Nothing beats the reproducibility of mechanistic findings across different strains/systems pertinent to the success of #Wolbachia-based #vectorcontrol. Check out this new gem! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Type III CI factors from wAlbB induce cytoplasmic incompatibility via a Host Modification mechanism

Author summary Mosquito-borne diseases remain a major global health challenge, infecting hundreds of millions of people and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Wolbachia-based vector co...

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Come join us! The Department of Microbiology at Cornell is searching for a TT position in Archaeal biology! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33089

The UIC Biological Sciences Department had our second TT faculty hire for this cycle go live, this one in Cell Biology (from any domain of life). All the same good stuff applies as for our TT line in Synthetic Biology. Please repost these!

Eric Stabb@evstabb.bsky.social · last wk.

Be my colleague! Biological Sciences at UIC is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Synthetic Biology. Nice group to work with, including lots of early-career faculty. UIC is an R1, MSI, many first-gen students, & ranks highly for social mobility. You can do great science and help broaden the talent pool.

The Milwaukee Brewers have won the World Series, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays in five games to achieve the first title in the franchise's history. https://cnn.it/3Us7elw

🎙️ JOB: OPEN RANK PROFESSOR in MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY. Seeking faculty candidates focused on immune cell development, function at mucosal surfaces, and cellular metabolism, including interactions with the microbiome, etc. Come one, come call to the jubilee! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant/Associate/Professor of Mucosal Immunology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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‼️Multiple TT Jobs‼️ Our Dept has more Multiple positions for an Assistant Professor position in areas of population/conservation genetics, evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, data science, and ecological and/or spatial modeling. jobs.uncw.edu/postings/41207

Postdoc opening in my lab! Looking for someone excited about genomes, symbionts and plant–insect interactions to join our team at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. 🧬🍄🌿🦟 Applications reviewed from 16 Nov. buff.ly/WZtMcGs

The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 5d ago

VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Berasategui Lab at TSL, Norwich, UK @berasymbionts.bsky.social Work at the interface of evolutionary genomics, plant pathology and insect symbiosis, within a world-class research environment. Application review starts 16 Nov 2026 buff.ly/WZtMcGs

Incredibly excited about our latest work on R-bodies, 5+ years in the making! These coiled protein ribbons extend into ~10 µm needles in a pH-dependent manner & we caught them springing open inside amoebae after P. aeruginosa gets eaten. (animation: Jegg Yoon)🧵1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Looking forward to Friday's seminar from @napaaqtuk.bsky.social, hosted by the trainees from @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social

Medical Microbiology & Immunology@uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friday! Join us at our MDTP trainees host Dr. Kat Milligan-McClellan from the University of Connecticut.

Madison is bananas tonight 🍌

Congratulations to Ava McNaughton and the Badgers Women’s Hockey Team on a big win today! Great lab outing!

Looking forward to Jay Vornhagen's @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social seminar today at noon!

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Applications for Microbial Diversity are now open! A once-in-a-lifetime experience is an application away! www.mbl.edu/education/ad... @mblscience.bsky.social #MicrobialDiversity

Microbial Diversity | Marine Biological Laboratory

The goal of the course is to teach professors, postdocs and advanced graduate students how to discover, cultivate, and isolate diverse microorganisms catalyzing a breadth of chemical transformations, ...

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It's happening! NYUGSM Microbiology is hiring and I'd love to see more bacteriology here! Please repost and spread the word!

Heran Darwin, PhD@heran.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Excited to share a new minireview from my lab led by @anyawoj.bsky.social and Melissa Shinfuku. We highlight how multiple variants of a single bacterial species can coexist in the human body and how this impacts human health. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #Microsky #Microbiome #Microdiversity

No strain, no gain: within-host bacterial microdiversity and human health | Infection and Immunity

The bacterial world is teeming with diversity, from cyanobacteria to episymbiotic Saccharibacteria to the well-studied Escherichia coli. However, even within a single species, organisms vary in their gene content and gene sequences, leading to significant functional differences across very closely related bacteria. For instance, two isolates of E. coli may share only 40% of the same gene content, allowing different strains to function as human pathogens, gut mutualists, or environmental specialists (1–4). Although this population-level diversity in bacteria has been long-recognized, recent studies have increasingly emphasized that a single person can harbor multiple genotypes of a species at the same time within a single body site. High within-host intra-species diversity can occur in the human microbiota, including in the gut, skin, oral cavity, and vagina. Furthermore, although acute infections are primarily monoclonal, chronic infections can often be polyclonal. Both in the microbiota and in chronic infections, this high intra-species diversity can occur when multiple strains colonize a site over time and when bacteria diversify through evolutionary processes.

