Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

And congratulations to @cp-cell.bsky.social Poster Award Winners Rachel Washburn (USF) and Jessica Aycock (Clemson) at 2025 GRC MAST!!! 🥳🎉👏🏼

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! 👇🏻

Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny @nature.com from @themaxwelllab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you have a relationship with local media, use it now! These issues are hard to explain but critical for your neighbors to understand, looking at you Birmingham, St Louis, Philly, Baltimore, San Diego etc

The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

It was fun to write this piece together with colleagues from three continents (Cynthia Adinortey, @stephenkdolan.bsky.social, Sarah Doore, Rebeccah Lijek, Diana Priscila Pires, Wenqi Yu), and we hope that our summary will be helpful for other researchers and journal editors.

Delighted to share our work uncovering a new toxin detection system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Comments and thoughts welcome!