🚨 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!

Many bacteria use #QuorumSensing to control genes based on population density. @jrchandler.bsky.social &co explore a @plosbiology.org study showing that in P. aeruginosa, 2 QS circuits activate each other, enhancing robustness & explaining redundancy 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3I7DhRG Primer: plos.io/4niSZZd

🍂 Our Fall Newsletter is here! Catch up on the latest updates from our faculty and trainees. Don’t miss out—check it out today! 🍁✨ mmi.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

📢 Research Seminar 🗓 Sept 12 | ⏰ Noon 🎤 Dr. Shai Bel, Bar-Ilan University Join us Sept 12 at Noon for our next research seminar feat. Dr. Shai Bel (Bar-Ilan University). Don’t miss the chance to hear about his work—open to all, come and bring a colleague!

Are you a bacterial geneticist looking for a football player to root for this year? Obvious choice is LAC McConkey. His name is Ladd McConkey and he plays for LAC. Went to microbiology powerhouse Georgia so that checks out.

Gearing up for a fantastic Fall Seminar Series @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social! Kickoff is this Friday with the Dr. Rod Welch Distinguished Lecture by Vic DiRita!

My google skills are failing... Back in 2011, NCBI (started to?) close the SRA. The SRA is still with us. Anyone know of any articles from around then about how they saw the light? For those that this is news to... genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Join us! This is more than a scientific meeting, it's a platform to catalyze collaboration, share knowledge openly and develop solutions for safeguarding marine ecosystems in a changing world. Great line-up of speakers and early bird rate still available! Please RT!

Beautiful work on the emergence of the pandemic clone of V. parahaemolyticus

Two major breakthroughs for the nucleotide immune signaling field in pre-print by @romihadary.bsky.social @soreklab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1) Beautiful bioinformatic analyses reveal known viral nucleotide sponges are members of enormous protein families ubiquitous in phages

The August issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology #AEM is out! Another wonderful cover (a squid hatchling!) and fantastic articles. 🧵 Here are the spotlights… journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congratulations to Avery Imes and all of our collaborators on this cover & editor's spotlight article in #AEM! More details on the study in the preprint thread linked below. @asm.org bsky.app/profile/mark...

This adorable hummingbird bobtail squid invites you to check out the latest issue of #AppEnvMicro! 🦑 Avery M. Imes & team present this critter as a comparative model host for V. fischeri light organ symbiosis. 🔄 The August 2025 issue is free to read! 🎉 journals.asm.org/toc/aem/91/8

MMPC is always a great meeting!! Still time to register and get your abstract in. bsky.app/profile/mmpc...

Did you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC? We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research! www.mmpconference2025.com/submit-an-ab...

Megan McClean uses a bioengineering approach to understanding fundamental biological and medical questions in microbes, specifically model and pathogenic yeasts. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social‬ https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/mcclean/

Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others Small Things Considered Big Things Achieved

Out yesterday. Using a translation reporter on a mini-tn5 transposon, and high freq. mutagenesis, we looked at translation on whole genome scale independently of genome annotation. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Helen Blackwell devises novel chemical tools to decode and interfere with bacterial communication pathways. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social‬ @uwmadisonchem.bsky.social‬ @uwmadisonls.bsky.social‬ https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/blackwell/

If you ever find yourself needing evidence for ‘Plasmids are just as common in microbes without resistance genes,’ we’ve got you covered! Check our new paper, out today: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Sabine Pellett's research focuses on bacterial virulence factors, both as pathogens and pharmaceuticals, with an emphasis on C. botulinum and its neurotoxins. #WARF100 @uwbact.bsky.social‬ @uwchancellor.bsky.social‬ https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/pellett/

I suppose this is a good time to let y'all know @jlewillett.bsky.social and I have a new preprint out! I had a lot of fun giving a talk about this work at #Phages25 🧬🦠

Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Vander Griend on his successful PhD defense today! Really proud of all of your work on systems-level studies in Vibrio fischeri. @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social

This decision risks ceding America's competitive advantage in biotechnology to other nations expanding their investments in mRNA research. American patients may increasingly depend on foreign innovation for breakthrough treatments. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m... via @statnews.com

Sharing this Pitt article about my helping to lead ASM because it shares my hopes for the scientific and societal good we can do. We are all population biologists, whether or not we know it, and this can enrich us. www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/pitt-s-...

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

🧪BREAKING: NIH has laid out 5 options for funding publications costs on grants (yes, FIVE!). This is hugely impactful. Make your opinions known by September 15, fellow scientists. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

In the July issue of JB: Cell walls, cell division, gluconate metabolism, electron transfer, membranes, spres, Abx-r, efflux pumps, chromosome replication, toxin delivery, surface sensing and more. journals.asm.org/toc/jb/207/7 @asm.org #JBacteriology

NSF’s Union President epitomizes moral leadership. I’m proud to have him as a colleague and friend.

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

It sort of conveys what I wrote to the author but I don't think strongly enough. So here is what I wrote to the author which she summarized in the section quoted above

Science is retracting the December 2010 Research Article, “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” (THREAD 🧵) scim.ag/4lGQ9g7

Gut bacteria make a molecule that promotes plaque build-up in arteries, perspective by Federico Rey & Vaibhav Vemuganti www.nature.com/articles/d41... on the new imidazole propionate (ImP) study from Annalaura Mastrangelo, Iñaki Robles-Vera, David Sancho et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for manuscript submissions on publicly available databases, software tools, and web-based services that can be used as a resource for the microbiology community. Happy to answer any questions. journals.asm.org/journal/mra/...

Finally out! A small screen helps understand a little more about how E. coli regulates major transporters, and reveals how caffeine induces phenotypical antibiotic resistance. Huge thanks to collab @andrenmateus.bsky.social (Umeå) and Christian L. Müller (Munich)! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!