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...

I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay! Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

I have an R56 that will pay for 1 year of a postdoc that will hopefully bridge us to a 4-year R01. It's not without risk but uh...everything in science feels like a major risk right now. We're in need of a #postdoc w/ #nmr experience. DM or email me for project details.

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Jon Paczkowski neighbors induce switch two-faced outcome toggled on factor protected #sciku 🧪🧬🔬🧫🦠 #Phages2025

I am (optimistically) looking for a postdoc with solution state biomolecular NMR expertise to join our group. I can provide access to high-end instrumentation and technical assistance via our membership at the New York Structural Biology Center. #nmr #academicsky #postdoc

Our paper reporting a highly conserved mechanism by which arginine positively regulates hypervirulent K. pneumoniae mucoid phenotype is now fully online. rdcu.be/euiWG Summary picture is below, but details in the 🧵

Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺

www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research... 12-month hard salary. 100% focus on research and training. Chance to join a microbiology-focused department (viral and bacterial).

The Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, is currently recruiting for a Research Scientist 5 (Assistant/Associate Professor equivalent) to lead an independent research program focused on zoonotic and/or vector-borne pathogens (viral and bacterial).

Baseball, and why it's the most beautiful sport ever created.

The meme channel in our lab Slack should be re-named the PI roast channel.

Philly is out in full force to Stand Up for Science!!

2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES TO GO! #standupforscience2025

#StandUpForScience Science not silence!

Getting ready to #StandUpForScience in Washington, DC

Looking for a postdoctoral position in mycobacterial cell-cell contact communication? Look no further! Join my colleagues, Todd Gray and Keith Derbyshire, at the Wadsworth Center: healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Ca...

A Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium Genome-wide CRISPRi Screen Reveals a Role for Type 1 Fimbriae in Evasion of Antibody-Mediated Agglutination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628777v1

Long shot (feel free to share), but are you or someone you know an engineering student in the Albany area looking for work? @sianowen.bsky.social and I are hiring someone to do a custom instrument build and a little microbiology with us. Part-time, hourly work that fits your schedule this semester.

From Peter Fineran Lab academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Very glad to see our story on the choreography of #ESCRT proteins in #archaeal cell division finally published in mBio - Junfeng Liu et al "A relay race of ESCRT-III paralogs drives cell division in a hyperthermophilic archaeon" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Published in March, this video comes from research that aimed use #CryoET to demonstrate how FtsZ filaments are recruited into a ring or “toroidal” structure as part of a bacterial cell’s division machinery. #12DaysOfeLife https://buff.ly/3BBCDIY

Check out the ASM 10th Conference on Biofilms Bluesky page @asmbiofilms2025.bsky.social

Me and my collaborator 1 hour before the grant is due to the grants office.

Our recent review “Climate change and Vibrio vulnificus dynamics: a blueprint for infectious diseases” was just published in PLOS Pathogens! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

@ksimanek.bsky.social (rightfully) gets all the publicity in the College of Integrated Health Sciences annual magazine. issuu.com/ualbanysph/d...

I had a new student do what we thought was a very simple experiment; the result was the complete opposite of what we expected. She asked, "doesn't this freak you out?" I told her: No! This is the exciting part.

First submission of the BlueSky era. @calebmallery.bsky.social & @ksimanek.bsky.social team up to figure out why some LuxR-type receptors might need accessory proteins to regulate gene expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sharing the final version of our article! Guidelines proposed and revised by members of our Advancing Queer and Trans Equity in Science (AQTES) Consortium to have inclusive hiring processes. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... See full version: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Exciting findings demonstrating a new mycobacterial hibernation factor that blocks the ribosomal exit tunnel on the 50S subunit. 🧪 #MicroSky #RNASky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

go.bsky.app/CK1kS44 I have created an Upstate NY microbiology starter pack. Please let me know who else I should add!

The second best part about working for BB was the collaborative team she assembled and how much you got out of those relationships, personally and professionally. Her academic progeny continue to work together as independent investigators. We're better for it.