Submit your abstracts for ASM Microbe 2026! As a member of the Scientific Program Committee, I can vouch for great science with something for everyone! @asm.org asm.org/events/asm-m...

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

Professor Ruth: Coming Fall 2026! I'm thrilled to announce that I have officially accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Biology Department at @macalestercollege.bsky.social! #HeyMac #NewProfessor #WomanInSTEM

Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour: 🧵

I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

The newest issue of Microcosm from @asm.org is now out! It's all about animal microbiology and I was excited to contribute the story about the fascinating vibrio-squid symbiosis (my story is available via member log-in, but others are free). asm.org/magazine/202... #MicroSky #Microbiology

Read @jtsangwrites.bsky.social's article about the squid-vibrio symbiosis in the latest @asm.org Microcosm magazine!

New from @paczkowskilab.bsky.social

It is rare as an editor to get to take on an article so uniquely in your wheelhouse. Sharing some wonderful work by Guarnaccia et al. from the Perez, Ng, and Neiditch labs. #structuralbiology of #pathogens @plos.org dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

This is fascinating work: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microbiomes

This Friday! @torreslab.bsky.social

Congratulations to Katie Barnes from the Knoll Lab on receiving Microbiology Society's 2026 Prize! mmi.wisc.edu/katie-barnes...

Brave genomes is finally out!😎 shop.elsevier.com/books/brave-... www.amazon.de/Brave-Genome...

CryoET of microbes inside an animal organ? Yes it’s possible! Check out our new preprint showing how we did it! What an amazing collaboration with amazing scientists who made this possible!

Three shots, three goals for McKayla Zilisch. The Appleton, Wisconsin native has tied the program record for goals in a period with three, becoming the first #Badgers player to do so in 14 years. Before today, the senior had scored just one collegiate goal during her rookie year in Bemidji.

I'm happy to share a perspective that @soniamodilevsky.bsky.social and I wrote about a new and exciting paper in @science.org with big implications for IBD. Check it out: A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today!

Through a project at the graduate school I had the good fortune to interact with Dean Scott. She was an incredible visionary, deeply dedicated to graduate education, and also so down to Earth. She will be deeply missed. bsky.app/profile/uwch...

I am heartbroken by Dean Linda Scott’s sudden passing. Her integrity, leadership, commitment to excellence & wonderful dry humor shaped the School of Nursing & the national nursing community & touched so many lives. Her legacy will endure & she will be dearly missed. nursing.wisc.edu/remembering-...

Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself! apply.interfolio.com/176994

The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... #infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence

JP van Pijkeren works at the interface of industry and medicine, focusing on the gut symbiont species L. reuteri, for which select strains have demonstrated health-promoting properties. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/pijkeren/

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