies per cell. This pa...

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obligatory I have a preprint post! (2 months later...) in collaboration with @takacslab.bsky.social @wachterjenny.bsky.social (and many others - but I don't know if they have blusky...)