PUBLICATION ALERT: In this latest study from the lab we characterized a human immortalized microglia cell line in terms of cryptococcal-host interactions. We believe this is a powerful new way to study these important interactions and ask mechanistic questions.🧵(1/3) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Don't miss this fun and informative interview with the great @afloresmireles.bsky.social with the patient advocacy organization Live UTI Free! They talk all the way from marine biology, to good microbes, bad microbes, and UTIs and CAUTIs - a little bit for everyone! Only 30 really enjoyable mins!

PUBLICATION ALERT: The latest from the lab is out, on the function of a vacuolar protein in Cryptococcus. Meet Vac8, the vacuolar protein that keeps cryptococcal vacuole in one large piece! This is a small thread on it, but you can find the paper here: www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/11....

Preprint alert: the latest from my collaboration with the great @afloresmireles.bsky.social, @shapirorebecca.bsky.social , and Ilse Jacobsen (not in BS). You can find it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A small thread below (1/3)

Fungi are everywhere doing everything! So amazing! These stinkbugs coat their eggs in fungi to protect them from parasitic wasps. Read more here: www.science.org/content/arti...

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

There’s now an app for all things fungi 🦠🍄 Dr. Matthew Pullen, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, helped launch Dr Fungus—a free app that brings the trusted resource to your phone. Explore fungal infections, antifungal treatments, and case-based learning—all in one place.

Who said drama is only for Mexican tele-novellas (soap operas). This article has it all! "After bizarre journey, prized history of molecular biology archive finds new home" www.science.org/content/arti...

Now we are receiving the wisdom from NIAID extraordinaire PO Glen McGugan on best practices to obtain NIH funding. Of if two unique opportunities on this year’s #MNID25.

And we’re off with #MNID25 at Case Western Reserve! My student Robbi gave an awesome presentation. Looking forward to all other talks and posters!

I have an R56 that will pay for 1 year of a postdoc that will hopefully bridge us to a 4-year R01. It's not without risk but uh...everything in science feels like a major risk right now. We're in need of a #postdoc w/ #nmr experience. DM or email me for project details.

Congratulations to my student Robbi Ross on her award from NIH! Robbi will be working on the host-pathogen interactions between the environmental fungus Cryptococcus and human microglia. Looking forward to all of what you will accomplish Robbi! Congrats! fungilab.nd.edu/news/robbi-w...

New in #G3journal: @hitenmadhani.bsky.social and the team present new methods and strains for high-efficiency homology-dependent genome editing in Cryptococcus neoformans, a budding #yeast that is the most common cause of fungal meningitis in humans. Read more: buff.ly/dQRKrOJ

Visit to the legendary Woods Hole MOMY course to visit with Mycology trainees and faculty. Awesome to see Andy Alspaugh, Deb Hogan, and Paul Magwene honored for their contributions! Kudos to Robb Cramer and David Andes for their final year as Course Directors! 🍄‍🟫🧫🧬

The traditional #MOMY25 picture! You guys chose the perfect timing! Not only the company has been fantastic but the weather has been beautiful! Hopefully it will stay like that for the whole course. Thank you David and Robb for inviting me again, it has been wonderful! @mblscience.bsky.social

I can see the pros and cons, but to be fair to new PIs, it should not count resubmission. Nowadays you have to submit upwards to 4 or 5 times before you get a fundable score...and that just one application! "NIH limits scientists to six applications per year" www.science.org/content/arti...

I once visited Mayan ruins in Mexico and was told that is not known how they were able to make such bright blue colors. Also heard the same about bright red ones. It turns out, at least for the red color, a fungus is responsible! Read more here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"STEM is profoundly shaped by wealth, yet financial privilege is rarely acknowledged... Wealth influences participation, persistence, and recognition in science, affecting not just who enters the pipeline but also who can afford to stay." Interesting article at #PLOS dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

The “Big Beautiful Bill” is Not the Budget! Very interesting short blurb from @ascbiology.bsky.social. www.ascb.org/science-poli...

So much fun talking about my science and activism with Marion and Agnès! Thanks for inviting me!

Pediatric UTIs can shape lifelong urinary health. Join us on July 11 at 9AM New York time for @globalUTI.bsky.social #UTIhour hosted by Dr. Arthika Manoharan to find out how uropathogens cause #UTI and how kids’ immune systems respond.

For our graduate program, students needs to do lab rotations, and so this was the week where we were trying to organize them. So I wanted to give a few pieces of advice to new students... many people would tell you to chose based on the mentor, not the project. I have another take on that... (1/3).

