Honored to have received the 2026 ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research. This award is also a recognition of my phenomenal trainees and their hard work. Thank you to the mentors that have supported my career and those who have nominated me for this award. asm.org/press-releas...

Big congratulations to all of this year ASM honorees, including my former PhD mentor @maribyndloss.bsky.social!!! It was sincerely a pleasure to complete my PhD under her mentorship and I am excited to see all success her lab finds in the years to come. asm.org/press-releas...

Congratulations to @haidermanzer.bsky.social on being awarded the @bwfund.bsky.social Postdoc Diversity Enrichment Program Award!! So well deserved - we are very proud here in the Zackular Lab!

Congratulations to everyone, especially to @joeyzacks.bsky.social! So well deserved. 🥰

Iwasaki and colleagues show that mucosal vaccine boosters can induce protective immune responses without any adjuvant by retooling lymph node resident memory B cells with memory T cells acting as a natural adjuvant. Read it here: rdcu.be/elTur www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So proud to call you my friend and can’t imagine the things you and your future lab members will accomplish. They’ll truly be lucky to have a mentor like you!

Come join us in Breckenridge, CO next May (2026) for the Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection Keystone meeting! More information below:

New preprint on some of my dissertation work. Can’t do this without an amazing team of collaborators or mentor. Herein we use a genetically resistant mouse model to explore small intestinal colonization resistance to S. Tm, and the ability of diet to overcome genetic resistance. More to come!

#Mentoring acknowledges individuality, empowering mentees to develop into independent thinkers, who recognize, embrace, and celebrate their unique voices.

Hello Bluesky! My name is Nic Shealy, a PhD candidate in the lab of @maribyndloss.bsky.social. I study bacterial metabolism and am enamored by microbe-microbe interactions and microbiota-host interactions! Not such a small world after all.