The Trump administration on Friday dismissed members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation, which finances much of the public scientific research in the U.S.

Excited to share our new paper out today in @science.org 🎉 We show that HGT via natural competence drives diversification of chromosomal integrons in V. cholerae 🤩 Below a 🧵 on key findings incl. background on natural competence in V. cholerae 1/ #microsky #phagesky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nature research paper: Convergent MurJ flippase inhibition by phage lysis proteins go.nature.com/4aAWHKb

🫴 Fantastic work: DNA recognition-mimicry switch governs induction in arbitrium phages: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @spp2330.bsky.social #subtiwiki @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social

Great new story from Sophie Helaine and Molly Sargen! www.helainelab.com

Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/microbial-to...

#microsky #phagesky #phage defence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m thrilled to share our work on phage triggers of the bacterial immune system in its final form @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enterococcus fans: Check out our latest on E. faecalis EET, advancing our understanding of both the fundamental physiology of this bug and new mechanisms of its virulence. This is the product of a thrilling collaboration with friends in Singapore @gthibault.bsky.social led by @aarontan.bsky.social.

Registration and abstract submission for Vibrio 2026 is now open! The preliminary program, featuring an exceptional speaker lineup, is also available. Please share! ♻️

Really happy to have this study led by @ashleyweiss.bsky.social and Jilarie Santos-Santiago published in the Journal of Bacteriology (@asm.org) over the holiday break!! Always awesome to team up with the amazing @ritatamayo.bsky.social lab! #Cdiff #enterococci journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

The Peritore Lab officially opens its doors in 2026! I am seeking an organized, motivated technician to join our team focused on host-pathogen interaction research. For details on current research, check out: www.peritorelab.com Job listing: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j... #MicroSky

[1/3] Is your favorite bacterial isolate hiding a surprise lytic virus with a VERY different lifestyle? Finally I can proudly say that our paper on persistent phages is out in Nature Microbiology. rdcu.be/eWJEp. Well done @peterdoug.bsky.social

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

Now online @natmicrobiol.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New review out from our lab! We’re pleased to share our latest article @cp-cellreports.bsky.social exploring the airway immunometabolic response to common bacterial and viral pathogens. Shout out to @ridhimaw.bsky.social, Eric Tang and Roy Wong. 👉 Read it here: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

#Gopackgo !!

Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances ~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

Thrilled to share my work from the @jkagan1.bsky.social lab! TLDR: O-acetylation and wall teichoic acid compete for space on S. aureus peptidoglycan. This competition regulates DNA release, and thus immune receptor activation, during infection! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #immunosky

Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria | Science https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adt7685?af=R

Our Department of Microbiology & Immunology at UCSF is running a faculty search this year for a new Assistant Professor! Please see the ad below for details. Searching for a great colleague, mentor, and scientist! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05807

Last month I attended the #GRS and #GRC on Staphylococcal Diseases. The conference was an excellent opportunity to meet new colleagues, learn with and about the vibrant #Staphylococcal community, and get ideas on #Zinc #ZNG1 research, coming soon

🚨 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...

Wrapped up another great #cshlhost25 meeting! Such a special place to share the awesome science going on around the world.

Interview with yours truly on what to do to protect yourself against the flesh-eating pathogen Vibrio vulnificus for the Associated Press apnews.com/article/vibr...

Come be my colleague! I've been very happy at UTSW Micro. Why? Its a supportive environment full of excellent people. There's strong ambition, reflexive empathy, and excellent resources.

After some time in sunny Barcelona, I’m excited to kick off the #staphGRC this week! Ready for some awesome science.

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

"Among all bacterial species, S. aureus ranks second only to E. coli in the number of scientific publications." It was a pleasure to contribute to this review, with @pinholab.bsky.social and Friedrich Götz journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Excited to share this collaborative study with @ritatamayo.bsky.social showing that E. faecalis influences C. diff morphology through the phase variable CmrRST system! This work was co-led by the amazing team of @ashleyweiss.bsky.social and Jilarie Santos-Santiago!

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...

"I can’t predict the next hiring cycle or the next election. But I can keep doing the science I love while I still have a bench." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4lXUwDa

Methylglyoxal: antibacterial effector Methylglyoxal produced by infected macrophages upon transition to aerobic glycolysis acts as an innate immune antimicrobial effector that bacteria must detoxify for virulence and to prevent mutations www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Excited to post our first S. aureus preprint on biorxiv! Big congrats to co-first authors, postdocs @anjali20anil.bsky.social and Rezia Braza, and really enjoyed the collaboration with @torreslab.bsky.social !

Excited to share with you my postdoctoral work published today in Nature Microbiology! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We have known for a while that stress can impact the outcome of infectious diseases; however, we reveal in our paper that it is not always detrimental.

Alert! The abstract deadline for the Microbial Pathogenesis & Host Response meeting has been extended to July 7 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Infants hospitalized with severe #COVID19 have different immune responses than adults or older children @dnehar.bsky.social @jacksonlab.bsky.social

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Registration for MMPC 2025 opens today! We can’t wait to see you in St. Charles, IL, for the first MMPC hosted by Loyola University Chicago! www.mmpconference2025.com/registration

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰. Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯 Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pathogen emergence is a complex and rare phenomenon Out of >40,000 named bacterial species only a fraction can cause disease in humans What leads to this quantum leap? In our recent paper @pnas.org we decided to investigate this puzzling conundrum. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

New preprint out! Here, we find that glycolipids and lipoteichoic acid alanylation are critical for Group B Strep survival against neutrophil killing during diabetic wound infection. We also define GBS-neutrophil interactions in this niche. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Latest from the lab! We show in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social a new humanized mouse model of S. aureus infection using human lung tissue examining the immune and bacterial responses! #OpenAccess www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...