Abu Kwaik Lab

Today we are celebrating the Ph.D. Defense and graduation of Peter Shin from the Abukwaik research lab. Congratulations and best of luck in your future career Dr. Shin🎉🎊🎈🎊🎉🎈👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓

Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Hanford for her successful defense today of her Ph. D. Dissertation defense from the Abukwaik lab🎊🎉🎈🎊🎉🎈

Next Monday the 18th of November 2025, Hannah Hanford will be defending her Ph. D. Dissertation as the 20th Ph.D. Student to graduate from the Abukwaik’s lab🎉🎊🎈

قصة البكتيريا المخادعة: من البقاء على قيد الحياة إلى التسبب في الالتهاب الرئوي! تتواجد البكتيريا الفيلقية في مصادر المياه الطبيعية مثل الأنهار والبرك، وكذلك في المصادر التي من صنع الإنسان مثل نوافير المياه. أما الأميبا فهي كائنات وحيدة الخلية ....

We are proud to announce the first publication in the Arabic Language of scientific research in the first issue of the journal designed for kids in Middle and High School. It is also translated to English on the website.

قصة البكتيريا المخادعة: من البقاء على قيد الحياة إلى التسبب في الالتهاب الرئوي! تتواجد البكتيريا الفيلقية في مصادر المياه الطبيعية مثل الأنهار والبرك، وكذلك في المصادر التي من صنع الإنسان مثل نوافير المياه. أما الأميبا فهي كائنات وحيدة الخلية ....

Congratulations to our team of editors and editorial staff of the Journal Frontiers Cellular & Infection Microbiology for the great progress our team work has achieved so far. I founded the Journal in 2010. We have grown so much and we split the journals into multiple specialty sections. We now have 13 specialty sections led by a team of 23 world renowned leaders as chief editors . These are supported by an outstanding team of 670 Associate Editors and over 2000 Review Editors and editorial board members. The success of our team work is clear from the number of our publications and our impact factor. Last year we published about 2500 publications including over 250 Research Topics. Our Impact factor last year is 6.073. This continued success could have not been achieved without the dedication and great team work of our editors and editorial staff at the Frontiers headquarters in Switzerland and London. Cheers for better things to come!

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Explores bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, endosymbionts, prions and all microbial pathogens as well as the microbiota and its effect on health and disease in various hosts.

Dr. Abukwaik is spending a Sabbatical with the 2004 Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover at the Technion University Medical School.

Dr. Chris Price and the Ph.D. student Hannah Hanford has just published an exciting paper in the Journal mBio, which is the flagship journal for the American Society of Microbiology. Congratulations to Chris and Hannah

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Dr. Chris Price, who is a senior scientist at the Abukwaik lab just published a paper in the Journal “Biomolecules”. Congrats to Chris 🎉🎊🎈

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7830128/pdf/biomolecules-11-00112.pdf

Dr. Junita von Dwingelo, a former PhD graduate from the Abukwaim lab and Hannah Hanford who is a current Ph. D. Student in the Abukwaik Lab have jointly just published a paper in pLOS Pathogens. Congratulations to Hannah and Juanita on such a beautiful accomplishment 🎊🎉🎈

Bacterial nucleomodulins: A coevolutionary adaptation to the eukaryotic command center Author summary Bacterial pathogens have evolved a repertoire of diverse effector proteins that are secreted or injected into the host cell cytosol, reprogramming the host cell into a more favorable environment. Many of these pathogens possess nuclear-targeted effector proteins (nucleomodulins) that....