#TheEndlessFrontier = an awesome & important film in which I am honored to play a part! Humanity: keep pursuing the frontiers of knowledge, for the good of ourselves & our descendants!!! For our health, economy, environment, & sheer edification @drshrutinaik.bsky.social

@billyonblusky.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Interested in a teaching faculty position in Bacteriology at UW-Madison? See the attached announcement! @uwbact.bsky.social

Please Repost 🔄 Global Staphylococcus research community is heading to the Canadian Rockies! Join the 20th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections 📅 September 20–24, 2026 📍 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada #ISSSI2026 #Staphylococcus

The Akhtar Lab @manneresearch.bsky.social and Northwestern University @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social is hiring a full time RESEARCH TECHNICIAN. If you want to study neonatal HSV pathogenesis please send me a message and apply for the position here: luriechildrens.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/externalport...

Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!

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Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in January 2026! My lab will study RNA virus-host interactions with a particular focus on the spatial regulation of viral replication and innate immune activation. genoyerlab.com

Excited to share this collaborative study with @ritatamayo.bsky.social showing that E. faecalis influences C. diff morphology through the phase variable CmrRST system! This work was co-led by the amazing team of @ashleyweiss.bsky.social and Jilarie Santos-Santiago!

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · last yr.

Enterococcus faecalis modulates phase variation in Clostridioides difficile https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666506v1

Congratulations @christinviral.bsky.social and team for publishing this super cool discovery 😎 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Here’s a quick summary of our cool findings about how stress due to simple mouse husbandry drives clearance of persistent enteric viral infection 🦠🐭 1/5

Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice - Nature Microbiology

Cage change of mice with persistent murine astrovirus infection triggers stress responses marked by corticosterone fluctuation, which is followed by CD8 T cell activation and induction of epithelial a...

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#NewResearch 🚨Out now! Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice 🐀 @christinviral.bsky.social @cadwelllab.bsky.social #MicroSky #VirusSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice - Nature Microbiology

Cage change of mice with persistent murine astrovirus infection triggers stress responses marked by corticosterone fluctuation, which is followed by CD8 T cell activation and induction of epithelial a...

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Excited to share with you my postdoctoral work published today in Nature Microbiology! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We have known for a while that stress can impact the outcome of infectious diseases; however, we reveal in our paper that it is not always detrimental.

Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice - Nature Microbiology

Cage change of mice with persistent murine astrovirus infection triggers stress responses marked by corticosterone fluctuation, which is followed by CD8 T cell activation and induction of epithelial a...

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Thrilled that our latest paper showing that DCs undergo either pyroptosis or apoptosis upon bacterial blockade of host translation to restrict Legionella is now online at the @asm.org journal mBio! Congrats to 1st author @vvazquez.bsky.social & co-authors! 🎉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Dendritic cells activate pyroptosis and effector-triggered apoptosis to restrict Legionella infection | mBio

The innate immune system senses bacterial pathogens by employing pattern recognition receptors that detect pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and guard proteins that monitor pathogen disru...

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Incredibly honored to be selected as a @bwfund.bsky.social Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease. Thank you to @bwfund.bsky.social for supporting our work - I am thrilled to join this amazing community! And special thank you to my AMAZING team (past & present) for getting us here!

Burroughs Wellcome Fund@bwfund.bsky.social · last yr.

Announcing the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/announc... #bwfpath

Congratulations Xiaomin Yao and Eugene Rudensky for publishing this story @cp-immunity.bsky.social! Big thank you to NIH for making this work possible. Here’s a brief summary of this 🤯 finding about a gene variant that YOU 🫵 most likely have 1/n

Excited to share our new work in @aga-gastro.bsky.social! We show that dietary fiber alters the window of susceptibility to C. difficile following antibiotic exposure. This really fantastic study was co-led by an amazing team @rinniehewlett.bsky.social @alhecht.bsky.social and Amanda PeBenito.

1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽 The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.

Excited to share our latest study @cp-immunity.bsky.social. Heartfelt thanks to the editorial and review teams , to my co-first @yeungadventures.bsky.social, our co-authors, and to @khannakm.bsky.social for his outstanding mentorship throughout! Pls read/share!👇 www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Nerve- and airway-associated interstitial macrophages mitigate SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis via type I interferon signaling

The local immunoregulatory mechanisms that safeguard the host from excessive lung infection inflammation remain unclear. Yeung, Yokota et al. uncover the essential role of nerve- and airway-associated...

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Our lab has opened at the Cancer Biology Department and the Basser Center for BRCA @upenn.bsky.social! We study new mechanisms of hereditary cancers and their implications for sporadic cancers, building on my training with @labjacks.bsky.social and Joan Brugge. Join us! tinyurl.com/CarmanLiLabH...

Carman Li Lab

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

After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature

Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors

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Proud of this work, led by the amazing Jeannette Tenthorey (now Assistant Professor at UCSF), demonstrating the adaptive power of single indel mutations in host-virus arms races, but a little sad that this is the coda to her amazing postdoc in the Malik & Emerman labs. www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Indels allow antiviral proteins to evolve functional novelty inaccessible by missense mutations

Tenthorey et al. compare the effects of missense and indel mutations on the acquisition of functional novelty by the rapidly evolving antiviral protein TRIM5α. They find that single indel mutations al...

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In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students. Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Congratulations Ying-Han Chen and Kim Zaldana for showing how B cells are altered when lab mice 🐭 are released outdoors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here’s some context for the paper followed by how gov’t 💰 + other sources combine to make these types of studies possible 1/n

Rewilding catalyzes maturation of the humoral immune system

Releasing laboratory mice into the natural environment enhanced maturation and activation of the humoral immune system.

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In the US alone, each year, norovirus causes ~20 million acute gastroenteritis cases, 70,000 hospitalizations, up to 800 deaths, at a cost of ~$10.6 billion annually. An pill vaccine shows considerable promise in a clinical trial, establishing mucosal immunity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial

An oral norovirus vaccine tablet is safe and induces strong mucosal and systemic immune responses in adults aged 55 to 80 years.

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Ten simple rules for writing a response to reviewers journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Excited to share our work with @pjplanet.bsky.social and @ahmedmicrobes.bsky.social tracking Staph aureus transmission across the NICU using genomics!! This study was co-led by the amazing @qianxuan.bsky.social and Lakshmi Srinivasan, and made possible by the @centermicrobialmed.bsky.social

Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in the neonatal intensive care unit predicts invasive infection

Background Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infection and is one of the most common pathogens causing serious invasive infection in the neonatal intensive care unit (N...

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Once upon a time, some villagers came across a large, ornate wooden box in the local woods. On the side of the box was a message: “Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.” 1/

1/2 New publication from the lab from the talented postdoc Dr. Andy Perrault in collaboration with Dr. Alejandro Pironti! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39977318/

Enterobacter hormaechei replaces virulence with carbapenem resistance via porin loss - PubMed

Pathogenic <i>Enterobacter</i> species are of increasing clinical concern due to the multidrug-resistant nature of these bacteria, including resistance to carbapenem antibiotics. Our understanding of ...

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Excited to share our latest preprint! We find that DCs undergo heterogeneous cell death- either pyroptosis or apoptosis upon bacterial blockade of host translation- to restrict Legionella infection. Congrats to my PhD student @vvazquez.bsky.social & co-authors! Check out his bluetorial 🧵 below! 👇

Víctor R. Vázquez Marrero, PhD@vvazquez.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky post I’m very excited to share a preprint of the bulk of my thesis work in @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social where we investigate how dendritic cells respond to Legionella pneumophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...