"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly. rdcu.be/eVtXT

While everyone is hustling for the holidays, hopefully folks will have time to submit abstracts or register for #ASMMicrobe2026 in DC! Please repost!

A reminder of why #ASMMicrobe is so important (at least to me)! Please repost!

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...

New work from our lab - led by MS student Emmanuel Oladokun

Pete Greenberg's view in #JBacteriol: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, my model for research on quorum sensing, biofilms, and opportunistic infections journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Everything is everywhere but Escherichia coli adapts to different niches -in #ISMEJournal academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Just got word that we are a go for the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRS and GRC at Southern New Hampshire University! GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027 GRC will be from June 6-11, 2027 Block off your calendars Prokaryotic Cell Biologists! More details to come! Please repost!

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

#NSF BIO is hosting a Virtual Office Hour December 18 at 1:00 Eastern Time www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...

Thats 216 biomedical PhD students for their whole degree, or 140 2 year R21 grants, or 30 5 year R01 grants, or one fired football coach...

In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...

The average American apparently has no idea how much of a positive impact our world-class research had on public health & have no idea how much misery & death will result from its destruction. I'm so fucking livid every day at the median voter's ignorance that led to this colossal fuckup.

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PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

Interesting read! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Want to help us as an abstract reviewer for the @asm.org #ASMMicrobe2026? Abstract Review Period: January 29 - February 5, 2026. Please fill out the Abstract Reviewer Interest Form: asm.org/Microbe2026-... Thanks for your help!

Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu

👇👇👇 come to #mmpc2026 for the science, stay for the Minnesota Microbiology shirts (iykyk)

WHO reports 1 in 6 bacterial infections worldwide are antibiotic-resistant, with resistance rising sharply since 2018. Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli and K. pneumoniae pose the biggest threat. Action on #AMR surveillance and responsible antibiotic use is needed. www.who.int/news/item/13...

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

@asm.org is currently seeking a visionary volunteer to serve as the inaugural Chair of the #ASMMechanismDiscovery scientific unit. The Chair will play a leadership role in setting the scientific direction and priorities. More info & Apply here: asm.org/about-asm/vo...

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.

#Antibiotika verlieren zunehmend ihre Wirkung: Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt, dass 2019 in Deutschland rund 45.700 Menschen im Zusammenhang mit #resistenten Erregern starben. Nun ist ein verantwortungsvoller Antibiotika-Einsatz gefragt, um das Problem einzudämmen. via #welt www.welt.de/gesundheit/a...

Resistente Keime werden zur Herausforderung#Antibiotikaresistenzen#Antibiotika#RKI

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Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it? Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

#microsky We challenge the long-standing view that peptidoglycan alone protects cells from bursting. Our study shows that the periplasm — enclosed by OM–PG connections — acts as a pressure buffer essential for osmoprotection in Gram-negative bacteria. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌟VAAM Early Career Network Event🌟 📅 Sep 16, 2:30 PM, Zoom ✏️https://t1p.de/jx2sz 🎯"From late Postdoc to early PI: Applications, Funding, Appeals & Alternative Paths" 💡Ready to take the next step? Get practical advice on funding applications, handling setbacks & discovering alternative career paths

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-...

Happy to share Iván’s first-author pub from the lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

We’re pleased to offer open access agreements for research institutions in support of a more equitable and sustainable system for scientific publishing, including uncapped and centralised schemes. buff.ly/wuB4xoO #OpenScience #AcademicChatter

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

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

Help us shape the program for @asm.org #Microbe2026. We invite you to help shape the future of microbiology by submitting a scientific session proposal a new area of ASM Microbe, launching in June 2026. Deadline is August 5, 2 PM EST. Please share widely. asm.org/events/asm-m...

Doing it this way means the cuts can be applied to awards that haven’t been made yet. A much easier political lift to say “we’re not starting as much new work” with no specific victim in terms of institution (read: congressional district),

NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide....

Are you looking for an exciting position at the intersection of super-resolution microscopy and AI? Then check out the PhD and PostDoc position we offer for a joint project with the Group of Stephan Hell at MPI Göttingen. Please share with anyone interested, read on for links and details.

Ok so is there a summary yet of what the new bill means for science funding? I’m struggling to find info on this.

🔬Calling all microbiologists. 🔬 Ever feel like your paper is too small for some journals, but too solid to sit on? #FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

This is wild! Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you attend @asm.org #ASMicrobe2025 please consider attending our Molecular Biology & Physiology community meet-up at 4 PM today. We want your feedback and get to know you!

New in JB: Zhong, Kappler et al. propose an expanded role for the DmsABC dimethyl sulfoxide reductase of E. coli, including its substrate specificity and impact on virulence. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

I'm thrilled to share the newest paper from the Yang Lab! Ever wonder how bacterial metabolism affects antibiotic resistance #AMR? In this study, Barry Li, a former MD/PhD student in the lab, took on this question using a systems and #synthetic_biology approach. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)