Very excited to have this paper out. Super fun collaboration.

Erin Sauer@sauerscientist.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 New paper out at Molecular Ecology! We find that diet quality impacts host ability to tolerate infection and use transcriptomics to determine the molecular mechanisms underlying these diet-driven differences. This was a fun collab between @durantlab.bsky.social & @lewislab.bsky.social labs.

So excited for you!!! It will be hard to watch you go, but I can’t wait to watch the Sauer Lab shine.

Erin Sauer@sauerscientist.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!

A high lipid diet leads to worse infectious disease outcomes. Interesting implications for wildlife food supplementation. Always exciting to have a new manuscript out! Congrats @ashley-love.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @jexpbiol.Bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A high-lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection

Summary: Canaries fed a diet high in lipids show more severe disease outcomes than those fed a high-protein diet, with important implications for human and wildlife disease transmission.

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Rachel Savage@rlsavage.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey! We’re looking for a woman in science who is actively promoted and supported women in biology to give a talk or lead a workshop. Let me know if you have any recommendations! #womeninstem

Lab writing retreat at Beaver Lake😍

I was unintentionally killing a plant. About 2 months ago, I placed it on the “Free Table” with a help me sign. The plant disappeared. Look what showed up on the Free Table today! The note😍🌿

The NSF CAREER awardees meeting has been the professional pick-me-up I didn’t know I needed #NSFstories @sarahknutie.bsky.social @rosvall-lab.bsky.social @steroiddr.bsky.social

Excited for this pub with Ashley Love, Noha Youssef, and Shawn Wilder to be published in Molecular Ecology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Effect of dietary macronutrients and immune challenge on gut microbiota, physiology and feeding behaviour in zebra finches

Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

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We made the cover! Congrats Erin (author) and Jeremy (photographer)! @animalecology.bsky.social

Congrats to Will Kirkpatrick and Maddie Sudnik on their Departmental awards for outstanding research in ecology and ornithology! I’m a lucky PI😄

New paper out today! Male pathology can drive transmission without sex-based differences in behavior. Congrats to Dr. Erin Sauer! @animalecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....