Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Very proud to have our lab’s first work published in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social! In this work, we use functional metagenomics to find phage defenses from human and soil microbiomes! Congrats to first author @luis840alberto.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... (1/3)

Exciting news: Carla Saleh is now Chair of Virology at Pasteur! Congrats to Carla and all who will benefit from her exceptional leadership!

Valerie Rodriguez Irizarry’s tour de force paper on murine norovirus adaptation/egress is now out in peer-reviewed form ‪@plosbiology.org‬. It highlights the power of forward genetics in virology research. 🧵 1/10 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

🚨 New paper out! "A single mutation in an enteric virus alters tropism and sensitivity to microbiota" One tiny change, big consequences. A great collab with the Julie Pfeiffer lab! @jkpfeiff.bsky.social Read here: bit.ly/42sD2rX #Virology #Microbiome #Science

My lab’s first preprint! We used functional metagenomics to identify phage defenses in human and soil microbiomes. We scaled these selections while maintaining accuracy, enabling us to examine 9 habitats for defense elements against 7 phages. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

New preprint from Valerie Rodriguez-Irizarry in our group-- her tour de force thesis work used forward genetics to discover new insights into non-enveloped viral egress. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow - bluesky! 📈 🦠 Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics. There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you! apply.interfolio.com/154339 1/4

Microbiology Department potluck lunch ✨

Happy halloween.

This Saturday on the Yale campus Nobel laureate Charlie Rice will lecture in honor of Dr. Brett Lindenbach. A link for seeing the event remotely is below. A chance to celebrate all the wonderful professional and personal connections many of us have with Brett. yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

Wonderful to celebrate the legacy of Beth Levine yesterday. Dr. Noboru Mizushima, first winner of the Beth Levine M.D. Prize in Autophagy Research, gave a fantastic seminar including amazing drawings of his history with Beth. www.utsouthwestern.edu/research/bet....

Wow, it's so much nicer over here.