Our Department of Microbiology & Immunology at UCSF is running a faculty search this year for a new Assistant Professor! Please see the ad below for details. Searching for a great colleague, mentor, and scientist! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05807

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

My kids “pet”

Fall is creeping into the foothills. Montana State University viewed from the south looking north

If you are a postdoc working on any topic related to environmental microbiology and are looking for exposure, the Thermal Biology Institute (tbi.montana.edu) has slots open for virtual talks via zoom this fall. Email me if you are interested! Seminars are most Mondays, 3-4 pm Mountain Time.

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Excited to share the latest work by outstanding PhD student @kdc509.bsky.social. This was one of our first forays into experimental evolution and uncovered some cool connections between potassium transport and antimicrobial resistance in S. aureus. Major kudos to Killian!

My Far Side comic on the lab door is tripping people up. Pull hard!

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

I am also looking forward to this conference. Submit an abstract if you haven’t already!

Some Bluesky microbes for you #microsky

Sharing this Pitt article about my helping to lead ASM because it shares my hopes for the scientific and societal good we can do. We are all population biologists, whether or not we know it, and this can enrich us. www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/pitt-s-...

Laura chaired a great session on the biofilm matrix! #MicroSky

Today along the banks of the Yellowstone River

Metal ions are universally required for life, and many of the foundational principles of metal homeostasis have emerged from studies of microbial systems. In this review, I provide a introductory overview targeted to those new to the field. #MicroSky #Metals rdcu.be/eycU2

Happy to report that both my house and I survived the weekend 🪚

Still open for applications! We are looking for prospective new faculty doing exciting research in virology or any vector borne diseases

#microsky #phagesky

We took the day off from the lab and spent all day in Paradise Valley, Montana on the Yellowstone River

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

POSTDOC🚨 With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance. Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻

On tonight’s ride: The Montana State Ag fields with mustard seed, barley, and beef!

The Montana Biofilm Meeting is off to a strong start! #MicroSky #PhageSky

Thrilled to welcome @ortizdeora.bsky.social to the Secor Lab! 🧬 Her recent paper in Nat Micro (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) introduces Phollow, a powerful tool to track phage-host interactions. We'll use it to study phages in the tick microbiome + Lyme disease spirochetes.

Share your stories! @asm.org is calling on members to share stories of how Federal policy changes are affecting your work and institutions. ASM will share your stories with lawmakers and staff to demonstrate impacts on specific legislative districts and states: www.votervoice.net/mobile/ASMUS...

Our summer REU student Brady Ward gave a great talk about filamentous phage today at Montana State University

Hello science fam! We have had a last-minute cancellation for our GRC on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics and are looking for someone who studies EEG in the context of microbes who would be available to come to beautiful Tuscany in July! Message me!

New Pf phage paper from @ebburgenermd.bsky.social ! #microsky

Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are now growing Leptospira biofilms... #MicroSky

Tick pic #LymeDisease #MicroSky

Spring planting

Exciting news!! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @natmicrobiol.nature.com We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A few nasty P. aeruginosa isolates for you @dominickfaith.bsky.social #microsky

We’re thrilled to be featured on the May cover of Nature Microbiology... And our Research Briefing is out now—check it out, it’s 🔥! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am thrilled to share the first manuscript from the Wiles lab! We present "Phollow", an in vivo phage-tagging approach that enables direct observation of phage outbreaks with single-virion resolution by live imaging. Here some highlights 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New paper! A prophage-encoded sRNA limits lytic phage infection in adherent-invasive E. coli. Huge thanks to members of the Round Lab, @duerkoplab.bsky.social, Wiedenheft Lab, and phage legend Sherwood Casjens. #microsky 🦠🧫🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy Cinco de Mayo from Montana

Spectacular phage meeting October 12-14 in Washington DC. iasusa.org/bacteriophag... Submit Abstracts by 5/14: 1. Oral presentations (posters) selected from Abstracts 2. Simple Abstract submission; registration and payment can be later 3. Scholarships for New Invest/Trainees

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Hey y'all, please join me in welcoming Montana State University's Center for Biofilm Engineering to BlueSky! @cbe-biofilm.bsky.social biofilm.montana.edu #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬

Tick mouth #LymeDisease 🧫🦠🧪

Hurray, it is finally out! Meet bacteriophage Bxb1 - the subject of my first full-phage cryo-EM study. My structures are beautifully complemented by the Park Lab’s cryo-ET analysis, shedding light on mycobacteriophage structural changes during infection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New lab website is live, check us out! secorlab.org #microsky

I'm delighted to share a useful FREE web-based app portal of powerful bioinformatics tools for microbial genomes and shotgun microbiome sequences! It's called Micromics and is built by Middle Author Bioinformatics, led by co-founder @ironark.bsky.social omix.midauthorbio.com

One week left to apply!

TLDR: most P. aeruginosa cells have active, diverse viromes that affect host-pathogen interactions. ➡️ Pf interact with host cells, interfere w/ antibiotics as @prsecor.bsky.social et al have shown. Dynamics can be FAST! If you don't look carefully, you'll miss it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Delighted to share that @asm.org has met its goal for all of its 'legacy' journals (ie favorites like J. Bact, I&I, AEM) so ALL 2025 articles will be published open access. Thanks to all institutional subscribers, this is the S2O way. Please submit to these great journals! asm.org/Press-Releas...

Preprint out! Bacteria w/ hyper-replicative filamentous phage lead to overnight emergence of cheater phages. Bacteria w/ both phages can outcompete wildtype, then rapidly lose phage via a phage Tragedy of the Commons @shellyscrib.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...