Big congratulations to our student Alyssa La Bella! She got the Milton Huppert Graduate Student Award from MMSA for her outstanding contribution to medical mycology, and Alyssa's work on unveiling fungal infection during CAUTI is truly groundbreaking. @globaluti.bsky.social

I want to thank MMSA for selecting me for this award (together with Dr. Sebastian Wurster) and congratulate all the other award recipients (including one of my students!) that will be giving talks this Thursday on the MMSA Annual meeting (registration link bit.ly/4jZziDz). Thanks to all involved!

Super excited and delighted to introduce @alabella14.bsky.social this Thursday for her student award from MMSA. She will be giving a short presentation on our latest collaborative work on C. auris during the MMSA Annual meeting (registration link shorturl.at/QRMCU). Congrats Alyssa!

Exciting news in my inbox this morning. #ICCC12 is happening next year at Exeter, UK. Please sign-up for details and news at the organizing page: iccc2026.org Thank you to the organizers - looking forward to it!

@asm.org #ASMicrobe starts today! I won't be there but my awesome student Robbi Ross will be presenting her work on Cryptococcus-microglia interactions this Saturday, 6/21, from 10:30-11:30A and 4-5P. Her poster number is 1001 - look for that smiling face and learn some fun(gi) science!

The abstract submission deadline is coming up - please register for this year's #MNID25. More info and registration/abstract links here: biology.case.edu/2025mnid/

PUBLICATION ALERT: our new work on PDR6 is online in #mBio: Lack of an atypical PDR transporter generates an immunogenic Cryptococcus neoformans strain that drives a dysregulated and lethal immune response in murine lungs. A small 🧵 below but pare here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

@mjboucher.bsky.social Mike, I know you are not "Midwest" but if you are near Cleveland on late August, this is a great meeting that includes both parasites and fungi, your two favorite bugs! Is basically the PTHE study section on a friendly meeting!

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/

Join us! Partly sponsored by @msgerc.bsky.social #IDSky #MedSky med.miami.edu/departments/...

Exciting news...Nature Methods is hiring a new editor! This exciting and dynamic role will be shared with the Nature Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team. Apply here by June 1! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

I was too excited I guess, that forgot to say what my degree was on! It was Molecular and Cellular Biology! www.instagram.com/reel/DJxfGlv...

Congratulations to all PhD graduates, especially the ones from my lab. This achievement might feel like an end, but it is a beginning of, I hope, better and bigger things! May Our Lady be with you guys forever! -A very proud PI!

Congratulations indeed!

We are seeking postdocs in Quantitative Ecology and Disease Ecology! Dr. Rohr will be at the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases and Ecological Society of America Meetings, please email him if you are interested in meeting! Full info: www.jasonrohrlab.com/postdoc-oppo...

@alabella14.bsky.social 👇

We are fund raising to support our meningitis research team in Uganda to continue our work on fungal meningitis and TB meningitis. We work on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment --- and will continue with or without US gov support. gofund.me/9e797ba7

RFK Jr has already shown that he considers autistic Americans to be much less worthy of existence. Now he is planning a big database of autistic individuals in the US, never mind that this is a gross violation of privacy laws. Recall that a similar effort was carried out in 1930’s Germany.

Only one week to go until the abstract submission deadline for Candida and Candidiasis 2025! Make sure to submit your abstract by 15 May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Find out more on our website. microb.io/Candida2025A... #Candida2025

Check out our latest review that highlights the growing threat of Candida auris in UTIs, its prevalence in catheterized patients, high mortality and antifungal resistance. Thanks Alyssa @alabella14.bsky.social, Felipe Santiago-Tirado @felipehst.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Is Candida auris the next big catheter-associated UTI threat? @afloresmireles.bsky.social and myself believe it already is. Read about the alarming emergence of this superbug as a prevalent urinary pathogen in this PLoS Pathogens article. More cool research coming out soon! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.

I can’t believe this…No more foreign subawards for now…and who knows when! www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

I am not sure what this means for standing study sections… any comments from more knowledgeable people here? www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Awesome to see the #SouthBend community coming together to stand up for science! @standupforscience.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social

For the sake of humanity, it's time to get out there and Stand Up For Science!! Spread the word!

Local friends and colleagues in here, I was invited to give a talk in this year's Impact Summit. Because the overall topic is Science in Society, I decided to talk about the portrayal of pathogens in pop culture. Read more here: neuroscienceandbehavior.nd.edu/community-en...