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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Honored to be elected to the Editorial Board of @asm.org journal #mSphere. I cover Post-Translational Modifications, Bacteriology, Host-Pathogen Interactions, and Toxin/Effector Secretion & Function. Looking forward to working with ASM, and grateful for this opportunity.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Day 3 of @asm.org also reconnected me with fellow @hypothesisfund.bsky.social awardee @kacarlab.bsky.social! She is such a star 🤩

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

After 4 days at @asm.org, we microbiologists not only start dressing alike in matching colors, but looking alike too! 😜 Pictured here with Victor DiRita, Lawrence Di Rita, Heidi Kaplan, Theresa Kohler.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Honored to serve on @asm.org #ASMmicrobe2026 Scientific Programming Committee. Spotlighting my sessions below - do attend! 1. TODAY, June 5, 11:45am, Hub - w/ Tiffany Zarrella 2. June 7, 9am, 151AB - w/ Victor DiRita, @copperbae.bsky.social Sarah Stanley & Hualiang Pi

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Day 1 of @asm.org #ASMmicrobe2026 was great! Wonderful reconnecting with the Microbiology community, including fellow @hypothesisfund.bsky.social family members @laahrs.bsky.social & @paulturnerlab.bsky.social!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Former students revisiting my notes in Med/Grad school, thanking me for sparking their love for Microbiology - that’s the real reward. Still, nice to have the work recognized w/ the department’s highest teaching award. Grateful & honored. www.bio.purdue.edu/news/article...

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

What happens when Purdue U. has its own airport? The Biological Sciences faculty share a quick 6am pow-wow and hugs as they jet off to their individual seminar and conference destinations across the country! DC, LA, Charlotte… here we come! #PurdueScience

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Excited to share our work w/ colleagues at @univofmaryland.bsky.social this week. Thanks to Vincent Lee for the invitation. Looking forward to connecting with UMD, NIH & other colleagues in the area; hope you can attend the seminar!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A busy, exciting few days at Purdue w/ GREAT seminar visits from Hank Seifert @medillschool.bsky.social & @copperbae.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social! Thanks, Hank & Michael, for excellent scientific discussions. Big thx admin & IT staff for help w/ visits, & to all who participated.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Dr. Rita Colwell. Truly inspiring in every way. And a #Boilermaker to boot! Happy birthday, Rita!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Fun kickoff to #150PurdueBIO celebrating 150 years of #Purdue Biological Sciences, w/ special guests Doug Robinson @jhu.edu & Jack Johnson @scripps.edu, & colleagues Janice Evans, Nick Noinaj. Thanks to Dept Head Perry Paschou! www.bio.purdue.edu/150/index.html

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

When you break your leg, and THIS is the conversation you have with your friends! 🤣Makes my recovery so much more manageable :) Hope my like-minded dad joke lovers are aptly entertained!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Enjoyed presenting our work & latest collab w/ @rtsolis.bsky.social at #ASMicrobe! Great sharing the stage w/ @delafuentelab.bsky.social, @laahrs.bsky.social & @heran.bsky.social. A drawback speaking at a Plenary Session is how prominent your pimples & wrinkles are on the jumbo screen🤣😬

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Those attending #ASMicrobe, hope to see you at our Plenary Session: “Biology across scales: From Discovery to Mechanism” SUNDAY, June 22 8:15-10:15am Concourse Hall @heran.bsky.social @laahrs.bsky.social @delafuentelab.bsky.social

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Spring 2025 wrap up! -Ben Watson PhD thesis defense! -UGs Rahul Saproo & Rishal Misra graduate. Rishal, grad school at UC Berkeley next! -UG Khushi Patel heads to Cleveland Clinic for Med Lab rotations. -Welcome new grad student Reed Smith & UGs Nina O’Tain. Laney Shafer, Jingxi Ma, & Grace Reiser.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Proud of Rahul Saproo, undergrad researcher in my lab, who presented his work on Fic-mediated GMPylation at the @asbmb.bsky.social Annual Meeting! Thx to @hypothesisfund.bsky.social for funding this work.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Fun times in lab! Former undergrad researcher, Diego Boluda, stopped by to introduce his pet sand boa, Hydra!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

As part of #PurdueOneHealth Series, here’s coverage of my lab’s collaborative project focused on protein misfolding and disease. www.purdue.edu/research/fea...

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone! I ended the work year fighting a bad cold, with a cough that lingered on forever… so much so that my family gave me the gift of lozenges this Xmas 🤣 Gives a whole new meaning to Deck the “Halls”! Wishing you all good health, peace and prosperity!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Mattoo lab closing out the semester with our holiday party. Thank you to this amazing group of trainees, and all our supporters/well wishers who make lab and research so meaningful & fun!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My #Purdue BIOL 53300 Medical Microbiology class did an outstanding job on their posters today! Students were assigned articles extending from content covered in class. They also designed a "next experiment" based on their journal club article & evaluated if #AI helped refine their experiment.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Our lab continuing its long-standing tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving with the Mesecar lab. HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of you, from the Andrew Mesecar and Seema Mattoo labs at Purdue University!

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Goodbye, Maryland! Had a wonderful seminar visit to @johnshopkins.bsky.social. Excellent science & colleagues. Was excited to finally meet @goleylab.bsky.social in person! Many thx to Doug Robinson for the invitation.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Off to deliver a seminar at @johnshopkins.bsky.social. Excited & hoping to connect w/ friends & new colleagues! Thanks to Doug Robinson for the invitation.

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Dr. Seema Mattoo @mattoolab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I love my lab & job! ❤️ It was a crazy busy day today with multiple seminars & big experiments - but my lab still managed to organize a surprise birthday lunch for me, complete with delicious homemade chocolate cake! How lucky am I? It was such a wonderful surprise! I’m ever so grateful.

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