Very excited to share our new work from previous Byndloss Lab grad student @shealynicg.bsky.social published today! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Come join us in Breckenridge! 👇🏽

Happy to announce that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at VUMC. What a wild and fun ride it has been… I couldn’t have achieved this without my amazing trainees’ dedication, my family’s patience and the support from colleagues and mentors. Let’s keep swimming. Cheers 🥂!

⏰ Deadline Jan 7 (11:59 pm MST) to submit a short talk abstract or apply for a scholarship for the Keystone Symposium Beyond Antibiotics. Hear from @joeyzacks.bsky.social, @maribyndloss.bsky.social: youtu.be/8Ppjx-MnvxA keysym.us/KSBeyondAnti... @kimingeneva.bsky.social & @dariavantyne.bsky.social

Friday we lost a brilliant mind, colleague, and friend to her battle with pancreatic cancer. Those who knew her will remember Helene Andrews-Polymenis for her warmth, generosity and leadership. She will be missed by many. RIP

Join us in Colorado next spring for the Keystone Symposia “Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection”. Registrations are now open! Details below ⬇️

Microbiota shape the colon epithelium controlling inter-crypt absorptive goblet cells via butyrate–GP R109A signalling www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org asm.org/press-releas...

Huge thanks to @asm.org for this recognition. Congratulations to all 2026 ASM Awards winners! 🍾👏🏽🥂

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...

@kellydoran.bsky.social giving an amazing talk at the HMB Track Hub at #ASMicrobe!

Congratulations to all the new @bwfund.bsky.social investigators in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. Especial shout-out to dear friend @joeyzacks.bsky.social ! Welcome to the family!

Channel your science anxiety into action. Comment on or before tomorrow! Keep scientists in roles at NIH and NSF and keep politicians out of them. Tell your non-science friends — universally hated idea to put politicians in these roles! 🧪

Come join us in Breckenridge, CO next May (2026) for the Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection Keystone meeting! More information below:

Can genetic resistance to Salmonella be impacted by dietary changes? We use a genetically resistant 🐭 to explore diet-microbiome-pathogen interactions and mechanisms of Salmonella Typhimurium small intestine colonization. Awesome work by grad student Nic Shealy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org

On March 7th we will Stand Up For Science! You can use the link to find the protest location in your city. standupforscience2025.org

As more information emerges about the firing of probationary employees from the NIH, it’s becoming clear how these actions are cruel and stupidly incompetent. Why you might ask? 1/

this website from the House Democrats on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee is surveying the impact of the Administration’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies—share with friends you know have been affected

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination.

Also sharing the “Meet the Authors” highlight published with the review. Very proud of my amazing trainees Katerina Jones and Camila Brito for sharing a bit of their stories as the next generation of talented Latin Women in Science! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our lab’s review focused on the link between microbial metabolism and colonization resistance against enteric bacterial pathogens. Congrats to authors Katerina Jones (PhD student) and Camila Brito (Postdoc)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Salmonella outbreak - Costco 🥚 abcnews.go.com/amp/US/fda-e...

When you are supposed to take a serious picture with your awesome trainees Kat Jones and Dr. Camila Brito 😅 - stay tuned for their review coming out soon. #womeninscience #latinasinscience

Hello Bluesky! My name is Nic Shealy, a PhD candidate in the lab of @maribyndloss.bsky.social. I study bacterial metabolism and am enamored by microbe-microbe interactions and microbiota-host interactions! Not such a small world after all.

CALL TO ACTION: By publishing this Editorial concurrently across journals, we are demanding immediate, tangible steps that harness the power of microbiology and the expertise of researchers and policymakers to safeguard the planet for future generations. doi.org/10.1128/msys...

Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social for receiving the FASEB early-career investigator award www.faseb.org/awards/excel...

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 The Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center (VMIC) @VI4Research is looking for a Data Scientist to perform Microbiome-related data analysis and provide support to the VMIC community. Link to apply below 👇🏽- Please share! vumc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/vumccareers/...

Vladimir Diaz-Ochoa is a dear friend, a talented scientist, an amazing mentor and a fearless advocate for equity and inclusion. Vlad (and his beautiful family) needs our help in his fight against ALS. Please, consider donating using the link below. 🙏🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/vlad-flor-...

Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social for being included in Clarivate's 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers, who have authored multiple Highly Cited Papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and publication year in the Web of Science over the past decade.

Check out this preprint from the Keestra-Gounder Lab! Always fun to play a small role on a friend’s cool story: Nitrate-mediated luminal expansion of Salmonella Typhimurium is dependent on the ER stress protein CHOP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Love Fall 🍂 mornings in Nashville!

Really great visit to Vanderbilt VI4 Wednesday for their DEI Symposium highlighting LGBTQ+ scientists. Special bonus to speak before my always-wonderful PhD advisor Matt Welch. 🏳️‍🌈🔬🧪🧫

‼️NEW PAPER ALERT‼️ Here is our new story led by my phenomenal grad student Catie Shelton showing how antibiotic-induced disruption of beneficial microbiota & epithelium interactions in the small intestine promotes obesity during early-life. Open access link here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On my way to Hamburg 🇩🇪 for #EASD2023! Very excited to attend my first EASD annual meeting to discuss the role of #microbiome in #Diabetes

I'm excited to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology has TWO openings for tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and/or Microbial Biology. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...