Also see the accompanying paper from Carol Gross' lab that used a similar approach for Bacillus subtilis: www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Finally out, such an awesome piece of work, very proud of this one: www.cell.com/cell-systems... #MicroSky

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Check out PMI talks tomorrow at the SOM Grad Student Symposium: @catmphelps.bsky.social (in @meisellab.bsky.social ), Daria Jelic (Doug Reed lab), Kelsey Ertwine (Abby Overacre lab), @febrigunawan48.bsky.social (in Renfeng Li lab), and @dariavantyne.bsky.social !

Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology employmentopportunities.umb.edu/mob/cw/en-us... @asm.org

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

Phage people: Rich Losick and I are combing the world looking for T4 rIIB mutant FC0 (also known as P13). FC0 was the starting point for Francis Crick's beautiful 1961 paper on the triplet nature of the genetic code. We want to sequence it. Anyone have it in an ancient stock collection?

𝐓𝐁 𝐎𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐁 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 Study from Kiessling Lab MIT in PNAS exploits a rare sugar—methylthioxylofuranose (MTX)—to tag TB’s virulence glycans with oxaziridine probes Method distinguishes TB from nonpathogenic relatives and enables live-cell imaging, great promise toward diagnostics

Happy to share Christoph Elfmann's new paper that is now out in Trends in Microbiology! Discover tools to make the most out of AlphaFold and its iterations! @c-elfmann.bsky.social @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social @imprsgs.bsky.social #subtiwiki www.cell.com/trends/micro...

𝘚𝘤𝘪 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥 Weeks after 𝘉. 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 is cleared, its peptidoglycan lingers in the liver in polymeric form—resisting degradation, rewiring mononuclear cell metabolism, and triggering low grade inflammation Structural basis to long-lasting symptoms that affect 5-10% of people with Lyme disease?

The axolotl has the ability to regenerate its brain. Using single-cell transcriptomics, four Science studies in 2022 revealed evolutionary innovations in reptile and amphibian brains. Learn more during #AmphibianWeek: scim.ag/3EEKMxZ

“I’ve always loved to bake — I would probably be a baker if I wasn’t a scientist. It’s actually very scientific. I had an undergrad professor that told me never trust a scientist who can’t cook. And I actually think that’s true!”

A bright day, with two new amazing PhDs launching into the world! 🎓🐭🧬🦠 Congrats to @karenyperalta.bsky.social and @zoomingbio.bsky.social 🎉

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Very cool paper and written very accessibly!

New publication from our Lesterlin lab in collab with lab of @knutdrescher.bsky.social We determined the spatiotemporal dissemination of conjugative plasmids within biofilms and found that they spread only in specific structural regions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pennsylvania could lose $973 million due to federal health research cuts. Visit scienceimpacts.org to learn more. scienceimpacts.org

Don't miss the 4rth and last session of @klebclub.bsky.social focusing on #Klebsiella as part of complex microbial communities ! Our keynote speaker will be Kevin Foster, followed by some #phage talks from Mark Mimee and Sara Forsstrom! #microsky #phagesky Registration is free but necessary!

New immune cell population just dropped! Unique group of ILC3s lives 𝙄𝙉𝙎𝙄𝘿𝙀 lung blood vessels, not the tissue. Upon 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 infection, they quickly mobilize CCL4 to summon neutrophils Without them, bacterial clearance is delayed and inflammation lingers www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Krista Freeman et al 𝘊𝘌𝘓𝘓 stunning atomic-level imaging (Cryo-EM, cryo-ET) reveals how 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐞 Bxb1 reshapes its tail tip to breach the mycobacterial cell wall and deliver DNA to the cytoplasm can inform precise targeted phage therapies for TB and NTM infections www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Help - have room for one more song on my 1980s bands clinical microbiology lab mixtape 🎧 🎶 1. Milli Bacilli 2. Sammy Agar 3. CentriFugees 4. Run HPLC 5. Dire Substrates 6. Pipette Shop Boys 7. Gram- Rod Stewart 8. Salt-N-StrepA 9. Yeastie Boys

"If we really want the best talent in science, then let’s foster environments across the scientific enterprise that invite neurodiversity and recognize the strengths of neurological differences," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a 2024 #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3GcwC7z

Metabolic dysregulation is a driving force of aging. Enzymes from lower organisms—such as bacteria and yeast—may be able to reverse age-associated metabolic changes in humans, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds.

