Candida albicans is usually hanging out with bacterial neighbors, so what happens to the fungus during co-culture? The bacteria secrete metabolites that induce massive cell wall remodeling that change immune recognition and drug resistance. Read more in our new paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One transcript, two functions: the emerging roles of dual-function RNAs microLIFE review by @lizmarialuke.bsky.social and Kai Papenfort at @uni-jena.de academic.oup.com/microlife/ad...

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

Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!

Another great @mmpconference.bsky.social wraps up… 👏 to organizers Jonathan Allen and Abby Kroken! @akroken.bsky.social

Dose makes the difference! #Candidaalbicans uses the toxin #candidalysin not only to cause infections but also to quietly colonize the mouth – too little fails, too much triggers immune defense. @natmicrobiol.nature.com @mpm-hki.bsky.social picture credits: Erik Böhm, @leibniz-hki.de

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Abstract submissions are open for the Midwinter Conference of Immunologists @midwinter-immun.bsky.social!! www.midwconfimmunol.org The Early Bird Registration deadline is Nov 14, 2025. There will be lots of Selected Abstract talks so submit an abstract to be considered!

The short summary and behind-the-scenes of our paper in this Research Briefing article out today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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.

A little more than 2 weeks to apply for a Postdoc position in our lab @leibniz-hki.de 👇🏻

#News&Views A mycovirus drives the fitness of the lung-infecting fungus Aspergillus fumigatus under stress, helping it to survive within immune cells, and thus shaping its pathogenesis. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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

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

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...

Join us this week for #MycoTalks with James Konopka @jkonopka.bsky.social and Jane Usher @jusher.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 24 July 🕓 16:00 (UK time) 💻 Via Zoom Register for FREE here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

MMPC was the first conference I attended as a new graduate student. Hard to believe I'm serving as a co-chair for it this year! Hoping Jon Allen and the rest of our micro faculty here at Loyola can put on a great event for all of you... and that future MMPC chairs are among the attendees! 😊

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 full FY 2026 budget request for the National Science Foundation was released this afternoon. Proposed cuts to NSF research directorates range from -75% to -43%. NSF education -75% [pdf] full request here: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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

Dear Midwest friends and colleagues, please save the day for #MNID25 to be held August 22-23 at Case Western Reserve University. More info here: biology.case.edu/2025mnid/

Are you able to mentor a summer student and have a good project that can be virtually administered, sign up to be an NSURP mentor today! If you can't, hit that share button please and thank you! #NoLabNoProblem #NSURP uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

What made the fungus such a good friend? 🤔 He had great morels 🍄 Calling all fungal folks—there may not be mushroom left on your calendars, but save some time to apply for the MBL's 2025 Molecular Mycology course! Read more: bit.ly/41m0JAq #ScienceStartsHere

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And this one, too #StandUpforScience

🗽🔬 STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. Chicago joins the nationwide movement to demand that our government fully support scientific research, which employs people, benefits our economy, and SAVES LIVES Join Indivisible Chicago & @standupforscience.bsky.social on Fri, March 7th, 12pm, Federal Plaza. Info/Sign-up:

NIH has been intentionally holding up grants including non-competitive renewals. This “pause” should be evident in Reporter data over the next week, but I posted about the beginning of it yesterday. This is now ending because “NIH” has put a process in place to evaluate grants. 2/n

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

During Rare Disease Week, patients and advocates were in D.C. for an event with the NIH, FDA, and HHS to highlight work being done on treatments and cures. It was abruptly canceled. Why? The administration fired the people organizing this important event and advancing this work.

Here are the data for non-competitive renewals, downloaded today. The last awards in NIH Reporter are on 2/22. Given the lag in posting in Reporter, I think this pause is real and this is supported by inside sources who indicate that folks are being told not to issue NoAs.

An initiative led by brave graduate students and leaders to fight for science!

🗣️Voices: New opportunities in mechanistic and functional microbiome studies by Judith Behnsen, KC Huang, Matthew Sorbara, Meng Wang, , Jun Yu, and Melody Zeng @melodyzeng http://dlvr.it/THPVr7

The BV-BRC @bvbrc.bsky.social team will be offering a Bioinformatics Workshop on Feb 24-28, 2025, at Argonne National Lab near Chicago, IL. Learn to analyze and explore bacterial and viral pathogen data. Register and/or share! www.bv-brc.org/docs/news/20... 🧬 🖥️

Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria, from #microLife Learn about key molecular information processing networks that allow #bacteria and #archaea to adapt to an ever changing external world. https://academic.oup.com/microlife/pages/second-messenger-signaling-in-bacteria #MicroSky

Last call! Abstracts are due Dec. 8 for the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting (MAMPM), which will be held Feb. 2-4, 2025. Lot's of short talk opportunities for trainees. Join us at the wonderful Wintergreen Resort for two days of great science! Please repost!

Excited to share that we are hiring a Bridge to Faculty Postdoc in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Illinois Chicago. Please reach out if you have any questions about the program. And please share broadly. uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...