New for #mmpc2026 this year: T-SHIRTS!! Designed by @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social & featuring your favorite microbes! Shirts must be ordered by Sept 4 & can be picked up at the conference. Get your official 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference swag here: mmpc2026.umn.edu/more/2026-mm...

I'm excited to be co-organizing the 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference, which will take place Sept 25-27 on the UMN campus in Minneapolis! Poster abstracts due Aug 7! Submit yours & register here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

"Christina's approach to preventing fungal diseases before they become a problem is critical in these times when pathogenic fungi are expanding their prevalence, often in response to climate and weather pattern changes," says Jennifer Gottwald, WARF director of licensing.

Meet UW-Madison’s Christina Hull

“Christina’s approach to preventing fungal diseases before they become a problem is critical in these times when pathogenic fungi are expanding their prevalence, often in response to climate and weather pattern changes.”

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Officially Assistant Professor of Biology at @macalestercollege.bsky.social! It's been an exciting first (half) week getting my lab set up with the help of my research students Amy and Ivana. We may even get an experiment in next week!

Our new paper is out in #mSystems! Quantify total and active bacterial cells from environmental samples with MATRIX! @asm.org @cnrs.fr @universitelyon.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

MATRIX: rapid quantification of total and active microbial cells with single-cell phenotypes for environmental microbiomes | mSystems

Microbiome studies commonly rely on relative abundance data, which cannot distinguish whether compositional shifts reflect true population growth, declines in total community size, or both. Without ex...

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Unusual ribosomes controls translation fidelity- other than in naked mole rats, octopuses 🐙 have the “adaptive” ribosomes too ⬇️ . The beauty of studying non model organisms! #Ribosome 🧪

Nicholas Bellono@nbellono.bsky.social · 4w ago

How did octopuses evolve novel traits? Rishav Mitra, Richard Han, Trey Scott, et al serendipitously discover a unique ribosome adaptation that increases the accuracy of protein synthesis and evolved alongside their elaborate nervous systems vs deep sea relatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The 2026 Conference on Beneficial Microbes will be co-organized with the International Symbiosis Society from July 19th - July 23rd. Its not too late to register! #BeneficialMicrobes10 #BeneficialMicrobesMtg #ISS #SymbioSky

This program has been grassroots since 2017, so our biggest fundraiser of the year is structured to be distributed across many people helping a little bit too. SAS works because we have support from thousands of people every year, volunteering their time, buying merch, and filling bubbles 💕

Skype a scientist matches scientists with classrooms all around the world for free! About 75% of those classrooms are in the USA, the rest are spread out across ~80 countries around the world. We offer this service for free thanks to thousands of scientists who volunteer with us & donors like you!

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

United States of Science 2026

By Skype a Scientist

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Our work on the symbiont-containing organelle that supports coral reefs is published today. Also, new genetic tools to study symbiosis in both corals and Aiptasia. Great work by Shumpei Maruyama, Cat Henderson, and the rest of the fantastic team. #SymbioSky www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Co-option of lysosomal machinery shapes the evolution of the intracellular photosymbiosis supporting coral reefs

Corals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ...

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A step forward in discovering Buchnera's key to the aphid's heart, published today! Thanks to Jerry Maeda and other authors--a great team -- and to the helpful reviewers #SymbioSky doi: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells - Nature

SyeA was present in the Buchnera ancestor, is secreted into the host cytoplasm, is homologous to secreted effectors of bacterial pathogens and is essential for Buchnera transmission.

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Our lab is hiring an enthusiastic and motivated research specialist to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of S. aureus infection. For more information, see below: Lab website: www.reyesruizlab.org jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

Research Specialist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

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New preprint from the lab led by Alex Dobrila! We show that butyrate-dependent toxin release in C. difficile is mediated by a broadly-conserved endolysin (EndD), which is under the control of the sporulation sigma factor SigK. Excited to share this story! 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

EndD mediates butyrate-dependent toxin release in Clostridioides difficile

Clostridioides difficile is an urgent threat to human health. Current treatments for C. difficile infections (CDIs) are antibiotics and microbiome restoration therapy (MRT) for recurrent cases. Howeve...

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Ten months ago I had never written an op-ed. I believed the work spoke for itself. It doesn't. When the government calls a lifesaving technology unsafe and scientists stay silent, the silence becomes the story. A new @jhu.edu profile on why I stopped staying quiet: hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/24/j...

A staunch voice in support of science

Jeff Coller, a pioneering RNA biologist, has spent the past year vehemently advocating for the lifesaving promise of research in the face of federal cuts

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Are restriction/modification modules only used for host defense? @selmamhm.bsky.social shows an alternative use. "Restriction-modification systems are required for Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin antigenic variation" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2602688123 #Microd #Microsky. #Microbiology

Congratulations @mehlelab.bsky.social!! 🎉 bsky.app/profile/uwma...

Medical Microbiology & Immunology@uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Mehle on receiving the prestigious Kellett Mid-Career Award! 🏆 mmi.wisc.edu/dr-andrew-me...

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

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Mehle on receiving the prestigious Kellett Mid-Career Award! 🏆 mmi.wisc.edu/dr-andrew-me...

Check out this exciting work from Jeniel Nett's lab! @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

UW–Madison@uwmadison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UW–Madison researchers have identified a promising new therapeutic candidate against Candida auris, an emerging fungal pathogen that has alarmed health officials worldwide because of its ability to resist multiple antifungal drugs and spread rapidly through hospitals and care facilities.

We can't wait to receive your Lab Launches to mSystems! 😍🔬💚 #mSystems @asm.org

Breaking: A new Special Collection in @asm.org #mSphere and #mSystems – “Lab Launches - New Leaders, New Discoveries”. We started it bc that first paper is important – it communicates the group’s identity as well as the discoveries that propel a scientific career. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Lab Launches—New Leaders, New Discoveries | mSphere

In the United States and some other countries, many small businesses mark their beginnings by posting their first earned dollar (or whatever relevant currency) from their very first transaction on a p...

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Out Now! Purine bias in bacterial genes is driven by runaway transcription #MicroSky

Purine bias in bacterial genes is driven by runaway transcription

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02389-1Purine bias is critical for gene expression in bacteria, preventing premature transcription in species that exhibit runaway transcription.

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The deadline for abstracts to be considered for oral presentations is only 5 days away. Register soon! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/r...

Salvador Almagro-Moreno@bioetry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vibriophiles! Come join us in Berlin this September! Still time to register and submit your abstract

Do you study human microbiomes? Have you used the word "commensal"? Then this paper was written with you in mind! It was an absolute pleasure to write this with the incomparable @ginalewin.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

mGem: Tapping into the language of symbiosis to advance human microbiome research | mBio

An overarching goal in microbiome research is to understand how the complex communities in our bodies contribute to health and disease, and ultimately, we aim to leverage and control these communities...

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Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

🚨🦠💻🧬🚨 My lab is hiring!! Looking for a technician or postdoc to join us in Cleveland starting this summer to lead a project analyzing ~1000 metatranscriptomes from the human oral cavity. More info on my lab website www.thelewinlab.com/join-us #ASMicrobe #Microbiome #Microsky

Recently, Dr. Keller was featured on the podcast "The Life Lab by Death Clock," where she discussed molds and mycotoxins, and their impacts on the food supply chain. Curious? Listen here: Spotify (urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...) Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...)

Dr. Nancy Keller on Mold and Mycotoxins

Podcast Episode · The Life Lab by Death Clock · May 29 · 42m

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Vibrio2026 - Submit your abstract by June 15, and join us in Berlin for this wonderful conference in September!! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026