NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

Join us Friday as the MMI Seminar Series features Dr. Claire O'Leary!

Karen Visick starts out the morning at #ASMBiofilms with the Costerton Award Lecture! @microklv.bsky.social

Congratulations to Drew Hryckowian! @a-hryckowian.bsky.social

Great profile of @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social www.the-scientist.com/postdoc-port...

Join us Friday as our series features our very own Dr. Sung Chul Park from the Keller Lab!

We are really proud of this report from our 3 colloquia convened by the AAM and supported by the Moore Foundation. A few experts even said they would use it as their introductory textbook for this area. Please check it out!

Congratulations @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social and all!

🔬 Applications are now open! Join MBL’s world-renowned Advanced Research Training Courses, where scientists from around the globe come together to explore new ideas, master cutting-edge techniques, and become part of a dynamic network. ➡️Apply today: go.mbl.edu/courses

📢 MMI Seminar Series Friday, Oct. 31 | 1520 MSB “Regulation of Type 1 Interferon Receptor Signaling” Dr. Jan Rehwinkel, Oxford University

👇👇👇 come to #mmpc2026 for the science, stay for the Minnesota Microbiology shirts (iykyk)

UMN's Department of Microbiology and Immunology is hiring! Come be our colleague in the Twin Cities! Searches are open for Virology and Fungal Biology (links below). Virology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365... Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).

Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social. We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫 If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

Our lab's first paper is out! Led by Jordan Ort, we developed NextClade datasets that enable rapid H5 clade assignment via NextClade. We deployed these during the start of the H5 cattle outbreak, and we finally published the paper in Virus Evolution academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...

For ASBMB 2026, each meeting day will have a "theme" organized by session chairs. "Is anyone there?" covers biological communication and interactions across the molecular, cellular, and organismal scales. Eric Betzig will be the keynote and sessions will be lead by Phil Cole and Graham Johnson.

New biology: stink bugs inoculate their eggs with a fungus that protects them from parasitoids www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

Interested in bacterial sensing, signaling and regulation? Come join us in January at the GRC in sunny California! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

Phages evolve fast, or do they? In oysters, some stay identical for years. With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements. Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

October baseball ❤️

Glad to share a collaboration with Yicen Lin's group at Kunming University of Science and Technology published in ISME Journal Synergistic biodegradation of polyethylene by experimentally evolved bacterial biofilms academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Important piece from Sarah Stanley at Berkeley on new NIH definitions that can be construed to arbitrarily halt research that is both safe and important to public health and future cures www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Another great @mmpconference.bsky.social wraps up… 👏 to organizers Jonathan Allen and Abby Kroken! @akroken.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great story in collaboration with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @jeanmichelane.bsky.social groups. EPP1 story continues after many years of collaborations with Pierre-Marc and Jean-Michel!!!

We were told this morning that NSF will override our out of office emails with their own generic one, so forget what I said. ☹️

Excited to see Joie Ling's new preprint out! Adult mouse model shows robust GI colonization by Group B Strep without antibiotics. Capsule emerges as a persistence factor in the adult GI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

zol - our suite for detailed comparative analysis of related gene clusters (co-located genes; e.g. BGCs, operons, etc.) - has new color aesthetics, column ordering, & new stats from the peptides library. It no longer screams at your eyes in 80s-style neon colors 😀 github.com/Kalan-Lab/zol

Heading back from a great visit to Madison! Thank you so much for hosting me, it was wonderful to meet with everyone

My department at UTK is hiring! 🧪🧫 We are hiring two Assistant Professors, one in Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease and one in Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions! Come join our growing department of microbiologists. Knoxville is a great place to live!

NSF GRFP solicitation out. App deadlines now in November. As others noted, eligibility rules for current graduate students now exclude 2nd year grad students. See the solicitation - they’ve emphasized “first year” and “less than one academic year” in grad program. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE 2025) workshop is being held at UW-Madison October 20-23. Great lineup of speakers and workshop leaders. Early registration through this Sunday. co.mbine.org/author/combi...

"The microbiota extends the reproductive lifespan of mice by safeguarding the ovarian reserve" www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social Eldin Jašarević & colleagues

We have a protocols paper out led by fantastic post docs Juan Valencia-Bacca and Maidul Islam. More animal tools for the Kleb research community!!

🚨 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...

Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year! Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...

Join us on Friday at noon for a great seminar from Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social! @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

Join us to hear from our first MDTP student-invited speaker of the year, Dr. Selena Sagan, this Friday, September 19th! Dr. Sagan's research explores how positive-sense RNA viruses usurp host cells, replicate their genomes, and cause disease. @saganlab.bsky.social #virology #microbiology

Congratulations Ben & all!! bsky.app/profile/benw...

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So proud to have trained with Lucy. She is an exceptional scientist, exceptional person, and exceptional mentor. Huge congrats and so well-deserved. laskerfoundation.org/winners/pion...

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.

David Baltimore, for much of the past three decades, has been one of my most helpful, thoughtful sources. I wrote an obit about his remarkable career, and I included a few of my interactions with him. www.science.org/content/arti...

Congratulations Rim! Will be great to have you in the Midwest!