Blebs can be seen on the bacterial membrane.
Fahad Alsaab, a current PhD student in Biosciences (MID concentration) and Shravani Bobde (a graduate of the same program) worked together to design and test a set of new peptides called HRZN, as in “horizon”, designed to be effective against MDR A. baumannii. The most active peptide killed these wound-infecting bacteria with a MIC of 4 ug/ml.
Additional authors include Scott N. Dean, another former member of the van Hoek Lab and graduate of the PhD Biosciences program at GMU and Gabriel Ascoli, a summer ASSIP student who worked with Fahad.
The paper was published in the journal Antibiotics (IF 4.8).