Katy Patras
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Associate Professor, studies host-microbe interactions and women's health. Views are my own.
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Katy Patras
UTI Global Alliance
about 2 months ago
Registration for our 6th conference on clinical & scientific advances in UTI is OPEN! ๐ WHEN: 4/9/26 - 4/11/26 ๐WHERE: Nashville, TN ๐บ๐ธ โผ๏ธAPPLICATION DEADLINESโผ๏ธ โ๏ธ๐ฐTRAVEL AWARD: 1/12/26 ๐ฃ๏ธABSTRACT: 2/16/26 ๐๏ธEARLY REGISTRATION: 2/26/26
UTIGA.ORG/2026-6TH-CS...
#UTICONF26
#UTISKY
#IDSKY
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Katherine Lemon
3 months ago
Happy to share this new article online at
#mSphere
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Human nasal organoids (HNOs) are a new model system for studying bacterial colonization and interspecies interactions. A big congratulations to the whole team, especially co-first authors: Andrea Boyd and Leah Kafer
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Nasal microbionts differentially colonize and elicit cytokines in human nasal epithelial organoids | mSphere
Human nasal microbiota often includes highly pathogenic members, many of which are antimicrobial resistance threats, e.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and drug-resistant Streptococcus ...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00493-25
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Drug Monkey
3 months ago
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb1564
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A critical message on the importance of federal funding in supporting global human health.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Excited to share a new preclinical model, human bladder organoids, to study UTI, novel therapies, and beyond! Developed with Dr. Sarah Blutt, the BCM Organoid Core, and
@tailor-labs.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Human bladder organoids model urinary tract infection and bacteriophage therapy
Urinary tract infections (UTIs), primarily caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), are among the most common antibiotic-resistant infections. Despite this, currently available preclinical UTI...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667685v1
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The Walker Lab at UTHealth
5 months ago
๐ฃ Dont miss out! Registration just opened for the 6th CSAUTI Conference organized by
@globaluti.bsky.social
๐April 9-11th ๐Nashville, TN
utiga.org/registration
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Urinary Tract Infection Global Alliance
No membership fees Join now!
https://utiga.org/registration
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Can phage treat infection AND vaccinate? We found that phage treatment protects mice against re-infection by the same pathogen. Out today in PNAS.
@tailor-labs.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423286122
7 months ago
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แฏIแTOแ แIแET, แฐแช
8 months ago
Bacteria! We๏ปฟ begin with only one! Bacteria! Two is what we then become! Bacteria! Each of us becomes two more! Bacteria! We are stronger than before! Bacteria! We keep growing at this rate! Bacteria! No longer shall we wait! Bacteria! The plan now unfolds! Bacteria! We will take over the world!
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Good to see
@tailor-labs.bsky.social
on here at last! Looking forward to more
#phage
in my feed.
8 months ago
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Katy Patras
UTI Global Alliance
8 months ago
#UTIhour
is TOMORROW at 11am EDT/1500 UTC! Join us on Zoom to learn about host factors affecting
#UTI
, or check out the recording afterwards! Links to both are / will be available on our site at
UTIGA.org/upcoming
(zoom) or
UTIGA.org/past
(recording).
#UTIsky
#IDsky
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We found that women with RA have altered vaginal microbial and cytokine signatures, and higher levels of vaginal anti-citrullinated protein antibodies, compared to controls. This study reveals another important mucosal site affected by autoimmune disease.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A cross-sectional analysis of the vaginal microenvironment in rheumatoid arthritis
Objective: The human microbiota is implicated in the development and progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Given the increased RA burden in women, and well-known correlations between the vaginal m...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.25325692v1
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Katy Patras
The Walker Lab at UTHealth
9 months ago
Think UTIs are all about microbes? Think again.
#WeAreNotAlltheSame
โand your body plays a big role. Mark your calendars to find out whoโs at risk April 30th for
@globaluti.bsky.social
#UTIHour
hosted by
@katypatras.bsky.social
utiga.org/upcoming
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แฏIแTOแ แIแET, แฐแช
9 months ago
The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) reclassifies Group B ๐๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ด as its own genus: ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ช I knew this was possible (e.g. ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ด used to be Group D ๐๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ด) but still caught me by surprise Cool they are honoring Rebecca Lancefield!
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ICSP Defines New Firmicutes Genus: ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ช
The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Renames Group B ๐๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ด as ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ช
https://news.rr.nihalnavath.com/news/ICSP-Defines-New-Firmicutes-Genus--408261e9
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Jacqueline Kimmey
11 months ago
Happy Valentineโs Day from 5 kick ass microbiologists - who all made it to this weekโs zoom meeting for the first time in ages!
#women
#STEM
#faculty
#science
@katypatras.bsky.social
@laurainthelab1.bsky.social
@lindseyatutk.bsky.social
@alisoncoady.bsky.social
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Mike Tisza
11 months ago
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled chaos to bring you some cool microbiome science. ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๏ธ ๐งฌ "Longitudinal phageโbacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome" now out in Nature Microbiology. We wanted a way to measure bacteria and phage in metagenomes 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Longitudinal phageโbacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology
Reanalysis of 12,262 longitudinal infant gut microbiome samples using the Marker-MAGu pipeline revealed phageโbacteria dynamics over the first year of life.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01906-4
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After almost a decade (started while I was a postdoc with
@nizet.bsky.social
and finished by my own stellar students), happy to see this finally out. We found that Tamm-Horsfall protein, the most abundant protein in urine, enhanced NETosis to protect against UTI.
insight.jci.org/articles/vie...
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JCI Insight - Tamm-Horsfall protein augments neutrophil NETosis during urinary tract infection
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/180024?utm_source=submission_site&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=notice-of-publication
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Andreas Bรคumler
about 1 year ago
Infection and Immunity has a call for papers on Womenโs Health and the Development of Microbiota in Childhood. For details see
journals.asm.org/journal/iai/...
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Womenโs Health and the Development of Microbiota in Childhood
Explore expert research on womenโs health and microbiota development in children
https://journals.asm.org/journal/iai/womens-health-microbiota
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Why is preterm birth risk doubled with maternal UTI? It depends on the immune response. We found distinct immune signatures in a UTI-associated preterm birth mouse model. In a human cohort from @AShea_Lab, urine cytokine levels could predict preterm birth.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Distinct maternofetal immune signatures delineate preterm birth onset following urinary tract infection
Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant mortality resulting in over one million neonatal deaths annually. Maternal urinary tract infection (UTI) during pregnancy increases risk for preterm birth;...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.22.619711v1
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