Honored to have received the 2026 ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research. This award is also a recognition of my phenomenal trainees and their hard work. Thank you to the mentors that have supported my career and those who have nominated me for this award. asm.org/press-releas...

Did you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC? We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research! www.mmpconference2025.com/submit-an-ab...

Please share my 1 min video on the importance of maintaining NIH funding of infectious diseases and drug discovery research vs rising antibiotic resistance Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3

Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe‬! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social‬ co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉 tinyurl.com/443kfefk

Happy to share Iván’s first-author pub from the lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is awesome! Congratulations Angel. Excited to get to UW Madison and connect again. 🙂

I'm excited to announced that the version of record of this article is out in @elife.bsky.social. With the other first coauthor My Tran, we found that phage resistance cause reduced beta-lactam resistance and reduced virulence phenotypes in diverse MRSA strains. elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Somedays are so heavy. Keep the empathy and kindness at 100%. This world needs who you are! ♥️

This is our home ❤️🥹 Feels good to spend time with family.

Congratulations to everyone, especially to @joeyzacks.bsky.social! So well deserved. 🥰

Congrats to @sarahprice.bsky.social on her win for the Skaar Lab Desserts Taste test! Also, celebrating @eliasxwest.bsky.social. Big win with Cremé Bruleé. Runner up with a strawberry pie. #SkaarLabBracket

1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽 The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.

So much joy to see everyone today coming together to celebrate 20 years of the Skaar Lab. Thank you to Eric for the leadership and mentorship over the years! 🥰

Celebrating 20 years of the Skaar Lab 🙂

Thrilled to share our @elife.bsky.social paper "Inflammasomes primarily restrict cytosolic Salmonella replication within human macrophages" by 1st author Dr. @marisaegan.bsky.social (@cambupenn.bsky.social alum, now faculty @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social)! elifesciences.org/articles/90107 🧵(1/n)

During a conversation today, someone said that in order to be courageous, you have to experience fear. That stuck with me. The fear of uncertainty is so strong, but taking it day by day, with love and courage, is the only way I can see forward.

Two talks, same outfit vibe 😅🥰♥️

Dr. Joseph Zackular, from CHOP and UPenn discusses his mRNA vaccine research for #Cdifficile. The vaccine has shown promise in reducing mortality in animal models, with plans to move to human trials. #IDsky #MEDsky Stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow: www.contagionlive.com/view/mrna-va...

🤯🔥Awesome work from @stallingslab.bsky.social on NETs induced by type I IFN & released from intracellular vesicles without death of the Neutrophils! This NET release is associated with increased M.tb replication, and cellular necrosis and caseation within the granuloma! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Excited to see many in the bacterial pathogenesis community joining here in the last few weeks, so here's a Starter Pack to help make connections. Reply/DM to be added to this or future Packs. #Microsky go.bsky.app/VH64BaY

Delighted to share our work developing an mRNA vaccine for C. difficile. This study with Drew Weissman’s lab was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: Alexa Semon from the Zackular lab and Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh from CHOP (formerly Weissman lab)! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

Publication Alert! Happy to share our new work published in CellReports of a collaboration with the Zychlinsky Lab (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology). "Histone H1 kills MRSA". cell.com/cell-reports.... Enjoy!

Check out this awesome work from @laurenpalmer.bsky.social and coauthors! It has been so fun to see this story develop. 🙌🏽

Happy to made the jump here! 👋🏽 I am a postdoc in the Skaar Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center interested in how bacteria adapt to host-imposed stress and innate immune factors controlling infection. PhD in the Shin lab at Penn. Proud to be boricua 🇵🇷! And a busy toddler mom 🥰.

Staph papers @staph-papers.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!