Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

Zinc sequestration by the host is a major component of nutritional immunity that restricts bacterial growth during infection. Here, we identify the opine metallophore yersinopine as a primary zinc acq...

Author summary The emergence of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) poses a significant public health threat due to its capacity to cause severe, often fatal, systemic infections. Of further co...

Job Description The Blader Laboratory studies how infections in the brain cause neuronal complications such as seizures. We reported that when mice are infected with the protozoan parasite that the ...

SUMMARYBacterial pathogens must navigate complex host environments to thrive, replicate, and ultimately transmit to new hosts. Effective transmission is critical for pathogen propagation and often requires overcoming host defenses and exploiting ...

Through metagenomics, Bray et al. identified Klebsiella pneumoniae interacting microbiota partners in the gut, and a transposon mutagenesis screen revealed a role for its T6SS in gut colonization, wit...