Bailey Bowcutt

@baileybowcutt.bsky.social

Microbiology PhD student in Yonatan Grad’s lab at Harvard SPH. Old student of Manning Lab at Michigan State (go green!). Interested in AMR, one health, gonorrhea, rural public health and more. Wyoming raised.

Some bacteria can rapidly change their surface proteins to undergo antigenic variation – what is the diversity of these proteins and how do they evolve? We delved into this question in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the cause of the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Diversity and evolution of a phase-variable multi-locus antigen in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Author summary The rising levels of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae make controlling the spread of this sexually transmitted pathogen a public health priority. N. gonorrhoeae rapidly va...

journals.plos.org

I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

hhmi.org

New preprint: with increasing resistance to ceftriaxone, the last recommended antibiotic for gonorrhea, we urgently need new drugs. Two--zoliflodacin & gepotdiacin--are up for approval by the FDA in Dec. Here we show a point mutation can result in cross-resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Zoliflodacin and gepotidacin cross-resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Resistance to zoliflodacin, a first-in-class antibiotic for gonorrhea treatment, can occur through gyrBD429N, but this mutation's impact on fitness and resistance to other topoisomerase targeting drug...

biorxiv.org

23 babies in 13 states have been diagnosed with infant #botulism linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, prompting a nationwide recall. Public health laboratories and federal partners have played crucial roles in the investigation, which is still ongoing. buff.ly/xU3Czsf

Bild

New STI surveillance data from the CDC shows declines in gonorrhea, chlamydia, and primary and secondary syphilis (though tragically congenital syphilis continues to increase). What explains these declines? (1/2)

Why are gonorrhea diagnoses declining in the US?

After a decade of rising cases, the US CDC reported a decline in the rate of gonorrhea diagnoses for two years in a row in 2022 and 2023, especially among young adults. Primary and secondary syphilis ...

dash.harvard.edu