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Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

Surface-specific film assembly of a Vibrio cholerae adhesin peptide modulated by environmental salts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.21.733527v1

MALDI Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Colony-Based Dereplication of Natural Products https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.21.733640v1

Congrats to the crew on a successful #CBBADay2026 showing! Jason gave a talk and Laura RV won a poster award @ucscscience.bsky.social

6/7 of the Undergrads we work with presenting their research at the annual #NCURS @sonomastatecrier.bsky.social @ucscscience.bsky.social

Cheers to @nlkproteomics.bsky.social ! Science family :)

Next up Dr Gina Wang from Genentech anchoring our Bunnett lecture! Excited to hear about the development of giredestrant! @ucscscience.bsky.social

Ready for @nlkproteomics.bsky.social Fink lecture @ucscscience.bsky.social ! Long read proteomics lets go!

Phil Crews introducing @hoseanelson.bsky.social for the Crews lecture! Congrats to Emma and Samantha in their Crews research award @ucscscience.bsky.social

Great to have @davidedonadio.bsky.social visiting @ucscscience.bsky.social today for our Departments annual symposium #Scialogfriends @rescorp.org

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

We're searching for the next Director of the Duchossois Family Institute at UChicago The most exciting leadership role in microbiome science right now: lead faculty, cutting-edge cores, and an FDA-approved facility for microbiome therapeutics Email/DM me if interested apply.interfolio.com/182203

MALDI-FISH for Colocalization of Brominated Metabolites and Pseudovibrio spp. in Aplysina Tissue #JNatProd #MassSpec pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

MALDI-FISH for Colocalization of Brominated Metabolites and Pseudovibrio spp. in Aplysina Tissue

Bromotyrosine-containing natural products have been isolated from marine sponges. While studying the uptake of engineered bacterial strains by sponges, we observed the production of fistularin-3 in the sponge. To explore these results, we employed multimodal imaging to colocalize metabolites with fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) probes. Using mass spectrometry imaging (MSI), we measured fistularin-3 and mapped this against the FISH probes to locate the bacteria. A recent study reported that P. brasiliensis produced fistularin-3 in pure culture, but these data have not yet been reproduced. We employed MSI and FISH to colocalize the fistularin-3 spatial distribution with P. brasiliensis in sponge tissue.

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Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

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Dr Laura Sanchez@drlaurasanchez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hey all, excited to share this collab w/ @shaunmckinnie.bsky.social TL;DR we combined our expertise to develop and validate a MALDI-tims platform for screening the production of isomeric small molecules (~212 Da) directly from E coli colonies in high throughput www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Hey all, excited to share this collab w/ @shaunmckinnie.bsky.social TL;DR we combined our expertise to develop and validate a MALDI-tims platform for screening the production of isomeric small molecules (~212 Da) directly from E coli colonies in high throughput www.cell.com/cell-reports...

A high-throughput biocatalytic platform for screening isomeric kainoid natural products

Shepherd and Ramachandra et al. present a fast, chromatography-free method for resolving isomeric products from engineered enzymes. This platform enables large-scale screening and identifies improved ...

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Your @asms.org Board @jyates.bsky.social @lingjun2025.bsky.social @bhclowers.bsky.social @iondoctor.bsky.social @lablaskin.bsky.social @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social hard at work in Santa Fe, establishing new initiatives and planning for #ASMS2026. Get your abstracts submitted for San Diego by Feb. 6!

Happy to have contributed a small part to this really fun story: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... ‘catch and kill’ interplay between marine organisms congrats Qihao and Dave!

Lipopeptides and antibiotics from a marine Bacillus pumilus mediate a potential “catch and kill” effect on pathogenetic Vibrio parahaemolyticus | mSystems

Microbes communicate and compete using small molecules, yet linking specific metabolites to visible behaviors is difficult. We combine imaging mass spectrometry, genomics, analytical chemistry, and bi...

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Happy to have contributed a small part to this really fun story: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... ‘catch and kill’ interplay between marine organisms congrats Qihao and Dave!

Lipopeptides and antibiotics from a marine Bacillus pumilus mediate a potential “catch and kill” effect on pathogenetic Vibrio parahaemolyticus | mSystems

Microbes communicate and compete using small molecules, yet linking specific metabolites to visible behaviors is difficult. We combine imaging mass spectrometry, genomics, analytical chemistry, and bi...

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Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days? It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."

Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Please support our Bridge to the Baccalaureate program. While NIH funding is gone, we are raising funds to support students in the lab! #give2ucsc give.ucsc.edu/schools/Univ...

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Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Please support our Bridge to the Baccalaureate program. While NIH funding is gone, we are raising funds to support students in the lab! #give2ucsc give.ucsc.edu/schools/Univ...

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IDBac: an open-access web platform and compendium for the identification of bacteria by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682631v1

How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells? Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells. @ucscscience.bsky.social

⏰ Just 7 days left for our Glycopeptide Renaming Challenge! 💡 Share your best name idea and win 500€ 👉 More info and submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ym9... #secmet #NaturalProducts #Antibiotics #NamingChallenge #Glycopeptides @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social @marghesosio.bsky.social

Naming Challenge: Help Redefine the Glycopeptide Family!

We are excited to launch a naming competition inspired by the recent preprint "Phylogenetic distance and structural diversity directing a reclassification of glycopeptide antibiotics" (https://www.bio...

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Spatial Metabolomics Reveals the Role of Penicillic Acid in Cheese Rind Microbiome Disruption by a Spoilage Fungus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674932v1

Our very own, @joann-trejo.bsky.social, on the Nature Careers Podcast! Dr. Trejo is featured in this eight-part Changemakers series and she speaks to the importance of mentorship in science careers! 🧪 🎉 👏 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why strong mentorship was essential for my career success in science

JoAnn Trejo has turned mentoring into an evidence-based science, driven by her own exposure to inspiring mentors.

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These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from @UCLA would devastate the nation’s best public university, cut off life-saving care, halt tech and economic growth and reduce educational access. Stand with UC to protect our vital mission: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...