Katie Wetzel
@kswetzel1.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Georgia State University Art by Arwa Abbas
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Daria? Great. Pittsburgh? Great. Phage therapy? Great. Check out this awesome opportunity for PhDs!
Daria Van Tyne@dariavantyne.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF BIOLOGY OF MYOCBACTERIA GRC WILL BE IN 2028, NOT 2027. Exact date and location TBD. Sorry about the long wait, but we think it is better long term. PLEASE repost/tell your friends!
Recent work from the lab showing how presence of O-antigen deficient Pseudomonas variants change aggregate assembly and microbiogeography of infection journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Whole-tissue imaging reveals intrastrain diversity shapes the spatial organization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a murine infection model | mSphere
Intrastrain genetic and phenotypic diversity within Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations is common in chronic pulmonary infections. While this intrastrain heterogeneity is a hallmark of chronic infection, its consequences for the spatial organization of P. aeruginosa within the airways remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that the loss of O-specific antigen in a subpopulation of P. aeruginosa significantly alters the spatial architecture of P. aeruginosa, without changing the total population size or composition. Using a combination of tissue clearing and hybridization chain reaction RNA-FISH in a murine lung infection model, we mapped the localization of genetically distinct P. aeruginosa variants in mixed populations in vivo. These findings reveal that genetic diversification within a strain can reshape the infection landscape at the micron scale, highlighting the overlooked role of intrastrain dynamics in shaping the microbiogeography of infections and influencing host-pathogen interactions.
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Congrats to Dr. Ching Ko and colleagues for this advancement in engineering of mycobacteriophages!
Phage papers@phagepapers.bsky.social · 11mo agoGenome synthesis, assembly, and rebooting of therapeutically useful high G+C% mycobacteriophages. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2523871122 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41213020/
Anyone have book recommendations for graduate students for scientific writing and/or presenting ?
#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Two (2) Open Rank Teaching Faculty
The Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks applicants for two (2) Teaching Faculty positions to be effective July 1, 2026. These positions will be fixed-term 9-...
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Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
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Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠
Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections - Nature Microbiology
The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.
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Nearly 300 patients screened for phage susceptibility ✅ 50+ FDA-approved treatments and counting ✅ Phage therapy is making a difference — and we’re just getting started. #pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3
The Wetzel Lab is one! 🥳 Grateful for these enthusiastic scientists who have joined me for the ride.
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
Thrilled to share our most recent paper describing the antimicrobial activity of engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles targeting intracellular mycobacteria in macrophages and zebrafish. Outstanding work headed by Yara Tasrini, John Jairo Aguilera Correa, Miguel Gisbert and others. rdcu.be/eAcN4
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The excitement continues! Check out my latest preprint examining how phages have adapted to lyse different bacterial envelopes. I found a lysis gene (lysZ) that is conserved in phages that infect corynebacteria mycobacteria, and other actinos. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bacteriophages target membrane-anchored glycopolymers to promote host cell lysis and progeny release
Most bacteriophages lyse their host cell to release progeny virions. Double-stranded DNA phages typically promote host lysis using a holin-endolysin system. Holins form pores in the cytoplasmic membra...
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Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
Phage steering in the presence of a competing bacterial pathogen
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Do you love phages? Other viruses? Cool science done by cool people? Check out this paper by my former bay mate @kfreeman.bsky.social and colleagues that sheds light on the cool molecular machines that are phage tails.
Krista Freeman@kfreeman.bsky.social · last yr.Hurray, it is finally out! Meet bacteriophage Bxb1 - the subject of my first full-phage cryo-EM study. My structures are beautifully complemented by the Park Lab’s cryo-ET analysis, shedding light on mycobacteriophage structural changes during infection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Ross Lab is recruiting a PhD student! We study the physiology of chronic bacterial infection using M. abscessus. Contact me if interested! Check out the projects here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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