We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome. We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated. Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a new lab manager to join our group at the University of Oregon! Applicants with experience in microbiology, evolutionary genetics, or protein biochemistry are especially encouraged to apply. See the link below for more information: barberlab.org/contact/

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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

✨ Exciting News ✨I am thrilled to share that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology (IDM), at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health!

I am honored to be named an ASM Distinguished Lecturer! Looking forward to participating in upcoming ASM Branch Meetings and supporting our next generation of microbiologists.

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.

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Excited to share the most recent work from our lab! In which we seek out the cellular source of homeostatic IFNL in the gut and find that gut pDC are ‘rewired’ to produce IFNL over type I IFNs.

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

Excited to share the latest work by outstanding PhD student @kdc509.bsky.social. This was one of our first forays into experimental evolution and uncovered some cool connections between potassium transport and antimicrobial resistance in S. aureus. Major kudos to Killian!

Bittersweet to be leaving @docedge.bsky.social after a wonderful postdoc, but excited to share that I'm joining @uoregon.bsky.social next month as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science.

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined). Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/171625

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe‬! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social‬ co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉 tinyurl.com/443kfefk

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/...

This week we said farewell to the amazing @caitlinkowa.bsky.social as she moves to start her new lab at Dartmouth. So grateful for all her leadership and mentoring the last few years. If you’re interested in all things skin microbes (especially fungi) check out her lab! I can’t recommend enough.

Exciting news! I am launching the Lab of Polymicrobial Interaction & Evolution at IPMB at Academia Sinica (ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en)! 🎉Our brand-new website is live: (www.labofpie.org). Check the lab of PIE out!!🥧🎈

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 !

BPP @ Oregon State is hiring an open rank tenure track position in any area of plant systematics, ecology, and evolution and to direct our herbarium. Come join us in a great department and beautiful Oregon! bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Looking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days! go.bsky.app/GGxRjzC

It's seem like arginine is emerging as a major host cue. So we wrote an IAI minireview on how arginine levels vary between host tissues and affect microbial behavior. The review is online today! journals.asm.org/doi/epdf/10.... @brookeeryan3.bsky.social #microsky

I am delighted to announce that this past spring, I graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder PhD program. My dissertation work was titled "Defense against predatory bacteria" (1/3)

Quick boost: if you are troubled by RFK’s new remarks about AI in drug development, great news, there’s an open comment period on that very subject at NIH right now! Let *them* know your thoughts.

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...

Just returned home from the Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution GRC. Felt like injecting Hope straight into my veins. Maintaining these communities is going to be more important than ever in the years ahead.

On my way back home after the #GRC Molecular Mechanisms in evolution. It was any first time and it was fantastic!

For the sake of comparison, 9% of Americans approve of the Black Plague.

The junior scientists at #ASMicrobe give me some hope for the future. Something we could all use right now.

Hey all - check this post if you’re at #ASMicrobe this weekend. Let’s have a meet up tomorrow for a photo op of microbiologists on @bsky.app who are at #ASMicrobe! Be there at 3 PM at the main entrance giant ASM sign! In person meetups are super fun - please be there! And plz repost!

Hey #ASMicrobe, I heard u like bacteria : ) I'm not there this year but you can order online artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🦠

#ASMicrobe folks: be sure to check out the EEB Track Hub talk by @caitlinkowa.bsky.social at 4pm. Going to be a great story about skin microbe interactions and preview work from her new lab! caitlinkowalski.com

Wonderful to be at #ASMicrobe and catch up with colleagues including the amazing Monica Gestal! #ASMJournals

#ASMicrobe folks: be sure to check out the EEB Track Hub talk by @caitlinkowa.bsky.social at 4pm. Going to be a great story about skin microbe interactions and preview work from her new lab! caitlinkowalski.com

Don't forget! #ASMicrobe is the official hashtag for ASM Microbe 2025!

BREAKING: The FDA has approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

The university of California is a powerhouse of innovation, healthcare, and social mobility for California and the US.

So fun to end the spring term with a trainee-invited seminar by @harmitmalik.bsky.social! Great science and conversations as always.

High point of a rough week: absolutely amazing game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final 🤩🏒

Research Saves Lives At Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc. Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

commemorating pride from the clinical microbiology lab

That was fast. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

I was panicked that my 7-year-old might freak out during the face melting scene in Indiana Jones but she said "I guess he shouldn't have opened that" as seriously as possible and I've been crying laughing for 10 minutes

🧪 Finally out after peer review, our work showing that "Mobile #Integrons carry Phage Defense Systems" is now published in Science 🎉 Short 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share a new article "Evolutionary Immunology". Typeset version just posted @ Annual Rev. Ecol Evol Syst. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Thanks for the collaboration @grahammunology.bsky.social @laurenfuess.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social, Grace Vaziri, Imroze Khan

Really excited to share the final version of Rechel Geiger’s PhD thesis paper with help from friends www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Rechel is now back in medical school training to become a kickass physician-scientist

A statement already from Appropriations Chair Collins www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/2

Together with leading science organizations, ASM filed an amicus brief calling for immediate restoration of NIH grants supporting early-career scientists. Read the press release: asm.org/press-releas...