Congratulations to my first PhD student, Dr. Claire Chapman, on successfully defending her PhD! Stay tuned for an exciting story about the role of the small intestinal microbiota in susceptibility to cholera! #ProudPI

🌟 Applications are accepted for UC San Diego RAPID program's 2026-27 cohort. This highly-rated and effective #FacultyDevelopment opportunity is for junior faculty researchers in #InfectiousDiseases. 👉 Learn more and apply today at rapid.ucsd.edu. ⏰ Deadline: Sunday, March 1 #UCSD_RAPID

Important and timely read in the New England Journal of Medicine: Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.

Applications for UC San Diego RAPID program's 2026-27 cohort are now open! This highly-rated and effective career development opportunity is for junior faculty researchers in #InfectiousDiseases. Learn more and apply today at rapid.ucsd.edu! #UCSD_RAPID #FacultyDevelopment

What do I love the most about UCSD? My amazing colleagues. Congratulations @chulab.bsky.social and @alistairrussell.bsky.social on your promotion and to Kees Murre for being elected to the NAS!

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.

1/ Excited to share the first preprint from my lab! 🎉 My postdoc Paz asked how cholera toxin (CT) helps Vibrio cholerae thrive in the gut. Turns out, CT rewires epithelial metabolism toward L-lactate production—fueling pathogen growth in the small intestine during disease

Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others Small Things Considered Big Things Achieved

The Raffatellu, Chu @chulab.bsky.social Rivera-Chavez @fabianrchavez.bsky.social labs were well represented at the #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social event at #UCSD today!

Microbiome science needs more microbiologists- A new commentary authored by myself and @abaumler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can classical microbiology transform microbiome research? 🤔 Our new article explores how integrating microbiological concepts can build a stronger theoretical framework for microbiome sciences. 🌟 Read more about the path to hypothesis-driven research:

All brought to you by the good people at OMICS International who own and operate“more than 500 peer-reviewed journals” So do I (A) just ignore this? (B) do something? If you chose the latter, what do you suggest I do? Any replies with some guidance or cynical humor welcome

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

We are lookkng for a behavioral neurologist to join us at Stanford in sunny California! Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! 🌞😊🧠

Beautiful paper from the Elizabeth Winzeler laboratory at UC San Diego out today in Science building a predictive model of malaria drug resistance by analyzing the genomes of 724 parasite genomes evolved in the lab to resist one of 118 different antimalarial compounds today.ucsd.edu/story/a-new-...

An updated list with those added who wanted to join go.bsky.app/VVLoMPx

Nothing is better than your past trainees successes

Believe it or not, GRC has told me we need more registered applicants or this meeting might not survive! Please don't let that happen if you can afford to attend 🙏

This will me my fist blueet! Microbial N-Acyl lipids have been shown to regulate glucose, pain etc among other things. Therefore Helena, Vincent and Martijn asked the question - are there more and if so what types? And boy did they find some www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What I said Jan 2022... So if we all agree that we will be living with respiratory viruses in the future & that they have an airborne transmission component, can we agree that it is essential to clean indoor air using filtration & ventilation for all schools/businesses so we can get our lives back?

Hi everyone, this is my first post here and it’s great to get so many new connections. My lab works on host-pathogen interaction, particularly in the context of Salmonella infection, mucosal immunity, microbiota-host interaction, microbial competition. We are a fun, diverse, enthusiastic group.

BlueSky I really need you to stick this landing.

Hiiii Fun facts in no particular order: I’m a NIH-funded physician scientist 👩‍🔬 study pregnancy/stress/microbiome 🦠 help direct the OSU MSTP 👩‍🎓 Direct the OSU Soter Women’s Health Research Program 🚺 Have 4 kids 👯👯‍♀️ Married to the worlds tallest gynecologist! ™️

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CMIC/SIMB registration is now open www.simbhq.org/cmic/attend/ For people interested in presenting, contributed submissions is August 30, 2024.

Congrats to all the new HHMI Hanna Gray Fellows 🥳🥳 www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-aw...

🧪Come join us at UC San Diego! UC San Diego is hiring 7 Assistant Professors (NIH FIRST Program) in the areas of Cancer, Cardiovascular Sciences, Neurosciences, Immunology and Infectious Disease. Informational webinar SEPTEMBER 13th from 11 AM - 12 PM (PST), register at go.ucsd.edu/3YCyknX