Join the CHOP Microbiome Center as a Research Technician IV! We are seeking a motivated individual with hands-on experience in next-generation sequencing (NGS) to support our innovative microbiome research. careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/10...

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!

Happy to team up with @microbe-enjoyer.bsky.social to highlight fantastic work by @gibbological.bsky.social, Alex Carr, and colleagues using community scale metabolic models to predict risk for C. difficile colonization! See the initial study here: www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Very excited to attend this new @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." co-organized by @joeyzacks.bsky.social @kimingeneva.bsky.social , @maribyndloss.bsky.social and @dariavantyne.bsky.social . #KSAntibiotics26

Important 🧵 if your research depends on genome assemblies from long (PacBio / ONT) reads. As @merenbey.bsky.social says, these may not be the genomes you are looking for. TLDR: the assemblers are wrong and predict too many small circular contigs.

Check out this exciting preprint from @pjplanet.bsky.social @ahmedmicrobes.bsky.social @joeyzacks.bsky.social!! Study led by @qianxuan.bsky.social looking at Staphylococcus aureus transmission across the NICU.

Check our recent work tracking the transmission of Staph aureus in the NICU for 33 months.

Our preprint on genomic epidemiology in the NICU! Strains that transmit faster also cause more invasive disease! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Pretty good ROI...

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Apologies for this long post I put together to explain to non-scientists the impact of NIH cuts: Last night, an “atomic bomb” was dropped on the biomedical science community. We were informed that effective immediately, indirect costs on NIH grants (both current and future) would be fixed at 15%.

Biomedical research institutions are major local employers. Take the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia’s largest employer—this policy threatens jobs across multiple sectors, such as health care, construction, food services and cleaning staff....

400,000 jobs at risk in red and blue states across the country. “The N.I.H. funding also supports about 412,000 jobs, from research assistants to grant managers to people who dispose of toxic chemicals”

Excited to share updates to Microbiocode, the code repository for the PennCHOP Microbiome program. Numerous well curated software packages to enable Microbiome research. Check it out! www.med.upenn.edu/microbiocode/

Very excited to be part of this new center of emphasis at CHOP!

We’re excited to bring the Center for Microbial Medicine to Bluesky! This center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is dedicated to finding cures and improving pediatric health through the lens of the microbiome. For more info check back here often! www.research.chop.edu/center-for-m...