Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans. 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

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

Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology employmentopportunities.umb.edu/mob/cw/en-us... @asm.org

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

Evidence for Neolithic acquisition of the high pathogenic island by Escherichia coli followed by recent selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676721v1

Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Open tenure track assistant- or associate-level faculty position in the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research. Great science, great facilities, great colleagues - come work with us! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674888/f...

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.

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic www.mdpi.com/3429378 #mdpigenes

Ancient Origins and Global Diversity of Plague: Genomic Evidence for Deep Eurasian Reservoirs and Recurrent Emergence mdpi.com/3442038 #mdpipathogens

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Assistant Professor of Microbiology position available at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga apply.interfolio.com/172734

Science has more than doubled our life expectancy, revolutionized our quality of life, and powered unprecedented technological advancement. But can we afford to take scientific progress for granted? What happens when science funding is slashed, diversity is suppressed, and pseudoscience takes hold?

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...

Happy to see the preview @joeyzacks.bsky.social and I wrote on the excellent paper recently published by the Gibbons Lab @gibbological.bsky.social is in press! I'd encourage folks interested in bacterial pathogenesis or microbial ecology to check out the preview and the research article!

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

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

A Salmonella T3SS-2 mutant grows fine in spleen macrophages, contradicting tissue culture dogma (PMID: 23236281). This observation was largely ignored, but adding certain carbon sources rescues growth in cultured macrophages, hinting that T3SS-2 may be doing something entirely different in vivo.

A Salmonella T3SS-2 mutant grows fine in spleen macrophages, contradicting tissue culture dogma (PMID:23236281). This was largely ignored, but adding certain carbon sources rescues growth in cultured macrophages, hinting T3SS-2 may be doing something different in vivo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out! 🧫🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Resistance is futile! Neanderthals interbred with humans over a period of 200,000 years, in three major waves, until the last survivors were assimilated by modern humans. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NIH wants to hear from you. No really. Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Please use this link to nominate: asm.org/IAI-minireview

Meet the new Editor in Chief of mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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...

Happy that our manuscript showing that PgtE protease enables Salmonella to evade C3-mediated serum and neutrophil killing is published in mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... - check out the companion paper from @rtsolis.bsky.social and team, focused on PgtE in the African Salmonella strain ST313

The study identifies 4 Salmonella isolates from teeth (i.e., likely a case of bloodstream infection) dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. Would be cool to know the serotype 🙂

Today's reading: Nature should be the model for microbial sciences journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... by @brettbakker.bsky.social @emilyraehyde.bsky.social and @pedroleao.bsky.social Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...

The new open access policy of NIH will take effect next week (July 1st). All NIH funded research 🔬🧪🧬accepted after July 1st must be open access upon publication. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology

The proteome of the late Middle Pleistocene Harbin individual | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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

So sad to see this affect one of my favorite flavors. The infectious dose of Salmonella is usually considered to be high, exceeding 100,000 bacteria, based on volunteer studies. But the dose required to cause infection in foods, esp. fatty foods, may be fewer than 100 (Blaser Rev Infect Dis 1982).

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Science has more than doubled our life expectancy, revolutionized our quality of life, and powered unprecedented technological advancement. But can we afford to take scientific progress for granted? What happens when science funding is slashed, diversity is suppressed, and pseudoscience takes hold?

Thanks to Hirotaka Hiyoshi and Yukako Fujinaga for inviting me to present at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Bacteriology. It was great meeting old in new friends in Kanasawa 😊

Just a few spots remaining for the GRC Salmonella Biology and Pathogenesis meeting to be held in August. The final program is now online. www.grc.org/salmonella-b... Apply now to hear about the latest scientific discoveries about Salmonella, meet up with old friends, make new friends......

The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

We need one of these in Davis 😊

important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...

Great meeting coming up next May www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Delighted to announce the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting: Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection. Join us in Breckenridge in May 2026!! You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26 #KSAntibiotics26

Emerging resistance to last-line antibiotic underscores the ongoing threat of antimicrobial resistance.🧪🧬🦠🔬 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, is increasingly #AMR and continues to affect millions each year, especially in areas with poor sanitation. Unlike most foodborne Salmonella infections, typhoid requires antibiotics because it spreads beyond the gut. www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

Very interesting review: how does a host-associated microbiota ecologically assemble? Good discussions on niche availability, priority effects, host interactions, microbiota resilience & homeostasis 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gastrointestinal colonization as a source of Staphylococcus aureus in atopic dermatitis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.648849v1