Very excited and TBH some old-fashioned (good) nerves to speak on #mRNA #tuberculosis vaccines at the Utrecht 3I conference today! If you're there, do say hi. www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Lovely weekend of seeing friends and family compete at the indoor Euro ultimate Frisbee championships.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

It's always the same hallucination across time and space and in whatever country the mushroom grows in. Extremely weird. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Many of you in the mycobacterial community attended the awesome inaugural 2025 Biology of Mycobacteria GRC, organized by @heran.bsky.social and myself: www.grc.org/biology-of-m.... I am writing with an update about this conference as the new chair.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

The Barber lab is looking to hire post-docs to work on #tuberculosis #immunology using murine and NHP models. BSL3 experience not required. Check out our lab in the NIH intramural program in Bethesda MD!

Congratulations @baym.lol, @brinda.eu and colleagues on the nice work, looks like a great way to identify deletions and deletion-induced fusion genes. In MTBC, genomic deletions called "regions of difference" have long been used for phylogenetic investigation. Yet I found no citations thereof.

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist.com

Exciting postdoc in the Boston area!

What do we think of Aliquot as a kids' name? Cute right? No?

Of course I like all the papers that we publish, but this is actually a very cool story, a great example of 'bush mechanics' in mycobacteria. A new role for lipoproteins LpqZ and FecB in orchestrating mycobacterial cell envelope biogenesis | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

🚨PhD position alert🚨 🔬Cryo-EM? ✅ 🧫Membrane proteins? - we've got 165 TMs for you! ✅ Join me and the team👥 in beautiful Amsterdam🚴 to untangle the amazing mycobacterial protein secretion machinery! 📝Apply here: tinyurl.com/mmxnfpnw 📆Deadline: 23 January #PhDstudent #T7SS #cryoEM #newPI

Great PhD opportunity!

So how's your day going? (It's not as bad as it looks).

Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me [email protected]. Thanks!

If you can handle the cold, this looks like a great PostDoc opportunity!

Winter is here. Weinachtsmarkt season had commenced. Great night connecting with colleagues over some Glühwein.

I presented our preclinical work on the BNT164 #Tuberculosis candidates. This work is now also available as a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Having a great time at the #mRNA health conference in Berlin! Yesterday I was allowed to present in a very exciting vaccine session.

This is lovely on so many levels.

I realise the link did not work. Here is the correct link: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

🇳🇱👩‍🎓🔬🧬🧫🎉👏🇳🇱 Congratulations to our former MS student Sara Tamminga on the successful defense of her PhD in the laboratory of our former postdoctoral scholar Nina van Sorge at Amsterdam UMC! Next stop for Sara — a scientist position at GenDx in Utrecht. Gefeliciteerd Sara en Nina!

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad: idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

mRNA-based tuberculosis vaccines BNT164a1 and BNT164b1 are immunogenic, well-tolerated and efficacious in rodent models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679428v1

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

It does include us! Stay tuned.

Very happy to see this work accepted, congrats! It really elegantly confirms how evolution of Mtb virulence and transmission is largely driven by expression of secreted proteins. Very important impact on correlate of protection studies for vaccines as well.

My initial assessment of this paper ⬇️ was brief, so let’s have a better look at it: 🧵

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

On the reading list!

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

@nieuws.nos.nl waarom geven jullie aan mannen die prinsenvlag meevoeren, antisem leuzen roepen en hitlergroet brengen de apolitieke benaming “relschoppers”? bovendien, eerder noemden jullie het “in zwart geklede mannen”. nos.nl/l/2583277.

Enigszins beschonken Duitsers, zebrakoeien en een dieet van teflon: dit zijn de winnaars op het Ig Nobelfeest

I'll be presenting preclinical data on the BNT164 tuberculosis vaccine candidates at this years #mRNA health conference in Berlin. If you're attending, don't hesitate to reach out.

Thoughts @scommandeur.bsky.social? Thanks @aliciadwright.bsky.social for bring the paper to my timeline.

Interesting finding. Mtb L6 in a cat in Italy. Surprising result and would be interesting if questions were asked regarding cat food. I'm not aware of active transmission in that region, but my info might be outdated. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Alle talkshows die vanavond Kimmel behandelen: laat zien welke Nederlandse politieke partijen het in hun verkiezingsprogramma hebben gemunt op de media. ‘Tuig van de richel’ noemen. Ben je verafschuwd wat daar gebeurt? Voorkom dan dat het hier begint. Het is geen ‘free speech’ maar ‘protect speech’

We are looking to hire post-docs to work on T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection using murine and NHP models. If you know T cells and wanna work on the top global infectious killer check us out. BSL3 experience not required. The NIH intramural program in Bethesda MD is an amazing place!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

There you go - TB shaping the immune system (MHC class II) of meerkats! #TBSky #ImmunoSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How is tuberculosis safely diagnosed and researched? Khalima Mamutova guides us through the BSL-3 lab in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan.

Hi Folks, happy to say I'll be speaking about our BNT164 TB vaccines at the WVC Europe next month. Do get in touch if you're also attending. Speaker list share.google/BdWxoBs2rugj...

So, happy 92nd anniversary to this diary entry, whose last line you will not be able to predict

youtube.com/shorts/RE1fK... @drjorhodes.com putting the FUN in fungal infections...

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Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