Finally published. Many thanks to a wonderful collaborative team and scientific platforms!!! And thanks to editors and reviewers for enthusiasm and a great review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

I'm excited to tell you about the most recent preprint in my lab, demonstrating that a conserved spindle matrix protein, NPP-21/TPR, is required for the stronger checkpoint in germline cells during embryogenesis in C. elegans

🆒 new pub! Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro -> adaptations selected during infection by @gretazabo.bsky.social & Linus Sandegren *hypermucoidy evolves via 📈c-di-GMP, overlaps w/ mutations in UTI and wound isolates. *pleasure to advise this! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beautiful new work from the Vecchiarelli Lab. 👀

Interested in a teaching faculty position in Bacteriology at UW-Madison? See the attached announcement! @uwbact.bsky.social

We are recruiting postdocs to work on antimicrobial resistance and bacterial cell envelope biology. PLEASE SHARE.

A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO. www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

I am honored to be nominated for ASCB Council this year. If you are an ASCB member, please share and vote before April 30th! The amazing @rogerslabucd.bsky.social is also on the ballot!

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Editor Spotlight: Elizabeth Chen The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center “MBoC publishes cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that stands the test of time.” Explore the journal and submission opportunities at molbiolcell.org

Ahead of the 2026 Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture, Professor Mark Buttner shares insights on his career and winning a Microbiology Society Prize. Read the blog: https://microb.io/3PVXEVB #Microbio26

CSR to continue the one-third triage cutoff for NIH grant review drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/c...

Join us at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference for our 🌈 LGBTQ+ Networking Event (with Trans & Nonbinary pre-meet). 📅 Tuesday 14 April | ⏰ From 19:30 Get your tickets by Thursday 9th April: https://microb.io/Microbio26SocialProgramme #Microbio26

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

Pls share: A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Scharf lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech to study motility and chemotaxis in the symbiotic soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

Now available as a Version of Record. Thanks a lot again to everyone involved in this project! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

NoA on April Fool’s Day… let’s hope it’s for real. 🎉🎉🎉 Very excited to advance our studies on the cell biology of the tick-borne obligate intracellular pathogen Rickettsia parkeri!!

Reviewers and SROs take virtual study sections very seriously

Open postdoc position in my lab on HGT and interbacterial competition. We seek candidates with a PhD in microbiology (or related fields)+ strong 1st-author publications. Curious, highly motivated, and dedicated team players ready to contribute fully are encouraged to apply. Details: tiny.cc/cz01101

Streptomyces and other actinos are really fascinating bacteria. Always something new to discover.

I am pleased to share my lab’s latest publication - Acinetobacter species lack canonical DNA repair pathway activation mechanisms, and we discovered a conserved transcriptional activator that fills this role: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

We're excited to invite everyone to the 25th Annual Microbiology Student Symposium on May 4th, 2026! Please join us for a day of research presentations, poster sessions, free food, and more. Feel free to register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New in JB: Mike Cashel is known internationally for his work on "magic spot", or (p)ppGpp, that serves as a key regulator of bacteria physiology. Hinman & Gottesman remember Dr. Cashel. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriol

BDAY CLAXON: errrrrrrrrrybody please help me tell Needhi @needhibhalla.bsky.social happy bday. She is the indisputable winner of Being 37 For Yet Another Year. Absolute queen of badasness and kicker of asses.

Rut named fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)!!! fems-microbiology.org/european-aca...

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AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

Arp2/3-dependent actin assembly shapes endosomes and promotes intracellular trafficking in fission yeast The work from Alejandro Melero @ameleroc.bsky.social and Miguel Basante-Bedoya just out in Current Biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @biology-unige.bsky.social

And if you have not been accepted, understand that this is a VERY weird time for grad admissions. Lack of acceptance may not be due to YOU, but due to uncontrollable factors at the university. Keep trying in the future.

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton Gordon Research Conference 👉 buff.ly/h0kubep #PlantScience

New and competitive renewal awards The fiscal year 2026 curve still lies well below the other curves. 1189 awards have been made in fiscal year 2026 compared to 2546 in fiscal year 2024 and 2322 in fiscal year 2025 through that same date (March 6th) 3/4

Applications are open for our Next Generation Leaders program! Our NGL program recognizes emerging scientific leaders and invites them into a supportive network. 🔗 Apply by March 31: https://alleninstitute.org/about/people/next-generation-leaders/

How can we tap into the enormous functional diversity of microbes on this planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg (8–10 Dec 2026) to learn about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and present your science.

Most insurance will now cover additional screening when indicated, as well as additional testing for abnormalities seen on screening. Medicare, Tricare, and VA, however, are exempt from new federal guidelines for ACA-qualified plans. The FindItEarlyAct.org would address these gaps in coverage.

Professional Development Session proposals are now open for Cell Bio 2026. Share ideas on leadership, career growth, innovation beyond the lab, and the future of research and education. Deadline: April 10, 2026 https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/session-proposals/

Editor Spotlight: Diane Barber “MBoC provides open access to work bridging multiple disciplines, with a strong focus on understanding cell behaviors.” Discover why researchers choose MBoC to share their work: molbiolcell.org

Attn DC area microbiologists, please join us for @asmdcbranch.bsky.social Spring Meeting on Fri, Apr 10th from 10-4 at Howard University. Keynote by Dr. Kumaran Ramamurthi. If interested in giving a short or lightning talk, submit abstracts by Mar 25: www.washingtondcasm.org/2026-spring-...

Anything and everything Alphaproteobacteria! Feel free to invite your students to attend, it's free!

Less than 24 hours until CauloCon starts! Last minute registration is still open if you want to attend. caulocon.com

High-throughput in vitro perturbation of stool/gut communities with 707 drugs suggests that nutrient competition is predictive driver of drug-induced microbiome restructuring. Post-drug recovery mainly driven by strain extinction+reseeding & resistance emergence uncommon www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Never thought about this e-mail point before...yup.

We receive great feedback from biologists that have put their sustainable vision into practice with financial help from our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing. The next application deadline is 6 March 2026. Find out more at biologists.com/sustainabili...

Come work with Ben Berks FRS in Oxford 2 x PDRA posts: Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Outer Membrane Protein Biogenesis 2 complementary projects investigating bacterial outer membrane protein biogenesis. Building on our recent work (Nature (2015) 647: 479-487) my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

So happy that Episode #124 of #MattersMicrobial is available! Dr. Anne Thompson joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about the marine microbial forest & its predators! Please give a look or listen? Grateful for every view! @unipugetsound @asmicrobiology @microbetv.bsky.social youtu.be/MFIRVti0YrI?...