🎉 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐎 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥! After 8 months of revision, our work is now online: shorturl.at/WHmFq We uncover a previously unrecognized way that 𝑀𝑦𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑡𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠 survives toxic metal stress during infection. ...

We are hiring postdocs :)

Excited to share our new study showing that targeting the lung innate pathways can improve vaccine-induced immunity against TB- Congrats to Mushtaq Ahmed and co-authors on getting this published. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

New research, co-authored by the SVM's Johanna Elfenbein in the Journal of Bacteriology, shows how Salmonella adapts to toxic sulfites through a distinct genetic pathway, helping explain bacterial persistence and informing food safety research. #uwvetmed https://go.wisc.edu/en33mz

Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/microbial-to...

"I like discovering things, specifically finding either new pathogens or new epidemiological trends that no one has observed before."

Thrilled to share our new preprint showing that dietary amino acids license the NLRP3 inflammasome via mTOR-dependent mRNA translation! Congrats to co-1st authors @mikelhaggadone.bsky.social, Brian Goldspiel, co-senior author @metabailism.bsky.social & collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly. www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

JOB ALERT! 📢 For the scientists who love science communication: we’re hiring at @kurzgesagt.org !🌍 Come join our team, the vibes are impeccable. ✍️ Scriptwriter (Remote) kurzgesagt.org/careers/scri... 🔍 Fact-Checker & Researcher (Munich/Berlin/Remote) kurzgesagt.org/careers/seni...

Very happy to see this out! Work led by @jaksonluk.bsky.social together with an amazing team @crick.ac.uk Jakson et al established a scalable and reproducible multicellular system based on human stem cells to mimic the human alveolar space in a micro-physiological system. Congratulations everyone!👏

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

While everyone is hustling for the holidays, hopefully folks will have time to submit abstracts or register for #ASMMicrobe2026 in DC! Please repost!

"Don’t mourn his loss—be grateful that you knew him". Bacteriologist at Pasteur then at INEM, Alain Charbit spent most of his career working on Intracellular bacteria and notably Francisella tularensis to decipher the role of its metabolism in virulence. He was a colleague and a friend.

Here is the latest paper of the lab @ciri-lyon.bsky.social on the pyrin #inflammasome, the MEFV gene variants and the associated autoinflammatory diseases, Familial Mediteranean fever (FMF) and PAAND.

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Our latest T7SS study is now out in Science Advances! We solved the cryoEM structure of the T7SSb core unit (T7bCU) composed of YukB, YukC, and YukD from Bacillus subtilis, revealing how these components assemble within the secretion machinery. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share our latest T6SS review: nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!

Happy to share our latest NAR paper on Rel toxins targeting M. tuberculosis anti-SD region, with Tim Blower’s team (@durham.ac.uk @nebiolabs.bsky.social) and Laurent Falquet Thanks to FRM @frm-officiel.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

Who wants to discuss innate immunity and host defense? Join us in Banff to share your exciting research. www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

For anyone interested in doing a PhD at the interface of microbiology and immunology focusing on how AMR pathogens subvert host defenses...you may consider applying to our MRC LID DTP project in which we will explore how Klebsiella hijacks the immune checkpoint PD-L1 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/apply/

🎉 Big congratulations to Dr. Andrew Hryckowian on receiving the Vilas Faculty Early-Career Investigator Award! His groundbreaking work on the gut microbiome is shaping the future of infectious disease research. mmi.wisc.edu/dr-andrew-hr...

Let's go! Super excited to partner with @richardsever.bsky.social and the fantastic @openrxiv.bsky.social team - Preprints have been the best thing that happened to science publishing during my lifetime, and we're happy @qedscience.bsky.social can make preprints do more 👊

Many antiphage systems use NAD+, in many ways. @hugovaysset.bsky.social reviewed them all! Read to know more about all their molecular mechanisms, how phages counteract them, their distribution in bacteria and their conservation in eukaryotic immunity! www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

🚨Our paper is out! 🥳 Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion. Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... it all started years ago with a failed experiment 🧵👇 1/9

Predatory practices plague modern science, but the origins & reasons of their success can be identified—and solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @femsmicro.org on the matter shorturl.at/gVXJR

A new underwater microscope designed & built by Scripps is providing an unprecedented glimpse into the hidden world of corals. 🪸🔬 @californiacurated.bsky.social shares how this imaging system is revealing new insights that could help save #CoralReefs. californiacurated.substack.com/p/a-microsco...

Open position to work on Type IX secretion (#T9SS) in our lab, in collaboration withe the group of Eric Reynolds at the Dental School of the University of Melbourne. Please spread the word, and forward to anyone potentially interested ! Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in January 2026! My lab will study RNA virus-host interactions with a particular focus on the spatial regulation of viral replication and innate immune activation. genoyerlab.com

On the way to Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference 2025, in St Charles, Illinois! Hosted by Loyola University Chicago #MMPC2025 #MicroSky www.mmpconference2025.com

Our new preprint by @nanamikubota.bsky.social shows that P. aeruginosa, and likely many other bacteria carrying filamentous prophages (like V. parahaemolyticus), risk being exploited by these phages in a runaway process that reduces fitness of both host and virus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Acinetobacter exhibits cyrcadian rhythms! These bugs can predict the light cycles and adjust the expression of genes accordingy. Amazing collaboration with Alejandra Mussi's team from Rosario, Argentina, my city!! rdcu.be/eIQzL

I said I will never work on phages, but having @micheleleroux.bsky.social next door made me change my mind. Here is Alexis's new paper showing how different phages deal with the capsular barrier to infect Acinetobacter! A great collaboration between our labs! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Highly multiplexed 3D profiling of cell states and immune niches in human tumors @natmethods.nature.com @harvardmed.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

View from the lab now. Did I mention that we are recruiting faculty microbiologists? www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

We will have soon an Open position for a PhD thesis position to work on bacterial secretion systems ! Stay tuned !!

Happy to share the last pre-print from my lab. Just in time for Evan’s thesis defense www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Still Time to read this new study form Mathilde Guzzo’s Lab post doc @cjresearch.bsky.social with our structural contribution !

Thrilled to share my work from the @jkagan1.bsky.social lab! TLDR: O-acetylation and wall teichoic acid compete for space on S. aureus peptidoglycan. This competition regulates DNA release, and thus immune receptor activation, during infection! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #immunosky

meta-PAMPs: A new class of immunostimulatory molecules that control the ability of bacterial factors to operate as PAMPs. Jordan Jastrab reveals that wall teichoic acid (WTA) is a key regulator of inflammasomes and interferons during infection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

🦠 Mycobacteria aren't just tough, they're interior designers! 🦠 Check out our latest #preprint 🚨, led by our PhD student @camimille.bsky.social , where we show that #Mycobacterium tuberculosis builds secret cytoplasmic membranes to adapt its metabolism and sneak past immunity 🤫 Thread coming soon!

Excited to share Wendy Le Mouëllic’s PhD work, now published in @pnas.org! It reveals that M. tuberculosis depends on inorganic sulfate import to survive inside host cells—fueling essential processes such as redox balance and stress resistance. Huge congrats to Wendy & colleagues! shorturl.at/WbFQC