You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Independent Junior Research Group Leaders (m/f/d) - Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg (DE) job with Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 12858473

The Cluster of Excellence EXC 2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI) at the University of Tübingen invites applications for Indepen...

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Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...

🚨Call for papers🚨 Microbial Evolution: Impacts on Human Health in the society journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Guest Editors: Bob Woods, Silvie Huijben & Camilo Barbosa EIC: me This will be great, please submit and share! academic.oup.com/emph/pages/m...

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Happy Halloween from the @DavisLabJHU !! Featuring the @orioles.com Jumbotron Crab shuffle, hotdog race, and bird bath. Proudly took home 2nd place in the @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social departmental costume contest! 😀 🦀 🌭

🚨 Faculty position alert! 🚨The Center for Systems Immunology (CSI) and @pitt-immunology.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a tenure-stream Assistant Professor. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3L42cGS

We’re hiring! KUMC's Dept. of Microbiol., Mol. Genet. & Immunol. seeks a new Asst. Professor in Immunology. Be part of a vibrant department and benefit from association with the NCI-designated KU Cancer Center. Come join us in Kansas City! Apply here: kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-j...

If you are somehow still compelled to be a PI in the world in which we find ourselves, we'd love to have you as a colleague! Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University. www.nature.com/naturecareer... www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee job with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | 12843515

Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine—Basic Sciences

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Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)

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Open faculty position! We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa

View from the lab now. Did I mention that we are recruiting faculty microbiologists? www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology employmentopportunities.umb.edu/mob/cw/en-us... @asm.org

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22. biochem.weill.cornell.edu/join-our-fac...

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Research from @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social & @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Lab of Kimberly M. Davis @davislabjhu.bsky.social featured in @plos.org Pathogens Davis Lab paper 'Yersinia pseudotuberculosis growth arrest during type-III secretion system ...' ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ 1/2 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis growth arrest during type-III secretion system expression is associated with altered ribosomal protein expression and decreased gentamicin susceptibility

Author summary Slow-growing bacterial cells generally have reduced antibiotic susceptibility, rendering them difficult to eliminate during antibiotic treatment. However, for many key virulence factors...

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Microbiologist & Associate Professor Kim Davis @davislabjhu.bsky.social & her lab team investigate gene expression changes associated with bacterial growth to find markers that predict bacterial survival after antibiotic treatment. DAVIS LAB bit.ly/45ZMgxj 2/2 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis growth arrest during type-III secretion system expression is associated with altered ribosomal protein expression and decreased gentamicin susceptibility

Author summary Slow-growing bacterial cells generally have reduced antibiotic susceptibility, rendering them difficult to eliminate during antibiotic treatment. However, for many key virulence factors...

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Big congrats to the new Dr. Cotten @katecotten.bsky.social on the manuscript submission! Preprint is now available on biorxiv, and links a tRNA modification to specific reductions in ribosomal gene expression and antibiotic tolerance. Check it out! 😀

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Loss of s2U tRNA modification induces antibiotic tolerance in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662621v1

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 !

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Staphylococcus aureus exhibits spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Sae activity during kidney abscess development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663646v1

🎉 Congratulations to @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social & @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social PhD graduate Kate Cotten, PhD, who successfully defended her PhD thesis! Way to go, Kate! Read more about Kate & other MMI PhD students here publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

Celebrated Kate’s PhD thesis defense today! Huge congrats to the new Dr. Cotten and fantastic job on your seminar and defense!! 😀

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

Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET. More information here: buff.ly/iSu3v60 #bwfpath #GrantOpportunity

Big congratulations to all the new BWF PATH awardees! Thank you to @bwfund.bsky.social for your continued support of infectious disease research!

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

Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀

For grad students and postdocs: We'd love to see you at the Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis course at the Marine Biological Labs this summer! Application deadline is Apr 14, so apply soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis | Marine Biological Laboratory

This is an immersive research-based course designed to teach basic concepts, open research questions, and facilitate state-of-the-art experimental approaches in symbiosis research.

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📣 I am excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book 'Thriving As An International Scientist' (@ucpress.bsky.social ess.bsky.social) which hits the shelf in Fall 2025. I sincerely love this cover and feel it captures the essence of this book. What does this cover remind you of?

#standupforscience2025 DC! Great to feel such a strong sense of community after so many weeks of uncertainty

A really positive event today amidst so much uncertainty. Celebrating doctoral students that completed their qualifying exam in 2024! Congratulations to our 3rd year MMI PhD cohort! @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social

7 PhD positions in Translational Evolutionary Research available @uni-kiel.de Application deadline is March 27, 2025 Please spread the word! www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...

SAVE THE DATE ‼️ 📆 📢 BBM 2025 will be held on June 9-10th at the Harvard Science Center feat. the one and only Dr. Petra Levin as keynote! We can't wait to see you there. Registration and scholarship applications open next week.

Happy holidays from the Davis lab!! Had a holiday breakfast this morning with our annual white elephant gift exchange! 🥳🎁 Very thankful to work with this great group of scientists!! 😀