Please spread the word about our Special Collection focused on Pseudomonads! @asm.org #JBacteriology

The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This experiment shows that neutrinos are at least one million times lighter than an electron https://go.nature.com/3G5GDDn

2 weeks to the deadline for applications to this post.. take a look, get in touch if you want hear more, don't hold back😎

📣 Editor in Chief opportunity! ASM is soon launching our new peer-reviewed journal, "ASM Animal Microbiology." Lead the field in 🐶 #VeterinaryMicrobiology or🦇 #ZoonoticDiseases! 📆 Apply by May 2: asm.social/2m1 🐄🐓🐖

MGI scientists, led by MGI's James Tiedje, have uncovered a new phylum of microbes thriving deep in Earth's Critical Zone, a largely unexplored soil layer essential to life. Read more in Discover magazine: tinyurl.com/3d67nnnm

Art can help students grasp complex topics. The MicrobiART activity introduced in #JMBE uses mixed art materials as a communication tool to promote reflection, dialogue, exchange & long-term learning about host–microbe interactions. Learn more: asm.social/2m2

Where, when, and even how cats arose has long been a mystery. A pair of new studies offers an intriguing--and gruesome--hypothesis: Mass sacrifices of wildcats to the goddess Bastet in Ancient Egypt may have set today's cats on the road to domestication. My latest for @science.org!

🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!! But...good news and bad news. 👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now. 👎 # of fellowships went down by 51% (1000 this year vs. 2036 last year) See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

🚨 Big news! Infection and Immunity is now open access! 🌍🔬 That means wider visibility & impact for your research. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology

Honeybee populations are again declining, threatening crops. But the honeybee is not the only bee that can work in the fields.

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.

Madeleine Joullié joined the University of Pennsylvania as the first female instructor in the Department of Chemistry in 1953—a time when the chemistry building had no women’s restrooms and it was difficult to recruit students to join her laboratory. cen.acs.org/acs-news/Org...

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! 🥰

NEW: My latest article in @plosbiology.org @plos.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Postdocs! Are you interested in the ASM CPEP Fellowship Program? Join us on April 22 at 1 p.m. ET to learn more about the program and get tips on how to improve your application. The Q&A will be recorded. asm.org/Fellowships/... #ASMClinMicro

Mosquitoes die after drinking the blood of people taking a drug for metabolic disorders — a discovery that could help to prevent the spread of malaria https://go.nature.com/4cl6dQP

The NIH-funded Haskell-KU Bridges Program was terminated. It was one of the longest running programs of its kind, placing >130 Native American students into STEM labs over the last ~25 years. So many alums spoke of this program as being the entry point to their interest, and later, careers in STEM.

cool www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“These aren’t luxury items. They’re the core infrastructure of modern science.” Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain https://go.nature.com/4207NUT

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Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery https://go.nature.com/4jeKJaC

A friend at NIH received notice that the National Library of Medicine is terminating its bioinformatics program

'The postdoctoral jobs she planned to apply for have suddenly disappeared. “I felt the door of an entire sector of jobs, including federal research jobs, slam overnight,” she said. “It’s very disheartening, and sometimes I wish I just became an accountant.”' www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

To the outstanding civil servants at NIH who are waiting to find out if they are one of the 1200 individuals to be laid off this weekend, we stand by you and know that you worked hard to help the country innovate, find cures, and save lives. This sucks. #MedSky www.rdworldonline.com/nih-layoffs-...