Great remedy for the Tucson heat. I got to run a 5k on a moving cruise while looking at glaciers. Strava flagged the run 😂.

Look what else come while I was away! Thanks @asm.org

Sweet!!! @hypothesisfund.bsky.social

Happy 10th Lab Anniversary to me!

Targeted DNA triplex-forming oligonucleotide liposome for pulmonary fibrosis gene therapy @cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

nsurp.org NSURP will ride again in 2027 thanks to an NIAID R25! Stay tuned!

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National Summer Undergraduate Research Project

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A flurry of chemical activity as bacteria resist destruction might be hiding under the radar … but not for long. Congrats Dr. Johnson! Looking forward to the cool work that will come from this project! #fundboldscience @blackinmicro.bsky.social

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4/ What if the key to understanding bacterial stress response is in their electrons⚡? Awardee @copperbae.bsky.social is tracking electron balance as a novel way to predict how well a bacteria's defenses are holding up. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Johnson! @uarizona.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @drkhaynes.bsky.social

6/ How does the brain🧠 keep track of who to trust--and who to watch out for? Awardee Weizhe Hong will use both biological and artificial neural systems to study how trust is encoded. 🥳 Congrats Dr. Hong! 🙏 #HFScout Kay Tye

5/ Awardee B.B. Cael, in collaboration w/ Co-I Mathis Hain, is tackling a major challenge: figuring out how to incorporate biology (and all the critical ways it has shaped our planet 🌎) into building better earth system models. 🎉 Congrats Cael & team! 🙏 #HFScout @sullivan-lab.bsky.social

3/ #DYK that HIV can lurk inside cells, undetected, complicating efforts for a cure? Awardee Vincent Wu is on a mission to track down these elusive latent HIV+ cells and study how they cause persistent lifelong infection. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Wu! @wistar.org 🙏 #HFScout Wilton Williams

2/ Meet Awardee Noah Palm. He’s setting out to uncover how the gut microbiome & immune system have co-evolved--he thinks that antibodies aren’t just for defense but are actively shaping the evolution of our commensal gut microbes 🦠. 🥳 Congrats Dr. Palm! @yale.edu 🙏 #HFScout @victora.bsky.social

🔬 Announcing our newest awardees! 🌟 These brilliant minds are pushing boundaries across microbiology, immunology, infectious disease, earth systems, and neuroscience. Celebrate with us as we highlight their projects today👇 in our 🧵: 1/ bit.ly/HFAwardees

Happy to share this news!

Hypothesis Fund@hypothesisfund.bsky.social · last mo.

4/ What if the key to understanding bacterial stress response is in their electrons⚡? Awardee @copperbae.bsky.social is tracking electron balance as a novel way to predict how well a bacteria's defenses are holding up. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Johnson! @uarizona.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @drkhaynes.bsky.social

A paper that will change the game has been submitted :)

huh? www.espn.com/mens-college...

Clippers draft pick Ngoy plans to play at Auburn this season

Narcisse Ngoy, the 57th pick in this week's NBA draft, said Thursday he still plans to play college basketball at Auburn next season.

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Join us on July 13 for an exclusive interview with Kate Zernike, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times reporter, on her book The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science. Register now! asm.social/2YZ

Tucson summer storm. Over 100 outside but hail is making it all they down.

even more impressive — the huge improvement in treating kids with cancer we can cure many now, precisely because of painstaking research and clinical trials over decades ourworldindata.org/db734210-96b...

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social · last mo.

Age-standardized cancer death rates fell from over 150 per 100,000 Americans in 1990 to less than 100 as of 2022. A one-third drop in just over 10 years. ourworldindata.org/grapher/canc...

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Scientist's Life Officially Peaks After Being Named GRC Chair

POMONA, CA—In a development that sources describe as both an incredible honor and the beginning of a long decline, colleagues confirmed Friday that associate professor Dr.

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Happy Juneteenth and 21st anniversary to me!

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study

The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.

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This is the content I’m here for.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Want to hear something freaky? If a deer gets a cut on its antlers while it's still in velvet, the next year when the deer grows a completely NEW rack, it will often grow an extra branch in the exact spot of the cut. Let's talk about TROPHIC MEMORY, the weird way cells (may) remember each other.

I had a great time at #ASMicrobe. Serving with leadership, receiving an award, giving a talk, catching up with friends, karaoke, talking to trainees, getting a few runs in, debuting cool stuff, and much much more.

This supercool and happy to be part of a journal that is so supportive!

Ira Blader@bladerlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Breaking: A new Special Collection in @asm.org #mSphere and #mSystems – “Lab Launches - New Leaders, New Discoveries”. We started it bc that first paper is important – it communicates the group’s identity as well as the discoveries that propel a scientific career. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

📣 Call for Papers: ASM Food Microbiology! Submit your original research, reviews & methodologies exploring microbial interactions within food systems. ASM’s newest journal is now welcoming submissions. 📅 Submit your manuscript: asm.social/2Y2

RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

New insights into copper physiology in Bacillus subtilis. The outlines of the pathway for copper import and trafficking to support aerobic growth are emerging. Work led by Grayson Barnes, with support from our collaborators. doi.org/10.1128/mbio... #microsky #metalsinbiology

Pathways of copper import and utilization that support respiration in Bacillus subtilis | mBio

Copper is a critical micronutrient for bacteria; however, it is toxic in excess. This leads to the cell having tightly regulated import and export systems to prevent intoxication while having sufficient copper for cellular needs. Copper export has been well studied, but copper import and the effects of copper starvation are less defined. In this article, we characterize the Bacillus subtilis high-affinity copper importer YcnJ. We show that under copper limitation, the cell is deficient in copper-containing oxidases, which leads to respiratory defects. Copper imported by YcnJ is proposed to function in a pathway with other proteins implicated in the assembly of respiratory oxidases. More generally, this work contributes to the underexplored area of copper import and trafficking in bacteria.

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Michael is underselling this talk. Come if you are interested in seeing the future of figures in manuscripts!

Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson@copperbae.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey #ASMICROBE I give my talk tomorrow and have two really cool things I want to share with everyone. You’ll have to come by to hear them!

Morning #ASMICROBE run

Hey #ASMICROBE I give my talk tomorrow and have two really cool things I want to share with everyone. You’ll have to come by to hear them!