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Interested in metabolism and intestinal inflammation? Check out a new review from the lab lead by outstanding graduate student Wenxuan Dong on the context-dependent roles of ketone metabolism in intestinal inflammation. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nvVZ5Eb0S...

Why do some people get a fever after vaccination? Their microbiome is more wriggly! Awesome work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social

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The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination

Fever is a common adverse reaction to vaccination, contributing to vaccine hesitancy and reduced uptake. To understand variation in fever risk, we longitudinally profiled fecal microbiota, oral temper...

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Huge congratulations to @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social PhD student @alex-dobrila.bsky.social on leading this new paper! This is the first part of Alex's thesis work, where he shows that C. difficile uses EndD to mediate butyrate-dependent toxin release and sporulation. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

EndD mediates butyrate-dependent toxin release and sporulation in Clostridioides difficile | Journal of Bacteriology

Clostridioides difficile is a leading cause of infectious diarrhea. The gut microbiome-derived short-chain fatty acid butyrate triggers C. difficile to release its major virulence factors, toxins TcdA...

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Congratulations to UW-Madison physicist Francis Halzen!!! @uwmadison.bsky.social

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 4w ago

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

I have a pair of terrace level tickets to Game 1 of the NLDS in Milwaukee this Saturday Unfortunately, it seems hockey will be getting in the way of those plans. If anyone has Game 2 tickets and is interested in trading games so you can see the Miz start Game 1, please hit my DMs!

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

"A journal that grows older and stays young" - Wonderful look at Journal of Bacteriology from Editor Tao Dong, through the lens of different career stages and with a global eye. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A journal that grows older and stays young | Journal of Bacteriology

Few journals in microbiology carry the history, continuity, and influence of the Journal of Bacteriology (JB). Since its founding in 1916, JB has published for more than a century and has served as a ...

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The newest issue of JB is out! A swarm is featured on the cover. Check out the newest minireviews, research articles and this month a special historical piece. journals.asm.org/toc/jb/208/9 @asm.org #JBacteriol @microsky.bsky.social

JB Table of Contents Volume 208, Issue 9

Journal of Bacteriology: Table of Contents Volume 208, Issue 9

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Join us and become my colleague! The School of Biological Sciences is opening the search for an Assistant Professor in the field of Host-Microbe Interactions with the targeted start date of Fall 2027. Please reach out to me with any questions you have: jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/jobs/assista...

I enjoyed reading this as it reminded me that when used correctly genetics can tell us so much about biological processes. I worry that our trainees are not learning this as we focus on teaching the latest and greatest. Hopefully Tom's article will remind everyone about the power of genetics

Career retrospective from Tom Silhavy as he winds down his laboratory. An amazing legacy from which I am fortunate to have benefitted. @princetonmolbio.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

mSphere Legacy: A career built on suppressors | mSphere

I grew up in a small town, Wauseon, in the northwest corner of Ohio. Although I enjoyed science and math classes in high school, a career in research and academia never crossed my mind. I worked for s...

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Check out the first paper from Maggie Alexander's Lab at @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social on microbiota-mediated immune regulation, with collaboration from Gustavo Caballero-Flores's group! @margaretalexander.bsky.social @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

β-Hydroxybutyrate precursor 1,3-butanediol modulates enteric pathogen susceptibility and Th17 responses via commensal bacteria | mSystems

Diet is a key determinant of gut microbial composition and mucosal immune function, yet the microbial mechanisms linking diet-mediated metabolic changes to immune regulation remain incompletely understood. T helper 17 (Th17) cells play central roles in both protective mucosal immunity and inflammatory pathology, making them a critical target of immunometabolic regulation. In this study, we show that 1,3-butanediol (BD) treatment, which leads to elevated circulating β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) independently of diet, is associated with suppression of intestinal Th17 responses, remodeling of the gut microbiota, and reduced levels of segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB). We further demonstrate that BHB-associated microbiota changes are linked to increased susceptibility to enteric infection. This work provides a mechanistic framework illustrating how metabolic state can influence host immunity through selective effects on commensal microbes. These findings inform future studies of microbiota-mediated immune regulation.

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