Sarah Lucas
@saerobe.bsky.social
Asst. Professor | Syracuse University 🍊 | Microbial Interactions and how they shape our health and the world around us. www.lucaslab.org
Excited to be in DC for #ASMicrobe! Come find me at poster MECH-FRI-454 this afternoon. Or please reach out if you want to chat about this open position in my lab!
Gina Lewin@ginalewin.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨🦠💻🧬🚨 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
Happy Caturday! This is Georgie, one of our our president’s cats. Did you know that CNY ASM has a pet feature section in our quarterly newsletter? If you are a member, check your email to see how to submit! Did you also know that our fall meeting is on National Feral Cat Day?
Attending #ASMicrobe this year and want to keep the fun going? Or, do you have FOMO from not attending? We’ve got you covered! Save the date for CNY ASM’s inaugural fall meeting! October 16 in Syracuse NY! More details to follow.
Did you know that thermophilic amoeba have been isolated by researchers at Syracuse University from a steam vent at SUNY ESF? artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/biology/news... You can visit this geyser of the built environment when you come to our first fall meeting, held at SUNY ESF this year!
Did you know that you can find freshwater sponges throughout Central New York? Researchers at SUNY ESF have discovered that these sponges harbor antimicrobial-producing bacteria! Learn more exciting CNY microbiology facts at the CNY ASM fall meeting!! #MicroSky
The Biology Department at Syracuse University is hiring! Please share with anyone you think might be interested. www.sujobopps.com/postings/112...
Assistant Teaching Professor - Biology and Biochemistry
The Department of Biology at Syracuse University invites applications for a non-tenure-track Assistant Teaching Professor to teach Biology and Biochemistry undergraduate level classes, starting in fal...
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@patschloss.bsky.social Look who came to visit SU! Our students invited him as their Pat and Jack Bryan distinguished speaker. So good to catch up.
We are accepting applications for up to 3 Peggy Cotter Travel Awards ($1,650 each) to support early-career professionals attending ASM Microbe 2026. Apply by Feb 16, 2026 by emailing a 1-page letter to jegoff@esf.edu. ASM membership required; branch membership may be completed once that is live.
Excited to announce the re-establishment of the Central New York Branch of the American Society for Microbiology (CNY ASM)! Founded in 1921, revived in 2025 to support collaboration, inclusive programming, and microbiologists at all career stages! This is our official BlueSky account!
It's that time of year again! I'm looking for suggestions of 'emerging' model organisms for my #CellBio course's final proj: Organism nomination form here (links to blog on proj info): forms.office.com/r/v8zYgqVe8W #cellbiology #biology #academicsky #microsky #archaeasky #protistsonsky 🧪 (1/n)
I am working with ASM to re-launch the Central NY ASM Branch! 🧫🦠 We have funds allocated for us and now just need 25 signatures from ASM members in the geographic region in support of this branch. More info is in the form and also I’ve attached a FAQ sheet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
In many industries, DEI is not a ‘nice thing to have’ but a crucial requirement for survival and growth.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 2y agoIt would be nice if people could stop acting like DEI is an only a moral good. DEI strengthens organizations. People from diverse backgrounds bring new ways of solving problems and serving people. DEI isn’t a gift to diverse people. It’s a gift to the orgs that hire us.
I’m furious about this. I’ve published in ASM journals for 20 years, been a reviewer, editorial board member, senior editor, and served on the MICROBE program committee. In the past 10 years ASM has taken inclusivity seriously and has actively recruited diverse members and leadership… 1/2
Dave Baltrus 🦦@surtlab.bsky.social · 2y agoI thought you were better than this @asm.org…thoroughly disappointed in a society I’ve given a lot if effort to throughout my career
If you... like me... have found a lot of cool/relevant starter packs only to lose them again, here is a really useful tool - search starter packs: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... 🧪
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Hi, #AcademiaSky! I'm a #newPI gearing up to teach a mid-level #CellBio course in spring 25. I'm implementing a final project where students work in small groups to make a poster on an emerging model organism in cell bio. Please suggest potential taxa! Bonus points if you include a paper! (1/N)
Around this time, some people start putting up seasonal decorations. I do that too, except I also change my RStudio theme to "Yule", and I swear that adds to the seasonal splendor: www.garrickadenbuie.com/project/rsth...
Excited to share our latest study presenting a new skin-derived isolate collection demonstrating extensive antimicrobial activity and uncharacterized BGCs. This was a long-term and huge team effort led by Thy Nguyen, Shelby Sandstrom, and @raufs.bsky.social . #MicroSky #secmet #skinmicrobiome
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2y agoLarge-scale investigation for antimicrobial activity reveals novel defensive species across the healthy skin microbiome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.04.621544v1
Hi Bluesky! I am excited to see the influx of scientists here! Our lab studies the skin microbiome including microbial biomarkers of wound infections and identifying bioactive molecules produced by skin microbes. We are recruiting to our lab at McMaster University, please connect and share!
Nutrient status changes bacterial interactions in a synthetic community -in Appl Environ Microbiol journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Tracking phage from gut microbiomes of infants and mothers; was surprised by "phages with stop codon reassignment are more likely to persist than non-recoded phages" from Yue Clare Lou et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #phagesky
Infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence during the first 3 years of life
Bacteriophages are key components of gut microbiomes, yet the phage colonization process in the infant gut remains uncertain. Here, we establish a lar…
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Very excited that the Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology was approved. We are scheduled for July 13-18, 2025 in South Hadley, MA! The associated GRS will be July 12-13. Our fearless leader will be @deniseakob.bsky.social assisted by Thulani Makhalanyane and myself.
Katrine Whiteson (not here) just shared - "My department (mbb.bio.uci.edu) is hiring a virologist Assoc/Full Professor Deadline: 12/5/23. Great colleagues, great students, great weather.. feel free to ask me about it!" - here's a link to the description recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08644 #VirEvol #phagesky
Associate/ Full Professor of Virology in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry (Tenure-Track)
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Come be my colleague! UMN Micro & Immuno is hiring 2 faculty with broad interests in bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance/drug discovery. Great campus, awesome colleagues & collaborators, lovely cities, reasonable cost of living!
Mutualism reduces the severity of gene disruptions in predictable ways across microbial communities ISME Journal from William Harcombe Lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to @oliverio.bsky.social for the invite! Excited to be here.