Congrats to all the PATH awardees and welcome to the family! What an amazing cohort! So happy to see @laurenpalmer.bsky.social among the awardees!

BWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpath

Thinking of doing a PhD with a focus on infectious diseases? My lab is seeking enthusiastic students to investigate the emergence and transmission of pathogenic Vibrios. Join us at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, an extraordinary research center! www.stjude.org/education-tr...

Very proud of having contributed to this timely and actionable report by the by @asm.org, American Academy of Microbiology and American Geophysical Union. The report was released today. asm.org/reports/role...

Thank you @stjuderesearch.bsky.social for the wonderful highlight of our recent work in @natcomms.nature.com!

Vibriophiles! Achtung! Come to Berlin Sept 13-16 to learn the latest about your favorite bacteria. Great speakers, great venue, great topics, great location (home of Robert Koch). Oral abstract deadline June 15. Please share. @asm.org @rki-de.bsky.social #Vibrio26 #VIS

Delighted to see our work recently published in @natcomms.nature.com ! In our article we describe a small RNA with a unique modular structure that shapes the evolution of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in microbiology, immunology, and host-pathogen interactions? Come work with us! Our department at OHSU is opening a search for a new tenure-track faculty position. See the job advertisement for details. Please share within your networks! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Biology is so fascinating!

Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.

There's more - we also have a broad call for 6 Assistant Professors in @warwicklifesci.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Micro-scale spatial metagenomics opens a new era in microbiome ecology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion from @mizrahilab.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

📣📣 BWF is hiring! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... #ProjectManagement #ScienceEducation #DiversityInScience #GrantsManagement #NonprofitJobs #STEMCareers #BWFJobs #DurhamNC #HybridWork

Very provocative new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com As global temps rise, drought is becoming more frequent and prolonged across many regions Paper shows climate-driven drying of soils can fuel antimicrobial resistance at its ecological source, independent of clinical antibiotic use 🧵 (1 of 6)

You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database. This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

The 2026 St. Jude-PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference marked 25 years of advancing pediatric infectious diseases research through collaboration, training and scientific discovery.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Mind blowing

New preprint on the limits of detecting higher-order interactions in microbial communities. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We find that the dominance of additive and pairwise interactions on community function may not reflect biological simplicity, but fundamental limits of statistical detection.

#OnThisDay in 1938, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Margulis is most known for developing and popularising the endosymbiotic theory, which explains how eukaryotic cells evolved organelles from simpler prokaryotic organisms that resided within another and became incorporated.

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

Please join us for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense this May 11-15 in Suzhou, China! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Abstract deadline is March 6. Hope to see you there!

have you ever seen 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 doing a perfect breast stroke? here you go... #ProtistsOnSky

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

Synthetically-primed evolution enables emergence of Pseudomonas putida strains able to grow on explosive residue 2,4 DNT as sole C/N source. A case of *molecular negotiation* between the implanted pathway & the host’s regulatory & physiological network 🤔 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic

The American Academy of Microbiology proudly announces the election of 63 fellows to the Class of 2026. Over the past 50 years, the Academy has elected +2,700 distinguished scientists. This year, the new fellows hail from 14 countries. Read press release: asm.social/2OC

Happy to be back at Dartmouth College after 10 years! Humbled and honored to be giving the Keynote lecture named after my Postdoctoral mentor at the Microbiology Retreat. Full circle!

Skeleton shrimp: superior snackers This amphipod in the family Caprellidae, has feather-like setae line several of their 18 appendages for collecting food — amphipod translates to “feet on all sides” in Greek. #argentiniandeepseeps ~1200 meters

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

Fresh news on de novo genes! Happy to present our latest work published in Nature communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keywords not in specific order: intergenic ORFs, de novo genes, GC content, foldability, genetic code, ancestral sequence reconstruction and more :)

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Snowy Memphis

Can’t wait! 🦠 🧫 The speaker lineup is a sight to behold

Very interesting paper. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

New preprint from the lab! Stress-Induced Cooperation Promotes Tolerance in Resource-Limited Auxotrophic Microbial Consortia. Great and long journey with great collaborators.

We’re very happy to share the results from the last chapter of my PhD, now out as a preprint on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

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...

I’m thrilled to share our work on phage triggers of the bacterial immune system in its final form @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a quick reminder!

Pls share: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676808/a...

The success of bacterial pathogens depends on interactions with other microbes. Studying the mechanisms underlying these interactions shapes infection prevention and treatment. Get the full story: asm.social/2LE

🚨Call for papers🚨 Microbial Evolution: Impacts on Human Health in the society journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Guest Editors: Bob Woods, Silvie Huijben & Camilo Barbosa EIC: me This will be great, please submit and share! academic.oup.com/emph/pages/m...

Registration and abstract submission for Vibrio 2026 is now open! The preliminary program, featuring an exceptional speaker lineup, is also available. Please share! ♻️

Ecologist position at Iowa State University - isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly. rdcu.be/eVtXT

Recombinational repair is the major pathway required to reload the bacterial replicative helicase following introduction of single-strand DNA breaks. A great way to end the year! Big thank you to co-authors from the @heathmurraylab.bsky.social