PhD candidate Amal Yahya combined a huge amout of genetic work and phenotypic assays to explore new modes of biofilm regulation in P. aeruginosa. She and her undergraduate mentees Sophie and William showed that a number of genes that were differentially regulated in a deletion of 16550 (which shows decreased biofilm formation) largely do not impact biofilm formation but do impact motility. She also unexpectedly uncovered RecA as a biofilm-impacting gene and showed that both functions of RecA (SOS activation and recombination) appear important for wild-type biofilm levels. This work is published in Microbiollogy Spectrum from ASM and is available in open-access online at https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03774-22.